First 12min of MTV

[4Waters]

I miss the original MTV and VH1

 

[Rennsport]

I remember- many memories

 

[Lumpy]

I miss the original MTV and VH1

Seems like yesterday! It really was a great time in Southern California back then! I lived in Malibu and went to Santa Monica High School. Did all the clubs of the south land…seemed like it would never end.

 

[Kachina26]

I remember- many memories

Too many, kinda went into overload there.

 

[Hypnautic]

Much better TV in general back then. Mtv was the go to when getting ready in the morning and first thing on when I got home from school. Used to watch RemoteControl game show too.

Fun fact--first rap song on Mtv was Rapture by Blondie ~~lol. Love me some Blondie.

 

[C-2]

…seemed like it would never end.

Yup. There was oldschool rock, pop rock, hard rock, punk rock, New Wave, Heavy Metal and pop (that was decent).

The biggest issues facing our generation were teen pregnancy and smoking.

Damn those were some great years.

And Pat rocked it.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[C-2]

I just threw some Pat on...

 

[Dog]

I was 6 in 1981. My first memories (just now thinking about it). Are of songs from Prince's "Purple Rain" album. 1984

 

[HTTP404]

I didn't know Pat was represented on MTV so early. She is awesome. I hope to see her perform one day.

 

[HTTP404]

MTV should still be a thing. With music videos and all.

 

[C-2]

Much better TV in general back then. Mtv was the go to when getting ready in the morning and first thing on when I got home from school. Used to watch RemoteControl game show too.

Fun fact--first rap song on Mtv was Rapture by Blondie ~~lol. Love me some Blondie.

Earlier this year with http404...

 

[C-2]

This one was also on heavy rotation...almost nauseating they played it so much.

 

[HTTP404]

This one was also on heavy rotation...almost nauseating they played it so much.


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That was some cringe. How about some Dire Straits.

 

[Dog]

That was some cringe. How about some Dire Straits.

 

[Dog]

See that's the problem, youtube is the new mtv...

 

[Tank]

I too was 6 in 81. We had just moved from Malibu to the beach in Oxnard. The 80’s were fuckin AWESOME!! That video posted above just flooded me with memories. Man, those were good times. The innocents. The discovery. The learning it all through the wonder years (not the show, but it was great too). I too would have MTV on in the morning and after school when I got home.

MTV was great. Of course in the flip side, they are also responsible for the absolute destruction in humanity as they revolutionized and created “reality TV”

VH1 still plays a lot of old videos. Kinda cool. I’ll be flipping the channel and stop to see what they’re playing and watch a few videos. Is there even an MTV channel anymore. They adapted with demand I suppose and moved away from their original mission statement. Which sucked. Although revolutionary with Jack ass, Bevis and butthead and the like, I preferred music videos and music news all day and night.

 

[C-2]

That was some cringe. How about some Dire Straits.

Working on that one...

 

[C-2]

That was some cringe. How about some Dire Straits.

Yeah that was a tough A side to get through lol...

 

[HTTP404]

I too was 6 in 81. We had just moved from Malibu to the beach in Oxnard. The 80’s were fuckin AWESOME!! That video posted above just flooded me with memories. Man, those were good times. The innocents. The discovery. The learning it all through the wonder years (not the show, but it was great too). I too would have MTV on in the morning and after school when I got home.

MTV was great. Of course in the flip side, they are also responsible for the absolute destruction in humanity as they revolutionized and created “reality TV”

VH1 still plays a lot of old videos. Kinda cool. I’ll be flipping the channel and stop to see what they’re playing and watch a few videos. Is there even an MTV channel anymore. They adapted with demand I suppose and moved away from their original mission statement. Which sucked. Although revolutionary with Jack ass, Bevis and butthead and the like, I preferred music videos and music news all day and night.

Youngster.

 

[HTTP404]

How did the artists know to make videos before MTV was a thing?

 

[C-2]

How did the artists know to make videos before MTV was a thing?

Ask Siri

 

[Orange Juice]

How did the artists know to make videos before MTV was a thing?

 

[GRADS]

MTV reminds me of my first stink finger. Good times.

 

[GRADS]

I still get a boner when I hear Sting sing "I want my MTV" at the beginning of Dire Straits "Money for Nothing".

 

[Todd Mohr]

MTV reminds me of my first stink finger. Good times.

Were you finger banging your asshole?

 

[Vamodsquad]

VH1's Behind The Music was a really good show back then. I watched just about every one of the episodes when they were on.

 

[boatpi]

Money for Nothing Video is what put them on the map of everyone.

 

[BajaT]

Seemed like this little guy was bouncing around every couple hours!!

 

[TPC]

Driving down PCH passing a MTV set on the beach with huge inflated Bevis and Butthead balloons was cool.

The annual contests like giving away a motel, or a corvette from every year,, unique and missed.

 

[TPC]

 

[Lumpy]

Yup. There was oldschool rock, pop rock, hard rock, punk rock, New Wave, Heavy Metal and pop (that was decent).

The biggest issues facing our generation were teen pregnancy and smoking.

Damn those were some great years.

And Pat rocked it.

Thanks for sharing!

Yup! I remember when Motley Crue’s first big concert happened at the Santa Monica Civic Center…literally next door to Samo High.

How did the artists know to make videos before MTV was a thing?

They were here and there…mostly the early cable channels had them as intermission. The ”Z” channel was the first I remember then HBO…kinda depended on the area you lived in too. Then it exploded…first video I saw on HBO while waiting to watch "over the edge" in 1979…I was 11.

 

[C-2]

VH1's Behind The Music was a really good show back then. I watched just about every one of the episodes when they were on.

It was a great show. they had a few others too like the show about reuniting old 80's band.

I'm a useless music facts geek. I dunno why, but I can read or hear a music tidbit and it stays with me forever. Not lyrics, but artists/song titles/year etc I remember forever. I laugh and mock myself for not having the same ability to learn how to make money lol

I play the radio for my horses and goats and every Saturday morning I get jammed up listening to replays of "American Top 40" and Casey Kasem on the local oldies station. Wifey will ask "Where the hell were you," and I'll tell her something stupid like "did you know Jennifer Rush originally wrote/sang the Power of Love". She just looks at me like I'm an idiot. And rightfully so, nobody should know or get excited about stupid crap like that

 

[C-2]

My pops thought MTV was ran by the devil. He hated me watching it all the time. I wonder what he would have thought about cell phones?

 

[rivermobster]

Beavis and Butthead reviewing videos was Always a freaking riot...

 

[Rennsport]

Romeo Void FTW!