It's sad. All programmed music by MANAGERS sucks.

They're all tie-ins with commerce.

The news that Radiohead will take over digital radiostation BBC6 around Christmas makes me happy.

Music for people who like music BY people who like music.

Too bad we cannot receive it in Holland.

i don't think about MTV. and if anyone does, my, what a waste of thoughts. it is what it is. it plays what's popular, and creates what's popular, same way it always has.

Its split in2 many different factions now! But as far as MTV Uk and Ireland is concerned its really boring. The same old videos on rotation all the time. Plus the presenters they have on have been really amateurish.

I watched MTV Asia a few times...errr... "interesting" I guess, I didn't get a fair amount of the videos. Some were just odd or pointless. Funny how some of them looked "home made" too. :+) I dunno, MTV sucks wherever you go I guess. Aaron is 100% right. They basically try to control what is "cool" or popular, I REALLY can't stand that part. Take care everybody!

It's all controlled by the Pentagon!

2the9s said:

Errr... may I get a MTV sucks fake tracklist maybe using some current hit titles? hehe

Reply to 'Whatcha think about MTV?'
I used to like MTV until they dropped a lot of the videos
and became an unapologetic corporate marketing monster.

You know another EXTREMELY annoying thing about MTV s how it promotes itself so much. Dontcha find it funny when people talk about MTV like it's a person? "Thanks MTV for helping me find out what's cool"..."MTV, you're gonna check out my crib so all of you viewers can think that being materialistic and wasting $ is the thing to do. To give the kids false hope and shallow goals, know what I'm sayin?" hehe Too many teens buy into that MTV crap that they dish out.

Bootsinox said:

yeah, in 2000-2002, i got sick of them tooting their own horn. every show was about MTV this, and MTV anniversary that, and here's what we've done, and blah blah blah.

MTV is largely trash, and has been for several years. But still, I respect pop culture and the power it has in creating a certain "community" within a generation.

For all the horrible things it's done in promoting declining artistry in music and promoting what dress and general cultural aesthetics are "cool," I think MTV in its healthier days has helped in other areas, like awareness of certain social concerns -- geopolitics, war, the economy, STDs, racism, etc., and I think it's done wonders in bringing together certain youth sub-cultures that might otherwise not know anything about, or have any positive appreciation of, one-another.
[This message was edited Sun Nov 16 10:53:39 PST 2003 by Lammastide]

I orginally posted this stream-of-conciousness rant in the Non-Prince forum a few weeks back, but I thought I'd be environmentally friendly and recycle it once more for this highly similar thread.

I personally believe the debilitating and regurgatory effects EminemTV has had on 'pop' culture over the past decade would make an able-bodied person envious of the blind and deaf.
The gratuitious marketing of personality and sex which now personifies the MTV playlist undoubedly cheapens a true musician's artform, where songs have been sidelined to the status of background accompiament to a multi-million dollar music video - the budget of which usually far exceeds the sum paid for the artist's entire album to be recorded (and could also undoubtedly fund a small hospital wing).
The cancerous minions working for The Man have modified the genes of this relatively new youth phenonomon - 'rock n' roll' - to the point where current popular music cynically reflects unexistant 'trends' which have been artificially created and aggresively marketed to nieve teen audiences through the ravenous mass media, which revels in easily marketable 'movements' and so-called 'personalities' - a cultural phenomonon which has now morphed inexorably into the ludicrous cult of celebrity.
Sitting back and letting this happen is just another indicator of our lazy, over-fed and over-stimulated 21st century mindsets becoming evermore desensitised and passive to anything with real artistic merit.
The rise of 'hop-hop' and 'rap' (marketing man labels which personify absolutely nothing) also massages the notion that MTV have become the new 'minstrel show', where African American males preach mysogony, money and violence in front of their eager condecending white audience, cheapening and pimping their cultural identity in the name of entertainment.
I could rival War And Peace with the size of this post, but generally I believe people should attempt to question just exactly what they are buying and why they are being sold it.

Number23 said:

Now tell us how you REALLY feel.

I just watch it to see Carson Daily

NotoriousJ said:

althom said:

Carson it hot

NotoriousJ said:

Carson is a goober

AaronUniversal said:

An uber goober. How did he ever get that job?

Well I just saw R. Kelly's video on MTV2, it's number 2 in the count down...props to all the Chi-Town steppers who appear in the video, yall the shiznit...one day hopefully the whole world will be steppin the night away.

Blackcat said:

Step in the name of love...that is one of my favs from the chocolate factory

NotoriousJ said:

you a stepper?

You know, we have a digital cable box in our house & when I want music, I just switch it to a digital radio station called "XFM". They play loads of new music and some proper classics like The Smiths, The Pixies or The Cure.


Apparently, if you live in London, you can listen to them through your normal radio. Must make life in the big rip off slightly more bareable.

I tried listening online at work via http://www.xfm.co.uk but I thought the sound quality wasn't good enough.

Blackcat said:

I got rhythm

Lammastide said:

I heard he slept with Kurt Loder... I dunno

Lammastide said:

Ready to fight the good fight, as always.