Layla, written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon has survived over 40 years (
wiki), and matured nicely.
For your listening pleasure "Layla" -
1970 Derek and the Dominoes,
1992 MTV Unplugged,
2011 Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis.
posted by HuronBob
on Aug 15, 2012 -
79 comments
"Usavich" (Season One video) is a series of 90-second CGI cartoons made for MTV Japan about two Russian rabbits. It begins in a Soviet-era prison where Kirenenko*, a mob boss sentenced to death is sharing a cell with Putin (yes, that's his name), a common worker imprisoned on a trumped-up charge and counting the days until his release. And then it gets weird.
(contains extreme cartoon violence, scatological gags, Russian stereotypes, transvestite chickens and shoe fetishes) [more inside]
posted by oneswellfoop
on May 28, 2012 -
10 comments
Russell Mulcahy is best known for directing
Highlander (as well as its...
less-popular...sequel) and is currently doing a
Teen Wolf series for MTV. But speaking of MTV, he got his start doing music videos. A
lot of music videos. In fact, if you remember a video from the early days of MTV, it's probably one of Mulcahy's.
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posted by Legomancer
on May 14, 2012 -
33 comments
When we did "Beat It," Michael came in the van with us to scout locations. I remember saying, "I'm hungry, let's stop for a pizza." Michael said, "Oh good, I've never had a pizza." This is a 25-year-old man who'd never had pizza. Now he wasn't accessible like that. He was a superstar, but then he became a deity.
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
is a hugely readable and fun new oral history of the first decade of MTV. Veteran music writers Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum interviewed many of the era's major players, putting a microscope on the biggest, weirdest, and most memorable videos of the time, and [Pitchfork is] thrilled to present the following excerpt.
posted by obscurator
on Oct 27, 2011 -
28 comments
Someone claiming to be an attorney is attempting to scrub the Internet of
"private, obscene, lewd and pornographic photographs" of Colton Haynes, the star of MTV's new series
Teen Wolf. Turns out, however, that the photos are neither private, nor obscene, nor porographic: they were part of a playful photo-spread published by
XY Magazine in March of 2006. Or as Queerty so elegantly puts it, "
XY Boytoy All Grown Up & Having Legal Regrets Now That He's On MTV." Markedly different, they point out, than when
Real World star Dustin Zito tried to
scrub out his gay porn past.
posted by hermitosis
on Sep 7, 2011 -
35 comments
Two and a half years ago, we explored
the early history of Cartoon Network... but it wasn't the only player in the youth television game.
As a matter of fact,
Fred Seibert -- the man responsible for the most inventive projects discussed in that post -- first stretched his creative legs at the network's
truly venerable forerunner:
Nickelodeon.
Founded as Pinwheel, a six-hour block on Warner Cable's innovative
QUBE system, this humble channel struggled for years before Seibert's innovative branding work transformed it into a national icon and capstone of a media empire.
Much has changed since then, from the mascots and game shows to
the versatile orange "splat." But starting tonight in response to popular demand, the network is
looking back with
a summer programming block dedicated to the greatest hits of the 1990s, including
Hey Arnold!, Rocko's Modern Life, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Double Dare, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Legends of the Hidden Temple, and
All That.
To celebrate, look inside for the complete story of the early days of the network that incensed the religious right, brought doo-wop to television, and slimed a million fans -- the golden age of Nickelodeon.
(warning: monster post inside) [more inside]
posted by Rhaomi
on Jul 25, 2011 -
116 comments
The incredibly influential and loved music show
120 Minutes returns, with Matt Pinfield returning as host. The MTV2 premiere happens later this year, while the web version
120 Seconds debuts today.
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posted by naju
on Mar 18, 2011 -
63 comments
MTV's
Jersey Shore, a
Real World-style reality program centered around eight young Italian-Americans living together in a beach house, is garnering charges of
racism following their use of the allegedly pejorative terms
guido and the feminine counterpart
guidette in advertisements. But what exactly
is a guido?
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posted by joechip
on Jan 3, 2010 -
232 comments
120 Minutes is a tumblr page put together by a fan of the long running MTV alt-rock show, with links to dozens (at least) of videos from the show's heyday. There's no search nor sort that I could find, but the site makes for fun browsing for fans of that particular musical era.
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posted by jonson
on Sep 7, 2007 -
17 comments
In the Fall of 1991, MTV's 120 Minutes released two compilations (Amazon:
one,
two) of songs from the show. (Youtube:
one,
two)
posted by nervousfritz
on Jun 18, 2007 -
45 comments
