MTV and the Video Era

[hammersavage]

As one of the smarter posters on this board once said, 'man, those were the days'.

Believe or not, the network used to show videos. And some of them were great. Others were so bad, they were great.

From VJ contests, Beavis and Butthead, Remote Control (even with their shotty contestant screening), Headbangers Ball, even TRL. The network revolved around music and music videos.



What was your most memorable video or music related moment? For some of the older members, what was it like when MTV first premiered?


I really enjoyed the original Unplugged series. I still listen to the Nirvana session and the Pearl Jam session helped to add to their legend.

Also, the 25 Lamest video countdown that was brought up before was hilarious and I'm rewatching most of it on youtube now.


So what you got?

[Fallon]

I will always laugh at Beavis and Butthead no matter how many times I watch it.

[RhinoinMN]

As one of the smarter posters on this board once said, 'man, those were the days'.



Let's not get carried away here.

[Snoogans]

Rock and Jock, back when they used to have rockers on the station to play IN THE FUCKIN GAME.

Dan Cortese, the ONLY celebrity to ever homer in Rock and Jock.

[Snoogans]

Let's not get carried away here.

If thats what the guy chooses to believe, who are you to judge?

[RhinoinMN]

I was always mesmerized by Aeon Flux. I'm too lazy to look up a vid.


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[Fallon]

Rock and Jock, back when they used to have rockers on the station to play IN THE FUCKIN GAME.

Dan Cortese, the ONLY celebrity to ever homer in Rock and Jock.

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[hammersavage]

I will always laugh at Beavis and Butthead no matter how many times I watch it.

The landmark moment was the frog baseball episode. That was quite the conversation the next day at school.


And its gone to such shit now (that yes, I sometimes still watch). But you could watch proudly back then.

It really seemed like an entire era was raised on the network, you never see that kind of collective viewing for anything today.

[hammersavage]

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and HE was nominated for an Oscar

[Slumbag]

I was always mesmerized by Aeon Flux. I'm too lazy to look up a vid.


http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2005/12/Aeon_Flux_17.JPG

I loved The Head, too.
All those 90's trippy fantastic shows.

[RhinoinMN]

If thats what the guy chooses to believe, who are you to judge?

So we have to be all duckies and bunnies around here? No judging?

[PapaBear]

The first time I ever saw MTV was at a friend's house sometime around 1983 or 84. I saw Talking Heads doing Burning Down the House. My buddy said his older sister thought it was an abomination that would result in hundreds of kids trying to burn down their homes.

It was at a friend's house, because my dad was too cheap to get cable. My only video outlet was...

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[RhinoinMN]

I loved The Head, too.
All those 90's trippy fantastic shows.

I remember those shows on late at night and I had been up too long and had to get homework done for high school, but couldn't stop watching that show.

[Fallon]

and HE was nominated for an Oscar

For The Happening?

[Snoogans]

For The Happening?

Wasnt it Boogie Nights?

[RhinoinMN]

Wasnt it Boogie Nights?

Three Kings?

[hammersavage]

For The Happening?

Supporting Actor, the Departed. Also, not a good performance.

[RhinoinMN]

Supporting Actor, the Departed. Also, not a good performance.

1 dimensional.

[Fallon]

Supporting Actor, the Departed. Also, not a good performance.
No kidding, if anybody was going to get a supporting nod in that movie I would have went with Alec Baldwin.

[hanso]

"I want my mtv".
When it came out this was the slogan to get cable outlets to carry the channel.

Back then me & my friends partied alot. This was the channel the tv stayed on mostly from what I remember.

I was a huge Remote Control fan & would like to see some of those old shows even now.
Some big comics were on Colin Quinn, Adam Sandler to name a few.

[hammersavage]

I was a huge Remote Control fan & would like to see some of those old shows even now.
Some big comics were on Colin Quinn, Adam Sandler to name a few.

I'd give a nut to see Mikey or Earl's. We need an MTV Classic!

And 2ge+her also changed my life.

[hedges]

My first memory of MTV was the Yes video "Owner of a Lonely Heart". There was one scene in the video when the guy had maggots on his face. We used to love that.

[Enabler]

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I used to love this show. My first memories of the music videos was Peter Gabriels Sledgehammer and U2's Desire. They played those all the time.

[red_red_red]

I will always laugh at Beavis and Butthead no matter how many times I watch it.
oh man, it's still funny. they play episodes on MTV 2, now another generation gets to partake in all of it's silliness. heh heh

[Marc with a c]

dead at 21 was the bomb. ya'll should be ashamed.

[underdog]

Dan Cortese, the ONLY celebrity

Let's not get carried away here.

[A.J.]

What was your most memorable video or music related moment? For some of the older members, what was it like when MTV first premiered?

I remember when MTV first came out. I also remember "World Premiere Videos". None was bigger than the premiere of Michael Jackson's "Thriller".

[silks]

oh man, it's still funny. they play episodes on MTV 2, now another generation gets to partake in all of it's silliness. heh heh

I used to love grabbing a couple of six packs and getting together with my friends to watch the new episodes. Hard to believe it premiered over 15 years ago.

Like you said, it still gives me a laugh, especially their commentaries on videos. Watching them watch Janet Jackson's You Want This in the episode Another Friday Night still brings tears of laughter.

[ADF]

The only show I liked on MTv was 120 Minutes.

[Aggie]

I remember when MTV first came out. I also remember "World Premiere Videos". None was bigger than the premiere of Michael Jackson's "Thriller".

Yes! That was one of my memories. I was raised on MTV because I had a cousin living with us who was a teenager in the early 80s so that and the radio were on constantly. I remember them showing the same videos over and over because there weren't that many back then. I vividly remember Money for Nothing by Dire Straits and Touch of Grey by Grateful Dead being played alot. I loved the early Real World and Road Rules.

Oh, and who can forget Sorority Life? :happy:

[Misteriosa]

Beevis+Butthead, Aeon Flux, HBB...

i was also a fan of 120 mins thats where i heard my first bjork song.

i miss the videos. the only time i watch mtv now is to *try* to catch headbangers ball, and even that show is too much talk, not enough video.

those other shows mtv plays now can go suck a dick.

[silks]

the only time i watch mtv now is to *try* to catch headbangers ball

Late 80's Headbangers Ball used to be GREAT. Where else could you see vids by Megadeth, Slayer, Overkill, Anthrax, etc... Not to mention the theme song was old footage of train wrecks and shit set to S.O.D.

Great stuff.

[Aggie]

How could I forget Yo! MTV Raps? I was a regular watcher and I actually heard West Coast stuff which I didn't get listening to Hot 97.

[hammersavage]

Oh, and who can forget Sorority Life? :happy:

I certainly never will. I loved Jordan.

[Furtherman]

I didn't have cable growing up so I would only see MTV occasionally during the summer or holidays over relative houses.

Now I work for them.

I guess I had MTV issues.

[grlNIN]

Liquid TV both entranced and scared the fuck out of me.

I watched Beavis & Butthead with my brothers but hated when they made fun of Daria because her name rhymes with mine.

I remember watching Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train" video on our big screen TV (which took up the space of a small car) in our living room.


I loved MTV.

[silks]

Daria

Another great show. I used to catch reruns of it every once in a while when flipping around the dial, but never see it anymore.

[grlNIN]

Another great show. I used to catch reruns of it every once in a while when flipping around the dial, but never see it anymore.

Last i knew it was on Noggin'.

[Caseyelan]

The only show I liked on MTv was 120 Minutes.

THIS.
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I have them all on VHS.

(the state was fantastic too)


My first music video recollection was billy idols white wedding and my parents oft tell me I would cry everytime I saw Van Halen's JUMP video.

interesting.

[Furtherman]

My first music video recollection was billy idols white wedding and my parents oft tell me I would cry everytime I saw Van Halen's JUMP video.


I was scared of colorful spandex too.

[mikeyboy]

THIS.
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I have them all on VHS.

I so loved that show. VH1 Classic was airing what they were calling 120 Minutes a while back, but it sucked. It was just the best known videos that got played on that show and some of the in-studio performances. I wish they would just air the old episodes in their entirety.

[Contra]

I miss those days. Loved bevis and butthead, 120 mins, headbangers ball, yo MTV raps, early real world/road rules (although I still watch real world and the challenges).

[hammersavage]

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[TheMojoPin]

Tons of great shows already mentioned, but I think the thing that really shifted the change for me was when they stopped running all the weird commercials that were like little comedy bits and cartoons unto themselves. MTV2 has started showing some kind of throwback block late at nights where they show Ren & Stimpy and The State and 90's videos and cartoons and all the weird shorts and commercials.

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I think the last original series MTV put out that really was akin to "classic MTV" was The Sifl and Olly Show. I think it's ironic that shows like S&O and B&B had to find time to play videos during the episode. That kind of thing would never be expected now.

[TheMojoPin]

How could I forget Yo! MTV Raps? I was a regular watcher and I actually heard West Coast stuff which I didn't get listening to Hot 97.

Definitely my favorite MTV video show of all time. Great songs and MC's you'd actually discover by watching the show, plus the whole thing was fucking hysterical. ED LOVER AND DR. DRE. RULE.

[red_red_red]

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[Fez4PrezN2008]

Used to love watching Video killed the radio star, Jack and Diane, Flock of seagulls, and I love rock & roll (Joan Jett) back when they had like 8 videos that they played over and over and over and over again.

[hanso]

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Remember The John Stewart Show?

[hedges]

Definitely my favorite MTV video show of all time. Great songs and MC's you'd actually discover by watching the show, plus the whole thing was fucking hysterical. ED LOVER AND DR. DRE. RULE.

The Ed Lover Dance used to crack me up.

[Caseyelan]

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Remember The John Stewart Show?


DO I!!!
I went to five tapings.
Once for julianna hatfield, once for urge overkill, once for Dig (no one remembers them I would assume). When he moved to channel 9 I went for L7 and Faith No More.

Man those were the days

[A.J.]

My first music video recollection was billy idols white wedding and my parents oft tell me I would cry everytime I saw Van Halen's JUMP video.

I did too. It was a shame to see VH sell out and add synths to their songs.

[Crispy123]

The first video I remember is Addicted to Love.

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I loved the MTV flag commercials they did, Ren&Stimpy and the Maxx

[Marc with a c]

what's jimmy the cab driver up to?

[Marc with a c]

i think i got my first real boner from 'wicked game'

[A.J.]

i think i got my first real boner from 'wicked game'

Had a crush on Chris Isaak did ya?

[Marc with a c]

had?

[Crispy123]

Had a crush on Chris Isaak did ya?

that was too easy

[Marc with a c]

also i remember t boz's side boob in the 'creep' video being big deal.

[strawberrypop]

Chris Isaak is all yours. My crush was on Steve Isaacs.

[hammersavage]

what's jimmy the cab driver up to?

he was the best.

Isn't it ironic? Don't you think