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SuperBigFan

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Say what you want about it now but man when it launched it was something amazing.

I can still remember running home from the bus stop to catch the "world premier" of Paradise City
 
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I am reminded of the Bowling for Soup song, 1985

Since Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
 
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I want to say this was the high point of MTV and the YouTube views seem to confirm it.

 
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tro80

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One of my favorite's for simplicity sake and because it was just different, You Can Call Me Al.
 
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SuperBigFan said:


Say what you want about it now but man when it launched it was something amazing.

I can still remember running home from the bus stop to catch the "world premier" of Paradise City
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Anyone who bashes MTV doesn't know or doesn't remember what TV was like 40 years ago.
 
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TRL. BTW, MTV Cribs is back and supposedly better than ever. It will have Snookie. (someone shoot me for typing that)
 
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Huskerlife39 said:
Anyone who bashes MTV doesn't know or doesn't remember what TV was like 40 years ago.
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I would say most the "Brain Surgeons" on here weren't alive 40 years ago! For me, MTV and few hits off the piece pipe were a regular occurrence
 
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Non Thriller category for videos Id lean Take on Me by A-ha
 
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I’ve played guitar for 33 years. I’m 48 yrs old. I started playing because Slash and CC Deville looked like super heroes to me. There was nothing cooler than a guitar player. MTV did that for me.
 
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I think MTV produced an entire generation in the beginning where you hear an old song on the radio now and the video pops in your head. So many but Peter Gabriel had awesome videos.
 
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Husker of the LBC said:
I think MTV produced an entire generation in the beginning where you hear an old song on the radio now and the video pops in your head. So many but Peter Gabriel had awesome videos.
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Yep. Loved Sledgehammer as a kid and also the George Harrison - I've got my mind set on you music video
 
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I'm 48 and absolutely loved the channel growing up. I'd come home from school and just watch video after video in the mid 80s. They moved with music then and influenced it at a level that is hard to measure. What 120 minutes and Yo! did for alt music and rap music was incredible. Unfortunately, ad dollars couldn't count on a viewer sitting and watching videos, so reality TV was launched. The channel really ended as a music channel when the real world started and the execs realized steady ratings could come from half hour shows.
 
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We didn't have cable in Cortland for much of my youth so the only time I caught MTV was if I was visiting cousins in Lincoln... First video I ever saw was U2 "New Years Day" I was hooked! such a bummer they destroyed it...

Oh, and Beavis & Butthead will forever live in my hearts as one of the greatest! LOL! even though it was a show at least they incorporated videos and music into it...
 
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at least when it was new even the bad videos were hard to turn away from, but all day music video had a shelf life that pretty much expired after 5 years or so and then it just kinda stumbled around for a bit.
reality tv revived the channel, but put the nail in videos.
 
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In 1981, I was 23. I had a few dollars saved up that I wanted to begin investing. I called a guy at Merrill Lynch and said, “I think this MTV thing looks interesting.” He told me, “That’s a fad that will be over soon.”

He’s not my broker anymore.
 
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ADV1 said:
We didn't have cable in Cortland for much of my youth so the only time I caught MTV was if I was visiting cousins in Lincoln... First video I ever saw was U2 "New Years Day" I was hooked! such a bummer they destroyed it...

Oh, and Beavis & Butthead will forever live in my hearts as one of the greatest! LOL! even though it was a show at least they incorporated videos and music into it...
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In one episode they were watching a video I never saw before and haven't since. It was a frumpy-looking girl in a torn dress walking through a corn field dragging a hoe behind her. Butthead said, "Its a hoe." Bevis said, "Yeah, Yeah, but what's that thing she has in her hand?" Those guys ruled.
 
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Also didn't have MTV initially in my hometown. Had to watch at grandparents in Colorado as a kid on vacation. Van Halen was my favorite growing up. But the great music and artists from that era is staggering. Prince, Michael Jackson, Springsteen, ZZ Top, The Police, Madonna, etc. Some of the biggest names and bands in history.
 
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