MTV - classic or dud?

i think objectively speaking jackass is the legacy of mtv for our gen of teenagers

i'm curious what your thought process is here, cause i don't see it. but i always hated jackass tbh.

go on, girl, go with yourself.

I remember a weird "5-day weekend" I got after being suspended from school when I was 13 where I did nothing but watch dumb shit on MTV and VH1. Remember Robbie William's "Millenium" video quite well and thought the song/video were amazing. Also "No Scrubs" came on a lot and I had a serious crush on TLC, only to find out they didn't look so hot outside of that video

well for one, it was the most successful new mtv show from that era -- it was a genuine cultural phenomenon

xp to hoos

she was too real and too frail for this world

i'm curious what your thought process is here, cause i don't see it. but i always hated jackass tbh.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, August 1, 2011 3:55 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OH FFS, ANYONE UNDER 26 STFU AND GO TO THE DEXTERS LAB THREAD OR SOMETHING FUCK

Seriously I think J0rdan is pretty much 100% otm. I mean, what other MTV shows from that era are still cranking out reasonably successful feature film sequels?

i agree w/j0rdan, it seems like jersey shore and jackass are the more recent things that were really culture wide from mtv.

Also "No Scrubs" came on a lot and I had a serious crush on TLC, only to find out they didn't look so hot outside of that video

o_O

I love you guys like little brothers, but the hoos, jordan, markers, jon, delonge jack-off sesh has to go, because some real talk about Downtown Julie Brown vs Uptown Julie Brown is about to pop off

Watching all this on VH1 Classic made me wonder when we'll see the special three-day weekend for this shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3-926c5NU8

Hahahhahahaha Whiney seriously has no fucking idea how old I am.

because some real talk about Downtown Julie Brown vs Uptown Julie Brown is about to pop off

uptown all the fucking way - Shakes the Clown forever

i dont even have the energy to scroll up to see who said that about tlc but go fuck yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlZydtG3xqI&ob=av2e

Jackass was the last gasp for the 90s generation on MTV imo. It was fun (or not) for people markers' age, but it was real life for people older.

every look tlc ever rocked is classic. love the aesthetic of the ain't 2 proud 2 beg video.

I want to tell horeshoe otm, but I'm afraid Captain Whiney won't allow his thread to be besmirched with an opinion that isn't his.

yeah jackass is definitely "gen x" minutemen theme and all...

Downtown Julie Brown 4EVA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEU_5lVjRFQ

seems like every moment of mtv ever broadcast is up on yt... like martha quinn marveling over frippertronics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Wa3QJLkFQ

Just Say Julie was such a weird show. Like it was this kind of "fake airhead" that i guess MTV thought they could play to real airheads? Kind of the Stifler of her day?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Whitegirl.jpg

noticeable lack of Singled Out clips in this birthday celebration

Anyway, between Uptown Julie and Jessica Rabbit, it pretty much established my lifelong fascination with redheads even as a wee nine year old, tbh

I love you guys like little brothers, but the hoos, jordan, markers, jon, delonge jack-off sesh has to go, because some real talk about Downtown Julie Brown vs Uptown Julie Brown is about to pop off

― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten)

http://i.imgur.com/jrL8E.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjuWBU0OQbA

^^^funniest scene Kathy Griffin has ever been in

singled out is a pretty good representation of how i'd watch mtv even when there was something on i didn't really even like because it was probably better than whatever else was on

True story, my college had a version of Singled Out for charity and I was one of the "bachelors" or whatever the guys were called that started out in the corral. I ended up in the last two guys and it all came down to the question "N'Sync - tearin' up my heart? Or tearin' up my ears?". I answered wrong and didn't get the date. :(

correct answer was "tearin up my ass" amirite?

Should've been a choice.

shakey!

wtf carmen electra was on singled out at one point

on singled out when you advanced to the next stage sometimes the DJ would scratch "welcome to the next w-w-w-welcome to tha next level" from showbiz & ag

you know there is one aspect of "classic" mtv suspiciously missing from this love-fest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsC-GXd0q6A

That was back when Jenny McCarthy was hot and before she turned into super-crazy "vaccination is wrong" lady. She was exteremely popular at my school because the Catholic high school she went with was like a feeder school for University of Illinois. Rumor has it she went to a couple parties there in her early fame days, but these were totally unconfirmed.

did anybody on the basement tapes ever make it?

Still can't get past the fact that dude from Web Soup was co-host on Singled Out.

brb having a moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjHdYgVrV_I

Oh man Lisa Loeb is all-time "moment" material.

did see footage of Jenny McCarthy introducing No Doubt at Spring Break '96. No repeats of the Jenny McCarthy Show though.

i probably hallucinated this but i swear i remember rocket from the crypt playing the mtv beach house one year

i prolly said this before, but I remember in 1993, MTV threw a big Halloween Bash with Primus (my favorite band), White Zombie (my best friend's favorite band) and Positive K. I don't think either one of us would have ever predicted that the Positive K record would ultimately getting the most play from us circa 2011

okay so I never really saw any of the other TLC videos, just had a weird thing for that video + the Janet Jackson one w/ Busta Rhymes, that creepy techno-busty look was A+ with a 13-year old me

i probably hallucinated this but i swear i remember rocket from the crypt playing the mtv beach house one year

No, I remember seeing this! I may have even taped it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqzCT5pzBRA

people were so damned earnest. even about fucking ween.

this happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnzis-V_K90

wow

from my experience, ppl that are into music would be v nostalgic about the box

― J0rdan S., Monday, August 1, 2011 12:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

YES YES YES

Wreckx-n-Effect "Rumpshaker"

This video ran on what seemed like a continuous loop on The Box, a UHF video-request channel, during the early to mid 1990's. Every time I'd try to pass out on a friend's couch, the heater would chap my lips and "Rumpshaker" would be on the TV set. I even think that The Box used the sax solo as the background music on its 1-900 menus.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, August 3, 2004 3:19 PM Bookmark