A thread for old 90s videos played by MTV Europe

I miss MTV Europe as it meant we didn't get to hear what was popular all over mainland Europe. I suppose it did coincide with all the europop in the early 90s getting huge in the UK and that did annoy me at the time but it was more interesting than MTV UK was. Endless travis/ocs/stereophonics/Oasis etc/

Lots of songs I did hate but plenty I loved so lets post and talk about some of the songs you remember whether you liked them or not

Stakka Bo - Here We Go Again (awesome)
http://youtu.be/9I5iugfTiIk

Whale - Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe (awesome)
http://youtu.be/2up7su7CeMU

H-Blockx - Move (awful)
http://youtu.be/WUrH7xjk820

dEUS - Suds And Soda (best thing ever)
http://youtu.be/h3r7Oo0Fs-8

Clawfinger - Do What I Say (awful - swedes do rap metal long before it became fashionable)
http://youtu.be/-1CE4P8qqPE

thread needs Tuomas

loved this Björk - Big Time Sensuality live (MTV Europe Music Awards) (1994)

http://youtu.be/tPI4LWSdqzw

Bjork got a lot of play back then

Did they play evil superstars? But you're : suds n
Soda BEST THING EVAH! :-)

yes they did actually

first time i ever heard them was an mtv studio thing

First time we get new channels inc. MTV and this gets played :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3gN9Up6hmc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-DZ0KtR3RY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VoTVj8sfGo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqD1OohY2to

ahh yes Poing. Was ALWAYS on The Box if anyone remembers that

Tuomas do you remember the stakka bo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUHbRqJ8hE

I recorded this at the time. 120 mins/Alternative Nation/Headbangers Ball/Party Zone/Chillout Zone were essential viewing every week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgFGHz5dR7k

Yeah, Stakka Bo had some big hits here, they were awesome!

on the youtube comments to that vid someone said the woman singer had died.

Yeah, Party Zone and Chillout Zone were the best shows on MTV, I watched them a lot before I was old enough actually go clubbing on weekends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08

This video was like the Deepest Thing Ever when I was 15.

Was great finally hearing a lot of things that you read about in the music press. Seems a weird thing post-napster but it was really important back then. Much better than most radio except for the odd show.

this one got played regularly on Friday Night Chillout. directed by Jarvis Cocker

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

first place i ever heard Mouse on Mars was Partyzone

What I miss most about MTV Europe is that it showed videos by artists who didn't sing in English. I distinctly remember videos by Eros Ramazotti and Die Toten Hosen being shown regularly in the '90s, for example. It's always boiled my piss a little bit that English language acts get a fair amount of play in non-English speaking countries, whereas non-English language acts face some kind of airplay barrier here.

Eros Ramazotti and Die Toten Hosen

they always won awards at the mtv europe awards

i remember am eros ramazotti video where the stage looked about the size of an oil rig. any idea what that was?

this got loads of airplay. They even got on TOTPS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9jJufz9RNE

Oh fucking hell, I'd forgotten about the Guano Apes. God, they sucked!

i remember am eros ramazotti video where the stage looked about the size of an oil rig. any idea what that was?

― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, February 19, 2015 10:43 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The two that stick out in my mind are the ones for 'Piu Bella Cosa' (which got a shitload of airplay) and 'Stella Gemella'!

In fact, weirdly MTV Europe used to show videos for songs well before they actually became hits in the UK. I remember seeing videos for No Doubt's 'Just A Girl' and 'Don't Speak' on MTV Europe long before those tracks took off in the UK. I don't particularly wanna bring this song up, but 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' by Deep Blue Something seemed to get the hell played out of it on MTV Europe long before it became a hit here.

Just A Girl came out in the UK two years later than everywhere else. Sales-wise Germany has always been more important than the UK for a lot of international acts.

This just missed the tail end of the 90s but remains a standard:

http://youtu.be/ccvyfS-7dmo

Band Ohne Namen - Boys

'Just A Girl' was a hit in the UK upon re-release after 'Don't Speak' became a hit here. It came out in the US in late '95, and it was issued as a single here in '96 and only just barely made it into the Top 40. It was then re-released after 'Don't Speak' became a hit and made the Top 10.

No doubt that Germany is an important market though, even for UK bands. German fans tend to be very dedicated too, and tend to stick with a band.

for most of the 90s it was the only place metal bands remained huge

True that. I remember I first heard about Korn not on MTV Europe but on one of the German-language channels(!)

im talking about the traditional metal not nu-metal or alternative metal.

still cant find that eros ramazzotti video i remember

Yeah, traditional metal especially, but that moment I saw footage of Korn in concert on a German-language channel was probably my first exposure to nu-metal. I can't recall the English media touching nu-metal until the late '90s, really!

Kerrang was the first to hype it! They invented the term around 94/95 when that first Korn album came out.. Vanessa Warwick on HB sadly loved Korn.

Yeah, but that was my first exposure to it! I did see the occasional Marilyn Manson video on MTV Europe circa the Antichrist Superstar period, mind, but I seem to remember more grunge than nu-metal on MTV Europe in 1994-1995. Nu-metal may have been getting hyped up in print, but I don't remember it really getting a great deal of play until channels like MTV2 and the Kerrang! channel appeared etc. You couldn't avoid it on the music channels in the UK in the late '90s/early '00s, really.

OMG thanks for posting that Aphex Twin video! There was this video I remember from back in the day and it was this desert scene with weird surreal stop motion stuff and I was looking everywhere for it and convinced it was for some song in the 80s, but now I'm pretty sure it was this one. Nice! Unless someone can think of a similar video done earlier....

When did MTV2 start?

This thread has got me thinking about old MTV Europe presenters... there was Paul King, Ray Cokes (who did Most Wanted)... who was that guy who did Alternative Nation? Toby somethingorother?

amies

inbetween was Miles Hunt

When did MTV2 start?

― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, February 20, 2015 11:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

VH-1 UK started in 1994, I think... and MTV2 UK started a couple of years after that. I can't remember the exact year, but I seem to remember it being late '90s.

I never saw the show the night that ray cokes got sacked for. Not sure what happened there either. Loved that show

Davina McCall got her start on MTV Europe, didn't she? I seem to remember a tense interview between her and James Dean Bradfield around the time of the Manics' Everything Must Go.

Oh shit, how could I forget Pip Dann?

I wasn't aware that Ray Cokes got sacked, I always assumed he'd left! I do remember him taking the piss out of VH-1 UK on MTV Europe when that channel first launched, though!

yep Davina McCall did the 10pm request show i think.

Who was the (dutch?) girl who presented Partyzone?

Vanessa Warwick presented Headbangers Ball but then nu-metal and alt-metal hit hard and they decided they needed a new younger presenter and show. They called it Super Rock and brought in a german model who didn't know much about metal and it went down really badly.

Did 120 mins or headbangers ball or YO! MTV Raps ever show the american versions or was it always the euro ones?

Simone something was the partyzone presenter I think?

they always played that awesome ken ishii video

I seem to remember YO! MTV Raps always being an American version, I don't think they ever made a European edition of that show did they? I always assumed MTV Europe just used to broadcast the same as they did in the US with that show. I have a distinct memory of The Fugees being guest presenters on it circa The Score.

Simone something was the partyzone presenter I think?

― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Saturday, February 21, 2015 12:19 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Simone Angel!

Also, Carolyn Lilypaly doing the news, iirc.

Was Donna Air on MTV Europe, or did she join MTV when MTV UK started up?

uk version i think

she would still have been a kid in byker grove whem mtv europe was broadcasted here.
I want to turn on MTV now and watch partyzone then the chillout zone but god knows what is on

V Festival 2014 then in 10 mins its Nine Days and Nights of Ed Sheeran. Fuck that.

Does MTV2 not exist anymore?

All I see is
MTV Music
MTV Live HD
MTV Hits
MTV Base
MTV Dance
MTV Rocks

then VH1 and a bunch of other things inc The Box which amazingly still exists and Kerrang tv that looks like an xfm playlist rather than rock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Europe

I want to turn on MTV now and watch partyzone then the chillout zone but god knows what is on

― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Saturday, February 21, 2015 12:48 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Every time I check what's on MTV these days it's usually a complete load of bollocks. It's a very, very, very pale shadow of the channel it once was, that's for sure.

In fact, so is VH-1, actually. I preferred VH-1 UK when it first started, when it actually had presenters and interesting shows.

I hated that david erm hepworth? bloke. the guy who gushed over It Bites (terrible band)

I seem to remember David Hepworth & Mark Ellen (both formerly of Q Magazine), Bob Mills, Clare Grogan, Richard Jobson(!)... I'm sure there were a few folks from MTV Europe who moved over to VH-1 UK while it still had presenters... seem to remember Bob Harris on there as well? None of 'em were as likeable as the presenters on MTV Europe (especially Hepworth!), but I definitely preferred that format rather than just back-to-back videos.

i didnt mind the others it was the hepworth guy annoyed me

hepworth was smug and i dunno something rich upper middle class about him that rubbed me up the wrong way.

Oh yeah, Hepworth definitely came across as smug on-screen, probably even moreso than he comes across in print.

not sure i ever read him. I only recall him from vh1

Heh I had that Clawfinger single at one point, I'd forgotten about it.

haha

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