MTV - Real Music or Just Mainstream? - Page 2

Shawnee123 · 02-15-2007, 09:45 AM

I remember my friend in high school having MTV, shortly after it began. For me, the thrill was short-lived; I preferred my own imagination over some fabricated images they thought I should see in my head when the music played. Yet, there have been some great videos.

Video did indeed kill the radio star.

Sundae · 02-15-2007, 11:06 AM

I remember going over to a friend's flat just to watch satellite TV. He had just moved in with his brother who was a store manager at Dixons (retail chain specialising in electrical). They were the first of us to have their own place - those of us not living at home were in shared houses.

We went over the week he moved in specifically to watch the X Files and returned every week for the next few months from what I remember.

When the X Files finished we flicked around the channels for the rest of the evening unable to agree on anything. After a certain amount of bickering we often ended up watching MTV because you didn't have to concentrate on it. Even in the early 90s I wondered what all the fuss had been about, and where the music was. If you managed to catch music, sod's law said it was a special on a genre you didn't like.

cklabyrinth · 02-15-2007, 05:35 PM

vh1 also plays good movies relating to music on their Movies That Rock. That's where I first saw The Last Days of Disco and fell in love with Kate Beckinsale and Whit Stillman scripts.

02-15-2007, 09:45 AM	#16
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I remember my friend in high school having MTV, shortly after it began. For me, the thrill was short-lived; I preferred my own imagination over some fabricated images they thought I should see in my head when the music played. Yet, there have been some great videos. Video did indeed kill the radio star. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

02-15-2007, 11:06 AM	#17
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I remember going over to a friend's flat just to watch satellite TV. He had just moved in with his brother who was a store manager at Dixons (retail chain specialising in electrical). They were the first of us to have their own place - those of us not living at home were in shared houses. We went over the week he moved in specifically to watch the X Files and returned every week for the next few months from what I remember. When the X Files finished we flicked around the channels for the rest of the evening unable to agree on anything. After a certain amount of bickering we often ended up watching MTV because you didn't have to concentrate on it. Even in the early 90s I wondered what all the fuss had been about, and where the music was. If you managed to catch music, sod's law said it was a special on a genre you didn't like. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

02-15-2007, 05:35 PM	#18
cklabyrinth spring of my discontent Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 45	vh1 also plays good movies relating to music on their Movies That Rock. That's where I first saw The Last Days of Disco and fell in love with Kate Beckinsale and Whit Stillman scripts.

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