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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Jun 3, 2020 16:18:06 GMT -5
I remember watching MTV and waiting for my favorite videos, I kinda miss that since it wasn’t easy and I had to be patient, waiting was part of the fun, oddly. But I agree about the reality shows, I did like Real World since the people in the show seemed cool to my suburban Jersey self😊 But I couldn’t stand Jersey Shore and those shows with the pregnant girls and those shows about dysfunctional people, to me it seemed as though the latter shows were about mocking people with real issues. MTV should have concentrated on edgy sitcoms and cartoons instead of dumb reality shows, I did watch MTV2 for a while since they did have music videos and Beavis and Butthead reruns. But it’s a moot point since I don’t have cable.
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Post by Tim on Jun 3, 2020 17:25:07 GMT -5
Yeah, reality shows have ruined everything, haven't they. MTV included.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Jun 3, 2020 20:08:54 GMT -5
I remember watching MTV and waiting for my favorite videos, I kinda miss that since it wasn’t easy and I had to be patient, waiting was part of the fun, oddly. There's definitely some downsides to today's era of freely-available music videos. Namely, the fact that they aren't worth as much as they used to be. Artists don't make nearly as much money off of YouTube as they did MTV and VH1, so the end result is that videos don't have the same budgets that they had in the 80s and 90s, and artists are more heavily-reliant on product placement to make bank. (This is why you've been seeing ads for Beats speakers and headphones in music videos for the last 10+ years.) YouTube is wonderful as an archive for old music videos, but it's been terrible for the medium's future. And, honestly, you can pretty much say the same about the rest of the internet in regards to music as a whole. Good as an archive for old stuff, bad for fostering new stuff.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Jun 3, 2020 21:15:31 GMT -5
The only good or interesting music videos I’ve seen lately are by indie bands or odd alternative groups on major labels, the former often low-budget but interesting and the latter are interesting and have a budget. But I haven’t seen a music video by a mainstream band lately that looks interesting, it seems as though they all just have girls dancing in front of a car😊 I have a compilation of punk videos by Epitaph records and although most of the vids were clearly done on a small budget, there’s a weird sort of charm to them even if it looks as though they were made for $50 and a case of beer😜 Heck, some of these videos actually made it onto MTV back in the 90s
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Jun 3, 2020 21:17:08 GMT -5
Like this
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Post by BettyNewbie on Jun 3, 2020 23:56:07 GMT -5
Heck, some of these videos actually made it onto MTV back in the 90s MTV had an entire late-night special for it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120_MinutesWhile many fans of alternative decried the network for being corporate, you can't deny that it gave a ton of visibility to the genre that it wouldn't have otherwise gotten in the pre-internet age. For someone who had cable, but lived in a radio wasteland, 120 Minutes was the best place to discover new alt rock.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Jun 4, 2020 7:22:36 GMT -5
Heck, some of these videos actually made it onto MTV back in the 90s MTV had an entire late-night special for it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120_MinutesWhile many fans of alternative decried the network for being corporate, you can't deny that it gave a ton of visibility to the genre that it wouldn't have otherwise gotten in the pre-internet age. For someone who had cable, but lived in a radio wasteland, 120 Minutes was the best place to discover new alt rock. I know, I used to love 120 Minutes and Headbangers Ball. They both showed cool videos and interviewed interesting people. I saw those videos on 120 minutes and had to ask my local Sam Goody’s to order those albums since normally they didn’t carry them. Since this was before Amazon, that’s how one ordered unusual albums if one didn’t know the record label’s address. I’m old😛
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Post by Tim on Jun 4, 2020 11:11:09 GMT -5
In Canada we had Sam The Record Man (there was a big store in Toronto, which sometimes could be seen in movies and TV shows that filmed there).
I wonder if there is a connection?
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Jun 4, 2020 11:17:54 GMT -5
I’m not sure, Sam Goody was a chain that went out of business in the early 2000s along with Tower Records. There aren’t any more music store chains but there’s indie record shops that sell vinyl and used CDs, but they’re more common in the cities or college towns. There’s one in Hoboken called Tunes where I get a lot of my CDs and DVDs, the staff are hipsters and always have good recommendations on new music.
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Post by Tim on Jun 4, 2020 23:20:39 GMT -5
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Jun 5, 2020 8:37:26 GMT -5
That’s a shame, I love record stores. I actually went to the HMV in Montreal and bought a rare HIM DVD from the import section, buying CDs on Amazon is convenient but not as much fun as browsing. There used to be a Virgin Megastore in New York City and I used to spend a lot of time there browsing the different sections, they had a great Import section where I bought my Big Audio Dynamite albums since many are out of print in the USA. They also had a bookstore and sold DVDs, my older brother bought a lot of Japanese DVDs from them.
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Post by Tim on Jun 5, 2020 11:03:33 GMT -5
Seems a lot of good stuff, MTV and records stores, died with the 20th Century.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Jun 5, 2020 12:25:54 GMT -5
Seems a lot of good stuff, MTV and records stores, died with the 20th Century. Bookstores too, the only ones still around are Barnes and Noble and independent ones but even those are going out of business. I’m not knocking e-readers since I myself have one, but I prefer reading the actual physical book.
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Post by Tim on Jun 5, 2020 16:12:40 GMT -5
I wonder, to current MTV watchers, do the names of Martha Quinn and Nina Blackwood mean anything?
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Jun 6, 2020 8:43:15 GMT -5
I wonder, to current MTV watchers, do the names of Martha Quinn and Nina Blackwood mean anything? They were VJs from the 80s, I think I remember them. The first video I remember watching on MTV was Material Girl by Madonna, I thought she looked so pretty in her pink dress. I didn’t know it was a parody of Gentleman Prefer Blondes with Marilyn Monroe or that the songs are about a gold digger, I though she was pretty. Hey, I was only 3 or 4 😊
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