Special Program: MTV circa 1981

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Yep. It only used to be on part time. The early days of MTV were so much fun.

it was indeed Music-Television, unlike the now barren wasteland of talentless/braindead crap better known as Empty-Vee

Personally I miss TBS' "Night Tracks" video show.

[desertangel]

Does this mean we're officially getting old and set in our ways when we miss the way things were 25 years ago? Does anyone here have young teenagers that love Empty-Vee? Just curious. They say you don't miss what you never had. I spent last night in a heavenly musical time warp, while driving home from a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young concert, the 70s XM radio station played Chick-A-Boom. I was dancing at the wheel singing along with a big .

[desertangel]

Originally Posted by GarboSpeaks!

I just added VH-1 Classic today. I had to have it! Was long over-due. Today, watching the sneak peak of things to come, made me SO sentimental. OMG, 25 years ago? JEESH! I can rememer like it was yesterday airing. Was a big deal. What I seem to recall almost as much, is when MTV took a turn for the SUCKA**. Was SUCH a bummer =0(

I will be recording it all, and have purchased a TIVO type DVD burner so once it's off the TV, I can record it right onto DVD. Anyone that doesn't have it, I am sure many of us will be recording it.

So are you offering? If so, bless your heart. If not, I will still Luv U. I found out how much it would cost to add it to my cable and decided I won't be able to afford the expense right now. ARGH...I need a raise....

[gldstwmn]

They are Playing the first hour as a right now. Did anyone else forget Robin Lane and The Chartbusters existed?v

[desertangel]

aawww... I miss 80s MTV... Hey Micky Your So Fine You Blow My Mind Hey Micky.. those were some fuuun times!

[skcin]

I flipped it on a few times - good times, good times.

Brian J - I LOVED NIGHT TRACKS on TBS! Best damn video program there was. I remember one night waiting for it, a basketball game was in OT. Well, it went into triple OT. I gave up around 2 am.

[Macfanforever]

Hi I was able to record the whole 24 hours of the show over my moms ,now I have to find time to skim through the tapes to see what they played.I did not like the format, I though they were going to air the original VJ footage with the video introductions I was over to do a tape change at 6am , they played Stevie's SDMHA about 5 minutes after 6am. that was nice to wake up by.
Too bad MTV sucks now, they could not take a break from there crappy
reality crap and rap crap for a day to air a part of their history,their sister station had to do the honors. what a shame.........

[GarboSpeaks!]

I would/will totally share if there was any SN stuff. As it is, I deleted it, cause my Tivo can only hold like 44 hours of stuff, and I have a crap load of things already on there. It's gonna repeat like a mo-fo though thruout the month so I could always re-record it, and convert it. Lemme know.

One SO funny random related SN thing was a Louise Goffin video for "Kid Blue" I think was the name of the song??? Who in GODS green earth did this girl do to get a contract. Egad. I can put up w/ IYEDB cause it's an SN song, and catchy for it's time and rarity looking back....anything else...AGH! AWEFUL! Funny thought that she had a video. Her and her raisens.....(anyone get that???????? )

[gldstwmn]

I did happen to see the clearest version of the Tusk video I've seen in a while last night at about 3 hours 24 minutes into the programming.

[tlssln]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

it was indeed Music-Television, unlike the now barren wasteland of talentless/braindead crap better known as Empty-Vee

Personally I miss TBS' "Night Tracks" video show.

I remember the good old days of music on TV like Night Flight and Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, and The Midnight Special. And when there was NO American Idol! Acts like FM who were great live and could take that talent into the studio. Not like today where they mostly just keep pumping out studio cd's with songs written by other people and don't tour. Or they do one or two shows for a TV special with all these dancers or technical **** going on and half the time they're lip-synching.

[tlssln]

Originally Posted by GarboSpeaks!

I would/will totally share if there was any SN stuff. As it is, I deleted it, cause my Tivo can only hold like 44 hours of stuff, and I have a crap load of things already on there. It's gonna repeat like a mo-fo though thruout the month so I could always re-record it, and convert it. Lemme know.

One SO funny random related SN thing was a Louise Goffin video for "Kid Blue" I think was the name of the song??? Who in GODS green earth did this girl do to get a contract. Egad. I can put up w/ IYEDB cause it's an SN song, and catchy for it's time and rarity looking back....anything else...AGH! AWEFUL! Funny thought that she had a video. Her and her raisens.....(anyone get that???????? )

She's Carole King's daughter. That's how she got a contract.

[ThePenguin]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Yep. It only used to be on part time. The early days of MTV were so much fun.

I was obsessed with it. it was just too cool to be true. you could just turn on the TV and watch your favorite bands in action, watta gift!!! And those early videos they had in heavy rotation were so hypnotic..... Along w/ FMac i remember seeing tons of Duran Duran, Def Leppard, Pat Benatar, Eurythmics, Cyndi Lauper, Rush, ...argh just too many to list.


I used to literally run and sit in front of the TV when a mac video came on, crying and whimpering and trying to memorize each and every detail (this was before we had a VCR in the house LOL)-- and at night I'd write the exact times FM videos came on in my diary. A typical entry: "5:15-- Gypsy. Luv LB, he is hotness in that white hat! 8:45-- Tusk; omigod I haven't seen that one is like 3 months!!!!"

How sad was my life?? But yes, MTV is one of the finer memories of my early teens. such an impact it had.

--Lis

[GarboSpeaks!]

She's Carole King's daughter. That's how she got a contract.

Um, yea, I did know that, but even still. But thanks

[GODDESS6]

k, they played this all day saturday & my hubby dvr'd all of it for me, i saw "tusk" & "sdmha", it was wonderful to see mtv like that again, my god tho there were some real crap videos on there tho that i never realized~ lol