Posted on 07/31/2014 10:52:24 PM PDT by beaversmom
If MTV could go back to being a purely music video channel existing on free content provided by the record companies, they'd do so in a second.
It were the record companies that drove MTV away from the music video business.
Well. I’m a bit of an anomaly because I like both. ;)
“...And all the world is football shaped...”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0invUXXsRAQ
Been a big XTC fan ever since.
I loved that album. I thought they were going to be huge.
Saw Adam Ant, but I really went to see the opening act, The Romantics.
Can’t have an early 80s MTV thread without The Fixx.
Stand or Fall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM6Ilhqms_8
Yeah, as soon as I posted that, I looked it up and saw I had the wrong song. Dangit, I hate it when I do that! :-)
I remember that one. Seems like the The Knack disappeared for the entire 80s. Their next hit wasn’t until 1991. Was their second biggest;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgm2J0ZEb_U
Do love a video with a babe on my favorite missile.
Hard to top “My Sharona” or even come close. “Good Girls Don’t” didn’t get much airplay as the radio edit wasn’t as good as the album track.
The story is that Michael Jackson's record company bullied MTV into playing "Billie Jean" by threatening to withhold some of their other major artist's (which Michael Jackson was not , yet)videos. MTV didn't want to as they were a rock channel, but they folded, and that was the end.
Wow. I saw that tour. I would have been about 13. Went with older cousins. Radio City Music Hall, believe or not!
Wow. Saw the Fixx open for - and this is the most embarrassing admission of my life - A Flock a Seagulls. Also age 13, also Radio City . Thank God I discovered hard rock a few short years later.
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