Retro MTV Channel

[The Toyroom]

^ Cool Stuff!

[mitchedwards]

I've found youtube as a source for all the music videos I used to see on MTV

[theantiquetiger]

Liquid Television
Headbangers Ball
180 Minutes (or something like that)
Young Ones (BBC show)
Monkees
Spring Breaks
MTV Summer House Party
even the first two or three seasons of Real World (before it came "See how outragous I can be" show)

[BlackKnight]

^^^ I coulda Sworn they brought HeadBangers Ball Back,.. with a new "VJ" .. Ricky Rackman's not doing it,.. I thought a caught this a few times last yr.

I wouldn't mind if they Just played 3 video's over & over.

Twisted Sister } "We not gonna take it"

Beasty Boys } "You gotta fight for your right to Party"

Warrent } "Cherry Pie" ,.. I can turn down the volume.

I personally was not "affected" by video's. Coulda cared less when they Came on , However I stopped whatever I was doing, & watched these as much as I could. They were the Best Video's I ever saw.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

Imagine sitting down and watching all these videos from back in the day, one after the other:

* Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n' Roll / Crimson and Clover
* Men at Work - I Come from the Land Down Under / Who Can it Be Now?
* Chess - One Night in Bangkok
* Thomas Dolby - She Blinded ME with Science
* Adam & the Ants - Prince Charming / Stand & Deliver / Goody Two Shoes
* Van Halen - Jump / Hot for Teacher
* Michael Jackson - Billie Jean / Beat It / Thriller!
* Madonna - Like a Virgin, etc.
* ???? - Come On Eileen
* ??? - Dar Commisar
* Talking Heads - Burning Down the House / "Days Go By (?title?)"

etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.!

As mentioned already, "...Eileen" was Dexy's Midnight Runners, and "Der Komissar" was by After The Fire (and also the European version by Falco).
I think the Talking Heads song you're mentioning is "Once In A Lifetime".

I greatly miss the old MTV days. I still have many many tapes from the 1980s of videos, mostly Headbanger's Ball episodes. The current attitude of tv execs is basically, "Music videos don't garner enough paying advertisers" so they've ditched it. I wouldn't even mind them playing tv shows instead, if they were actually good shows, heh. They did resurrect Headbanger's Ball for Mtv2. Don't even get me started on that one, haha, I have personal/business issues related to that. But it's at least good that they still have some sort of outlet for metal/hard rock, even if it is rather skimpy.

I honestly think the closest we're ever going to get is Vh-1 Classic. I haven't heard about that Much Music retro station thing, I'd love to see that.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

Remember Friday Night Videos?

That was my main place for seeing music videos in the early 1980s before I had cable and MTV. I still have the first episode of Friday Night Videos on tape somewhere.

[kingdom warrior]

Mtv? what the hell is that...When I want to see videos now I just youtube it freek Mtv!!!

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Y'know what I'd rather see, instead of retro videos? NEW VIDEOS THAT DON'T SUCK! I've already seen all the old stuff, no point watching it over and over and over.

Of course, if there was a sudden proliferation of good videos (or at least NOVEL videos) they'd have to cancel "Video On Trial." I love that show.

Don C.