The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Music Video)

The Buggles ^ | 1980 | The Buggles

[DallasBiff]

Discover how The Buggles Become Video And Radio Stars:

[DallasBiff]

They were prophetic, and this was the first video shown on MTV.

[Little Pig]

And the wonderfully satirical "Intenet killed the video star". There've been a couple of versions of this, but this animated one is IMHO the most fun:

Internet killed the video star

[discostu]

And then in one of the weirder events in rock history they became Yes. Kinda

[Drew68]

The Very First Two Hours Of MTV (Including commercials. There used to be white people in commercials!)

[Billthedrill]

There used to be white people in commercials!

No way.

[Major Matt Mason]

Not the Buggles, but still a good, live version of the song (with a guitarist that looks like Woody Harrelson).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeB_tmdFAdc

[dfwgator]

And then in one of the weirder events in rock history they became Yes. Kinda

Drama was a darn good album. Tempus Fugit is one of Yes' best songs ever.

[discostu]

I know people who love it. I’m really picky about my Yes. Yes Album, Fragile and Close to the Edge, that’s really it for me. The rest of the catalog just doesn’t connect. But I never yuck people’s yums. Glad somebody likes it.

[dfwgator]

Well it’s sure better than Tormato.

[Dr.Deth]

Love that era. Ran that cassette damn near out of ferrite. Machine Messiah is a sneaky influence on a lot of progmetal to follow, almost every major player this side of Portnoy will reference it. The Cinema and XYZ sessions of 80 and 81 were fascinating to me.

Trevor Horn gets a lot of grief that somehow Rabin doesn't for not being Jon Anderson, but I didn't mind him at all, and he's kind of taken the Jeff Lynne career track toward more of a writer/producer. Squire could have easily taken the lead but just didn't want that spotlight.

[dfwgator]

Drama showed how critical Squire’s backing vocals were to the Yes sound, that’s why they didn’t miss Jon Anderson on it.