DISQUS

Matt Wardlaw · 7 months ago

You pegged it perfectly re: Friday Night Videos. We didn't have cable, so I watched Friday Night Videos religiously.

FNV was the outlet that served up my first viewing of "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson, and more importantly, "Our House" by Madness and "When The Lights Go Out" by Naked Eyes.

VH-1 Classic in its infancy was SO much cooler than the channel that occupies the same slot now. You would see all sorts of videos for tunes that you didn't even KNOW there was a video for that tune. My cable system didn't have it for years, and I was always pissed when I would go over to a friend's house that had VH-1 Classic.

When you talk about letting a channel entertain you, I think it's hard for anything to compete with our Ipods these days...nobody programs our musical taste better than us!

Although I think that that is part of the fun of blogs - and the bloggers that open you to new music, or a side of a particular artist that you've missed!

Kurt's Krap · 7 months ago

@Matt "When you talk about letting a channel entertain you, I think it’s hard for anything to compete with our Ipods these days…nobody programs our musical taste better than us!"

Problem today is there is NO filter. As badly as radio is/was programmed, there is so much music out there no one can possibly keep up with it all.

Stacy · 7 months ago

Night Flight! I wonder how many Betamax tapes are still at my parent's house FILLED with Night Flight. Yes we had a Betamax and it was awesome. It had a remote with a CORD! A 50 ft. CORD! You would get better quality from that then the actual broadcast.

Kurt's Krap · 7 months ago

@Stacy Time to get cracking transferring those tapes to DVD!

just_kap · 7 months ago

I didn't have cable growing up, so I only got to watch MTV at friends' houses here and there. And now I don't get VH1 Classic or any other music channel (other than VH1 and MTV - if you can call them 'music channels' anymore). I do catch videos around 3am or so here and there, but most times it's the same ones every night - and rarely any I'm interested in seeing.

And I AM gonna rail on MTV a bit. I sure wish they'd get rid of some of the reality crap they've got going on... or at least create an MTV12 for it or something. I see some decent videos on music blogs and other sites, and while I enjoy that avenue, it'd sure be nice to have 'em on TV too... or maybe I just need a bigger monitor and better speakers. Hmm...

Anyway, I love going on youtube and watching videos from my favorite bands of the 80s and 90s... so I guess as long as I can do that, MTV can do whatever they want. Pretty sad that reality TV sells better than music videos. Maybe artists would be more compelled to make GOOD videos if they thought they might actually be seen.