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
― frogbs, Monday, 1 August 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
well for one, it was the most successful new mtv show from that era -- it was a genuine cultural phenomenon
xp to hoos
― J0rdan S., Monday, 1 August 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
she was too real and too frail for this world
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― 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
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 1 August 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i agree w/j0rdan, it seems like jersey shore and jackass are the more recent things that were really culture wide from mtv.
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― horseshoe, Monday, 1 August 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Hahahhahahaha Whiney seriously has no fucking idea how old I am.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
every look tlc ever rocked is classic. love the aesthetic of the ain't 2 proud 2 beg video.
― horseshoe, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah jackass is definitely "gen x" minutemen theme and all...
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Downtown Julie Brown 4EVA
― Trip Maker, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEU_5lVjRFQ
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― big triffid in my backyard (Edward III), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Whitegirl.jpg
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
noticeable lack of Singled Out clips in this birthday celebration
― Trip Maker, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, between Uptown Julie and Jessica Rabbit, it pretty much established my lifelong fascination with redheads even as a wee nine year old, tbh
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten)
http://i.imgur.com/jrL8E.jpg
― markers, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjuWBU0OQbA
^^^funniest scene Kathy Griffin has ever been in
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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. :(
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
correct answer was "tearin up my ass" amirite?
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Should've been a choice.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
shakey!
― J0rdan S., Monday, 1 August 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf carmen electra was on singled out at one point
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
you know there is one aspect of "classic" mtv suspiciously missing from this love-fest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsC-GXd0q6A
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
did anybody on the basement tapes ever make it?
― big triffid in my backyard (Edward III), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Still can't get past the fact that dude from Web Soup was co-host on Singled Out.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
brb having a moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjHdYgVrV_I
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh man Lisa Loeb is all-time "moment" material.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
did see footage of Jenny McCarthy introducing No Doubt at Spring Break '96. No repeats of the Jenny McCarthy Show though.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i probably hallucinated this but i swear i remember rocket from the crypt playing the mtv beach house one year
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
No, I remember seeing this! I may have even taped it.
― online pinata store (Nicole), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqzCT5pzBRA
people were so damned earnest. even about fucking ween.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
this happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnzis-V_K90
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
wow
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 1 August 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― rameau: first blood (donna rouge), Monday, 1 August 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 1 August 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Nothing like a hot summer's day to bring back memories of that saxophone riff.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 1 August 2011 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
what memories are we gonna share for Pitchfork's big 20?
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link