When did they let Martha Quinn go?

Music videos
Beavis & Butthead

I don't think i've seen a music video on mtv1 in about 5 years

Does anyone remember a young Kelly Brook on MTV UK

I don't but i did fall in love with Cat Deeley for a while when she did the European Top 20(?)

The '90s?

I was there on the ground floor. My dad worked for the local cable company and we had all the channels the cable system was testing out before regular subscribers did. One day in 1981 he came home and said "We're adding a new station. It's called Music TV - it's all music, all day." He turned the cable box over to the newly minted channel 24 (yes, there were fewer than 25 channels in those days, but that's not my point).

BOOM!

I was intrigued, bewildered, bemused, but ultimately HOOKED from the get-go. I couldn't stop watching it. Some of it was pure crap. Some was genius. Even though they only had maybe a five hour rotation of videos at that time I would watch them over and over again. I had my friends over. They got hooked.

We were the first group of human beings to learn to watch TV/film that was edited at such a rapid pace. And it had to be learned. Later generations haven't known any other way. A dozen one-second shots in succession is nothing today but back then it was headache-inducing.

MTV was the backdrop of every teenager's life in the 80s. Wall-to-wall music videos, 24/7. Maybe an occasional 5-minute interview but the rest of the time it was nothing but music. To me, the beginning of the end came with their Spring Break specials, standing around sticking a mic in the face of random idiots on the beach between songs. The hair metal bands took over in the late '80s. And they all sucked. Sucked hard. I stopped watching around 1990. Missed out on all the reality crap. (Yay!)

I think MTV was better when they showed music videos (saw more of 90s than 80s, personally), but they know it hurts the artist as much as helps them now. (If U like a song, you only have to buy that song, & it does nothing to get U 2 buy the album.)

"Real World" is still OK, the "Challenge" spinoffs (I call them) are decent, & MTV & VH1 are showing far from the worst reality TV.

What's the best is to watch when someone from "The Hills", etc. is on Carson's talk show; He acts like he wasn't at all to blame in helping to kill the music-video "heyday". ("TRL" was barely watchable when he was on it.)

On the subject of video countdowns, I've noticed that during the hour following VH1's "Top 20 Countdown", all the videos they show (also much of the other time) are videos that are on the countdown. (How do they expect you to like/get behind others if they don't show them?)

well after MTV, we have MTV hits which used show music videos 24/7 but the last few years they turned it into MTV hits with celeb playlist which suck like if i care what rappers are listening to ugh, and now they also give shows on it not as much music video's =[

I remember when the shows that MTV hadthat weren't music videos were at least entertaining, and they had different segments of video blocks to appeal to everyone from metal fans to bubblegum pop. Now the whole network is just simply pathetic.

I watched MTV off and on, at various times in my childhood...but my regular viewing only lasted about 2 years or so, and then I got sick of all the crap. Raunchy shows, useless "reality" garbage, so many acts emphasizing style over talent...I barely watch at all now, and that's being generous.