Why do I spend so much time watching VH1 Classic?

today it showed the videos for Cars and I Melt With You, but it also showed a very long performance of Aqualung. i'm hooked

Good God, I saw that Aqualung clip also *shudders*. What I love (in the same way I love Lucia Pamela or manga comics) is when they'll show a live clip from a reunion tour of best forgotten AOR dinosaurs. Nothing beats half the original members of the Guess Who belting out "These Eyes" at some state fair. And then they'll follow it with a Smiths video!

mom during aqualung video: "i always liked how out there he was...and my god, he was a master of the flute. he really invented the idea of the rock flute. i hope he busts out the flute."

me: "is there a flute in this song"

mom: "probably. there are flutes in all his songs."

(when flute fails to be produced)

mom: "whats that other song of his I like? locomotive man? they should just play that right after this one."

me: "he sure is flailing around alot."

mom: "thats what people go to shows for. to see a performance."

(video thankfully ends after eight to ten minutes)

me during video of Little River Band's "Reminiscing": this is actually kind of good.

sister: you're joking right?

me: no, I actually kind of like it, it's...it's...it's got soul, kind of. it's like if steely dan had a heart.

sister: (shrugs)

two minutes later

sister: they look bored

me: no, you don't get the concept of the video - they're reminiscing!

sister: oh

one minute later

me: this is a good song

sister: do shut up

J.Blount we apparently share a sistrah!! The trademark phrase "Do shut up" is the giveaway.

I thought everyone has shared J.Blounts' sister. Me and the guy's on my basketball team did!

Apparently my sister has something in common with your mother then.

steely dan *did* have a heart !! 'any major dude will tell you' - that's heart right there ! they had more heart than most surely.

What I'd like to see is 120 Minutes to come back with Dave Kendall running the show. Or at least for VH1 to run the re-runs of the original Dave Kendall run on 120 Minutes.
And would it be too much to ask for VH1 to stop looking for washed-up no-cock soft-rock has-beens to do "Behind the Music" specials about. They've used 'em up! Theres 1000s of bands and musicians out there that deserve their own hour-long documentary, and Foreigner wasn't one of them. Someone get them to do a "Legends" special on Iggy Pop, the VU, John Prine, Lou Reed or Leonard Cohen....pleeeeze!

Lou Reed... yawn. We need more Ted Nugent type specials. I want country singers talking about crack.

Also weird al's was great because he's like the most normal guy they've ever done a behind the music on, oddly enough.

I've been a music video addict since the first week Mtv was on in 08/81. The cool thing about VH1 Classic, which we got on our cable system last year, is that they were showing everything. You never knew what video they were going to show next. I will have to say though, they kind of slipped into a rut showing the same videos over and over for months on end. They were getting so much flak on the VH- 1 Classic message board, they shut it down. Have you noticed the appearance of uneccesary "VJ's" a couple of times an hour, giving a little story of the band in the upcoming video. The beginning of the end.

Yeah, I didn't mind that the videos were clearly programmed in blocks, so that if you saw "We Are the Eighties" one day, you were probably going to see at least half of it regurgitated exactly the next time you saw it; in some way this added to the charm of VH1 Classic, that it seemed to be programmed once a week by an intern. The appearance of occasional vj's is something to be mourned - symptomatic of a trend toward predictability perhaps, robbing VH1 Classic of its primary asset - it's unpredictability. Unless you've seen the block of videos before there's no way to tell what's going to pop up next (only that it will fall within certain perameters). Right now you're more likely to see an extremely regrettable Elvis Costello video or an old Alice Cooper live clip than you are "Beat It" or "Born in the U.S.A."; I hope that's still true a year from now.

The cool thing about VH1 Classic, which we got on our cable system last year, is that they were showing everything. You never knew what video they were going to show next.

...which captures the spirit of early MTV during its first two years, when you could literally see videos by Judas Priest, Vangelis, and Adam & the Ants, and the Rolling Stones played back-to-back with each other. That's what I'd most like to see is the return of a popular music medium that cross-fertilizes to that level.

VH1 Classic is so rad! All my friends think I'm weird because I watch it instead of Mtv and I'm only 14...I just wish they wouldn't show so many hair band power ballads...they need to do underground punk stuff...I do enjoy the odd Ramones and Clash videos though...

I think the singer from Alphaville might be gay

i saw the same aqualung video mentioned above a few nights ago (the same night adam and I got high and watched the Styx I am the Walrus video which terrified us)