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Originally Posted by CHOUT
MTV makes me feel so old...when I see these crappy bands' videos and their overly emoted yet perfectly intelligible vocals, I just wanna smoke crack.
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You feel old??? How do you think I feel? I remember when MTV was a pay channel, just like HBO, Showtime, etc.
My dad had a friend in the Air Force who was all about buying tons of electronics during frequent trips to Japan. And this was during a time when the Zeniths and Magnavoxes of the world still held market share leads over Sony and Mitsubishi. Anything electronic and Japanese, this guy would buy it and bring it back. He built some ungodly 16-speaker DIY "surround-sound" home entertainment center, and I used to love it when my folks would visit his house because he would always put on MTV for me and blast it through the system.
When I was nine, it seemed like everything on MTV was good. And surely it wasn't (or it hasn't aged well (e.g., Buggles, Taco (especially Taco!)), but back then, so few bands were making videos that all you had to do was submit one, and it would likely get played. Unless you were black, unfortunately.