Speaking of MTV....

[TN_Vixen]

remember...

*Our House is a very very very fine house
*Vegamite Sandwhich
*Video Killed the Radio Star
*Duran Duran
*Blondie
*Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'
*Tears for Fears

What was your most memorable MTV video when it was first introduced in the 80's?

 

[CreamyLady]

Dire Straits, "I want my MTV"

(from my daughter, the self-proclaimed MTV addict)

 

[Bliss]

Probably Video Killed The Radio Star since it was the first and I've seen it more than 1000 times (on Mtv and VH1 and MuchMusic etc.) in the 19 years since. All those that y'all both mentioned and from the early, early days when they played round the clock metal like Def Leppard, Quiet Riot, and Balls to the Wall Krokus and the Crue. Tales of a fourth grade head banger.

 

[Guest]

Maybe, 'Once In A Lifetime' by Talking Heads, 'cause the music and video were quirky and interesting, although I didn't actually see it on MTV. I saw it on the British tv show Top Of The Pops.

Actually, '3 Is The Magic Number' by De La Soul was my favourite MTV video in the '80s. Definitely my favourite Hip-Hop band - their first album '3 ft High And Rising' was cool, inventive, chilled out and funny. I bought it because of that MTV video.

 

[Bobtoad777]

Like a Surgeon by wierd Al Yankovic.

That was my first meeting with the Maestro of Madness, the Proffessor of Parody, Wierd al Yankovic. Since that Day I have been hooked to every thing he produced even the imfamous UHF movie.

 

[coolchick]

Do you guys remember Adam Ant! He ruled! I still think he's hot!

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I was relaying to Laurel the other day that I appeared in a truly God-Awful music video on MTV once on a show called "Basement Videos" that that babe Martha Quinn hosted (is that her last name?) It aired once, and only once thank God. It was a terrible song, and I wore a skin tight body thing that made me look like a walking sperm.

I was also a dancer on something called "This Week's Music", which was like a cross between MTV and American Bandstand, and was hosted, at the end, by Courtney Cox. Another God-awful show.

But I do miss all those old music videos like "The Metro" and "99 Red Balloons" and "I Know What Boys Like". Great trashy fun.

 

[Thumper]

Goody two shoes!

All the Crue stuff....
Headbangers Ball!
Hair
Spandex
Hair
Leather
Hair
And....We're Not Gonna Take It!!!!
TWISTED SISTER!!!!

OWWW now my neck hurts....in some ways I am getting old!

 

[coolchick]

DCL... what was the God-awful video you appeared in? I'm dying to know!

 

[OUTSIDER]

I think it was DCL does Dallas.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

That's it!

Basement Videos was a show that gave idiot garge bands a chance to show their videos to the world, and then viewrs would vote on a winner. This wasn't a video from anyone that you would have seen anywhere. We shot it at some studion in Queens in a day and it had lots of smoke and some punk chick with red hair and it sucked, sucked, sucked and you never, never, saw it.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

But, but, but......

MTV and what it has - done - had only fucked musical art - as it should have beem. Has it been interesting? Yeah. Fun? On occasion. Worthy of modern musical art? Only kind of.

 

[Isabella Thorne]

I Wanted My MTV

In Canada, we don't have MTV. Our music station is MuchMusic ... and it has other sister stations now, too .. MuchMoreMusic and MusiquePlus ... with lots of wonderful programming ...

But MuchMusic didn't start until about a year after MTV .. and I remember seeing video tapes of MTV programming that a friend had ... and wow ... I thought it was so amazing ... so wild ... and so unfair that we didn't have MTV in Canada ...

One of the first videos i saw on those tapes was The Pretenders "Brass in Pocket" ... and i loved Chrissie Hynde in her waitress uniform ...
______________
I'm special, so special
~The Pretenders~

[Edited by Isabella Thorne on 09-30-2000 at 07:58 PM]

 

[Bliss]

The wonders of digital satellite...

Bella, I can watch MuchMusic here at home or even at my redneck relatives house in Macon Bacon, Georgia. I love technology!

Spark, oh behave Haircut 100!

*The Great Blissdini holds an envelope to her head* It says "Dix coooooooould be talking about Saigon Kick, but he's not".

Long live rock 'n roll.

 

[Thumper]

Saigon Kick eh?

Hey Bliss....maybe you can answer my question on the other thread....

My bro in law's band had a video in the basement tapes...The band was "The Young Invaders". They lost to "Rail" I do believe...he's a mortician now...

 

[TN_Vixen]

Sparks, I'm curious as to why you think MTV has ruined musical art? I was under the impression that art is created from the artist's interpretation of some thing.. an event, a thing, a feeling, a perception, illusion, yadda yadda... how does MTV kill musical art in your opinion? Just curious. *s*

 

[RonG]

It didn't last long, but there was a time when MTV was actually playing music that was different from the mainstream stuff you could hear on commercial radio in the US. For example, The Buggles, Madness (One Step Beyond is my fave), The Jam, Talking Heads, Heaven 17. Lasted for awhile until people started using video for record promotion and the A&R guys took over and we got a huge dose of Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, etc. My favorite video was for Blotto's "I Wanna Be A Lifeguard"

If it weren't for Daria, I would just block the darn channel these days.

 

[*Eve*]

I loved any Madonna video in the eighties, and Micheal Jackson's Thriller was the first music video to scare the @#$%^ out me.