Just found this great clip made by Hexstatic 12 years ago for MTV :

http://staging.vimeo.com/3782569

There's a lot of other Hexstatic videos on vimeo, great stuff !

Heh - for a minute I thought you were going to be posting this:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=XWtHEmVjVw8

;)

I like that video mashup, Ben - brings up quite a few memories. That was nearing the tail end of a time when MTV not only used to be good, but used to somewhat regularly play music videos (inbetween The Real World episodes, of course).

I think the last time I watched MTV was during stash's pre-op before his surgery in November. But we weren't watching music videos, we were watching Pimp My Ride. Oh that's Mtv2, isn't it? Ugh. Can't tell them apart hardly anyway. I don't think either stations actually play music videos anymore.

Anyone remember MTV's AMP show they used to have on in the wee Sunday/Monday hours? That show rocked! Had some good electronic music videos.

Babble babble.

I don't have MTV anymore :/ Anyway I only watched if for Jackass and ... well only for Jackass.

We have a good music channel that often play cheesy 90s Dance videos and good electro videos (last week they played Midnight Madness and Believe) that I can't see anywhere else. It changes from Britney Spears and Lady Gaga

MTV stands for music television,but when I turn to that channel,there's no music. Last time I saw that channel was in maybe 2001 or 2002. After that was just crappy reality shows and less videos . I missed Alternative Nation and MTV Raps.

I think the internet kind of contributed to the death of music videos.

Its been the same with the equivalent station here in canada, MuchMusic. It has slowly lost its videos to the teen driven short attention span theatre of reality shows. The closest they have that I have seen is a jury show where they horribly mock videos that haven't been seen in eras.

I remember back in 99/2000 when they still had ru recieving on fridays nights that would play straight electronic videos. It was nice cause they played many spectrums of electronic videos, not just the benny benassi and eric prydz T&A videos. I rmember watching Aphex Twin "Windowlicker for the first time there". That was a shock.

Back to MTV. I miss the mash ups they had around that time for the MTV Music Awards. I thought some were cool back then. maybe I was just naive

MtV & Muchmusic both really hit the shitter. Like inchem said, I think the internet has a lot to do with it. Like, when the only music video show left on muchmusic was on, i'd be like "well i doubt anything I like is gonna come on, so i might as well just go on youtube". And if I recall correctly, this was in 2006.

The actual MTV UK channel is wall to wall Kerry fucking Katona and her twat of a husband. Years ago 120 Minutes and Alternative Nation was essential viewing. Also used to love watching that VJ Simone Angel doing a dance chart show where she would start dancing like an idiot when she was introducing a song.

There should be an equivalent to BBC Radio 1 but on TV. That would be a good channel. With concerts from festivals broadcasted, fresh GOOD videos ... that would be good.

In France, there are two channels that often broadcast concerts at night, and good ones. A few weeks ago it was a best of Glastonbury 2007, another time it was Santogold, Muse, Radiohead...

Alternative Nation was the bomb! So was 120 Minutes - that's so cool nalaknip that the UK had those shows also. Anyone old enough to remember when MTV used to have this segment called Closet Classics, where they'd show old videos or live footage of songs from bands like Purple Haze? :lol:

I remember when Yo MTV raps first aired, there was the outrage "what is music coming to? rap isn't 'real' music!!!" Ha! How wrong people were. I believe the first non-music program on MTV was a 30-minute game show (that had contestants and try outs, etc) which was called Remote Control that was a bit like a younger more hip version of Jeopardy. Some outrage over that because it wasn't strictly music videos. I loved MTV news.

In the early days MTV used to also show the more racey videos after hours lest they piss off the advertisers. It's kind of funny because the videos that stirred up a bunch of controversy in the 80's - not many would bat an eyelash over today.

Anyway. MTV was so great. So many great memories! So many hours spent watching that it drove my parents bonkers! I listened to a lot of radio growing up and I had an older brother show me the musical ropes, but MTV played a huge part in exposing me to all kinds of music - the good, the bad and the crap (which in retrospect is more camp than anything - even those cheesy hair metal bands). There was a time when music videos were such a powerful instrument to drive up music sales, that it was very hard to make it to the charts unless you had a snazzy music video to accompany the single. This generated a lot of crap-snazzy vids but also brought about some incredible (imo) works of art.