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MTV VHS Recordings 1981 to 1989 [video]
- afpx 6y agoCan you access these through torrents?
- shervinafshar 6y agoYes. In the "Download Options" sidebar there is a link to the torrent manifesto file.
- beerandt 6y agoEvery torrent I've gotten off archive.org has just been links to the http seed file and no trackers.
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- gentryb 6y agoI see only 5 actual files in the torrent that are mp4. It's far from a complete torrent. I really would love a full copy of all of this.
- quaffapint 6y agoI remember there were no 'alternative' radio stations around me at the time, so I looked forward to every Sunday night to watch and listen to MTV's 120 minutes to hear all the new stuff (or new to me anyway). Thanks for sharing these.
- myrandomcomment 6y agoDave Kendall (one of the host of 120 Minutes) does a show every Friday on XM First Wave on Friday nights - Party 360 with Dave Kendall. There is also Dark Wave on Sundays. Between those 2 it covers anything you would have heard on 120 Minutes.
- cbm-vic-20 6y agoOur modern era of algorithmic music programming (or the "four hour playlist" format) makes be pine for the days when actual humans did music programming. SiriusXM has a lot of stations with really good on-air talent. Not sure how much leeway they have on what actually gets played, but they're at least knowledgeable. Some college radio stations are also really good. (Shout-out to John Richards at KEXP!)
- thewebcount 6y agoYeah, I loved 120 Minutes. I miss these little gems that would pop into my life unexpectedly. That was one of the joys of radio in the 80s, too, before it all became corporatized. So many small programs on small radio stations at random times of the day or night. When I was a kid, we would often make the 8-hour trip from our home to my grandparents home a few states over. I would bring my cheap-o Walkman ripoff and just go up and down the dial as we drove looking for something interesting to listen to. I'd find some cool station in some moderately sized town we were driving through and listen for 30 or 60 minutes until we were out of range, then start hunting again. I'd hear all kinds of things: pop (of course), reggae, Gregorian chants, punk, metal, gospel, afro-pop, you name it! So much fun. Kind of like the Internet in the early to mid 90s. It was a great way to discover stuff that isn't really matched by all the algorithms and funneling that goes on today.
- myrandomcomment 6y agoI am old enough to have watched the first few hours. The cable came into a box on the TV. I think it was a 25 inch tube as my Dad liked to watch the NFL games. The cable box was a dial with ~60 channels on it and a A/B switch (so there was channel 60A and channel 60B). The TV had a remote but of course that did not work with the cable box so my job as the kid was to change the channel when my parents asked! There was not a ton of videos so they replayed them a ton. I remember seeing The Buggles, Go-go’s, Toto, Prince, etc. A lot of the videos where just the band on stage playing with various camera views. I also remember watching the premiere of Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1983) with my parents. It was pretty cool.
- TMWNN 6y agoI've heard that MTV caused new fashions to become popular outside big cities first, because rural areas were more likely to have cable TV in the 1980s.
- beerandt 6y agoNot rural, but suburban or smaller cities- dense enough to make financial sense, but without the costs of urban excavation.
- redis_mlc 6y agoWell, urban centers had a choice of over-the-air (OTA) TV and FM broadcast signals. So suburban areas may have adopted cable faster because they had less choices. For those too young to have experienced OTA, the TV signal was crisper (no bleed) than cable. FM is actually CD-quality if you're in a major city and have a $1000 receiver.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6y agoI prefer the commercials are left in.
- _cairn 6y agoGetting: This video file cannot be played. (Error Code: 224003) On all the videos, tried Safari and Chrome.
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agoarchive encodes these files upon upload. you can click the torrent link and download the files it's only ~9GB. consider seeding it for a day or 2 so others can access it quickly too.
- gentryb 6y agoAny idea if the torrent might get updated to more than 5 of the files contained? I was quite disappointed after grabbing it.
- PhantomGremlin 6y agoDoes anyone know where to buy good quality music videos from the 1980s? Currently some are available on YouTube, some on iTunes, some nowhere. Quality is very hit-and-miss. Why doesn't Apple have all of these for sale? Is it an issue of rights? Do they think there wouldn't be enough demand? Is there is a lot already available in torrents and that would compete with iTunes?
- unixhero 6y agoWhy do you want to purchase a music video??? Do you run a TV station and will re-broadcast it, or some other broadcasting strategy?
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agowhy would it be for rebroadcast purposes? not OP but I want to have such things streamed to my TV in my own home.
- unixhero 6y agoBecause music videos are free.
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agoI would pay money for original media because the data will likely be in it's "best" original encoding, metadata etc. And nobody other than the studio has meddled with it. You don't get that using youtube-dl or torrenting formats other people provide. edit: Music production evolves over time and digital content distribution is very different in the mixing business. Older formats are not built with streaming in mind and so you lose a lot of quality during upload to streaming services: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHxMsawJsTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHxMsawJsTc
- PhantomGremlin 6y agoThank you for explaining. Many videos on YouTube are low quality. Also, if I buy it I expect that some decent percentage of my purchase price makes it back to the original artist. (I know, very naïve of me). If I get it off youtube then the artist might get just a fraction of a cent in the best case.
- Sophistifunk 6y agoNot a single video of Adam Curry's magnificent 80s hairdo? It's a bleedin' outrage!
- 8iterations 6y agoTotally Rad!
- Animats 6y agoHow can the uploader claim public domain for that?
- AlecSchueler 6y agoArchive is classified as a library in the United States, as far as I understand it.
- Animats 6y agoThey put a public domain tag on the content, which is different than the library exception.
- mattigames 6y agoThis collection has 8 videos from 1990 and 3 from 1991. There is a few others from MTV's 90s on other collections at archive.arg: https://archive.org/details/movies?sin=&and%5B%5D=MTV&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221999%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221998%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221997%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221996%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221995%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221994%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221993%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221992%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221991%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221990%22&sort=-downloads https://archive.org/details/movies?sin=&and%5B%5D=MTV&and%5B...
- paypalcust83 6y agoBack when music videos were awesome works of cinematography, production, visual, and musical art: Dire Straits - Money For Nothing (complete with CG and 80's pastel graphics on live video) - https://youtu.be/csje_Tb0U0c https://youtu.be/csje_Tb0U0c Here's a playlist of 80's MTV videos, starting with the Space Shuttle and Apollo launches followed by landing the MTV flag on the moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NBhuf1g-rY&list=PLDHCLXs2vTkLK-Y7lCVSM5aC3wBYzAcyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NBhuf1g-rY&list=PLDHCLXs2vT... Like most things on Internet Archive, individual videos are not annotated very well so you have no idea what's in the content. Digging through it would be, sadly, mostly a waste of time. It would be more useful with annotations.
- riffraff 6y agothis is interesting, don't you think music videos were good also after the '80s? In my very modest opinion they peaked somewhere in the '90s: basically everything by Michel Gondry until "Let Forever Be"[0] is awesome and some artists (Prodigy, Bjork, Fatboy Slim, Korn, Marylin Manson) have made their clips almost as recognizable as their music. It seems these days they have become fairly boring but then again, maybe I've just become older and uncool. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FyfQDO5g0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FyfQDO5g0
- nineteen999 6y agoI think you're right, but there's always the element that the older crowd gravitate towards what we grew up with. And everyone eventually becomes the older crowd. There would be some people on here for which even this stuff is too "young"; those who grew up with 50's, 60's and 70's music of course.
- sprash 6y ago> videos were awesome works of cinematography, production, visual, and musical art I don't know if we are looking at the same thing or I'm too young to feel nostalgic about it but what I'm seeing looks like 95% complete trash.
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- unixhero 6y agoReally really good proramming.
- Dig1t 6y agoAll of the links on the site are now broken with the message "The item is not available due to issues with the item's content." Was the content taken down because of copyright issues?