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I didn’t even know MTV was still on the air but nevertheless they were very innovative when they first started. The ZZ top videos were my favorites.
1 posted on 10/15/2025 1:55:01 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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MTV wasn’t just television, it was a lifestyle

Which was very much a problem.

2 posted on 10/15/2025 1:57:42 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Music industry is literally all Taylor Swift right now anyway.


3 posted on 10/15/2025 1:58:05 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Kid Shelleen
Marth Quinn was my favorite VJ


4 posted on 10/15/2025 2:01:06 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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Fun fact: Kennedy from Fox News was an MTV VJ back in the day!


5 posted on 10/15/2025 2:02:02 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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What better way for them to go out than with Dire Straits, "Money for Nothing"
6 posted on 10/15/2025 2:02:21 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (I never left the Democratic Party. It left me, and every time I look it keeps going further left.)
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I can't believe that it is 40 years since A-Ha's video of "Take on Me" was released.

If it wasn't for that video, people would be saying, "A-who?"

7 posted on 10/15/2025 2:02:49 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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Spotify killed the video star...


8 posted on 10/15/2025 2:03:36 PM PDT by Hatteras
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I hated it. Ruined college keg parties. Everyone turned into TV watching zombies looking at the same 8 videos they ran 24/7.

Whenever I hear Duran Duran sing “Rio” I vomit.


10 posted on 10/15/2025 2:04:26 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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First time I saw MTV was in the day room at LAFB. It was pretty cool - and sometimes shocking - to put faces to voices.
I thought they only did scummy 'reality' and 'color correct' shows nowadays.
15 posted on 10/15/2025 2:09:51 PM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (A Free Press MAY distort the truth, but a Controlled Press WILL distort the truth.)
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Sheeeeeyit. When was the last time MTV played music?


18 posted on 10/15/2025 2:11:16 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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What was the first song ever played on MTV?


20 posted on 10/15/2025 2:12:15 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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Now look at them yo-yos....


21 posted on 10/15/2025 2:12:24 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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MTV is a music channel? Who knew.


23 posted on 10/15/2025 2:13:49 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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In 1982-1983, I would go with my friends to the projection TV at the student center to watch new videos released.


26 posted on 10/15/2025 2:14:48 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12- 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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When is the time they actually played “music”?


27 posted on 10/15/2025 2:14:49 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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They used to be really good- at a time when not everyone had cable. Interviews, major rock starts as guest VJs, they aired the entire Live Aid concert...

But they’ve become so left wing and so idiotic its a channel you regularly pass over...


28 posted on 10/15/2025 2:15:25 PM PDT by God luvs America
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They launched the music video. Dire Straights Money for Nothing, Micheal Jackson’s Thriller, Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel amongst many others.


30 posted on 10/15/2025 2:16:12 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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David, sell MTV Networks. NFL wants it gone.


34 posted on 10/15/2025 2:17:12 PM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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I remember tuning in while at college to see the first broadcast. A bunch of us were crammed in a small room off the lounge to watch.

Video Killed the Radio Star and Fish Heads were the first two, IIRC.

Those were the days.

36 posted on 10/15/2025 2:18:31 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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Headbanger’s Ball was must-see TV in the early 90s.


40 posted on 10/15/2025 2:23:43 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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