Three hours of MTV from 83 - Blast from the past

[spartanmanor]

Man this stuff is bad but I can't stop watching:

http://www.appelogen.be/2008/01/25/3-uur-mtv-uit-1983/

 

[KeninDC]

Simpler times, bro.

 

[Drybasement]

I remember watching MTV in Jan/Feb/Mar of 1982 and thinking how cool it was.

 

[philo426]

Trivia:What was the first song(and artist)played on MTV?

 

[onepixel]

Trivia:What was the first song(and artist)played on MTV?

Gawd... I remember this.

Radio Killed the Radio Store - Buggles.

I was so transfixed by it.

 

[Tony V]

Brings back alot of memories back when MTV was still watchable. Anybody remember "Night Tracks" that came on TBS when music video's first came popular? If i remember right "Night Tracks was first then MTV came shortly after.
-Tony

 

[Stoffie]

Cool stuff, used to be a cool channel. The MTV we have here nowadays never even plays videoclips anymore, just stupid reality show crap, so what's the point of still calling it MTV ?

 

[MRX37]

I liked it back when Beavis and Butthead were on.

Now it's just crap.

 

[JJJimmy]

I fell in lust with Martha Quinn...

 

[Sandy G]

MTV played music videos ? Really ? Who'd a-thunkit....

 

[jerrymrc]

When I joined the Army in 1980 there was no cable (that I knew of) in Portland. You had 5 channels.

I go off and do the Army thing living in Belgium for the next few years.

I went on leave in 83 and get back to Portland. Go over to a friends house and he turns on the TV (no TV in Belgium just music and movies) MTV is on. first thing I see is "Hot for teacher" I am like WTF????? is this????

Talk about being out of the loop.

 

[SuiDog]

Ha, sounds like my story a few years earlier, Jerry, stuck in a crap hole in Germany, no TV or radio, just great audio gear... talk about simpler times.

I really like the early MTV too, always wanted to find a source for their videos.

Beavis and Butthead kicked ass.

 

[Rodzilla]

well being canadian we didn't get MTV...muchmusic signed on out of toronto shortly after MTV and was generally similar in a lame way...having fun watching this tho,it's all so...primitive it's kinda like a little time warp back to my teens,i didn't view things as i do now but i remember all this stuff in technicolor

 

[DaWoofer]

I remember "Little Pink Houses" by J Mellencamp was played the heck out of...

 

[Sandy G]

I liked "Beavis 'n' Butthead" & "Daria", but I haven't really watched MTV since "Daria" went off. Most of what's on there seems to be teaching teenagers how to be even worse juvenile delinquents than they already are...

 

[cademan]

Onepixel up there in thread number 5 had it a little backwards. The song was: Video Killed the Radio Star by 'The Buggles'. He was in the right ballpark though. Man that was a long time ago! I was 19 years young.

 

[Johncan]

The commercials are fabulous too... there was one for Sansui gear (back when they had the green logo).

I must have killed thousands of brain cells watching it back in 1983 (I was 16).

Thanks for the link and the memories.

 

[Brent71]

I loved MTV in my teens to early/mid 20's. I grew up just outside of Cedar Rapids, Iowa and we couldn't get cable. My sister and her husband lived 3 miles away and had cable so I used to watch MTV every time I was over there. Then around '85 or '86 my dad bought a 10 1/2 ft C band dish and we were able to get MTV. In the early 90's I lived for Beavis and Butt Head and Headbanger's Ball. When both of those shows were gone is when I stopped watching MTV.

 

[cademan]

Amen Brent71! MTV was great when it really was Music Television. In the mid 90's, they kinda went downhill. Today's VH1 is yesterdays MTV.:yes:

 

[70salesguy]

MTV originally was a great thing. I first saw it while traveling through El Paso Texas at the very end (like Dec. 29 or 30)of 1982. One of the first videos I saw on MTV was "Back on the chain gang" by the Pretenders.

Earlier than that, HBO used to run a few music videos in the time between movies. This was as early as 1978.

VH1 came along later as an MTV for adults and ran videos by people like Anne Murray.

Now MTV is a total waste and VH1 not much better. :thumbsdn:

My cable system has VH1 classic, and although they play too much metal, occasionally they show some good stuff from the 80s.

Trivia : What artist is acknowledged as making the 1st video that was purposely made as a music video, and what song was it?

Hint : Other artists had made short films to accompany their songs as a promo for a new album prior to this, but this was the first purpose made video.