||| Video Killed the Radio Star |||

[Lilith]

Or so they claim;)

Do you have a favorite music video now days? Is there an old one that you just love? What video networks do you watch?

I have no less than 10 available on my digi-cable but mainly watch MTV2 or VH-1..Every great once in awhile I watch VH-1 Classics.

Just curious if people watch them or do we just take for granted they are around?

[Gilly]

I used to love the song in the 80s about MTV. I can't remember it, but it was little blocky cartoon guys working construction and they had to move the tvs... fuck, I can here the damn song in my freakin head, and I can't put a name to it.

[Sharni]

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

Any Elvis vid

[Lilith]

Originally posted by Gilly
I used to love the song in the 80s about MTV. I can't remember it, but it was little blocky cartoon guys working construction and they had to move the tvs... fuck, I can here the damn song in my freakin head, and I can't put a name to it.

Money For Nothing ~ Dire Straits

[darogle]

Hard to find a music video channel that actually plays music videos anymore. Mostly filled up with reality stuff, series, and documentaries now days.

I do like watching some country videos on CMT. Also like VH1 Classics with classic rock.

[rabbit]

Originally posted by Lilith
Money For Nothing ~ Dire Straits

Oh yeah, Lil...that one was a classic.

Some that are my favs:

"Come Dancing", The Kinks

"Take Me On", A-Ha

"Don't Lose My Number", Phil Collins

"I'm Still Standing", Elton John

"Thriller", Michael Jackson

"Sharp Dressed Man", ZZ Top

"Wrapped Around Your Finger", The Police


...ahhhh, *nostalgia*


rabbit

[Mae]

"Mexican Radio" Wall of Voodoo
The Phil Collins one was funny
"Brass in Pocket" The Pretenders
"She's a Beauty" The Tubes
A lot of the 80's videos. Where can one find them, anymore?

[Bardog]

Originally posted by Sharni


Any Elvis vid

Sharni, I think I love you!!!!!



I mostly watch VH1 Classic for all of the 80's vids.
My favorites would be ZZ Top and Van Halen with Diamond Dave though

[imaginewithme]

I always wanted to be one of the ZZ Top babes!!! Just imagine what my parents were thinking when I would say that to them..... Well I have the hot rods but not the hot legs!

I like watching country music videos...always seem to have some sappy story for me to get all emotional over.

[LixyChick]

My all time fave video is STILL...

AC/DC's "Thunderstruck"!

But then...you knew that...didn't you?

My second fave is U2's "Street With No Name"...when they took over a rooftop in New York and didn't have a parade permit and Bono got busted while stopping traffic in doing the song! DAMN! I woulda loved to have been passing on the street when that broke out!

Billy Joel did a more "staged" video (can't remember what song it was) where he and his band are in a basement recording studio and it seems hot in there so they open the door/windows (one in the same cause it's a ground floor studio) and start jamming and Christy Brinkley is dancing around with her and Billy's baby in her arms...and everyone in the street comes towards the sound of the music and it turns into a block party! Pretty cool vid!

[scotzoidman]

I always liked the "Right Now" video by Van Haggar...also thought "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam was a powerful song & video...

MTV & VH1 reaqlly suck these days...funny that I get nostalgic for the early 80s when we could just watch videos endlessly...

[skyler_m]

I stopped watching videos when Friday Night Videos went off the air. :D

[Aqua]

Oh man.. I loved MTV in the mid '80s. Before the game shows and reality shows and the BS. Nowadays you rarely see a complete video.

Some classic vids I remember...

Beat It, Thriller - MJ
Don't Let's Start - They Might Be Giants
Like a Virgin - Madonna
Hurts so Good - John Cougar (before Mellencamp was added :p )
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

I used to watch MTV all the time. Too bad it sucks now.

[nikki1979]

i miss having CMT out here there are literally NO country stations on tv and ive not found one on the raide either for that matter :( i miss my country

nikki

[skyler_m]

Holy shit, Aqua.... are you a TMBG fan???? Don't let's start is a great video!

[BIBI]

always liked the late Robert Palmer video "Simply Irresistable"

[Aqua]

Originally posted by skyler_m
Holy shit, Aqua.... are you a TMBG fan???? Don't let's start is a great video!
Do bears shit Catholic Popes in the woods? :p

That video is what started me on TMBG. I've seen them twice in the past year and plan to see them again in August. I also have their documentary 'Gigantic', it is awesome! I would recommend it to anyone, whether they've heard of TMBG or not.

Kinda funny.. I had a dream I was hanging out with John Linnell the other night...

So yeah... I'm a fan :o

[skyler_m]

Aqua... that dream may mean you are more than a fan. The word sickness comes to mind. LOL

I've got all of their albums, so I understand...