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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Remember When We Wanted Our MTV?


I'm old enough to remember when music was experienced through our ears; and not through our eyes.

I guess I'm old enough to remember a whole bunch of things, frankly.

But, like everybody else who was cognitive in 1981, I immediately became addicted to MTV.

Artists are acting out their songs?  Well, that's different!

My cable provider was quick to jump on the  bandwagon, so I saw MTV from its inception.  Weirdly, though, there are only certain songs videos that adhered to my brain cells from that time; even though they weren't necessarily good songs.  Maybe I remember those because they were so heavily rotated.

Remember this?  (a-ha!)



How about this?



Whip it good!



George Michael in 1988:



...as opposed to the very cheesy George Michael (and that other guy) of two years earlier (this always makes me laugh):



I'm a big Mark Knopfler fan:



This video was shown about 3,528,600 times too many:



Ahh, takes me back to the days when I had a frizzy perm and giant eyeglasses. 

In a post to come, I'll run down my favorite videos (which were often my favorite songs) from the MTV days.