MTV - classic or dud?

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

Nothing like a hot summer's day to bring back memories of that saxophone riff.

what memories are we gonna share for Pitchfork's big 20?

oh man, some mouth-breathing TV Tropers figured the highest P4k-list-ranked album of every year and made a compilation on wiki (lmfao pavement, 1992; pavement, 1994). Is this what markers' generation is going to have to look back on?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchfork_Media#Pitchforks_Album_of_the_Year

2002 Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights United States 9.5
2002 Or the top album for this year according to the decade end list would be Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

CONTRADICT MYSELF IN MY RHYMES LIKE IM TUPAC

As if you've never done some nerdy list making in your time, c'mon.

I mean, extrapolating Pitchfork albums of the year of the past is on some next level nerd shit, but, still, this is like the bread and butter of music nerds.

But, that's okay, it makes Whiney feel all warm inside to call other music nerds names, so, he wins I guess.

jon, the ilx mods told me to breathe deep and count to 10 instead of argue with you. http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

there was a period of my life, maybe from like 9-12, when i actually had an encyclopedic (read: aspie) knowledge of which particular videos were featured on the box, what their three-digit touchtone numbers were, when videos got removed from rotation, etc. i also wrote down the mtv top 20 countdown listings and notated how many spots each video moved up and down from the previous week, debuts, etc. i don't have anything near this level of obsessive listmaking anymore, which i'm mostly pretty glad about

A friend of mine was featured in a popular video and I didn't have cable. The one time I called The Box and gave them my credit card, just so I could see what my friends were talking about.

And without any notation or warning, they played a live version of the song instead. Fucking Box.

right now they're replaying MTV's first ever hour of programming -- Ph.D's "Little Suzi's on the Up" is really awesome, i've never heard this song before!

jon, the ilx mods told me to breathe deep and count to 10 instead of argue with you.

You shouldn't really need the mods to tell you that, but kudos I suppose.

jon you are baiting whiney who is doing his level best so be cool man.

That wasn't baiting, it was commenting on general good advice for anyone on the internet.

My mere existence seems to bait Whiney.

Ph.D's "Little Suzi's on the Up" is really awesome, i've never heard this song before!

Tesla covered it on Mechanical Resonance, so I was familiar with the cover for years before I knew it was actually a cover. Now I like the original just as well.

'baitin xp

(i just wanted to say 'baitin)

i often read a whiney post & hear jim jones yelling "'BAAIIIITIN" in my head

had totally forgotten abt 'just say julie'

Interesting seeing how slow-paced tv was back then. I also love that they showed the original commercials. My wife and I were saying "I remember seeing that commercial!" at the mountain dew commercial and laughing at the fact that it would never be shown today. Mmm...nothing goes better with quadriplegia than an ice cold mountain dew!

men they really did not have to include any beavis & butt-head in this, they've been overplaying the reruns for like 15 years now

also, like i really hate the revisionist history that the b&b cartoons are so good, to where an episode is now three segments no videos. everyone who lived thru it knows the cartoons were ok, the video segments were the true genius. when they released em on DVD without the videos, it was like, "why bother?"

B&B without the videos is awful to sit through.

http://thebbpodcast.com/

B&B without the videos is awful to sit through.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, August 1, 2011 11:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm. one more thing to blame the jordan/hoos generation for

ok yall hour 3 LETS DO THIS

I wanted to check some of this out but the hotel that my job finds me staying in tonight doesn't get VH-1. I'll just take my First World Problems Oscar now, thanks