Posted on 07/31/2014 10:52:24 PM PDT by beaversmom
On this day in 1981, MTV: Music Television goes on the air for the first time ever, with the words (spoken by one of MTV’s creators, John Lack): “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” was the first music video to air on the new cable television channel, which initially was available only to households in parts of New Jersey. MTV went on to revolutionize the music industry and become an influential source of pop culture and entertainment in the United States and other parts of the world, including Europe, Asia and Latin America, which all have MTV-branded channels.
In MTV’s early days, its programming consisted of basic music videos that were introduced by VJs (video jockeys) and provided for free by record companies. As the record industry recognized MTV’s value as a promotional vehicle, money was invested in making creative, cutting-edge videos. Some directors, including Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Three Kings) and Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), worked on music videos before segueing into feature films. In the 1980s, MTV was instrumental in promoting the careers of performers such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince and Duran Duran, whose videos played in heavy rotation.
By the late 1980s, MTV started airing non-video programming, geared toward teenagers and young adults. Its popular reality series The Real World launched in 1992 and was followed by such highly rated shows as The Osbournes, Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, Laguna Beach, My Super Sweet 16 and The Hills. MTV also debuted animated series including Beavis and Butthead and Celebrity Deathmatch, as well as documentaries, news, game shows and public service campaigns on topics ranging from voting rights to safe sex. MTV developed a reputation for pushing cultural boundaries and taste; the airing of Madonna’s 1989 “Like a Prayer” video is just one famous example. In 1984, the channel launched the MTV Music Video Awards, which were followed in 1992 by the MTV Movie Awards. Today, MTV’s music-video programming is largely confined to one show, Total Request Live.
Yeah...especially with that clown pic now. I don’t think there coming back.
*they’re coming back...
Have not ever heard The Weeping Song nor the band. Kinda like it. Wanna get into a nice, sad mood from it, but can’t do it watching the video! :)
It was a huge leap for computer animation...long before we had today’s obligatory CGI wizards.
I bet I would.
It’s a good song but sticks to the roof of your skull like peanut butter.
That's too weird! I haven't thought about this song in years and just a few hours ago my FRiend and I were sharing it. It was a different video, though.
This is the video he sent to me earlier that I remember from MTV days:
Vimeo Video of Don't Pay the Ferryman
I do like your video, though.
Craving milk now. :)
LOL
Thanks!!!
They yanked that from YouTube years ago and i cannot find my saved copy.
Been looking for it *forever*.
I remember that one. From a movie, right? Good tune.
Made me think of this. I’m not a Springsteen fan, really, but this one always makes me happy when I hear it in the car. Just wanna dance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129kuDCQtHs
Love the lyrics:
I get up in the evening
and I ain’t got nothing to say
I come home in the morning
I go to bed feeling the same way
I ain’t nothing but tired
Man I’m just tired and bored with myself
Hey there baby, I could use just a little help
Cool!!! I figured that might be the case when my FRiend sent it to me ‘cause he normally sends me YT vids.
I hate to confess it but I used to be a huge Bruce fan, before he went politically stoopid.
After “The River” he jumped the shark.
There were a couple songs from “Nebraska” that I liked.
He was the first concert I ever went to, at The Cap Center in Landover MD.
1978.
He put on a 3 hour show.
But he later went crazy and I wandered away.
lol... love the fros on those wiggers! :)
Loved all those tunes!
A few other obscure ones from the early MTV days that I loved:
(You ain’t worth) The Salt in My Tears, by Martin Briley: Never actually heard this one anywhere BUT MTV. Good little song, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg-TWFX1OOE
What’s He Got That I Ain’t Got?, by The Producers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLdj1myZCis
Wunderbar, as done by Tenpole Tudor. Cracks me up to this day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qj5AHm6u80
VIMEO are selfish slobs.
I can’t figure out how to download a copy from their site.
:-\
Ah don’t have to be ashamed. I can’t help but like some people that I know have totally polar views from me. There’s another one of Springsteen’s that I like. A melancholy one it seems. Can’t think of it offhand. Maybe I can try to pull it up. I really don’t know much of his music at all.
I thought of the other Springsteen I like.
Bruce Springsteen - I’m On Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpXArn3hII
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