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re: VH1 classic becomes MTV classic on August 1.
Posted on 8/6/16 at 7:11 pm to VoxDawg
Posted on 8/6/16 at 7:11 pm to VoxDawg
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Theyve said their focus is going to be 90's MTV, but the problem with that is 90's MTV is not CLASSIC MTV. Dan Cortese, Kennedy and Daisy Fuentes are not CLASSIC MTV. MTV's decline began when they introduced non-music programming. You could argue that it's Remote Control's fault, but I blame The Real World.
Martha Quinn, Alan Hunter, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman and JJ Jackson are Classic MTV. Wall-to-wall music videos with soda and potato chip commercials is Classic MTV. Anything other than those things are just "MTV Once It Got Shitty." But who would watch a channel called that?
Completely agree. I was in college ('94-'97) and those damn reality shows were crap. About the only thing I watched that was non-music was the occasional Beavis and Butthead.
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Posted on 8/6/16 at 7:32 pm to 632627
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the 90s and very early 2000s was the best when they had a perfect balance of music videos, mtv produced shows, reality tv and documentaries.
I'm guessing you weren't alive to have seen MTV in its heyday, then. Hardly something you have control over, so I won't hold it against you, but take it from those of us that were there - the channel truly has sucked balls since the advent of the Real World. That's not cranky old guy cynicism, either. It's an objective, verifiable fact that science supports.
It wasn't about Viacom-produced content and documentaries, and it sure as shite wasn't about lame-arse reality programming. It was the Top 20 Countdown on the weekends, World Premiere Videos at the top of the hour, 120 Minutes and Headbanger's Ball. Later on, it was a little Club MTV and Dial MTV (TRL's predecessor) and pretty much anything that wasn't that was music videos. It wasn't complicated.
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:16 pm to VoxDawg
Unwatchable reality tv crap killed mtv It used to really be something
Posted on 8/6/16 at 11:31 pm to VoxDawg
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It was the Top 20 Countdown on the weekends, World Premiere Videos at the top of the hour, 120 Minutes and Headbanger's Ball. Later on, it was a little Club MTV and Dial MTV (TRL's predecessor) and pretty much anything that wasn't that was music videos. It wasn't complicated.
This was the early - mid 90s. I grew up watching MTV in the 80s and I have to say the early 90s was by far the best time to watch. The early seasons of Real World and Road Rules are nothing like modern RW. They had plenty of great animation with Liquid Television, Beavis and Butthead, The Head, and The Maxx. John Stewart's talk show and Ben Stiller's sketch comedy show were great too, then later on you had The State. MTV was really good counter culture programming back then. It was about more than just the music.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 12:39 am to Brosef Stalin
Sunday night on mtv in the. 90s was great
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