VH1 Classic (a channel that I watched quite a bit except for their heavy metal programming) is changing to MTV Classic. The promo's are chock-full of classic MTV shows. Some of my fave classic MTV programming (other than their straight music programming): Just Say Julie - love the redhead Julie Brown Remote Control - a comedic game show underrated: The Ben Stiller Show - which also introduced us to Janeane Garofalo Aeon Flux - a cartoon (with no voices) about a sexy female spy; originally part of an animation block called Liquid Television Wonder Showzen - o.k. I'm a bit on the weird side Like We Care - their first (and as far as I remember, only) topic-driven talk show MTV Classic is starting (Monday morning) by re-airing the first hour of programming. They had done that before, including the gaffes (such as the host saying, "aren't those great guys or what?" then playing the list of original VJ's. (VJ: "video jockey," a play on "disk jockey" of radio days). Also, I liked the bit of writing in to get stickers to put on your cable box, so you can remember what channel is MTV on your system.
Great minds think alike. http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads...out-television-r.610856/page-17#post-34379344 The nostalgia is real. I loved Remote Control. Older brother of a friend of mine growing up was a contestant. That's probably when Colin Quinn became "mainstream", too. After some google fu, was curious what the other cast members were up to. Ken Ober died in 2009? Damn, RIP.
Enjoyed the Metal Mania marathon they had going yesterday morning, so many cringe worthy videos that were more or less cutting edge 35 years ago. Speaking of which, found it funny looking back that Judas Priest videos back in the day were basically a pseudo singles ad for Rob Halford. Truly a man ahead of his time.
Set my DVR to record their first hour, which was this morning at 6AM I think. Also have a bunch of "Unplugged" episodes set to record ... Nirvana, Dylan, Alice in Chains, Neil Young, et al.
http://bfy.tw/70sj Season 32 has taken/is taking place in Seattle. Season 31 aired March - May of this year. http://www.mtv.com/shows/real-world-go-big-or-go-home
Do they play Slaughter's "Up All Night" every night at 3am like they did in 1990? Don't ask me how I know they played Slaughter's "Up All Night" every night at 3am in 1990.
I met Dave Kendall the 120 Minutes host at a CBGBs show. Might've been Swervedriver who were SUPER loud. My friend and I goofed on him until he ducked out. Swervedriver - Autodidact
For some reason old MTV videos pop in my head now & then and I can't stop humming them. Was watering the vegetables this morning and thought of Little Sister with Robert Plant & Rockpile. No effing idea why.
LOL. The one's that pop into my head are always the bad ones like Flock of Seagulls, Cindy Lauper, etc. Well, not always. Sometimes I go off on She's Got Leg's by ZZTop.
I get music videos stuck in my head a lot. Even ones that I don't remember the artist or the song. One from the 80s that has been most recently in my head is a video where the group is in a tree house and they all have bright red hair like Howard Jones' 80's do. I think there was like big rubber bands hanging from the ceiling, too. Either that was actually a video or someone made me a ruffiecolada that made me imagine that.
And in a less-publicized change, the MTV Hits channel is rebranded as "Nick(elodeon) Music," playing the taylor-swift-iest music around. Tag line is something like "where music comes to play... the Nickelodeon way."
I gave you rep for that and posted it on Pulse Music Board, which has a lot of members. Ryan Tedder, the singer of OneRepublic, said he reads Pulse Music Board. If you want to read what music fans think of the changes, you can go to http://pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/160187/vh1-classic-turns-mtv-august
Thanks, Evan. Don't have a lot of time to check the other board you mentioned, right now, but my first reaction to "Nick Music" is that it is "mostly" the old MTV Hits, but a bit more sanitized for the younger crowd. One thing that is a slight bummer is that there is no longer an officially "MTV" branded channel that just plays music; MTV2 is now closest, but does play some long-form programming.