# Recreating MTV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2009, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreating-mtv/481575 "2009-01-16T07:50:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreating-mtv/481575/21 "2009-01-17T06:03:47Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads. (I’m [not] sure if they played this on the first day.) [/QUOTE] > [@Koxinga](#): > > I remember watching that one on SCTV, before my house got MTV. Not sure if it actually predated MTV itself, though. I think it did. “Once in a Lifetime” is off their “Remain in Light” album and that came out in 1980 which is a year before MTV debuted. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreating-mtv/481575/22 "2009-01-17T06:12:18Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > I think it did. “Once in a Lifetime” is off their “Remain in Light” album and that came out in 1980 which is a year before MTV debuted. I remember thinking it was the weirdest thing – like a short movie about a song! It was paired with a video by some strange Japanese band with bendy guitars. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreating-mtv/481575/23 "2009-01-17T06:19:07Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I remember thinking it was the weirdest thing – like a short movie about a song! It was paired with a video by some strange Japanese band with bendy guitars. . . . . whiiich was [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sihmQWFKxpY). Gads, I just think of something, google it, go on Youtube and it’s there. Living in the future’s a freakout some times, you know? ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreating-mtv/481575/24 "2009-01-17T06:22:55Z")
What about "Feet Don’t Fail Me Now?) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyeC9mSWV-w](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyeC9mSWV-w) That video is one of my earliest memories of MTV. And I used to have a huge crush on Martha Quinn and kept a picture of her in my wallet when I was a sophomore in high school (1982-83). I was taken aback when I found out she turns 50 this year… ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreating-mtv/481575/25 "2009-01-17T06:24:44Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > This sucks, I’m switching to **Night Flight**. THANK YOU, from one whose parents wouldn’t fork over the dough to get MTV. Remember the awesome opening graphics with all the neon? Sweet! ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreating-mtv/481575/26 "2009-01-17T06:26:13Z")
> [@Shawn1767](#): > > What about "Feet Don’t Fail Me Now?) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyeC9mSWV-w](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyeC9mSWV-w) > > That video is one of my earliest memories of MTV. > > And I used to have a huge crush on Martha Quinn and kept a picture of her in my wallet when I was a sophomore in high school (1982-83). I was taken aback when I found out she turns 50 this year… That is the most 80s dorkiest thing I’ve ever heard. I kept a picture of Princess Diana. :o ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreating-mtv/481575/27 "2009-01-17T10:01:14Z")
When did the **Friday Night Video Fights** or **MTV’s Top 20 Video Countdown** shows begin airing? From around 1983 to 1988, I watched both of these shows religiously. I even wrote down in a notebook the new Top 20 chart each Friday evening and shared it with my school mates next Monday morning. I think I still have that notebook somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreating-mtv/481575/28 "2009-01-17T17:51:48Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > God, that was pure awful. I’ll stick with [this TR](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB7IsMnbC88). At least it’s fun. Really? That is, without a doubt, the worst song he ever wrote. And, ironically the most popular. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreating-mtv/481575/29 "2009-01-17T18:15:33Z")
[Come on Eileen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_on_Eileen) by Dexy’s Midnight Runner and then “[99 Luft Balloons](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luft_balloons)”. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreating-mtv/481575/30 "2009-01-17T19:45:57Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > THANK YOU, from one whose parents wouldn’t fork over the dough to get MTV. Remember the awesome opening graphics with all the neon? Sweet! In the Chicago market, I remember one of the end-of-the-UHF-dial channels (60? 66?) used to show music videos all day long. I’m not sure what their story was but it’s where I saw all my videos since we didn’t cable until much later. This had to be in the early 80’s since I remember watching the “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” video on there all the time. Edit: Apparently I remember a pretty small window of time in the life of Channel 66. Per Wiki: > [@](#): > > WFBN continued this format until early 1984, when it dropped Spectrum in favor of music videos 24/7. By the fall of 1984, WFBN dropped the music videos and refilled the schedule with off-network classic sitcoms, dramas, movies, and religious shows. ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreating-mtv/481575/31 "2009-01-17T19:57:44Z")
Remember watching MTV way back when on my Dad’s small Sony Triniton and it seemed like [Berlin’s _Sex (I’m A)_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raq8maAutAE) played constantly… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreating-mtv/481575.md?page=1)