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I don't know if you remember this but MTV had very little variety with music videos, at least in those early years. I cannot tell you the number of times I saw
by trimbo 5y ago
I don't know if you remember this but MTV had very little variety with music videos, at least in those early years. I cannot tell you the number of times I saw "Little Red Corvette"[1] and "Jeopardy"[2] at a friend's house while he insisted on having MTV on for hours. Those songs are etched in my brain for life now.
IMO MTV did a really good job of expanding beyond music videos, though I didn't personally watch it past Liquid Television.
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0KpfrJE4zw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0KpfrJE4zw
[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAJNwPWVmNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAJNwPWVmNc
- etempleton 5y agoI remember as a kid MTV being entirely music videos and I could watch until they looped to the one song I liked again. Then I remember as a teenager still being mostly music videos, or shows about music, but there were a few others like road rules and real world. And then by the time I was in college it was a channel almost completely devoid of music and that mostly played weird fake dating shows.
- smcl 5y agoThis limited catalogue did lead to an interesting opportunity though - if you were competent enough and could produce an interesting video you could get a bit more exposure than you could otherwise expect. So things like "Mexican Radio"[0] by Wall of Voodoo emerged, not to mention "Dog Police"[1] by Dog Police. [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Y-1plYJuQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Y-1plYJuQ