30 Years Ago Today Video Killed The Radio Star?
 

nope - MTV is a pile of shit. August 1st, 1981 when we were young and many of you cockholsters weren't even on this planet!

5:40 in - Pat Benatar!

At the moment of its launch, only a few thousand people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey could see it.

I lived in Charleston, SC, when I first laid my eyes on MTV.

It was amazing, and fueled by drugs of that era, my friends and I watched for days at a time, between our gigs at clubs.

When the video became more important than the music, something died in pop music.

Quality of music.

Are there any channels that still play music videos nonstop?

I remember when they came out with MTV2 so that they could play videos all day because MTV was starting to do more shows. I think MTV2 is also shows now as well?

Strictly music video channels must not work all that well, they all seem to transition. Fuze did it as well.

You are right. There was a time when a record company would grow an act. Hall and Oats , Reo Speedwagon, Bruce Springsteen they were grown over several records before they had huge hits. Now they spend so much money if the first song isnt a hit they are done.

Back then MTV was cool, you could sit,space and watch hours and hours of music videos. Before they added all those stupid tv shows.

might have something to do with the fact that major artist are "selling" exclusive first play rights to their videos to competing music stations

the cost of production has now grown to more then the cost of creating unique content

and the upside profit is way more for the shows (tv+ DVD+ itunes+ syndication)

i rarely watch music videos anymore, 90% of the time i listen to internet radio so imo radio faked its death and waited for the right moment to return and stab mtv in the heart;)

LOL? Internet killed the video star?

I stream my music all day long using Rhapsody. I love my 1980s crap; Right now I'm listening to Pet Shop Boys. There was a time when I was completely stuck in the 1980s with my music, and would only listen to new music when it was one of the bands from the 1980s. These days using Rhapsody... I listen to everything.

i usually don't reply when i disagree with you but this could not be further from the truth. gobs and gobs of KILLER pop music after mtv launched.



not to mention alternative.

:1orglaugh that should be done as a parody of the original, twitter Weird Al on this!

really i think he would love to skewer mtv at least one more time...

I was addicted to MTV when I lived in NYC in the early 80's.

i cant afford MTV... :(

damn that was quick:1orglaugh

Back in the mid 90's MTV was involuntarily educative in musical terms for me ...

i had come across it awhile back looking up the original. :)

it's a hack compared imo. weird al version would be a lot better eh.

Actually, cheers for that... I had no Idea that MTV launched on My Birthday !!!

Well, not my 'Actual' birthday - I'm a bit older than that.. But the same date - Aug 1st :)

I remember this launch and was in college finishing my undergrad. MTV back then was pretty much background for the party and no one really watched it very close as it was just music videos.

30 years later and wow, how has the world changed.

Dang, 30 years.

I remember watching MTV in the late 80s. My friends mom wouldn't let him watch it, so we would go to my house... never knew why.

Back then it was the cool thing to do, even until the early 90's at the lunch tables we would talk "did you see that video from..." etc.

Now its all NON-music related shit. Why? because the younger generation, which MTV goes after, doesn't give a shit about music videos, they can watch them on YouTube and they don't have the TV on while they are playing board games, they have Pandora running while they are playing Halo.

Dont hate on MTV, its their business to stay in business. Shit, the annoying Jersey Shore show is the top rated and most viewed program of all time for MTV. You think they give a shit about a few 30+ year old crying about no more music videos? They are rolling in the cash :2 cents:

song not so hot, but the zombies in the video are top notch!

:1orglaugh good one, direct parody of the original. i think weird al would also approve:thumbsup

been listening to these guys a lot

great track, cool video

See, they already did it. Even worth watching!

I think they started moving away from music videos long before YouTube came along. When MTV first came out it was new and exciting, and everyone wanted to watch music videos 24/7. After four or five years it got old and they started to move over to half hour long shows.

At least they brought back "120 minutes" with Matt Pinfield to MTV2. It debuted this morning at 1:00am

http://cnnmobile.com/primary/_dLoPn4-iDWHboSoYpL

I want a Mexican Radio.

2 tres cool tracks/vids

good times :thumbsup

when I was a teenage I was living in a small town in Argentina and there was a pub with a screen and a projector. The owner of that pub traveled to US and brought back several VHS tapes with just MTV recorded in them. We could spent HOURS watching that and dreaming on having such a channel like that, we had cable but very far from having MTV or something similar until well into mid 80's

the other super awesome thing to come out of music videos is it completely changed clubs.

DJs were playing long versions of songs and adding in crazy cool video to the already cool original. i loved it.

I hate MTV now but it would be a lie to say it didn't form a big part of my childhood. I can remember seeing it for the first time and it totally changed the way I absorbed music.

The first video I can remember seeing was Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

Those where the glory days.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iJuy2Zonfu...600/mtv+vj.jpg

Lots of good digital streaming music options (especially live acts) on cable/internet these days...I rarely watch MTV anymore.

:stoned

ADG

dammit - i was going to post that :winkwink:


and i still have the actual record (that black, round thing) of The Buggles with "Video killed the radio star" on it :pimp

I was a 18 year old snot nosed punk back then