MTV doesn’t even pretend to be about music anymore. But was it EVER really about music? It’s the video network that made killing the radio star a mission statement to ensure that how music looks is more important than how it sounds. I WANT MY eMpTV!
Check out a playlist of music referenced in this episode here: https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/playlist/5WCHiJUQo2HrP8W0ag6Cp8?si=XE3OKR9gQsu9zf7Xu0Qthw
Intros
R.I.P. Aretha Franklin
Ex Machina
Chris’s road trip
America’s Got Talent: Human Fountains and Courtney Hadwin
Better Off Dead
The Meg
MTV
African American representation in the early days of MTV
Precursors and competitors and VH1
Artists played on the first day
VJs
Duran Duran and the 2nd British Invasion
David Bowie
Hot chicks
Favorite videos
The decline and fall of MTV
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
Jonathan Elias and John Petersen - MTV Top of the Hour theme music
Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
Val Kilmer - Skeet Surfin’ / Frank Zappa - Valley Girl
Clip from The Blues Brothers (1980)
Aretha Franklin - Nessun Dorma - The Grammy Awards (1998)
Aretha Franklin - Respect
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - The Turing Test - Ex Machina
Clip from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Ninja Sex Party - First Date
Courtney Hadwin - Hard To Handle
Rupert Hine - Better Off Dub (Title Music) - Better Off Dead (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Trailer for The Meg
Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
Various MTV promos
Top of the Pops
The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
The Specials - Rat Race
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Various VH1 promos
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Pat Benatar - You Better Run
Clip from Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Asia - Heat of the Moment
Duran Duran - Girls On Film
David Bowie - Jazzin’ for Blue Jean
David Bowie - Let’s Dance
Ratt - Round and Round
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
ZZ Top - Legs
Madonna - Burning Up
Olivia Newton John - Physical
The Alan Parsons Project - Don’t Answer Me
Yes - Leave It
The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl
DEVO - Freedom of Choice
The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination
Genesis - Land of Confusion
Art of Noise - Close (To the Edit)
Björk - Bachelorette
“Weird Al” Yankovic - Dare To Be Stupid
“Weird Al” Yankovic - Al TV theme
The Pixies - Velouria
Good Charlotte - Girls & Boys
Metro Station - Shake It
Dog Police - Dog Police
Dead Kennedys - MTV Get Off The Air
