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We don't have cable right now but I'm wondering if MTV and VH1 are getting any kind of large viewership these days? It's so easy to turn on Youtube and dial in your favorite music videos. Are any of you watching VH1/MTV?

fisherman bob wrote:We don't have cable right now but I'm wondering if MTV and VH1 are getting any kind of large viewership these days? It's so easy to turn on Youtube and dial in your favorite music videos. Are any of you watching VH1/MTV?

I Stopped watching MTV in 1989 when they stopped airing Adam Ant, the Police, and started shoving more commercials in between the commercials.

Music videos in general have been largely meaningless tripe. The vast majority seem amateurish at best. Do they even show music videos on MTV or VH1 I wonder? What happened with the "V-Jay,", the music video Deejay? I remember the first few V-Jays, Martha Quinn & JJ Johnson. Everybody thought they were so cool. Madonna & Michael Jackson were the first music video superstars I guess.
I wonder what the next big thing in music will be. I hope it's vinyl and cool album covers, a retro trend that needs to happen IMO, just in time for the Bluefin Review's sensational debut CD, 30 years in the making....

fisherman bob wrote:Music videos in general have been largely meaningless tripe. The vast majority seem amateurish at best. Do they even show music videos on MTV or VH1 I wonder? What happened with the "V-Jay,", the music video Deejay? I remember the first few V-Jays, Martha Quinn & JJ Johnson. Everybody thought they were so cool. Madonna & Michael Jackson were the first music video superstars I guess.
I wonder what the next big thing in music will be. I hope it's vinyl and cool album covers, a retro trend that needs to happen IMO, just in time for the Bluefin Review's sensational debut CD, 30 years in the making....

LOL! You can say that you guys were ready 30 year ago and was just waiting for the vinyl industry to come to its senses

We really weren't ready 30 years ago, but now it's long overdue for me. I could make a living in a pro studio as a bass player or blues singer now. That's bass in almost any genre. Just send me my assignment and I'll be ready.

VH-1 has some good comedy shows like
Tosh.

I watch some of the behind the music shows on VH1, I love the ones about recording big albums, just last night Pink Floyd was on with Wish You Were Here. I watch That Metal Show. Plus concert shows. Last week the Rush documentary was on, if you havent seen it, its one of the best of a rock band Ive ever seen, kinda wierd not having everyone in drug or booze rehab, like most bands, its just totally about the music.

I cant remember when Ive watched MTV, it should be called Booty TV from the last time or two I turned it on.

There are more 'reality show' type things than music on them now.

jw123 wrote:I watch some of the behind the music shows on VH1, I love the ones about recording big albums, just last night Pink Floyd was on with Wish You Were Here.

indeed. i'm a big fan of those Behind The Music documentaries where the artists break down the nuts and bolts of a particular album.

my two faves have to be Steely Dan's "AJA" and THE BAND's self titled 2nd album.

i believe most of those episodes are up on youtube.

if you're a fan of The Band and haven't seen it yet...it's great stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIDpG5hozto

Planetguy wrote: my two faves have to be Steely Dan's "AJA" and THE BAND's self titled 2nd album.

i believe most of those episodes are up on youtube.

if you're a fan of The Band and haven't seen it yet...it's great stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIDpG5hozto

The Aja doc. was awesome. Great insight to a great album. They literally had complete bands come in and audition for individual songs. And they saved all the different tracks recorded during those sessions.

My kids don't even watch MTV or VH1 and I can't remember the last time I was on there. I don't even watch TV, I'm on the 'puter.

Chaeya

MTV and VH1 haven't been relevant in 20 years.

The best videos are made by fans for songs that never had a video. Check out this tribute to Dan Fogelberg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEL_qqXGjHU

I agree, You Tube has some great videos, and it's amazing what you can do with home videos now.

Chaeya

jw123 wrote:I watch some of the behind the music shows on VH1, I love the ones about recording big albums, just last night Pink Floyd was on with Wish You Were Here. I watch That Metal Show. Plus concert shows. Last week the Rush documentary was on, if you havent seen it, its one of the best of a rock band Ive ever seen, kinda wierd not having everyone in drug or booze rehab, like most bands, its just totally about the music.

I cant remember when Ive watched MTV, it should be called Booty TV from the last time or two I turned it on.

I got that documentary when it came out on DVD. It's pretty amazing and covers most of their career, especially the early years. I would have liked to see more on their 1982-1989 era, but I guess they had to keep it tight with cramming everything into a couple of hours.

MTV does show videos betwen 4-6AM I believe, but it's pretty much the worst tripe of all time. Mostly the new country-pop, and hip hop or whatever they call it today, and the videos for both genres are all the same, especially hiphop videos- It's either a house party with half naked chicks with big azzes, or a party in the parking lot of a 7-11 with half naked chicks with big azzes, or in a mansion... so lame. Country vids are always in a field, a bar where everything is made of wood, or some kind of warehouse. Chicks with azz kickin boots are everywhere..

What ever happened to videos where the actual video tells a visual story of what the song is about? Maybe that's the depth of those two genres...

Even the new modern rock bands I like have unappealing videos.. I think that the music video probably peaked around 1987. small pulse in 93-94 I guess, then flatline.

+1 for TOSH