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Posted on 12/17/2021 12:17:04 PM PST by Drew68
That’s a very good way of putting it.
I just skipped and bounced around through the whole thing. I have never heard about half of the songs and about a third of the groups. I guess that was all the videos that had back then.
I prefer the YouTube approach. Just punch in the song you want to hear and not only will you get the official video to the song but you might get a list of live versions and alternate videos (produced by fans) as well.
Ironically, these videos were initially considered to be an expense - to get an artist promoted so that you would buy their records. Now the business model is reversed. It's the videos that are making the artists much of their money.
Thanks to the VEVO deal, some of those vintage videos from the 1980s are generating more income today than the actual records did back then!
Split Enz? Man, what a nostalgia trip. Actual bands making actual music.
The Monkees show has 2 music videos in every episode.
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Back in the ‘80s my wife and I were in graduate school at the University of Illinois ( Champaign-Urbana campus). MTV debuted/blasted off on the local cable system on a Friday at 6:00pm with a video of a live performance of Roll With the Changes (if memory serves me correct) by REO Speedwagon (they were from CU). Nice touch by MTV to do that for the kick-off.
“I prefer the YouTube approach. Just punch in the song you want to hear”
Only problem with youtube if you are not familiar a group you will never see it
MTV played groups no one had heard of.
I think so. Thanks for the response.
I didn't get to see MTV on the first day it aired but I was watching it by the end of the year and it seems to me from watching this video that even in the early days a lot of stuff was dropped from rotation as more videos were acquired
I've noticed with YouTube though that if you play a music video and then walk away it'll just keep playing videos of similar-sounding music. I've actually discovered some new stuff just by having YouTube play videos in the background.
There's actually an advertisement for that show on one of the MTV commercials in this vid.
That REO concert was filmed in Denver at McNichols Sports Arena where as a youth I saw many, many shows (but, sadly, not that one).
When I heard that song, I thought to myself, "Wow! I forgot you guys were a great band!"
Then, it was nonstop Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Culture Club.
MTV was killed by proto-Wokeness.
Thanks for filling in some blanks!
One of the guys Moms was being interviewed on local TV once. She said that whenever she went to a store (the old K-Mart on Greene Street?) she would move all the REO albums to the front of the racks. Kind of cute.
“Trevor Horn is a genius.”
Moments in Love.
Art of Noise, right?
Since you posted, Im going to ask. In MTVs early days there was a video that they played. It was instrumental and the pictures changed to the drumbeat. I remember the pics were ink drawings of early American and Revolutionary war era images and the background cycled through red white and blue, any idea? Id sure like to see it again.
Brings back some pleasant memories.
Seriously though, what do you really think?
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