# Looking for an 80's MTV with lots of special effects **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 11, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-80s-mtv-with-lots-of-special-effects/640673 "2012-11-11T13:19:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-80s-mtv-with-lots-of-special-effects/640673/21 "2012-11-12T07:47:01Z")
> [@AWB](#): > > MTV used to play music? Way back in the 80s, before most of their current “stars” were even born. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-80s-mtv-with-lots-of-special-effects/640673/22 "2012-11-12T07:54:21Z")
I’ve never seen anyone refer to a music video as an MTV before. I hope it doesn’t catch on. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-80s-mtv-with-lots-of-special-effects/640673/23 "2012-11-12T08:17:08Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > I’ve never seen anyone refer to a music video as an MTV before. I hope it doesn’t catch on. I know–it’s so odd! It’s like saying “I’m looking for the Barnes & Noble about the boy wizard.” ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-80s-mtv-with-lots-of-special-effects/640673/24 "2012-11-12T09:24:59Z")
Oh maybe they’re supposed to be called MVs. I wasn’t paying attention. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-80s-mtv-with-lots-of-special-effects/640673/25 "2012-11-12T11:50:13Z")
Peter Gabriel’s [“Sledgehammer”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg) was a _really_ big deal in 1986… ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-80s-mtv-with-lots-of-special-effects/640673/26 "2012-11-12T11:55:43Z")
Side question: Is it common usage to refer to a music video appearing on MTV as “an MTV”? ---
**Author:** ![Coustralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Coustralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coustralee)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-80s-mtv-with-lots-of-special-effects/640673/27 "2012-11-12T12:14:09Z")
no idea… makes me think of setting sun by the chemical brothers ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-80s-mtv-with-lots-of-special-effects/640673/28 "2012-11-12T12:55:50Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Wow! That most definitely is NOT the goofy analog videotape effect I was thinking of! That effect was just delaying & duplicating frames usually of someone running. Sort of like Windows mouse trails effect. Except it’s NOT. If you look closely, many of the dancers are not QUITE the same (though they are made up to look that way, and all have similar body types), and they jump from effect to analog many times. Still a very good video, with some of the cleanest editing I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-80s-mtv-with-lots-of-special-effects/640673/29 "2012-11-13T03:14:28Z")
I remember when [this Mick Jagger video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKcTGDBJUt8) came out in 1985. It was said at the time that it took like an hour run on a Cray supercomputer to render all the graphics and cost a couple hundred grand (in 1985!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-80s-mtv-with-lots-of-special-effects/640673.md?page=1)