Everybody just needs to shut the fuck up

PurpleThrobber

And listen/watch some MTV from the last time the POTUS was about to nuke the world. Some damned good tunes from those days.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8-SmMaqRdmxZGZQeWltOFl1R1E/view

Wood still hit Martha Quinn even after Peter Brady dropped his seed there.

Back to back to back at 4:20:00 : Heart, Molly Hatchet and Chilliwack.

Fuck those were good times.

DerekJohnson

I remember the first time I saw MTV. The year was 1983. I was spending the night over at my buddy Bruce Laracuente's house. He and his family had moved to Seattle from Queens. Drove cross country in a beat up green Pinto.

I'm sitting in his living room. Bruce and his brother Mike got into a shouting match and began throwing punches and rolling around violently. Meanwhile, I was completely transfixed on this channel with all these music videos. David Bowie's Let's Dance is one I remember from that day.

When we got it at our house soon after, my sister and I watched for countless hours every day.

When they did their weekly top 20 countdown, I became convinced that it was such bullshit and rigged. So I created a giant board on our downstairs wall and forced our neighbors and my sister to vote their favorites, and then we posted the REAL top 20 on the wall each week.

Yes I was a weird kid, and yes that is a good memory.

Thank you PurpleThrobber.

Swaye

DerekJohnson said:

I remember the first time I saw MTV. The year was 1983. I was spending the night over at my buddy Bruce Laracuente's house. He and his family had moved to Seattle from Queens. Drove cross country in a beat up green Pinto.

I'm sitting in his living room. Bruce and his brother Mike got into a shouting match and began throwing punches and rolling around violently. Meanwhile, I was completely transfixed on this channel with all these music videos. David Bowie's Let's Dance is one I remember from that day.

When we got it at our house soon after, my sister and I watched for countless hours every day.

When they did their weekly top 20 countdown, I became convinced that it was such bullshit and rigged. So I created a giant board on our downstairs wall and forced our neighbors and my sister to vote their favorites, and then we posted the REAL top 20 on the wall each week.

Yes I was a weird kid, and yes that is a good memory.

Thank you PurpleThrobber.

This explains a lot.

GrundleStiltzkin

Night Tracks or gtfo

Swaye

Heavy Metal Mania, and then Headbangers Ball changed my life.

Alexis

8-1-81. The date that made it much tougher for really ugly people to hit it big in music

Swaye

MTV is a fucking shit show now. Has sucked ass for years. It isn't even music. It's teenage soap opera bullshit. Fuck MTV.

allpurpleallgold

Of the Queens Bridge Laracuentes?

allpurpleallgold

Swaye said:

MTV is a fucking shit show now. Has sucked ass for years. It isn't even music. It's teenage soap opera bullshit. Fuck MTV.

This is a dumb complaint. They have multiple channels dedicated to music.

RaceBannon

Bringing on the Heartache was one of like three videos they had when they launched. Def Leppard was one of many bands that hit big just because had videos.

People do forget though that there were videos out there. I saw the Pretenders I'm special at the movies paired with Neil Young's Journey through the Past. Pre MTV

DerekJohnson

RaceBannon said:

Bringing on the Heartache was one of like three videos they had when they launched. Def Leppard was one of many bands that hit big just because had videos.

People do forget though that there were videos out there. I saw the Pretenders I'm special at the movies paired with Neil Young's Journey through the Past. Pre MTV

George Harrison claimed The Beatles invented the music video.

PurpleThrobber

Alexis said:

8-1-81. The date that made it much tougher for really ugly people to hit it big in music

I really had no issue with that shift in society:

RaceBannon

DerekJohnson said:

RaceBannon said:

Bringing on the Heartache was one of like three videos they had when they launched. Def Leppard was one of many bands that hit big just because had videos.

People do forget though that there were videos out there. I saw the Pretenders I'm special at the movies paired with Neil Young's Journey through the Past. Pre MTV

George Harrison claimed The Beatles invented the music video.

I'll allow it. There was Shindig and Bandstand where artists could pull songs from but not videos per se

Southerndawg

RaceBannon said:

Bringing on the Heartache was one of like three videos they had when they launched. Def Leppard was one of many bands that hit big just because had videos.

People do forget though that there were videos out there. I saw the Pretenders I'm special at the movies paired with Neil Young's Journey through the Past. Pre MTV

Good Chit @RaceBannon #greatmemories. Re: Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps was better than Journey through the Past.

2001400ex

allpurpleallgold said:

Swaye said:

MTV is a fucking shit show now. Has sucked ass for years. It isn't even music. It's teenage soap opera bullshit. Fuck MTV.

This is a dumb complaint. They have multiple channels dedicated to music.

Do you think they have more than one MTV on the rez?

PurpleJ

DerekJohnson said:

I remember the first time I saw MTV. The year was 1983. I was spending the night over at my buddy Bruce Laracuente's house. He and his family had moved to Seattle from Queens. Drove cross country in a beat up green Pinto.

I'm sitting in his living room. Bruce and his brother Mike got into a shouting match and began throwing punches and rolling around violently. Meanwhile, I was completely transfixed on this channel with all these music videos. David Bowie's Let's Dance is one I remember from that day.

When we got it at our house soon after, my sister and I watched for countless hours every day.

When they did their weekly top 20 countdown, I became convinced that it was such bullshit and rigged. So I created a giant board on our downstairs wall and forced our neighbors and my sister to vote their favorites, and then we posted the REAL top 20 on the wall each week.

Yes I was a weird kid, and yes that is a good memory.

Thank you PurpleThrobber.

The polls were WRONG?!?!?!!!

Fire_Marshall_Bill

I've read a couple of books on early and mid mtv ('81 to 2000), plus bios of dave mustaine, duff mckagan, and Stephen pearcy. I'll admit one of them was written by that annoying bitch Kennedy, but it was interesting. It sounded like the coke flowed big time, especially in the 80s. Swaye would have loved it.

I wish I was five years older (I used to, not anymore). Gotta love the hair band period and I was a few years to young to appreciate it.

PurpleJ

My earliest MTV memory was Blink 182 running naked through LA.

#millennial
#fag
#whatsmyageagain

PurpleThrobber

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

I've read a couple of books on early and mid mtv ('81 to 2000), plus bios of dave mustaine, duff mckagan, and Stephen pearcy. I'll admit one of them was written by that annoying bitch Kennedy, but it was interesting. It sounded like the coke flowed big time, especially in the 80s. Swaye would have loved it.

I wish I was five years older (I used to, not anymore). Gotta love the hair band period and I was a few years to young to appreciate it.

This was an easy read but I liked the style of the book - the four remaining VJ's took turns writing on their experience at MTV. Mark Goodman and Alan Hunter were pretty much drunk/stoned for most of their run.

RoadDawg55

PurpleJ said:

My earliest MTV memory was Blink 182 running naked through LA.

#millennial
#fag
#whatsmyageagain

Mine was Beavis and Butthead. I actually hated it when the music video's came on during the show.

WeAreAFatLesboSchool

DerekJohnson said:

I remember the first time I saw MTV. The year was 1983. I was spending the night over at my buddy Bruce Laracuente's house. He and his family had moved to Seattle from Queens. Drove cross country in a beat up green Pinto.

I'm sitting in his living room. Bruce and his brother Mike got into a shouting match and began throwing punches and rolling around violently. Meanwhile, I was completely transfixed on this channel with all these music videos. David Bowie's Let's Dance is one I remember from that day.

When we got it at our house soon after, my sister and I watched for countless hours every day.

When they did their weekly top 20 countdown, I became convinced that it was such bullshit and rigged. So I created a giant board on our downstairs wall and forced our neighbors and my sister to vote their favorites, and then we posted the REAL top 20 on the wall each week.

Yes I was a weird kid, and yes that is a good memory.

Thank you PurpleThrobber.

That explains a lot.