Twenty years and they still haven't figured it out. Show me the bands!!


[Edited 7/2/05 10:05am]

Well, they had a great beginning. In the early '80s, they introduced so many New Wave bands to the world who got no radio play. That was when they were underground and desperate for material. I feel fortunate that I was the perfect age to cash in on the experience. Sad, how corrupted it has all become.

If you're talking about the Live 8 broadcast, then you're absolutely right. I'm tired of watching John Norris talk to drunk frat boys in Philly. And no big surprise that one of the only performances they've shown so far has been Destiny's Child.

I'm sticking with the web broadcast.

It used to be simply back to back videos, mostly from bands you never heard of, with a few interludes with quirky Martha Quinn. No shows, no talk, no commercials, no money. Just bare bones.

heartbeatocean said:

That was MTV at it's finest. I wish it could go back to that instead of trying to be the YTV (Youth Television). Viacom could make it's own youth station instead of destroying a station already out there with a purpose.

Axchi696 said:

Thank you! I wonder if they will bring back Martha Quinn to talk all over Comfortably Numb.

Ahh, web broadcast! Now that is the way to go.

heartbeatocean said:

I was talking Live 8, but I was there at the beginning too. It looked something like this, as I recall: Rod Stweart, Golden Earring, Rod Stweart, The Tubes, Rod Stewart, Hall & Oates, Rod Stewart, JJ Jackson, Big Country, Rod Stewart.

how can they still call it MTV, I thought it stood for music television, theres no music, it should be called RSTV, reality shows television

this coverage is fucking ridiculous. 1 song from U2, then we cut away so we can watch yet another reel of African children starving to death with flies on their lips. whom none of this is actually going to help, since they aren't actually raising any money to feed them. then we actually get 2 songs from Madonna back to back, then cut to commercial, and come back to the end of "Music" only to ignore that and show a clip of Snoop Dogg from 2 hours ago. GRRRRR!

Stax said:

I don't remember that lineup so well. I do remember very early Cure, Ebn-Ozn, ABC, Robert Palmer, Flock of Seagulls, Madonna, Billy Squier, Madness, Men at Work, the Clash, vintage Doors, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Thompson Twins, Cheap Trick, Pretenders, Buggles, Go-Go's, Devo, Culture Club, Adam and the Ants, Duran Duran, Psychodlic Furs, and yes too much Hall & Oates and Billy Joel.

heartbeatocean said:

Yep.Those were the days.And tell MC Lyte to STFU!

Why did MYV bleep out Madonna's FUCKING
and let Gilmour's bullSHIT get thru?

Fucken scam to cut all the performances
to sell later.

heartbeatocean said:

The Good Ole Days