25 years of MTV

[Welling_is_pretty]

I was reading in my Entertainment Weekly a big article about how MTV is 25 years old this year.
All I could think were two things:
1.) wow, I'm old!
and 2.) And they haven't played a music video in at least 10 of those years! :lol:

[Randy G.]

Yeah, I've noticed that! Lol! :lol:
Teri, you're not old. Saying YOU were old, would be calling ME old (er) too. :\ ;)

p.s. I was watching (MTV) the very minute they first signed on the air. Ahhhh......memories. :p

[Lexgirl33]

Yup I remember when they played videos :lol:

[luthorsmentor]

if you guys are old then so am i, i remember watching "video killed the radio star" when it first came on.

[Lexgirl33]

yup that was the first video on MTV, though Im not that old lol

[Summers]

MTV is as old as me :lol:.

They had to create another network to air the videos lol.

[Rosa76]

:D I loved MTV when they first came out . I wished they played more videos though . :\ Now I love to watch VH1 Classic :) ,esspecially for my 80's music fix. :rolleyes: Even though I'm 30 ,I still feel like a kid at times. Time sure flies. :\

[TMLS]

Great stuff on MTV UK last night to celebrate (even though we didn't get MTV 'til much later!). MTV's 25 best moments, the longest video ever (specially commisioned), 60 best videos (won by Madonna - wtf?!) and the very first hour repeated. Did they do all that around the world?

[Welling_is_pretty]

Originally posted by TMLS
Great stuff on MTV UK last night to celebrate (even though we didn't get MTV 'til much later!). MTV's 25 best moments, the longest video ever (specially commisioned), 60 best videos (won by Madonna - wtf?!) and the very first hour repeated. Did they do all that around the world?
wow, that sounds cool! I dunno if American MTV did that. I don't watch MTV anymore. (I stopped a long long time ago; first switching to VH1 then, when they stopped playing videos too, dropping out of the Music TV scene almost alltogether.)
I did not watch The Buggles video kick off MTV. I don't remember my first vid on there but I can clearly remember watching the Moon Man plant that MTV flag and watching it change colors.
I thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen back then!
:lol:

[MBCorp]

MTV was one of the worst things to ever happen to the music industry...although I will admit that when I was in high school I enjoyed watching MTV and VH1, but even then they had already started showing more reality shows than videos. But nowadays I'd rather watch a real concert than watch a bunch of musicans miming to their studio recording in a music video.

[Lexgirl33]

Its definatly crap now. I dont even turn to that channel anymore. Though I do like VH1, its got one of my favorite tv shows...I love the (decade)

[Summers]

I thought MTV was good for it's time not to mention some people can't go to live concerts :\. I loved the early seasons of The Real World and Road Rules, but they milked those shows to death. I still watch VH1 for I Love The (decade) and their countdown. They did a great job on 100 Teen Idols. Vh1 Classic plays the best videos next to Fuse personally. To me I think MTV actually made music more visual for people who couldn't go to concerts, and could make great storytelling with their songs. I don't think it killed it. I think the industry is the one that shot themselves in the foot not MTV :\. MTV is a variable yes, but the artists and labels have a bigger variable than them. Music Videos have been around since Ricky Nelson(i.e. "Travelling Man"} and The Beatles.

[Daphne]

Wow, I am old......
I rememebr staying up so late to see Journey videos....... yikes! Oh then there was Duran Duran....... sigh...........

MTV is the devil now though. I remember seeing an interview with the guy running MTV and he said the words, "I own your kids." The devil I tell ya!
Now you all know how old I really am.