Actually, a lot of the new bands at the time from Duran Duran to A Flock of Seagulls owed their success to MTV. Hopefully soon MTV will be gone!Įarly MTV was a radio station with pictures. This reminds of a song by the Dead Kennedys, MTV Get off the Air. A lot of artists of using YouTube or other channels to broadcast their music. Today, forget it, MTV is not even relevant. It's obviously that it did with TRL and even more mindless programming. Many people say that after Beavis and Butthead went off the air is when MTV really started to decline. Two years later, it seemed like Beavis and Butthead were watching more videos then we were! MTV were playing the Real World all the time and when there were video played iit only what was popular and again the overkilled the same videos.
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The MTV Movie awards started around this time as well and gave awards to the dumbest, crappy movies. Somewhere around 93 or so, there were all these other shows that were popping up that had nothing to do with music. Even the signature alternative rock show 120 Minutes (Which would eventually be renamed to Alternative Nation) which had played some of the best Alternative Rock videos ever and tons of bands that were very obscure seemed to only care about playing grunge or the more popular alt rock bands when in reality there was a lot more to alternative rock then just grunge.īeavis and Butthead was somewhat a relief and it was generally very funny.
MTV only focused on playing what was popular at the time and giving little exposure to lesser known groups. However, 92 was when MTV started to cut many of their niche shows such as MTV Street Party and eventually Headbangers Ball, YO MTV Raps. MTV gave fair play to all genres such as dance, pop, rock, metal, alt rock, and rap. This is also when the Real World started along with that crappy animation show, Liquid Television.Īt least in 90-91, MTV played videos for everyone's tastes. Viewers wanted to see music not thier take on politics and social issues. MTV had no business getting involved in things like this. This is also when MTV was covering the presidential race and doing stupid news shows about things going on at the time like gang violence, rock the vote etc. Certain popular songs of the time were being played over and over again.
They seemed to overkill anything grunge and hip hop. However, I noticed in 92, MTV started to play a lot less videos. Yes I know this is when alternative and rap got more exposure and the music scene was a lot better. I would venture to say that 1992 is when MTV really started to go down hill. Only occassional flips to watch for the now long-in-the-tooth '80s artists and perhaps Beavis and Butthead.
But there are still lots of videos being aired (even at a less prime timeblock), though rap is really starting to dominate MTV's playlist.ġ994-1998: The REALLY SUCK era. It's a lost cause Fuse is the closest thing to "the real MTV" these days, while VH1 classic is fairly similar to watching VH1 in the early '90s today.ġ981-1987: Classic, the BEST, will always loveġ988-1990: Some shakiness, but still enjoyableġ991-1993: Channel surfing during some programs, in the "starting to suck" phase, and the network has definately jumped the shark at this point.
MTV already was showing signs of decline as early as 1988 with Yo! Raps and The Real World debuted, so for me 1981-1987 will always be my "Glory Years" for MTV. I've got a whole topic devoted to early MTV rants from vintage computer posts (definately a thing I'll be saying more once I transition out of '80s nostalgia into '90s nostalgia!) on this board, so you can see here.
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