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
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
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
2002 Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights United States 9.52002 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
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
As if you've never done some nerdy list making in your time, c'mon.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 1 August 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 1 August 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― rameau: first blood (donna rouge), Monday, 1 August 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 1 August 2011 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― some dude, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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 /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
jon you are baiting whiney who is doing his level best so be cool man.
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
That wasn't baiting, it was commenting on general good advice for anyone on the internet.
My mere existence seems to bait Whiney.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
'baitin xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
(i just wanted to say 'baitin)
i often read a whiney post & hear jim jones yelling "'BAAIIIITIN" in my head
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
had totally forgotten abt 'just say julie'
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― righteousmaelstrom, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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?"
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
B&B without the videos is awful to sit through.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://thebbpodcast.com/
― markers, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
switch hotels
― markers, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i would imagine steven tyler has a lot of affection for 80s mtv huh
― Magic (Lamp), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
we got stupid paid by those dudes in the mid-80s, fuck yeah
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, whwn i was 13, i had no idea how fucking condescending the rock and roll inaugural ball was, what a treat.
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the first time i ever saw the sexy lesbo aerosmith vid was as a pop up video, which informed me that the blonde chick was also in clueless.
― Magic (Lamp), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
God I am so ashamed of that record & those videos. Just as an artist. We were one of the best, best bands. Even our failures were interesting. And then we cleaned up & got rich & more people loved us than ever even liked us before, but their love was hollow. OTOH fuck I am so serious you couldn't watch MTV for ten minutes without seeing some of our shit, fuck yeah
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
dude looks like a lady is the best aerosmith song btw
― seger ros (crüt), Monday, August 9, 2010 5:29 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― blapplebees (crüt), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but think of all the boners you gave us
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
hey whatcha doin 2nite America? probably watching the premiere of "Janie's Got A Gun" over & over & over again because it is time for uncle Steve to get 100% paid and be rich, fuck yeah
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
― blapplebees (crüt), Monday, August 1, 2011 11:35 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark
word to "mrs. doubtfire"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
just doin a little memory lane here sorry to hijack the thread y'all
God "Dude," holy hell, how can I even look at myself in the mirror for choosing that hot bowl of dogshit over od'ing young, I don't know but you know what, I did & I can buy you now, totally just pay you to do shit you'll be ashamed of later, just living life 1 day at a time y'all
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
for like six months my mom thought the chorus to "love in an elevator" was actually "loving a man like rita"
i think it actually took pointing at the credits when the video came on to disabuse her of this insane notion
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't remember, was there even a youth-geared channel/event for Obama to appear on when he got elected?
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
youtube
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMNgbISmF4I
steven tyler, you pimped out your own daughter for mtv, and i thank you for it
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
theres some 90s bon jovi vid that i saw when i was like nine that i honestly thought was pornography...
the dude in the 'cryin'' vid has p good style tbh except for his lame jeans
― Magic (Lamp), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't remember, was there even a youth-geared channel/event for Obama to appear on when he got elected?― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, August 1, 2011 11:40 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkyoutube― J0rdan S., Monday, August 1, 2011 11:41 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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― J0rdan S., Monday, August 1, 2011 11:41 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah, ok, jon, now i'll say it. shit was really better back in the day.
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
they should really put out one of those directors boxes like the did for gondry and jonze but w/ just the alicia silverstone/aerosmith videos on them
― Magic (Lamp), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, August 2, 2011 3:36 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
good lookin out
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link