I miss Kennedy, she was so hot with those cat glasses.
Posted on 07/31/2006 11:20:33 AM PDT by Cagey
A long time ago MTV was a music video channel.
Congratulations MTV! Most networks took 40 years or more to turn into smut-filled uninteresting crap. You did it in 25! Way to push the envelope.
1. THE DEBUT: Aug. 1, 1981. The first video? The slyly prophetic "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the now-forgotten Buggles. Only a few thousand people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey could see it.
That was my cable company, Cablevision (or was it Vision Cable?) out of Fort Lee.
Overnight, MTV became the talk of my highschool. It was really cool back then. They played music videos. Weird that they forgot how to do that.
When I was 21 - 22, just before MTV came on the air, my musician roomate and I thought it would be the greatest channel ever. We didn't have cable, but we were going to when MTV was added to the lineup.
We thought MTV was going to be, well, Music Television. We envisioned great musicians and bands in concert, interviews, etc.
Finally, in Spring 1982, MTV came to our local cable company.
When I, at last, turned on the mythical musical nirvana for the first time, I was confronted with......A Flock of Seagulls and something called a "music video" where not-good-enough-to-get-out-of-the-garage third rate pop bands lipsynced to crappy bubblegum nonsense while a sophomoric, incoherent collage of movie clips played throughout the song.
I watched for several hours, and it got no better. That was May 1982. I assume it's even worse, now.
Martha Quinn sure was cute, though.
I miss Kennedy, she was so hot with those cat glasses.
And a conservative....I remember what a scandal it was when she "came out"
I thought Kennedy was hot. Even before I knew she was a conservative.
;-)
(not as hot as you though)
My friends had cable/MTV so I always watched it at their houses. The 80s were the best years for MTV.
I wonder if she still has that GOP Elephant tattoo?
And it was all over from there.
How can an article on the history of MTV leave out the Headbanger's Ball?
ping
It can't!
Headbanger's Ball turned me into the man I am.
;-)
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