Running music videos used to be cool thread

The Jam ... and some guy with a tamborine.

 

I used to always tape Headbangers Ball & watch it on Sunday mornings, hoping to catch a Dokken video.

 

I believe this song started a revolution in music videos:

 

Greatest. show. ever.

I still have my t-shirt.

 

Oh yeah.

 

Hell yes. Every day, I walked home from school in junior high, turned on the TV and watched Dr. Dre and Ed Lover. Without that show, I can't imagine how boring my CD collection would be.

 

*waiting for someone to dedicate "Unforgiven" by the Go Gos to Mikey*

 

Oz, did you ever try the Ed Lover Dance?

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?vid=214981

 

I bought a Spike Jonze DVD a few years ago that's pretty fun. It has Sabotage, the guy running through the street on fire, a few Fatboy Slim videos, including the one where Christopher Walken breaks out into this elaborate dance number, and a Notorious BIG video where all the grown ups have been replaced by kids who are about 10 years old. There's also Weezer and a few others. The Walken video is incredible ... Weapon of Choice ...

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Hey I go back to when the Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's Rock Concert were the places to see early videos.

Here in Canuckistan - at least in Toronto - it was Toronto Rocks at 4:30 weekdays or something like that. Anyway, it was mandatory viewing after school. There was also a show on CBC hosted by Samanatha Stevens but I can't recall the name (Video Hits, maybe).

Saturday nights was the terrific New Music on CITY-TV (co-hosted by J.D. Roberts, now all cleaned up on CNN as John Roberts) which showed videos and did interviews and features on bands as they came through town.

When MuchMusic came along it was great but eventually went for a shit and shows very little music now. MuchMoreMusic isn't bad and shows a lot of VH1 stuff that I like (Classic Albums, Behind The Music).

Ah, memories...

 

But did you learn the Ed Lover dance?

I first head Public Enemy on this show, so that made it for me.

 

I don't know that all videos are irrelevant anymore. I stumbled across the video on youtube for Serj Tankian's (singer for System of a Down) "Empty Walls." And it was clever with some great meaning I thought.

I know most of the people on here probably won't like the song, but I thought the video was brilliant.