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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2494192" data-attributes="member: 151">Yeah, I remember when MTv was good.I remember ALTv. I remember when "Thriller" was an event. I remember when VJs actually were worth listening to. I remember when MTv was about MUSIC, and not lifestyles. I remember when MTv was RELEVANT.MTv used to be THE place to go to for news about musicians, interviews, the latest music and videos. Oh sure, they didn't cover lots of lesser known acts...but they made lots of acts much bigger than they might otherwise have been, due to exposure. Want to know why so many UK artists hit it big in the early 80s? Because the UK had already been doing videos for a long time, thanks to shows like Top of the Pops. I mean, do you really think Juice Newton would have gotten as much as exposure as she did without the power of videos? Duran Duran was widely (and IMHO unfairly) criticized for being popular purely on the strength of the videos from the Rio album, and less on the album itself.I remember shows like 120 Minutes and Headbangers Ball and YO! MTv Raps...when actual enthusiasts for those kinds of music actually got heard and there was some diversity of the material on the channel.  One didn't hear the Pixies or Sonic Youth or Bauhaus or dozens of other groups in regular rotation...but they did get played.Anyone who caught MTv's "coverage" of Live8 should be able to tell that they've lost any connection with their audience and their goal.  Why bother covering the concerts if you're going to talk over the acts?  I listened to it over XM's 8 channel broadcast...and when we went in a restaurant to get dinner, I was appalled at their slapdash coverage of it.  It didn't matter if it was the Kaiser Chiefs, Green Day or Pink Floyd...they botched it all.These days, MTv's role has been usurped by <a href="http://www.fuse.tv/" target="_blank">Fuse TV</a>.</blockquote>

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