IAintTheOne said:

why you guys feeling old? i must be exactly your ages. i feel not old at all!



ah, the days when videos were videos... just dig out the adam ant cassette. that's what i do.

Heiress said:

its just wild that you see something when you were younger and sometimes some folks arent on the same groove you are at times y'know?

Anx said:

No kidding.

I lived in a Nebraska town of nearly 4,000 from age 9-16... I survived with Fri & Sat night video shows and old movies. I sometimes got up in the middle of the night to watch them in secret.

i miss friday night videos the most, because it was the show i watched the most since my folks didn't have cable yet. it was the program where i saw prince for the very first time--i remember seeing the videos for "icnttpoym" and "alphabet st." on there (i loved the hell outta that video).

weirdly enough i can still remember the last video i ever saw on friday night videos before it went off the air: "love overboard" by gladys knight and the pips, back in 1988.

You didn't get New York Hot Tracks in your state Tony? It was on at the same time as Friday Night Videos (at least in NYC). They played all the urban clips that FNV was too scared to play--like Rick James.

sextonseven said:

I remember a "Hot Tracks" but, I don't know if it was "NY" or not...it sounds familiar...was it on cable?

fridays were great because i'd start out bouncing between friday night videos/night flight/and the all night TBS video show, then when FNV was over, i'd bounce between TBS and USA for the rest of the night, then usually wind up watching night flight for the rest of the night, cuz i think TBS repeated itself halfway through (if i remember correctly)...

It came on in my area on Sunday Nights at 11:00 p.m. I remember seeing these videos on that show and only that show.....

Oak Tree - Morris Day
Sister Fate - Sheila E.
Koo Koo - Sheila E.
Your Place Or Mine - The Barkays

2 more shows that should be added to the list: video soul and video vibrations. i miss those shows just as much as fnv.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

yup, i watched these to catch whatever paisley park videos were coming out.

I miss DANCE MUSIC shows. I miss Club MTV, Global Groove. I miss when America actually gave a damn about programming dance music.

Plus, now that I'm of age I never got a chance to be on one! :fuming: lol

Anx said:

This used to come on KCOP Very Independent Channel 13 in Los Angeles.

Mara said:

i miss club mtv too, because i loved to watch the people actually dance, as opposed to what passes for dancing nowadays. that, and i dug a lot of the tunes that were on there as well.

applekisses said:

It was on ABC in New York. It actually premiered a few weeks BEFORE Friday Night Videos. The show specialized in R&B and dance music. Carlos DeJesus from NY's WKTU was the host. Soap stars Debbie Morgan and Darnell Williams took over later on.

Watch a sample clip: http://video.yahoo.com/vi...bf5.548135

vainandy said:

I remember finding it in D.C. when I was on vacation once. It was the first time I saw the video for Cameo's "She's Strange".

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I wanted to wear polka dotted shirts and dance @ the Palladium to 2 in a Room and SNAP!

:::you are now witnessing my inner most fantasies:::

Mara said:

Mara said:

I've danced at Palladium, but it was in the alternative room that played stuff like Ministry and The Sisters Of Mercy.

Mara said:

What about Black Box?

sextonseven said:

I love that song.

sextonseven said:

I think we used to get it somehow...like on a cable channel or something...I remember it for some reason.

Remember all of those groups in the early 90s (C+C Music Factory, Black Box et al) who used Martha Wash's voice and then showed models in their videos singing?

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CinisterCee said:

CinisterCee said:

I used to watch it when FUSE was still MuchMusic USA and borrowed a lot of their programming from their Canadian counterparts.

sextonseven said:

1988-1996 was the Monika Deol golden age.

CinisterCee said:

The U.S. didn't get it until way after. I only know that Trinidadian woman as the host.

Here's a show that no one will remember:

2nd Generation - a video show for Latin freestyle videos. Andy "Panda" Tripoli was one of the hosts. It was goofy.

sextonseven said:

Did they have a show call Hot Tracks on the USA Network?
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