MetaFilter posts tagged with mtv and video

Videos set to music

ColdChef — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:25:51 -0800

MTVMusic Music to your eyes.

MTV when it was AWESOME

Lord_Pall — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:55:56 -0800

Those of us who were born in the 1970's have a number of indelibly permanent shared experiences. Relive a few of them with 3 hours of MTV from 1983. Single Link, 2 videos, Will make you feel old.

MTV FALL 1981-2

wittgenstein — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:46:03 -0800

It's Friday afternoon. 1981 - 1982ish. I just got home from high school and I want some MTV. Back then, MTV played these things called "music videos". But they didn't have a large catalog of them yet, so they tended to play everything they had. You really got to see some lesser known classics. For Example: Jan Hammer/Neal Schon Lies. The Hitmen Bates Motel. Utopia Feet Don't Fail Me Now. Landscape My Name is Norman Bates. Chilliwack My Girl. Ultravox Vienna. Snakefinger Man in the Dark Sedan. I know, I know. Another You Tube post. Slichah.

Augenblick Augenblick Augenblick

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:37:01 -0800

Augenblick Studios provide many strange and offensive animated cartoon video films including Superjail. You may be familiar with their work!!! [flash, mayhap quicktime]

Vanilla Ice hates himself.

Afroblanco — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:27:52 -0800

In 1999, MTV aired 25 Lame, a show where retired 25 of their worst and most overplayed videos. Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice) showed up to help them retire the video for "Ice Ice Baby." The result - violence, hilarity, and broken mannequins (video, 30-second ad shows before video). Apparently unplanned, nobody knows for sure if this outburst was the product of genuine anger, or if he was just playing around. An unedited version (YouTube, lower quality) leads me to think that it was the former.

Music TV

caddis — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:18:53 -0800

I want my MTV. MTV is now mostly reality, titillation TV, rarely showing music videos anymore. YouTube fills the void somewhat, but sometimes you want to just sit back and let someone else take care of the programming. MusicPlusTV is sort of like the old MTV, but they stream to your computer instead of to your TV.

I want my emptyvee

blucevalo — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:41:49 -0800

MTV turns 25 today. Music Television, otherwise known as MTV, was launched with its first broadcast on 1 August 1981, 25 years ago today. Famously, the first video broadcast was the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star." Ironically, MTV evidently isn't going to acknowledge its anniversary on-air in any way, with a spokeswoman saying that "We made the decision when MTV was founded to always stay young and evolve with our audience. To do that, it has been important to serve our audience at that moment, not our audience of yesterday." This is about par for the course, though, since when was the last time that MTV actually broadcast music videos? A broader question: does anybody who wasn't weaned on MTV (or anybody who was, for that matter) care anymore?

Oh you're absolutely fine ...

Peter H — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:29:23 -0800

I LOVE YOU I WANNA LOVE YOU TENDER . You could be my only sweet surrender. I would never bring you any kind of sorrow. (38 Mb QT)

Everybody Sues in Hollywood

archimago — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:14:52 -0800

Madonna's being sued for stealing images from Guy Boudin's photography and using them in her Hollywood video. Here are side by sides. When does imitation/homage become theft? And who gets to decide? Should she have been sued for using this image in her vogue video?

davehat — Tue, 22 Jan 2002 06:58:18 -0800

The new Chemical Brothers video by Michel Gondry is absolutely brilliant. At first sight, it appears to be a 4 minute clip of a train ride. On closer inspection though, you might notice the objects flying past are far from random.....
Sorry dial up MeFites, you'll almost certainly need a fast connection to see why this video is so amazing.

SilentSalamander — Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:27:37 -0800

Fatboy Slim and the Master of Badass team up to produce one of the phattest music videos I've seen in a long time. I didn't know Christopher Walken was trained as a dancer! (RealPlayer; also possibly dated)