MTV the first few minutes- I'm ancient

Unless you are older and lived through the birth of MTV, you don’t get what a big deal it was. It is gone now but it transformed how new music was rolled out and consumed. Every new song had to have a video and they became increasingly novel and sophisticated, often driving the music itself, it seemed. It was a phenomenon.

This video has made the rounds for more than 20 years.

Congrats for finally catching up.

What?

So what year did this air op?

R47 it aired 1981 and is still airing! This is first few minutes.

There's a video of the first 4 hours of Mtv, complete with commercials on the Internet Archive...sweet deal

Thanks, R6, I will watch (eventually). The original 5 VJs became celebrities. Mark Goodman seemed the hot one at the time. To me, at least.

Goodman was so hot.

Is Goodman the dude that was put through the wringer when Bowie questioned why there were no black people on Mtv? That was so awkward, though great for Bowie (and he was right, it was Honky city the first couple of years)

I was more from the Kurt Loder/Tabitha Soren/Kennedy era

I’ve never laid eyes on Tom Goodman before (well I have, I saw the Bowie interview) and believe me, he is definitely the hot one.

I remember this so well. I was watching, too. It was definitely a big deal.

Nina Blackwood always sounded like a whorish middle aged cocktail waitress serving beers with a cig in her mouth and her fake tits crammed into a crop top.

R9, Here you go.

Bowie was just pure class. He wasnt preachy or whiny about it or got on a soap box or acted like "Look at me, aren't I awesome defending the downtrodden", he was quiet, corteous (though he said a mouthful with his eyes) and rational, but still brough up what needed to be brought up.

People who praise Bowie for not being “preachy and whiny” crack me up. It’s like his gentlemanly demeanour is just as important as him pushing back against Goodman justification of racism, when, of course, it isn’t.

R15 never said it was just as important. All I said is that the man did it with class. Your interpretation is not a fact.

We didn't have cable yet when MTV debuted but several of my friends did. I remember being in my friend's basement watching MTV hit the air. From then on, it was always in the background. My family got cable later that year. And when I left for college, well no one in college had cable, so I had to go without. I would binge watch MTV whenever I was home.

When I was still in high school, probably the same year MTV first came on, my friends and I were buying cases of beer for a party. The man on line behind us said, "Hey, are you kids into MTV?" and we all agreed enthusiastically. He then said that Martha Quinn is his daughter and you could tell he was so proud and knew she was connecting to an entire generation.

Remember Adam Curry and his gravity defying blond mullet?