MTV Turns 30

[tpg]

Yes, That is right....MTV Turns 30....so Happy Birthday MTV! And yes, I am actually old enough to remember when they actually played music videos :shake:

[Pima]

ME too, and so far for the past 3 hrs since I heard it was 30, I have had the worst song playing in my cranium.

Video killed the radio star...

Yes, you are now with me in my personal hell trying to get that song out of your mind.

Next up, Burning down the House with Devo and those stupid red hats.

In honor of MTV, what video do you remember the most...Thriller does not count!

Billy Joel Uptown Girl is one of them on the top of my list.

Can anyone without googling know if Real World was their 1st show? Do you all remember Puck?

[Stealth_81]

In honor of MTV, what video do you remember the most...Thriller does not count!

"Take on Me" by A-Ha.

[tpg]

Pima-
I have always like Billy Joel....Although he should have married Elle Macpherson :biggrin:

I was reminding my wife this morning about how I can recall driving to UVa to visit her and when I walked into her room, her roommate and her were dancing like crazy to Wham! The song was "wake me up before you go go" :shake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgZ7gMze7A&feature=relmfu

I also recall when we were at Parris Island coming home from the Drill Feild when her roommate was visiting us and they were dancing to Cyndi Lauper's "Girls just want to have fun".....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A&feature=relmfu


Not exactly the song that a Marine Drill Instructor wants to be associated with....:yllol:

In my Dear Wife's defense, she also liked Bon Jovi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrZHPOeOxQQ&feature=artistob&playnext=1&list=TLoQvUIrqJrQc

[Pima]

Thanks TPG,

Now I have Frankie Goes to Hollywood playing in my mind.

Relax don't do it!

God the 80 songs were horrible.

Add one more to the list of horrible 80 songs.

Electric Avenue....remember we're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher.

Any of you guys out there still have your white capezios or OP corduroy shorts while we are walking down memory lane to Electric Avenue?

I have to admit my favorite MJ song was PYT. Still love it.

PS TPG, didn't Elle marry David Copperfield?

OOOHHH, new song to stick in your mind from those days 99 Red Balloons!

As I stated earlier 80's music, clothes and hairstyles were on a whole a decade we should want to forget. But without the 80's Courtney Cox would never have been known. Showing my age. I believe it was Dancing in the Dark. For youngsters, She was in Bruce Springsteen's video dancing on the stage to that song.

All time best Album to this day...Born in the USA

2nd: Bat out of Hell by Meatloaf
3rd:The Stranger by Billy Joel
4th: Left Overture by Kansas
(Carry on My wayward son; There'll be peace when you are done; Lay your weary head to rest;Don't you cry no more..) Start the air guitar now!
~~~~~I had to put another song in your mind to get over 99 Luftballoons!
5th: Eye In the Sky by Alan Parsons Project...that is because Bullet made me listen to it incessantly from CA to Idaho!

[AF6872]

Most of the best albums and songs were way before MTV. They didn't have videos.:shake: The Doors, Chicago, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, 5TH Dimension (just to mention baloons), Tower of Power and oh Yeah The Beatles.:groupwave:
Most of those also had lyrics. Pima has some good ones, Tpg's wife not so good.

[Pima]

DD worked at her job, outdoor concert venue. DS2 asked Bullet what concert, and he replied: Def Leppard.

DS said who?

Bullet thinking he didn't hear him said Def Leppard.

DS replied never mind, I don't know who they are anyway!

Stake into Bullet's heart, he realized he is old!

AF, Chicago is one of the groups that shows your age...Peter Ceterra is the Phil Collins to Genesis. Which one are we talking about.

My all time Oldies song, besides a Hollies one.

Never Been To Spain (3 Dog Night)... to continue with a song in your mind...Well, I have never been to Spain,
But I kinda like the music....I have never been to heaven, but I have been to Oklahoma.Well they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember; In Oklahoma, not Arizona; What does it matter; What does it matter!

[tpg]

Most of the best albums and songs were way before MTV. They didn't have videos.:shake: The Doors, Chicago, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, 5TH Dimension (just to mention baloons), Tower of Power and oh Yeah The Beatles.:groupwave:
Most of those also had lyrics. Pima has some good ones, Tpg's wife not so good.

Hey now....she is a bit younger than I am....:shake:

Besides, this is MTV's birthday....I can remember going through the barracks where radio reception was bad but the newly installed cable TV worked just fine...so all those PFC's and L/CPL's had MTV on....

[tpg]

DD worked at her job, outdoor concert venue. DS2 asked Bullet what concert, and he replied: Def Leppard.

DS said who?

Bullet thinking he didn't hear him said Def Leppard.

DS replied never mind, I don't know who they are anyway!

Stake into Bullet's heart, he realized he is old!

AF, Chicago is one of the groups that shows your age...Peter Ceterra is the Phil Collins to Genesis. Which one are we talking about.

My all time Oldies song, besides a Hollies one.

Never Been To Spain (3 Dog Night)

Just for you:

Def Leppard's "Pour some sugar on me":yllol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W_nXURlYjc

[Pima]

Time out TPG, I am not that much younger.

I am changing the worst song ever for the 80's to Walk Like an Egyptian !

Screwed you all again with bad songs in your cranium!

[tpg]

Time out TPG, I am not that much younger.

I am changing the worst song ever for the 80's to Walk Like an Egyptian !

Screwed you all again with bad songs in your cranium!

For the Record I had to search for "Video killed the radio star" to fully remember that junk....but "walk like an Egyptian"..... ugh....I hated that darn thing then as much as now.

[tpg]

Culture Club - "Karma Chameleon"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw&feature=related

The Video is just to reinforce how bad it is... :thumbdown:

[2013MidDad]

The 80s were defined by Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love

[tpg]

The 80s were defined by Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love

if you say so.....:yllol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE&ob=av2e

[tpg]

Joan Jett - "I love rock and roll"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vFFyJ0s9m0

[goaliedad]

Under the category of "I wish I could forget", anything by Duran Duran...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0

[AF6872]

TPG: You had radio reception in a barracks?? And they were allowed to listen?? Cable TV?? She is a lot younger than most of us (PIMA YOU ARE YOUNG) and probably a lot better looking than all of us. Bullet is a lucky guy. Loved "Addicted To Love". Tragedy when he died so young. PIMA: Glad to show my age. It was a great run in the 60's .

[AF6872]

Anything by Jimmy even without the video: Great story:

http://wavetops.usna.com.s3.amazonaws.com/July2011/Smith.pdf

[buff81]

Ah 1981 - A GREAT year!
Graduated from college, got married and MTV came into our lives - in that order.

When I think of early 80's MTV, these are the videos that pop in my head.

Can you guess what they are first?

Too-Rye-Aye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW_aWY5PubI
Vegamite Sandwich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McsWKczU6wc
You might ask yourself if his guy forgot his meds that day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU
I want my MTVeeeeee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsnA0ix9hZU
Lead singer in now a paramedic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlq0lYB3iSM
Anyone else think that Courteney Cox was just a random lucky fan or was that just me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129kuDCQtHs&ob=av2e

Addicted to Love and I Love Rock and Roll was on my list too. :thumb:
AF - agree - Buffett :thumb::thumb:

When I think of bad videos..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4CyNvEfWoE

[Pima]

I hated that I want My MTVEEE.

Actually it was a set up, she was hired to play that girl, Brian De Palma directed the video. It was her "big break".

Who would have thunk it, without MTV, we may have had a different Monica!

Also to make you feel old, how many of you guys had kids give you a strange look when you told them you remembered when MTV was only videos!

Our kids thought we were flat out lieing to them. It just seemed unfathomable that there was no Real World, Super Sweet 16, Teen Mom. We didn't even broach the subject and OBTW we also had to get up to turn the tv channel too! I can't wait until they get those looks from their own kids...probably at that time their kids will be asking what do you mean when you were a kid my age TV's sat on furniture and didn't hang on walls?

My favorite 80's thing was "where's the beef commercials" That old lady was a hoot.

[AF6872]

Wasn't hard to get up and change. There were only about six channels and the screen was about 12X12 so you had to sit up close. Remember my father on the roof yelling down "can you see it now?" as he adjusted for best reception. Big event was when we got a motorized directional antenna that could be changed from the living room. Ah! The good old days.

[Pima]

You know I bet if you told your kids that after the late movie which was always in black and white, even on a color tv, the TV would turn to static,and that was usually @2 a.m. they would fall down on the ground in fear

What yr did HBO come out? It has to be turning 30 too or is it already 30?

On that note, still diverting the thread. I remember telling our DD that when video's 1st came out to buy they cost a lot of money. Bullet of course said, Yea, the yr your Mom and I got engaged I bought her Dirty Dancing and it cost me 75 bucks. I think she was ready to drive us to the assisted living facilities because she could not even fathom spending that much money on Harry Potter let alone Dirty Dancing!

No jokes guys...respect Patrick Swayze, and remember all of you guys have used this line at sometime....NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER!

Another bad 80's song She's out of my league, yes, I just insulted Patrick Swayze. It's kind of like that parent thing I can insult my kids, but nobody else can.:shake:

My final off topic.

What yr did Wheel of Fortune come on? They have got to be hitting 30 yrs. What I find amazing is Vanna and Pat are still on the show.

[goaliedad]

What yr did Wheel of Fortune come on? They have got to be hitting 30 yrs. What I find amazing is Vanna and Pat are still on the show.

Trick question...

The show premiered in 1975 with Chuck Woolery as host. I was in the studio audience for a week of shows while in HS. Pat Sajak didn't come on the show until 1983. He was a weatherman in LA before hosting.

[Pima]

OMG Chuck Woolery!

Didn't he also do a dating show too?

It wasn't meant to be a trick question, I actually thought Sajak was the original host, but I guess that would be like for the youngsters thinking Meredith Veira was the original host for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

[rkrosnar]

Great memories. Great music. Lots of good partying back then.I really likeD cooking candle light dinners for the girls, I dated, back then.

RGK

[AF6872]

Remember what the original VCR's cost!!!!

[alparent]

What would MTV be without Billy Idol?? Remember "Rebel "Yell", "Dancing with myself" and "White Wedding"? I have very vivid memories of being in high school watching him in concert at Six Flags over Georgia. It was the first concert I ever went to.... Some people wore wedding dresses...the smell of pot was in the air. Quite a scary experience for a young girl from very rural Georgia. After that I mainly stuck to Barry Manillow concerts ;-)

[DHinNH]

Next up, Burning down the House with Devo and those stupid red hats.

Talking Heads sang "Burning Down the House".

On topic, the videoS I remember the most are the numerous versions of "Leave It" by Yes. There were something like 20 different videos for the song, and MTV debuted one every hour or one every half hour, or something like that.

[DHinNH]

OMG Chuck Woolery!

Didn't he also do a dating show too?

Love Connection.

Which we watched on the tv in my Russian classroom at USMA just before the start of each class. :shake: