I Want My MTV - The Death of a Generation┃Documentary

[@CappyLarou]

When within 5 minutes you admit that you don't know shit about music and you're doing a documentary type video about a music channel. Screw you. Thumbs down this sucks. Go fucking educate yourself before you start doing shit like this you moron

[@RAWMUSICTV]

OK cry baby 🤣

[@yo-sefakimbey7009]

Interesting that when he talks about MTV being a bit bigoted, you take issue with his analysis. Very interesting

[@EarlofBaltimore]

That's a bit harsh isn't it? You're only going to be able to delve so deeply into a subject in 25 minutes. I think you did a fine job.

[@eventhorizon2264]

Hahahahaha pin of shame lmaoo

[@jasoncecala757]

What exactly did he say that was so wrong? As a 45 year old male that grew up in that generation, I can tell you that he's spot on. Maybe you're the one who doesn't know shit about music? It sure sounds like it.

[@abyss9316]

When all of the big reality shows started to come out it really was the last nail in the coffin of MTV music

[@RAWMUSICTV]

In 1997 they cancelled ALL music specific shows. On...MTV...MUSIC television....

[@jamesdjl4359]

​@RAWMUSICTV That is absolutely atrocious. I didn't realize that it happened so early. For some reason, my mind always placed that around the 2000/2001 time frame.

[@abyss9316]

Crazy i was on 6 in 1998 ​@@RAWMUSICTV The last real video I remember watching was the video for ready to fall by rise against

[@RAWMUSICTV]

​​@@jamesdjl4359I thought the same but I was watching an interview with Vanessa Warwick who was a headbangers ball presenter and she said in 1997, MTV literally fired loads of people in a single day and just cancelled all music shows, even after they had just filmed a bunch of new headbangers ball episodes. So there's also an entire bunch of HB BALL episodes that never aired.

[@tdmd4d]

sad but true...

[@ryangunwitch-black]

The death of MTV was a symptom of the record labels shooting themselves in the foot and finally nailing their own coffins shut. The music industry has always been a fragile ecosystem and was already teetering on a knife’s edge because of downloading. The record labels decided to make up the losses by charging MTV to show their artists’ videos and the channel opted for the much cheaper alternative of reality television. Nobody wanted it but there was a whole new generation primed to accept it, not really knowing any better. This is the same reason we don’t hear guitars or bands on modern pop radio anymore. It’s just cheaper to get an “artist” paired with a track somebody made on a laptop outside a Starbucks.

[@MomMom4Cubs]

This is the most concise and accessible explanation for MTV's turn away from the 1st letter of the name.

[@Launchpad05]

Because when everything becomes expensive, go cheap.

[@TinaLouise73]

if makn music is easier that way then I say why not? it is more feasible and cheaper then paying for a proper recording studio with full musical orchestra which only the top A list musicians would be afforded!

[@blackstonepros]

@@ryangunwitch-black I agree. I also would like to add the smart phone era and KZbin contributing to teen viewership changing and consumption habits of music. We didn’t need tv to see music anymore.

[@ryangunwitch-black]

@@blackstonepros Yeah. There was a cultural thing around MTV that’s been missing from the equation and that’s such a bummer.

[@jenluvsplanes]

I CAN STILL picture in my head all of the music videos. Gen X was absolutely hooked. We watched the channel after school, late nights and weekends. Bevis and Butthead were legendary. The good old days.... Oh how I miss them.

[@rich52569]

it connected us with the outside world.

[@dennistyler9852]

Generation Jones too

[@TinaLouise73]

like now a lifetime ago! better times life was easier cheaper and safer to a degree and there was no "woke" pc correct bs either!

[@djmexicanodetx2195]

I remember rushing home after school in the 90s to watch MTV!!

[@gkneppy6474]

Me too for TRL total request live after school! Was the best

[@jamesdjl4359]

"Informer, something something something, something, Ya, I lick a boom boom, ya!" My young mind : A true 90s classic.

[@LunarJetwoman]

I remember bunking school in the 80’s to watch it in me mates 😅

[@TERMINATOR101-b8j]

Hell yes. My older brother always had MTV on in the early to mid-90s. Great memories

[@domagojtatalovic1393]

Me too!!! ❤

[@BobMinelli]

Anyone who was "there in 1982"...felt the magic. ✨📺

[@gregsmith7949]

The Real World not only was the beginning of the end of MTV, it also killed cable in general because "reality" TV was cheap to make and proved popular, so many cable channels began churning out reality TV programs.

[@bobbellendovich6825]

YO! MTV Raps was the beginning of the End. That culture is still destroying USA.

[@terrorists-are-among-us]

They're not union productions either. No real production value just narcissists and people willing to hold a camera.

[@clydekimsey7503]

😢

[@ajh6354]

Good video. Graduated in 1979. Lived MTV from the beginning. The reality shows ruined it for me.

[@ImJustKaren_]

Dancing around my bedroom to 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' on my black and white tv with my friends on a Friday night was top tier teenage bliss. Would love to experience that feeling again. R.I.P. MTV ( 120 Minutes was was my go to in my early 20's! )

[@edwardsanchez3708]

That is still an awesome song though and amazing video

[@thestrangelet]

Loved the weekends with headbangers ball and 120 minutes. Used to record them and make music video mix tapes

[@Mjones22276]

Like to..have some fun with you Karen

[@jasoncecala757]

I think it's awesome that you made a video on this. Most of us that are 35 and older remember how we used to digest music. For me it was staying up on Saturday to watch Headbanger's Ball. That show is the reason why I still listen to Metal. I don't miss playing videos 3 times an hour though. "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam comes to mind. 😂

[@billblake9665]

When they first started, they had 240 videos........most were around 3 minutes long. Half of them were acts I never heard of....but it was still the coolest thing ever.

[@Guise73]

I remember watching the ZZ Top video "Sharp Dressed Man" & remarking to my Dad that they are horrible dancers. Haha! He replied, "They're musicians not dancers." I was twelve & that stuck with me. I want my Mtv! Those were the good days. ✌️😎

[@WhatsCookingTime]

My dad loves ZZ top as well and he thought the girls were hot in the videos . I'm like Dad when I get older I want to have a girl just like that he says good for you.

[@mapples007]

The channel started when I was one year old. I didnt get cable until I was 10 but it was a comfort blanket during adolescence and parents divorcing. Music is medicine. Thank you, MTV.

[@matthewtheking8989]

I really wish they kept Headbangers ball

[@bigpoppa5732]

120 minutes and Headbanger's Ball were the only way to see and hear bands other than POP 💩

[@billblake9665]

Awww man in 89 and 90 and 91 i would go to my buddy carols house on saturday night at midnight drunk as hell and watch the ball with her and her girlfriends........i had some major fun doing that it was always girls night except for me i was the only dude they would let hang out.....they were not lesbians. I loved it. Holy god i never had more fun in my life.

[@billblake9665]

1126 princeton street 2nd floor....carol betty 3 Barbara's 2 lisa's ......and a few more sometimes.

[@ponzo1967]

HBB was like a dream come true for a little metal maniac like myself. The more synth pop that was forced on me the more metal I craved 🤘🏻

[@HisNameIsRobertPaulson01]

Late 80's early 90's MTV was the greatest thing in my life. I would skip school to sit at home and watch MTV all day.

[@Epic_C]

Agreed. I pretty much was watching MTV, Nickelodeon, and Fox during those golden years.

[@CapStar362]

@@Epic_C ^ ^ This

[@DukesMusic84]

My mom used to know Martha Quinn they worked at the same radio station before MTV. Just a bunch of radio jocks and they became stars in their own right. The 80s were an exciting time.

[@1367dhbkhf]

She’s still going! We listen to her in Colorado!

[@DukesMusic84]

@@1367dhbkhf Very cool! I saw Marc Goodman of all people on the Woodstock 50 documentary as well.

[@terrorists-are-among-us]

I remember caring about music. Now I'm like PLEASE SPARE ME

[@Nunya442]

Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. 👍 MTV was truly the shit, once upon a time.

[@CapStar362]

I grew up to MTV, being one of the few homes in my childhood neighborhood that had Cable TV Services. My birthday, coincidentally is also just 1 day after MTV's. My younger brother and I would regularly fight over the TV Channel, Me wanting to watch MTV and Music videos, vs my brother who wanted to watch loony toons and sesame street. While at times, i would be nice and let him watch his channels, i regularly wrestled him to defeat, giving me control of the channels for the TV we had for our playroom. My father bought the Dire Straits cassette tape, and I immediately fell in love with Money for Nothing, Walk of Life and Sultans of Swing, catering more towards Money for Nothing over the other 2. Then, i saw the video, i could not have enough patience to see it again. To this day, Money For Nothing is my all time #1 video and easily my top 5 songs of all times i will never tire of. MTV itself, yeah, Viacom made some very bad choices over the years, slowly turning MTV into the conglomerate mix of reality shows and now, MTV is nothing but Ridiculousness and Teen Mom drama saga's. I remember when MTV2 was launched and the promise was made - "Restoring Music Videos 24/7, the way it was and should always be" Only years later, to be equally plagued with the same rhetoric as MTV had become, so MTVx was launched, again with the same promise, only to find one day, MTVx was simply gone! However, simultaneously, the advent of high speed internet was making its way into mainstream living and homes - and the days of downloading the same music videos i loved since childhood became the norm. Napster, LimeWire, and the inrush of all the platforms available to acquire them, or just simply watch them on what would become youtube was now here to stay.

[@Logan-ds1lf]

I was born far to late to enjoy the 80s and 90s mtv shows but I'm glad I have KZbinrs like you that can help me find new bands I never knew about or had never listened to and thought was shit over the past year or two of watching your channel you have made my love for metal much deeper then it already was I'm glad my generation gets great KZbinrs like yourself to replace the hole mtv left thank you for being with me on what still is my love of music and metal in general

[@RAWMUSICTV]

This is awesome to hear! Growing up with MTV was AMAZING but the great thing now is you have access to so much more!

[@13blackcatzzz]

The first Real World was actually pretty awesome. Little did we know the hell it would unleash.

[@ericgaskins571]

The unplugged series was amazing. All the animated shows, the birth of hip hop, then the downfall due to reality tv. Hell of a time to be a teenager. Glad i lived through it. Todays music scene blows.

[@RudolphCordon]

I dropped MTV after the osbournes. It was refreshing to see the eveyday life of a rock/metal superstar and his family, but with the lack of music on a music channel, what was the point of continuing to watch.

[@borknagar666]

The year is 1989, I am 9 years old. I wake up early before school and go down to THE tv that has cable, switch to MTV for maybe 15mins in hopes that NINs - Head Like a Hole plays before I have to leave to catch the bus. Good times.

[@scottrandal3219]

This was actually good tv back in the day great job on the documentary

[@SupaSavage24]

I still have hours and hours of Headbangers Ball on VHS. My dad would record it onto those blank tapes you could buy. As much as we miss it, there was just something special about the OG run of that show that i honestly think was just lightning in a bottle that couldn’t really be replicated. Because even when it came back in the early/mid 2000s with Jamie Jasta as the host and stuff, it was still good but it really just wasn’t the same.

[@ErnoSallinen]

Please digitize them! I would love to make my own copies :)

[@MomMom4Cubs]

Upload that shit, and please leave the commercials in.

[@ErnoSallinen]

Yes, no edits whatsoever!

[@arturoalmazan5262]

that's awesome. wish I would have recorded headbangers ball on vhs. I got rid of my VCR' s a long time ago

[@CapStar362]

I would absolutely digitize them, keep copies for yourself as well. you sir, have a goldmine of content that the best of Gen X and Boomers would absolutely love to have again.

[@JaakkoIsWatching]

My favorite MTV memory is Beavis and Butt-head watching MC Hammer - Y Can't Touch This, ending with Butt-Head saying "I can't watch this" and changing channel.

[@miket.220]

In the late 80s in college , my friends and I stayed up on Sunday night for “The Young Ones” followed by my favorite MTV sow, “120 Minutes”. All the great underground college music on video. Great times, the 80s were a great decade.

[@SunhairSpiralmind]

I was 11 when Mtv first came on the air and we all thought it was the greatest thing ever but it didn't take long to realize they were in complete control of the Pop Culture, the popular music, the clothing styles, and pretty much the entire social climate. They've pretty much helped to destroy music and the damage they've done socially is irreparable.

[@DTWave81]

I miss MTV but I love that now instead of waiting two or more hours hoping to see one of my favorite music videos, I can search on KZbin and see it instantly. Another thing that sucked back then was VCRs were not cheap so you could record your favorite music videos with them.

[@pamelamays4186]

Billie Jean's debut on MTV broke down a lot of barriers and opened up a lot of doors for a lot of artists.

[@bobetts2748]

Dude you’re not a nobody at all I love these rock documentaries they turn out really well so keep it up 👍 my recommendation would be to do a documentary on pierce the veil

[@mightycaine8254]

Awesome doc. So many great memories of wasting time watching great videos.

[@vianeyverdel3772]

I remember waking up early just to watch new videos. Miss my MTV

[@willmorton6800]

Damnit, man... So many feelings... Another great docu. Memory lane is great but it is also sad. I remember it all as I was a teen during MTV's heyday as well. I actually got goosebumps a couple times when you mentioned something that brought back memories. Like sitting in the living room with my mom (who died years ago on the 21st of this month - maybe that's why I got hit in the feels a bit) watching the latest videos - she liked all types of music so we watched Headbangers Ball together. It really was important to at least me, if not for my entire generation. MTV now is starting to produce some relatively decent TV shows that aren't reality... But are really decent shows: Landman, Lioness, Tulsa King, The Agency, Mayor of Kingstown, among others. But yeah, they've produced some really shitty shows over the years. I'm surprised you didn't mention Ren and Stimpy though. :) As always, keep up the great work. I've been subscribed for a while now I watch everything you release. I've learned a lot about things I've never known. I wish MTV could come back to what it used to be, but with KZbin, I don't think they could make a run of it. Maybe if they made a KZbin channel and started online? Any suggestions of KZbin music channels that run the latest of heavy videos? I'm always interested in hearing new stuff, but I'm sure there's a lot out there that just doesn't get through KZbin's algorithms.

[@twisted2291]

All of the realilty shows killed the channel. But the Unplugged show is what really proved that these artists where real musicans. I kind of miss it, but not really.

[@TERMINATOR101-b8j]

Man, that alice in chains unplugged performance was god tier.

[@KalanYTRock]

Instead of getting every episode of MTV, now I rush to watch your channel!

[@bondalero0074]

R.I.P. MTV! I was 9 and I was there the very first night of the launch and was my favorite channel for so many years getting my Rock n’ Roll fix with front row seats to Van Halen , Guns n’ Roses, Ratt, AC⚡️DC, Def Leppard, OZZY, Motley Crue, Whitesnake, ZZ Top, & my “Headbanger’s Ball” EVERY Saturday night! These were the days of my teenage years to adulthood and I miss those golden videos! #🎸❤️🔥🤟🏻

[@jimdellavecchia4594]

After 1996 the M in MTV stood for MISCELLANEOUS

[@dovlaBass]

Was there since 94. You know i loved it. On the other note, just few days ago i was thinking about mtv documentary. Tnx bro. I probably felt something is comming.

[@jarettrobak1982]

I really enjoyed this video. It gave me major nostalgic feels.

[@eventhorizon2264]

I was just a kid when i saw mtv for the first time this is so nostalgic, you got me in my feels man, i love this video so much

[@mikey-mike8301]

MTV dies when they stopped playing rock music!

[@yo-sefakimbey7009]

Ehh..it was more likely the reality show focus

[@takerdust]

Radio stopped playing rock around same time MTV took a dive.

[@thomascosden540]

Summers in the early ‘80’s. We kept MTV on to catch our favorite bands. Sure you had to suffer through Madonna and Dixie’s Midnight Runners but when Iron Maiden, Quiet Riot and Judas Priest came on it was worth it. I miss the’80’s.

[@vincentmomont7538]

If I was alive in the 80s, I’d 100% say “I want my MTV” but since I’m born in this day of age, I say “I want my RAWMUSICTV”

[@nargarothcx]

I was waiting for this one! Thanks a lot, it was mad for us in France when we finally had access to mtv back in the day, love your channel 🤘🏻

[@1367dhbkhf]

In junior high my bestie and I would wake up at 3am sometimes to dance to music videos on MTV. Great memories! Thank you MTV! ❤

[@michaelrochester48]

I was not a fan of Air Supply when I was 12 in 1981 but how can you not have heard of them? They were everywhere on the radio.

[@Gen_X_Rosey]

This resonated with me so much! I became a teenager in 1989 and basically grew up on MTV since the early 80s. The first time I turned it to the channel and saw no videos on there, I was gobsmacked! Thank you for this documentary! It RULES!!!

[@miguelcadete2495]

I missed MTV when it just played just music.

[@Yourmomgoestocolledge]

Ya don't say

[@KevinWM2]

Nirvana didn't just run through their classic catalog and then play "Man Who Sold The World." They played quite a few covers which they almost never did at regular gigs. Very great video. I appreciate someone taking the time to make it. The whole reason we bought cable when I was a kid was originally because we HAD to have MTV. Too bad there's nothing like it now.

[@billysmithdrums]

I love your creative documentaries. Whether I'm learning something for the first time or learning a whole new band, helps me get through the tough days, keep killing it!

[@stmark4181]

I'm PROUD to be GENERATION-X and witnessed the GLORY days of MTV in the 1990s.

[@rich52569]

It was 1983 when I first got cable and MTV. I was in 8th grade. It really was a look into the outside world and what could be. Watching the videos back then, just made you feel closer to the music than tape or records alone and it somehow made me feel cooler too, like I knew the artists. I watched it all the time until I graduated in '88. I went into the Marines and I couldn't get into "grunge" or alternative music when I got out. The 80's will always be a special time for me. Thanks for the video.

[@worshipthenephilim]

Really enjoyed this video thank you! I LoVeD MTV in my teens/twenties, in the UK for those of us with cable I think we first got it in the mid-80s but it was the 90s when it took off for me with MTV Europe. Shows like Vanessa Warwick's version of Headbanger's Ball and Paul King's 120 minutes just played the coolest music around (even some of my mates' bands!) and introduced me to so much new stuff too. RIP MTV, you had your day and it was, as Wayne would say, Truly Excellent.

[@lukeatstudio]

Looking forward to see more docs from you!

[@grillbastardsworld269]

Really great documentary! I am subscribing, and cannot wait to see more! Really great research and you did your homework!

[@aisforapple2494]

Just in case no one noticed, Sting sings the chorus on 'Money For Nothing' because the melody line is identical to the chorus of 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' by The Police.

[@RAWMUSICTV]

🤘🏻

[@jamesbelljr7987]

The MTV VJays and Pop Up Video told us that many years ago...but thanks 👍🏿

[@aisforapple2494]

@jamesbelljr7987 It was mostly for the kids (under 30).

[@amykins1161]

Someone else commented about having hours of headbangers ball on vhs - same. My dad would just pop in blank vhs tapes and just record hours and hours of mtv. Running joke was always that I was a metalhead from the beginning since my dad used to give me my middle of the night bottles to headbangers ball. So many memories before it all went to hell, and every word you said at the end about why you made this channel are the exact reasons why you have a subscriber in me! Another awesome video! 🤘

[@guyinapandasuit2691]

Funny enough, I ended up forst seeing Thriller at like, 2 in the morning. I remember staying up super late and switching to MTV. Late 90's? No later than '02. But Thriller came on and i thought i was watching a movie or something. I had never seen a video like that and i was genuinely captivated. But i was never a big MJ fan. But i do love that song haha. Also crazy to mento think Headbangers Ball is so old. I thought it was some new thing on MTV2 back when i was in highschool haha. Im happy for it though because it influenced what i listen to still to this day. Excellent content. I just found this channel and am so excited to binge all the videos.

[@41illusion]

RIP Headbanger's Ball ❤

[@born2bleedclothing201]

Great documentary dude! Loved watching Beavis & Butthead and Headbangers Ball growing up in the early 90s!.... Introduced me to some of the best music ever! 🤘

[@RAWMUSICTV]

Thanks brother! My favourite show of all time Beavis & Butthead!

[@JH-ks9oi]

Fukn A! I still remember seeing that huge tornado, then the moon man, I was hooked and I was just 7yrs old!!

[@JohnQPublic345]

1982 chicago- we got cable. MTV and HBO were the only channeles us kids watched. other than that, we played Atari 2600 on our ONE 19" TV

[@OceanPatriot777]

HBO-another once-great channel

[@yvettevitacaponigro]

Thank you for the rewind, lot of memories, always had MTV on in the background! I loved Unplugged! 🤘🏻✌🏼😊

[@ventiankraus777]

I remember being enamored with Aeon Flux but even then, the descent had already started. The 90s were a confusing time, but we had a lot of fun. Mtv definitely played a part in both.

[@Thegrungegeek]

Please please please do a Ministry documentary!

Once MTV cancelled all rockcentric programming in 1997 it died.

[@dancingdingo]

I grew up in the countryside and didn't have cable but when we went to grandma's house in the nearby town I'd be glued to MTV.

[@billblake9665]

My grandmom's beach house on the water in ocean city maryland had it from the start i watched it all damn night. Not at home in philly till 1985

[@michaelrochester48]

Having watched MTV from the beginning, you did not mention a couple of things that spelt the end of the network. The first was the game show remote control, which I loved and had touched a little bit on music, but it was more about pop culture. Then they started doing things that were more about fashion like house of style with Cindy Crawford, but the real death nail can always be pointed to the launch of the reality series the real world around 1992. That show became so huge. It started to overshadowed the music part of the station. The real world was the first reality show that young people really really got into.

[@MrMackmonster]

Thank u for all those great moments MTV 😢😢😢

[@Velkynmage]

Still waiting on a episode on Morbid Angel, love the content keep it up.

[@pamelamays4186]

It's so ironic that MTV, which hasn't shown a music video in about three decades , still broadcasts the MTV Video Music Awards.

[@michellenash6802]

I can’t express how much I’m glad to be a Gen X’r!!! Still LOVE our music!

[@jesusdelarosa1204]

Your docs are getting better and better... I watched MTV until 2005 I think...not worth it

[@bennetfox]

I remember those days in the mid '80s when MTV was still good! My cousin and I would play He-Man in the living room while MTV was on in the background! We would stop and watch when videos came up that we liked.

[@selenemarie1078]

In 1996, I was 16 years old and had two goals. The first was auditioning for the Real World when I turned 18, and the second was trying to make it to an MTV beach house spring break filming in Florida. MTV was it back then.

[@perrybarton]

6:12 Hall & Oates had their first Top Ten hit in 1975, and #1 hits in '77 and '80, so they were hardly newcomers. 😎

[@RAWMUSICTV]

"Newcomers" refering to Madonna at that particular time.

[@jniles]

Love your video! You go into great depth about just exactly how deeply embedded into the culture MTV became, and how the very thing it helped to create also ended up being its downfall. Would love to see a follow up perhaps where you go into deeper detail from the mid-late 90s, on. It's hard to talk MTV and not talk about TRL and the impact it had, both culturally and in the world of Hollywood and celebrities. TRL itself wasn't just a live show, it was another very early form of reality TV. Or how the internet, along with reality TV, rang the death knells of the network. Artists could reach far more people on the internet by posting/debuting their videos on sites like MySpace, Facebook, and later on, KZbin, for free. So they no longer needed MTV. Their demographic was aging out, people were migrating to the internet, and MTV simply lost touch with its audiences. They produce some great documentaries (Casa Bonita Mi Amore is phenomenal) and would love to see them produce even more docs. They would certainly have absolutely no shortage of topics or people or cultural events to discuss.

[@xlnyc77]

well the first season of the reality show "REAL WORLD" was ok because they had roommates from opposite ends of the spectrum living together, but once the seasons went to "its all beautiful people in a house" THAT was the beginning of the end.

[@rebd00mer93]

Im SO greatful i got to be part of the MTV era when it was still a music channel. I used to RUSH home from school to try and catch Blink 182 or Limp Bizkit on TRL

[@JinxMarie1985]

I'm Canadian so we had Much Music. It was almost the equivalent except some shows and they played more of Canadian bands. But it also turned into complete hot trash. Now it's a bunch of reality shows and other stupid crap that I don't watch at all. There are a bunch of different channels from MM now and they have split them up into different music categories and it's just more money of course. Great video very well done. I miss it too and still it's just never going to be the same.

[@doomedhuh]

no mention of 120 Minutes or Alternative Nation

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

I would love to see a rebirth of the MTV and interviews with artists and genres that are totally strange and ones there from the beginning. Perhaps there is room for a new iteration on an old theme.

[@fati7191]

This was amazing an kind of nostalic. I loved it 🤟

[@fati7191]

p.s.: my guilty Pleasure is Rock of Love 💘

[@RAWMUSICTV]

​@@fati7191 👀

[@jpmnky]

Fun personal fact. I was born on the morning MTV launched, August 1, 1981.

[@ZanePrice-hd5gj]

Awesome mini documentary. Thank you.

[@markthern]

BEST single video on the birth, growth, and death of MTV

[@KingSidJames]

The holy trinity of music: My dads car tape player, Top of the Pops and then MTV.

[@brenthays6539]

I was in 8th grade when we got MTV on our cable package (must have been late 82). I remember the day distinctly because the channel that ended being used for MTV had been used for our CBS affiliate, and my dad, a WW2 vet, religiously watched Cronkite at 5 pm. He had fallen asleep in his chair waiting for the news to come on, and while he was out, the cable provider switched it to MTV. I came out for dinner and saw The Rolling Stones, then Joan Jett, then one of the VJs. Dad woke up and asked why I changed the channel. I told him it was on when I came out. It didn’t take long to figure out what happened. But I credit my dad with introducing me to MTV.

[@TammyStovall-z1g]

I miss The 80z Heavy Mental❤ Thank u man❤

[@ronnieparker4311]

The mtv concerts were great and mtv rockumentry’s were awesome too! I was the 80’s mtv after school watcher all through that decade and into 90 /91/92! The kiss of the beginning of death was the real world in 92 for mtv ! They just didn’t realize it until years later and all the crap afterwards that was non musical! If mtv was still playing videos and bands and artist I liked ! I would watch them! I have found for myself! I still watch so much concerts and band and artist documentaries on KZbin! I really enjoy it! ⚡️space ace ron⚡️

[@allemander]

Never heard of Air Supply?!?! Seriously? That’s kinda shocking.

[@ivancamacho9581]

I'm 41 years old, born in Mexico in 83 and I wish I was at least a teen by that age but as a kid, I loved MTV, Headbangers Ball, Beavi,s, and Butt-Head, and grew as a teen with Jackass. I really miss my MTV. Great documentary man, I will definitely subscribe!

[@jpmnky]

You remember The State? I’m 43 and my brother is 41. So we grew up seeing the shows you did.

[@dennistyler9852]

American Bandstand, The Midnight Special and the David Letterman Show was where you watched new performances of musicians. It wasn’t 24 hours a day though. Nice informative video.

[@OrangeCounty-zq1qs]

MTV would play the Thriller video every day around 3:00 pm. Everyone would gather in the dorm lounge to watch it every day. It was a great way to meet girls. Trust me there were no girls around when Headbangers Ball was on

[@GoodGuyChucky-666]

I would love to go back to a time when MTV was a powerhouse in music and on the strength of one hit song, an album can sell in the tens of millions around the world like Metallica's black album because of enter sandman, nevermind because of smells like teen spirit, jagged little pill because of ironic, Britney Spears first 2 albums because of the title track and hybrid theory because of in the end etc, better times simpler times back then, it's sad that now MTV is longer about the music, showing shit shows about teenage pregnancies, shows like keeping up with the Kardashians or show about disgustingly spoilt rich kids and their lavish 16th party

[@allthegoodnamesareinuse]

Great stuff man, I think you nailed it succinctly. The cultural influence of MTV (and its distinct lack now) is easily felt and measured. It drove what wound up being popular youth culture for 20+ years. And now things have been kind of lost and stagnant for a long time with regard to that kind of thing for quite a while. What's missing? MTV.

[@edwardsanchez3708]

I loved how every video was like its own little movie. It was always fun and amazing to watch our favorite artists an mtv always set a great vibe

[@gabbdrg]

Thank you for all your videos! I enjoy all the history and I've learned a lot about certain bands that have made me take another listen to their music and check them out again. This is a spot on video and great summary of the death of MTV. I'm surprised you didn't mention 120 Minutes, Matt Pinfield is a walking library of music knowledge and they played videos that where not the main stream Grunge and Alternative at the time. The shit reality T.V. shows not only killed MTV, but most of the T.V. landscape. I hate that shit when it came out and I consider it a main reason why our society as whole are dumbed down to the reality of "Idocracy". Thanks again for all you do on the channel and looking forward to more videos!

[@gabo3k3k]

Electronica and trip hop were big on MTV when I got cable living overseas during the late 90s, I never knew the original MTV but the regional Argentinian MTV branch aired some of the shows plus local production, and there were great local competitors on cable, some of those networks outlived MTV with music videos airing also local artists and no reality trash.

[@ImposterMalone]

Watching this feels like all my teenage metalhead friends condensed into one person giving me a catch-up