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| Re: Videos? said by Jeffrey :What I find interesting is that someone at MTV has worked there long enough to realize that they used to show music videos. I was going to say "that was like what, 10 videos?" But sadly I too am old enough to remember when they played videos. -- "At the moment of conception." | |
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join:2002-04-05 Jamaica, NY | Re: Videos? MTV is now nothing more than a "trailer" channel for selling RIAA records and a wannabe E network (which is owned by Comcast, not Viacom). | |
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| said by Jeffrey :What I find interesting is that someone at MTV has worked there long enough to realize that they used to show music videos. I remember those days, when there was a number of tv channels that actually played music videos. Are there any left? | |
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| 80s When I was a teenager in the 80s MTV was the pinnacle of coolness--Yo MTV rap, Headbanger's ball, etc. Now, all MTV shows are just middle and upper class young adults fighting with each other and complaining.
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| Re: 80s said by badtrip :When I was a teenager in the 80s MTV was the pinnacle of coolness--Yo MTV rap, Headbanger's ball, etc. Now, all MTV shows are just middle and upper class young adults fighting with each other and complaining. I guess they had to put the music somewhere or be forced to change their name to the crybaby channel or something. QFT
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| said by badtrip : I guess they had to put the music somewhere or be forced to change their name to the crybaby channel or something. Not so much really just replace the word Music with Media. Either way you end up with MTV and IMO that's what they're doing. | |
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| Didn't help that most popular music went in the crapper in the late 90's/early 00's, what with Brittney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, and all of those other ones I've managed to purge from memory with a mixture of pot and alcohol. Anything that wasn't too offensive for television sucked. The decline was inevitable. | |
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| said by badtrip :When I was a teenager in the 80s MTV was the pinnacle of coolness--Yo MTV rap, Headbanger's ball, etc. Now, all MTV shows are just middle and upper class young adults fighting with each other and complaining. I guess they had to put the music somewhere or be forced to change their name to the crybaby channel or something. VH1 and VH1 classics.. Then there is always Youtube. When MTV started dumping music for the "x-generation" soaps, well, to be honest, when they started playing mostly hippity hop and rap, I deleted that channel from my line up (Yo.. mtv, you listening). The turned their backs on a generation who made them what they are so, I don't watch'em my kids don't watch'em. Thank god to youtube.. Oh, and VH1C  | |
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| Copyrights? Could Kazaa be a registered copyright? MTV may be trying to avoid tempting lawsuits against an organization heavily antagonized by the RIAA by not broadcasting what could potentially be construed as a copyright violation. -- Laughter is the closest distance between two people. --Victor Borge Lynch All Liars | |
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join:2000-08-21 Glen Burnie, MD | Re: Copyrights? Weird Al did this as a parody so he can say it all he wants. MTV is just trying to not give kids any ideas. | |
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| Were they censored on tv? Were they censored when they aired on TV? Though, does MTV still even play videos? I mean last time I saw MTV they still did overnight, but it's been some time since I've seen MTV.
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| Re: Were they censored on tv? said by mrchris :That's funny, how can you do that just by saying their name? An editor has to do it. It was probably done on the source video file.
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| said by thecptrgod :Were they censored when they aired on TV? Though, does MTV still even play videos? I mean last time I saw MTV they still did overnight, but it's been some time since I've seen MTV. -Adam FNMTV is the closest you find to music videos. Overnight block is dead unless they air FNMTV, which is their cheap replacement for expensive TRL. FNMTV has slightly longer videos, but still "trailer" length, and no studio audience. | |
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| Re: Were they censored on tv? Figures... They should just rename it "Reality" Television, since there's no music on Music Television apparently anymore. Yeah... I don't have cable, and even when I did MTV was not in my scan list, so I haven't watched the network in years.
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join:2005-04-13 Denton, TX | Weird Al?! You have almost every music video ever made at your disposal... and you choose to watch Weird Al Yankovic?! | |
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| Re: Weird Al?! said by mobbo :You have almost every music video ever made at your disposal... and you choose to watch Weird Al Yankovic?! You have almost every Weird Al Yankovic music video ever made at your disposal... and you aren't watching them?!
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| said by mobbo :You have almost every music video ever made at your disposal... and you choose to watch Weird Al Yankovic?! They don;t have close to every vieo ever made if you read the thread. I've done some searching myself. MANY are missing. I'm not sure how they define. EVERY. | |
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| MTV bleeping what sponsors want them to, not new Ever since hordes of kids in the early 90s believed that Humpty Hump sang about "I once got busy in a fuck-ing bathroom", MTV has been known for its really weird, really pandering broad censorship of ridiculous things. Usually these are things that compete or conflict with either their sponsors or their other corporate ties. | |
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| epic failure Soundgarden - no "Black Hole Sun?" No "uncencored" version of "Pretty Noose" either.
Beck - no "Loser"
And who cares if a Weird Al song mentions these things?
He even made that song available for free and WANTED people to download it (using said bleeped out programs?)!
What a crock. Even Yahoo videos had more selection, better quality, and I doubt they'd censor Weird Al of all people... Then there's youtube, of course, who got sued by Viacom (owns MTV)... which is the dumbest thing they could've done. Nobody cared that youtube had a frakton of video from all over the place
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join:2005-01-08 Jonquiere, QC | Re: ????? Videos only play in the US apparently, a copyright issue... | |
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| said by MousePad :Which majorly sucks... Seriously... seems like every American music site these days has "copyright issues". | |
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