Sooooo...I'm watching MTV for the first time in a year....

[Khephra]

And I've never felt older...

Gods, such bland music!

[russian33]

1. oh, you mean there's actual music?

lately every time i turn it on there's some kind of show....

[ironflange]

13. Music?

The last time MTV played a video was somewhere around 1997.

[ALago1]

Not surprising

I don't think MTV has ever pushed the envelope of music standards. It's just a visual and audio medium to sell records and deem stuff "cool" for the younguns like myself...

[Khephra]

5. They did in the early years

I think, for some of us, re-visiting MTV is like going to the Rest Home. There was a time when I only could learn about new bands through MTV (120 Minutes and Headbangers Ball especially) as Indianapolis has a sucky radio line-up. Devo, Bauhaus, Ministry...the list goes on and on.

Now it's just bland--and I mean seriously bland--rap and love songs. BLAH!

[Delano]

2. Since when do they show music on MTV?

Last I looked it was all ugly whores and pimps with metal teeth throwing money around. MTV is the biggest pile of crap, it amazes me anyone watches anymore.

Even VH1 barely shows any music. It's always "I love the 80's" or something. But at least they don't have as much of the disgusting poser-gangsters and their flea-bitten ho's.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

3. yes indeed.

it is not that you are older it is that the music is more and more cookie cutter-esque. the same reason we have movies made from scoobie doo. you don't have to introduce a new product. people are already familiar with it. money money money!

[On the Road]

4. I am So Frustrated by Popular Music These Days

It's all crooning or rap or hard rock. The crooning is nowhere near as good as the Sinatra era. Rap is almost 25 years old (!) and is good only when they combine it with music. The hard rock is not always bad, but there's just nothing new there.

There are only a few bands on the radio that are worth listening to: Blues Traveller (best harmonica I've ever heard), Bare Naked Ladies, and um, um.... My 14-year-old daughter listens to hard rock -- System of a Down, Offspring, Green Day, Hoobestank, etc. They're not all bad -- System of a Down has a particularly dark atmospheric sound -- but there are just no luminaries like when I was a teenager. In 20 years, nobody will remember any of these songs.

[madrchsod]

6. never turn it on again

the programming on mtv networks is appalling. the writers and developers of these shows are one step above maury`s and jerry`s merry crew...just plain awful.

[dedhed]

7. Anyone remember "120 Minutes?"

I think that was the last time I actually watched anything on MTV. I used to love staying up into the wee hours of Monday morning watching all the really cool alt-rock videos.

Good lord... I'm an old man!

:bounce:

[Khephra]

8. 120 minutes was on MTV2 up until a few months ago

So don't feel too old. That was THE show for finding new bands to listen to! I'd say that half my music library is filled with bands I learned about on 120.

[Khephra]

9. Gods, where is the Rap with meaning?

Rap has been co-opted.

[dedhed]

11. MTV2? No wonder I haven't seen "120 Minutes" recently

I gave up on MTV so long ago, that I couldn't even bother myself with MTV2.

Last time I watched "120 Minutes," they had the world premiere of the Cure's video for "Kite." That was 1992.

The Cure have a new album coming out soon, by the way. The latest result of an outstanding, 20+ year career!

:bounce:

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. I have around 12 or 13 VHS tapes full of 120 Minutes

from 87 through about 96 or 97.

Some of that time I didn't have cable, so I'd only get home to my mom's place to viddy when I had a vacation weekend or something. But I've got all the classics. They're the first thing I'm grabbing of my place catches fire.

I want to get them put on DVD so they'll last longer. I hate just about everything that's out now. The only way I hear GOOD new stuff now (ie: folkie, adult-alternative flavored stuff: John Hiatt, Dar Williams, Lloyd Cole, etc) is to buy Starbucks' compilation CDs, listen to KFOG from San Francisco, or tune into spinner.com.

[jdsmith]

10. I saw the Modest Mouse video there just this morning

It got me to stop flipping channels for an entire song. It was pretty cute in a retro way. I think I'd get sick of it in a week, but it was okay for now.

Then the announcer guy (I will not call anyone a Vee Jay who is not as cute as Martha Quinn) said something about a "rap artist" so I turned the channel and went back to CNN. Not that I have anything against rap, but I prefer that it be performed by rappers, not "rap artists."

[Khephra]

12. Martha Quinn

:loveya:

[Khephra]

15. FINALLY! A GOOD SONG!

The New Beasties Boys!