[reagan_fanatic]

Rock the Vote is pushed big on MTV, which has gone from a musical lark to a horrible and mind-numbingly vacuous pop-culture train wreck

In the mid-80's, I used to love to come home after work and turn on MTV to watch the music videos - I even had the audio connected to my home stereo so I could listen to them in high fidelity. The MTV of today is a shell of what it used to be. They seem far more interested today in pushing liberal activism and sex down people's throats than in actually playing music, a trend that really solidified during the 'Toon years when MTV pulled out the stops to help get Clinton elected.

[MikeWUSAF]

MTV plays music videos?

I don't believe it.

[sandbar]

Yep, same here. I LOVED MTV. Loved the music. There is no music on MTV anymore. I watch World Video channel now. Nothing but music and really good stuff from around the world.

[RepoGirl]

I used to love MTV in the early and mid- 80s. A lot of the early videos were coming from the new wave bands, so they tended to be a little more experimental and off-kilter. Then, some time around '84 - '85, the more mainstream artists started jumping on the band wagon, and the channel lost a lot.

Nothing could beat 120 Minutes in the early days! Thankfully, I always had a later class schedule on Mondays so staying up till 2 am didn't have an adverse affect on my school work.

[bill1952]

Same here.
In fact, it was a big reason I started to listen to music again, after the vast wastelands of the 70s.
New Wave and MTV was great.

I stopped the cable thing for a few years, and was shocked when I returned.

I kept waiting for music and all I ever saw were morons, idiots and imbeciles, running stupid game shows about sex and drinking.

Now I just listen to the radio, so for me...

Radio killed the video star.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Ah yes, the good old days of "Head-bangers ball" and rock videos. Remember when that colorful MTV logo used to flash and change designs on the screen between commercials?

Yeah, Empty-V sucks now. Nothing but music of peace (cRap) videos and reality shows starring bisexuals.