You might get your nickelback.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
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You might get your nickelback.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
The song was so much about MTV that it could almost be the name of the song. The music video was a cartoon about MTV.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels
So it was related to that music channel I referred to? :-) Or am I off again? :-(
No, it was related. There is likely no song that was ever more intimately tied to/about MTV than Money For Nothing. It was a song largely about MTV.
Ah okay, I never really watched MTV, beyond knowing it existed and was something to do with music aimed at teens I don't know much about it.
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Wait weren't Beavis and Butthead first shown on MTV?
As long as you feel the ride is beneficial and your not hurt by the bumps, then enjoy the ride. From what you've posted these swings seem to be the norm and not likely to stop.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
The song actually uses the phrase "I want my MTV".Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0
I'm 99% sure I have heard music from the same band long long ago! :-) Not too surprising that this was fairly typical for the 80's and 90's.
That was after my time. Nice to see that Reply With Quote is now working again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels
I think you're right, though the distance probably factors in as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I never really cared for it myself, but how old are you if I may ask? I am 44, I'm guessing you're a few years older. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Actually it didn't carry teen music until later. The content aimed at MTV's core audience (20 to 35) at the time of its debut moved on to the second channel VH1. That made room for MTV to switch to head-banger stuff and before long "music-adjacent" content like TV shows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels
What time period are we talking about exactly? My memory concerning MTV is so vague I'm not even sure when I first learned about it or when it first aired. My memory is like: some american music video channel from the 90's/possibly 80's aimed at young (very broadly speaking people). I was actually surprised I even remembered Beavis and Butthead had something to do with MTV.
I was much more interested in cartoons and space operas back then. :-)
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And what channel MTV was on I never have known. Back then I'd probably have to zap through a dozen channels on the satellite reciever to even be able to watch it.
You were 1yr old when MTV came out. It had it's own channel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels
I was never into it. Especially at first, they were playing Devo and Flock of Seagulls. Plus I was pretty busy in those days.
Alright, that means MTV is much older than I thought! :-) I never got into MTV, once I learned to appreciate cartoons with crude humor I kind of liked Beavis and Butthead and their movie. But we were talking about music for the most part, let's see, all I can really say is that if I haven't heard just about every popular song from the 80's and 90's at least a dozen times or so I might still enjoy them, especially for nostalgic reasons. Anyway I never really was that much into music to begin with.
I might have occassionally watched MTV on vacation in the US or during those years I lived there (for my father's job) on cable. If we even could recieve MTV in the Netherlands it was through our satellite dish. :-) It definitely wasn't in the package you got when recieving via antenna and probably was available with some of sort of cable subscription (likely one with extras), which became available in our area around 1995. If I felt like it I could check, but my guess is that with digital tv these days I probably recieve just about every channel available in the netherlands you can imagine by default. Or perhaps not.
I'm 56, so yes, a few years. I watched a fair amount of MTV videos as a freshman in college.
When I was watching MTV was 85-86. I don't remember ever watching it after that, though.
Sounds like you were 16 or so back then, pretty much around the age I'd expect for someone to be interested in MTV.
Guess his age to the nearest second.
56 years, 7 months, and 17 days old - I am not even touching seconds! XP