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Your MTV Memories (30th Anniversary of MTV on August 1st)
80sVJs.com ^ | 7/29/11 | MTV Staff

Posted on 07/29/2011 4:08:26 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD

August 1 marks the 30th Anniversary of MTV. MTV revolutionized the way we looked at music and the VJs were a big part of shaping that vision. We want to know what it meant to you. Do you have fond memories of watching MTV or your favorite VJ?

We’ll collect your stories through the month of August and post them here on the site as we get them.

We will be accepting form entries starting Saturday, July 30th, 2011.

Entries may be edited and become the property of 80sVjs.com.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 30thanniversary; iwantmymtv; mtv; vh1
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To: dfwgator

IMO, his best video *ever*:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg&ob=av2e

[especially since it p*ssed “Coolio” off]...LOL


101 posted on 07/29/2011 7:15:57 PM PDT by Salamander (I'm your pain.)
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To: Salamander

Everyone should see Weird Al Live, at least once, saw him last year, and he puts on one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.


102 posted on 07/29/2011 7:17:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I’d love to but I don’t he’s ever been near my area.


103 posted on 07/29/2011 7:21:33 PM PDT by Salamander (I'm your pain.)
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To: dfwgator
Everyone should see Weird Al Live, at least once, saw him last year, and he puts on one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.

Yep. We took our kids to see him at the Puyallup Fair here in Wash. State, while he was on the Poodle Hat tour (hubby still has the t-shirt). He's a great entertainer. FUN show, and I got to sit there with my McCain/Palin sign, too! In true-blue liberal land.

104 posted on 07/29/2011 7:23:39 PM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: Salamander

Speaking of Alice Cooper, I love your homepage. :-)


105 posted on 07/29/2011 7:26:36 PM PDT by death2tyrants
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To: Mama Shawna

If you haven’t heard this one yet, this is pure brilliance from Weird Al

Trapped in the Drive-Thru (based on R Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmGVYki-oyQ&ob=av3e


106 posted on 07/29/2011 7:26:40 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

I want my MTV when it actually played music videos!


107 posted on 07/29/2011 7:31:07 PM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: death2tyrants

Thanks....:)


108 posted on 07/29/2011 7:33:33 PM PDT by Salamander (I'm your pain.)
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To: windcliff; onedoug
I remember MTV not playing this Kate Bush video because it was "too erotic" LOL.

Running Up That Hill
109 posted on 07/29/2011 7:40:53 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

MTV destroyed the Music industry.


110 posted on 07/29/2011 7:43:03 PM PDT by right way right
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To: Salamander

I was 15 and it does not seem like it was all that long ago.


111 posted on 07/29/2011 7:43:34 PM PDT by BBell
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Friday Night Videos had a bigger impact in my area. We didn’t get cable till 84 and by 85 we had moved to another house without cable. Still no cable at that house, just sat dishes.

And this was in Connecticut, one of the most densely populated states in the country then (and now). I just happen to live in the most rural part of the state, where we used to have fun jumping into cow pastures, waiting for the bulls to chase us and jumping over the stone walls.


112 posted on 07/29/2011 7:45:32 PM PDT by Betis70 (Bruins!)
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To: Salamander
Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” is still haunting.

My favorite was "Cloudbusting" with Donald Sutherland. Heck, I remember when she appeared on SNL.

Mark

113 posted on 07/29/2011 7:55:10 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

My favorite MTV memory came in the early 90’s when I was 19 years old. First, there was an En Vogue “Free Your Mind” PSA about equality for women or some nonsense. The very next shot was from MTV’s Spring Break coverage, where a bunch of dudes were holding women by their ankles, pushing them across the beach like wheel barrows to a pit filled with Jell-o, where the ladies raced to eat the Jell-o like dogs.

That was the last time I ever voluntarily watched MTV.


114 posted on 07/29/2011 7:59:01 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

My fav early video is Scandal’s “The Warrior”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDaBF8LILk

Not because the video was all that great, but just for Patty Smyth.

As a early 80s vid, I’d say Duran Duran were the masters, with “Hungry Like the Wolf” my fav. They made videos that told a story rather than just imitating live performances like so many of the early MTV era. The video is almost 30 years old (1982) and it is still pretty impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0&ob=av2e


115 posted on 07/29/2011 7:59:54 PM PDT by Betis70 (Bruins!)
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To: MarkL
As far as Kate Bush, for me it has to be Wuthering Heights.

Stunning vocal range.

116 posted on 07/29/2011 8:00:59 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Ah, I remember 20 years ago watching part of a drama on MTV. Only made through 15 minutes, because it was soooo banal.


117 posted on 07/29/2011 8:01:40 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

I remember when MTV was just that - Music Television.


118 posted on 07/29/2011 8:04:27 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: dfwgator

I’ve never heard the song by R Kelly...but I did watch the video, and had to share it on my FB page. Here’s what I posted along with the vid: “I can’t believe I watched the whole thing. I did laugh, it was strangely compelling, and now I’m wondering if I just wasted 11 minutes of my life?”

Fun!


119 posted on 07/29/2011 8:06:40 PM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: Betis70
The first MTV video I ever saw was the very peculiar Ashes To Ashes by David Bowie. If I recall correctly, he was doing a sort of strange, slow Mummer's strut up a twilight beach in a clown suit. Couldn't quite decide if it was eerie or ridiculous. It was both, in hindsight, the video that is. Still enjoy the song.
120 posted on 07/29/2011 8:07:33 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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