Rapper FIRST time REACTION to The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star! This was so true...
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Rapper FIRST time REACTION to The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star! This was so true...
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i came here to say this. such a big launch. before that i was staying up late on fridays to watch night flix
I am ancient enough to remember watching the launch of MTV with this song. This reaction makes me happy
..and I was watching that day and waited for it to begin! I did see the very first airing!
fact^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ thought everyone knew that... 'cept BP evidently, lol👍
When it played music..😂
This was the very first video on MTV! I was there for it, I'm so old.. it's the bug-gles. Like bug.
Same here Join the club :)
Yeah! I got to watch it!
Same
I know, I feel ancient too when I listen to it. Class of ‘85😅
I saw it when it aired too :)
MTV kicked off their very first video with this song. This song makes me think of Queen's song Radio GaGa. Absolute fantastic reaction
I’m pretty sure radio Gaga was Queen’s response to this song…
So many people do not know this fact
I remember the first day MTV started. This was indeed the first video ❤❤❤❤
The Buggles - starts with bug. No bugle, like the instrument. Just bug-gles.
This song was the beginning of my teen life. We all ran home from school, stopped what we were doing - this was a momentus event! MTV hit the air with this song! Once MTV came, we were all united in music and nothing was ever the same!
Same.
@@fayesouthall6604 3 or 4pm where I was. Like yesterday.
Kind of the same thing happened when movies went from silent films in the 20's to talkies. Some handsome leading men and beautiful leading ladies lost their careers because their voices did not match their appearance once they had to speak on film.
I was there when MTV signed on the air and played this. I wish MTV was still like this.
I so agree. They messed it all up.
Man… I remember, very well, staying up late for its showing on MTV at 12:01 a.m. on August 1st 1981. I was 11 years old and MTV became everything! It came on as soon as I got home from school.
Keep on Rocking! ☮️🎶✝️
That is my story as well. A better world in a simpler time. Just one man's opinion.
That’s a cool story ❤
I wasn’t born til 96 so I’m jealous of people who were around in the 80s
As someone who was born in the 50's, I've watched all this unfold. In my teens, my transistor radio was my constant companion and there was only one pop music programme a week on TV. Now I have 5 radios around my flat and I don't remember the last time I switched one on.
Born 82, so I've seen most of the transition "away" from radio. However, in my house, the radio plays almost daily. It used to be me listening to music, now it's my girlfriend who's discovered to wonders of music without a screen to look at.
Funny thing is, along with more and more channels on the TV + internet being born and integrated in us, I've seen countless new radio stations pop up as well, so radio is DEFINITELY not dead. When I was a teen, I could pick up...maybe 15 or so stations, now I have 60 to choose from!
Start tuning in, theres plenty to choose from 😉
I always took this as not MTV, but video itself killed radio stars. In the days of radio, it didn't matter if you were fat or ugly, what mattered was the sound of your music. Video changed all that.
Yes, exactly what the point of the song was. Say goodbye to non perfect people who have talent
Why Nixon lost to Kennedy in ‘60. If you listened to the debate, you thought Nixon won. If you watched the debate, you thought Kennedy won.
yeah-that’s absolutely what the song’s about
mtv accelerated the process, obviously, but they were just catering to their audience-we love looking at beautiful people
This happened when "talkies" hit theaters and all the glamorous silent movie stars lost their jobs because they had horrible voices.
You nailed it. Before video, talent was what mattered. With video, appearance became more important, but talent still mattered. With Autotune/pitch correction, talent no longer matters at all; it's all about appearance. In time, AI may make the appearance no longer important, either.
The first video MTV ever played. This was their one hit but is still fun. Buggles (soft u not a hard u)
You beat me to it. 😂❤
huh, I'd describe soft and hard U's the opposite of you haha
It’s true their only hit but Trevor was from Yes and they had hits.
This song was ahead of its time. It actually came out in 79. It was played on MTV in 1981
The skinny dark haired keyboard player towards the end is Hans Zimmer. Yes, the famous movie composer Hans Zimmer.
Didn't know that. Cool
GTFOH I didn't know that !
First song I heard as a kid on my dad's pick-up on vinyl in Australia .
God I am so old !
The singer is Todd Rugren.
@justtere really?
Just looked it up. His name is Trevor Horn - also plays bass
Interesting bit of info: in the scene where they (the Buggles i.e. singer / bassplayer Trevor Horn and keyboard player Geoff Downes) are wearing the silver suits there is another guy in the back on synths ... that guy is none other the one of the greatest filmscore composers of our times: Hans Zimmer. At that time he was still living and working in London and was a bit of specialist when it comes to synthesizers. He knew the guys from the Buggles and they asked him if he would be an extra in this video.
After this, The Buggles were asked to join progressive rock band Yes and they made one album together called Drama (and despite its title it is really good) and did one major tour. Then the band imploded and all went their way. Keyboardist Geoff Downes hooked up with Yes guitar player Steve Howe and formed Asia. Trevor Horn made a second Buggles album but also went into producing and arguably defined the sound of the 80s with his productions for ABC, Propaganda, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Grace Jones. He also hooked up with a reformed Yes and produced their album 90125 and that spawned their biggest hit Owner Of A Lonely Heart.
Both Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn are still active, Downes has returned to Yes as keyboard player and Horn nowadays mostly plays live with his own band doing the songs he produced over the years including of course some Buggles tunes.
He wrote the theme tune for Going For Gold a quiz on the BBC
Great info!
And that's Hans Zimmer's huge modular synth setup in the background, mostly made up of Roland System 700 modules, with a few others thrown in for good measure, plus TWO of Roland MC-8 sequencers (less than 200 ever made) - the first microprocessor-based sequencer, from 1977. Zimmer still owns this beast and still uses it. The MC-8, crude as it was, was used by several popular bands, and is responsible for the keyboard solo from Toto's Rosana - it just barely had the note capacity to hold the 20-second solo.
i'm a gen x-er and remember when mtv hit. i saw this video and got it right away. such a different time then... and i miss it.
I was in my 20s for most of the 80s. Watched all these videos/songs on MTV and the videos in the 80s were nuts. Songs were poppy and catchy and fun.
I was there watching when MTV signed on for the first time and they played this video. The good old days!
Trevor Horn the legendary music producer known as " the man who invented the Eighties". He pioneered so much exceptional music from ABC (Lexicon of Love one of the best albums ever) Frankie Goes to Hollywood ( Relax and The Power of Love, one of my favourite Christmas songs), the brilliant The Art of Noise to Belle and Sebastian. So many. btw The band name is pronounced Bug- gles ❤
And the 90s his work with Seal is outstanding
Almost everything in the 80's was produced by either Trevor Horn or Nile Rodgers
Trevor Horn (the singer here) is no slouch. He produced some of the most incredible music ever (such as ABC’s Lexicon of Love album) and he cowrote Yes’ Owner of a Lonely Heart.
He also Produced may of SEAL's Hit Songs like "Kiss From A Rose".
Frankie Goes To Hollywood Relax too.
And Art of Noise
Also produced Dollar's hits.
I'm so old that I watched this when MTV did the very first airing of this. 👵😅
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You are NOT old. Don't allow society to make you believe otherwise.
@@LibraAllWoman my mind still says I'm in my 20's. My body however ... 😂
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You and about 100 million others. What an honor.
I remember watching the launch of MTV, and hearing this song for the first time
It's a wonderful song and yes first on MTV. I watched MTV go on air live! What a moment!!! ❤❤
Me too... in fact, every time I hear this song I feel 80 years old, lol. (I'm 55)
Me too..crazy to think my mind was blown then!!!!
its still available on youtube. the first full length airing of mtv 's first hours on the air. you can watch it on youtube and hear this song play along with the original vj's
@@kelleewolfe2834 I hear you, me too and I'm 53. LOL
@@sda6691 I know right! Look how far things have come since those days! *mind blowing*!!!
MTV rocked our world when it came out in 1981. I bought this 45 in 1980 and still have it. It was the first song/video played on MTV on August 1, 1981, at 12:01 am. Very catchy, indeed.
The song it self is from the lATE 70s like Gary NEmans Cars 79 Friends Electric 78
@@theodoreritola7641 Yes, I'd read 1979 was the record release for Video Killed the Radio Star, but they were writing it a few years before. Thanks for sharing. 😊
Yes your right and welome They wrote this song in 1978
I was 13 when it came out in 1980. Exactly that - we had the radio and footage of live performances on TV then and all of a sudden the video became of paramount importance in the success of a song. As it developed it became more like a big---budget movie and the video sold the song.
20 years later and the internet became the new way.
I was watching when MTV started with this video. A record store dude had given me a sticker of MTV with release dates on it, and I was like, "What is it?" and he didn't know, he just shrugged. I was babysitting that day, and watched it kick off. I didn't turn the tv off for twelve hours because I thought it would go away. Watched it a lot all though middle school, only turning the channel to watch You Can't Do That On Television, a kids show. Otherwise, it was all MTV all the time. I still listened to the radio a lot though.
I'm happy to become a member ( 3 days ago)
I like you so respect to you, saw the video with James blunt (monsters) all our love from the uk
My adult daughter and I did a Pub Choir sing in D.C. a few months ago and during a few short hours they taught 400 people how to sing this song in 3 part harmony and videotaped us. It was an absolute blast! This "Pub Choir" group out of Australia traveled all over the U.S. taking this fun group experience to all of the major cities. I'll definitely do it again if they come again! As a baby boomer I really wasn't familiar with this song "Video Killed the Radio Star" but it was a blast to learn and sing with a group of 400 people!
i generally find hiphop folks to generally be the most rounded musically, probably due to the non stop crate digging and sample hunting. it blows my mind how many classics you’ve missed out on, but i’ve also seen you explain why. i love watching people get to experience pure joy in the form of songs for their first time.
I remember being so excited when my grandma got cable and had MTV and waiting for fav video to play.
Man, I am so happy to have been a teen at the beginning of MTV era. What a unique experience. Love this song!!
Holy crap. Holy grail of music videos
This was released in 1979 in the UK. Living In The Plastic Age is another one of theirs definitely worth a review , I think you'd love it. The Buggles were way ahead of their time and in my opinion they did not get the credit they deserved. Keep up the great work.
I always thought this referred to the "death" of music just on it's own. When videos became more popular, bands were expected to conform to whatever the studios wanted to do. Effects, vocal changes, costumes, etc. The change of costumes through the song, and way the music is modified when they are dressed in a certain way all point to this. IMO.
Love that you covered this one! This song and video were huge. Not only in terms of record sales but also from a historical point of view.
Before anything else, I should point out that the song was first released in 1979.
I'm not sure when the video was made, but the interesting detail here is that it was the very first one MTV ever aired when they launched on August 1st, 1981. Incidentally, the video was directed by Russell Mulcahy who went on to become one of the biggest music video directors of the 80s and is perhaps best known today as the director of the first "Highlander" movie.
The Buggles (note the two g's by the way, so it's not a reference to a bugle at all) was a short-lived band that perfectly fits the description of a "one hit wonder." Two of its three members went on to greater fame: Geoff Downes (co-founder and keyboardist of Asia) and singer Trevor Horn.
The latter is better known as a record producer (he worked with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Pet Shop Boys, Simple Minds, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, Seal, Tom Jones, Cher, Tina Turner, etc etc etc).
Interestingly, Horn and Downes were also members of Yes (on one sole album "Drama"). Downes would rejoin Yes in later years while Horn worked with them again as a producer (most notably on their biggest selling album "90125" which includes the hit single "Owner of a lonely heart").
Horn was also briefly a member of Art of Noise.
Singer/bassist is Trevor Horn (producer extraordinaire of the 80s - ABC, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Grace Jones’ “Slave To The Rhythm,” Yes, etc.). Horn and the keyboardist, Geoffrey Downes, closed down this group to join Yes in ‘81.
I also saw this live on MTV's first day! All those great 70's bands who looked like dudes from a trailer park would have never made it in the video age.
LOL Bug! Bug-gles ... ugh! Buggles!😂🎉😅
Trevor Horn, singer and Jeff Downes, keys played with YES on the album Drama and Tour. Machine Messiah is a nice introduction
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They still make Bugles, I have a bag in my desk at work right now! Haahaa! I felt nostalgic!
The chorus always gave me like a 50s or 60s vibe. Great song.
This song was out in 1979 , 2 years before MTV and they made a video for this song to Launch MTV
Dam Strait the fantastic 70s
Back in the day, it was a rarity to be able to see your favorite performers - you'd listen to Queen, ELO, Quiet Riot, or whomever and simply have to imagine. Then we had the explosion of 'rock shows' - anything and everything from Josie & the Pussycats to The Bugaloos to The Monkees - but those quickly became so commonplace that watching them simply stand there to perform a song got boring.
But then came cinematic music videos - ones which were more like mini-movies set to music. Some of the earliest ones which come to mind are "Hungry Like the Wolf" by Duran Duran and "Shock the Monkey" by Peter Gabriel. Other notables include "Lawyers in Love" by Jackson Browne, "It's a Fine, Fine Day" by Tony Carey, "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" by Michael Jackson, "Turn Up the Radio" by Autograph, "You Got Lucky" by Tom Petty, and so many others. "Take On Me" by Ah-Ha is so incredible that it was the first 1980s music video to hit two billion views on RUclips!
But the one I really REALLY wanna see you react to is "Smuggler's Blues" by Glen Frey - the song which created one of the most iconic TV shows of all time, Miami Vice.
This was the first song they ever played on MTV. August 1,1981...8 days before I was born. Such an 80s sound!
Such a late 70s sound from 1979
@@theodoreritola7641 Owned. Lol.
5 days after my 21st🎉
Missed that by about 2 weeks. First semester in college and no cable in dorm rooms. None at home either. Cable TV only in the lobbies of the dorms. Always a crown around watching MTV. And General Hospital and Luke and Laura and the Ice Princess.
The song was released in 1979 and then brought back when MTV came on air in 1981 launch using this as their very first video that they played. Video was not something was mainstream yet. Some bands & artists had made some video for songs but they were usually pretty out there. Most were live stage shows and so this song & video made an impact because people hadn't seen this type of thing in America before and the futuristic sound was still new. Rock & punk were still big and New Wave/Techno were just kicking off when this song was released. Trevor Horn (guitar) and Geoff Downs (keyboard). Both were in the progressive rock band YES when this was released. The name is the BUG-gles.
As an MTV 80's generation guy, the success of video on music created images that were incredible. Unfortunately, the video also did a disservice to the listener because it often times provided them with the image the director/producer/artist wanted instead of the listener imagining for themselves what the song was about. We used to listen to music and take from it what we felt it was about. Video in some ways did kill the radio star. Radio took a back seat to video for a few decades. The worst part about music today is that it is mostly contrived for quick hits and fast money, but is all but throw away. In decades past you purchased albums and listened to them from start to finish. You got to know the artist in a way that connected you to them. Very seldom does that happen now. I loved buying an album and sitting on the floor with my headphones listening to every song from cover to cover, reading the lyrics & liner notes, looking at the artwork and pictures. I felt more connected to the music. Cassettes came about and while not as nice as an album it still had some connection. CD's made it a little better because it was like a smaller version of an album. But then streaming came and downloading music all but killed that feeling. Kids today have no idea what that feeling is like and probably don't care. For those of us old enough to remember what it was like to listen to music without the imagery and actually absorb the song into our DNA it was as special as it gets. I loved MTV! I would never take anything away from it. But it changed the musical landscape. It is so hard to even listen to an entire album from an artist today because streaming isn't as comfortable. You get the singles released and a video on RUclips and that seems to be where it ends. I don't even know why artists make albums today. They should just toss out singles when they feel there is one that can do well because no amount of marketing is going into anyone buying albums.
This was their first hit off of The Bugles album and it was released on September 7/1979. Pegasus, you hit the nail on the head with your comment. "If only they knew what was to come" and it is an eery phrophecy when you really think about it..I purchased this vinyl album in 1980 after listening to it at a friend's house. Our group of friends would gather at his house every morning before heading to school. He lived a block away from our elementary school and we would play this song every morning and also watch the Star Blazers cartoon. Those were the good old carefree days. Keep up the great reaction videos Pegasus as your channel is the only reaction channel I've subscribed to and follow. Awesome work! 👍🙏
While bands did make videos/films in the late 60s and 70s, it was only in the 80s that being so visually appealing was a necessity.
I remember thinking to myself... oh this is so much better than just watching The Monkees episodes, lol
Metallica was one of those bands that didn't do an actual music video until "One" in like '88? from their ...And Justice for All album. Great reaction! 40!
I was there perched on the living room couch watching in anticipation of this. One of the coolest times ever !
Bug. Bug. Buggles... It's pronounced Bug.. 😊 great song. Great to see you impulse was to move with the song as that's what it did to us when it first came out... Great Reaction.
The keyboard player for the Buggles was Geoffrey Downes. Geoffrey is the British spelling of the common American name Jeffrey. Beside the Buggles, he also played keyboard on the "Drama" album by Yes. And he was one of the four founding members of the band Asia, along with John Wetton (former bassist and vocalist of King Crimson, Uriah Heep, and U.K.), Steve Howe (former guitarist of Yes), and Carl Palmer (former drummer of Emerson, Lake & Palmer). Despite someone's claim that the keyboardist was Hans Zimmer, that is completely false.
The guy at the keyboards is the young Hans Zimmer! ❤
This brought back many memories. Much love BP
I was living in Scotland in 1979 & saw The Buggles perform this on the British show, "Top of the Pops." VCRs were luxury items in 1979; I didn't have one until 1987 and back in the USA.
So Catchy! The female vocalist is actually pretty good! dbl ♥
There's a line in the song that goes: "You were the first one. You were the last one." That also describes the Buggles career. This was their only hit.
Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes joined Yes to replace Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman. Unfortunately, the Drama Album didn't do very well.
Look up "Tempus Fugit."
This video was first played on MTV August 1981. And yes, they still make Bugles.
The bands name is bug🪳gles.
Dude, you're killing me! It's BUG-gles!!! Yes, this was the very first video aired on MTV and I watched it live.
1st album I ever bought aged 9!..a surprising banger of an album & that's double Oscar winner Hans Zimmer on keys in the video.
Wow, does this bring back memories! This and Kim Carnes' Bette Davis Eyes was the beginning of MTV. Great choice and reaction
Very first song ever on MTV when it debuted on television I was there. I witnessed it. It was amazing 😀
Thanks for sharing! Haven't heard this song in decades!!!
In the late 1920s movies started having sound, and a lot of very famous actors couldn't continue because they had odd voices or strange accents, or otherwise had skills that didn't work in the sound era. The movie "Singing in the Rain" is an amusing account of this period. Sound ended the career of Rudolph Valentino (for example). In this song, the keyboardist was Geoff Downes from the bands Yes and Asia. The singer/bass-player was Trevor Horn who was a musician, but more of a producer.
Trevor Horn - and he produced Robbie Williams 'Reality Killed The Video Star'... THorn is a master producer of MULTIPLE acts from the United Kingdom
"Did they ever do anything else?" "Yeah... they joined Yes: yes... *Yes."* (Todd in the Shadows) But yeah, these two guys were crazy influential to music moving forward. Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn did join Yes for an album, then Horn produced 90125 for Yes, Downes formed Asia (with three people including Steve Howe from Yes), and then Horn produced, oh, _everything._ Two guys basically _shaped_ popular music for a decade and beyond.
1981 First videos on MTV, The Buggles, Pat Benatar, Rod Stewart, The Who.
These guys were each super successful on their own as well. Trevor Horn briefly became the lead singer of Yes until they broke up, but around 1981 he became a fulltime producer, producing among others, the phenomenally successful Yes album 90125. Geoff Downes went on to form the super-group Asia.
Freshman year of college; MTV was heavily promoted so we had a watch party in the University Center media center to see the premier. This was the first video ever played on MTV and I'll never forget it, mainly because I had never heard of the Buggles. Come to find out that they (Trevor Horn and Geoff Downs) were with the same label as YES and were friends of several members of YES; so, when a couple of YES members took a hiatus from the band the two Buggles members stepped in on albums like Drama. Then Geoff Downs joined with Steve Howe from YES and formed the supergroup ASIA ... what a spiderweb of associations these musicians can weave.
BUG-gles. A slight play on the Beatles name. Lead singer Trever Horn sang lead for the super band Yes for a while, when Jon Anderson left the band. Similar voices.
TREVER HORN WAS IN THE BUG GLES. JOINED YES A LITTLE AFTER THIS.. HE WROT THE YES HIT OWNER OF A LO LY HEART... I REMEMBER WE ALL WENT DOWN TO OUR BASEMENT/ MOVIE THEATER A LITTLE BEFORE MIDNIGHT , MTV DEBUT WAS AT 12 : 01 ON AUG 1 AND WATCHED THE LAUNCH OF MTV AND THIS WAS THE 1ST VIDEO THEY PLAYED.... WE PARTIED FOR 7 HOURS WATCHING THE 1ST DAY... ITS BUG - GLES
Keyboardist Geoff Downes is amazing. Famously in the band Asia and Yes after the Buggles. As well as being an accomplished movie score composer. This video is a gem and historical piece of video music history.
Trevor Horn on lead vocal and bass. After this he went on to co-found ZTT records, produced Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Grace Jones, Propaganda, Co-wrote and Owner of a Lonely Heart whilst a member of Yes, which led on to the creation of the band Art of Noise to name just a few things
This was the first opening video on MTV , The Buggles are an English new wave band formed in London in 1977 by singer and bassist Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoff Downes. Next time react to these other's hits from them : ''Elstree'' . & ''Living on Plastic age'' . Geoff Downe from 1982 to 2015 became keyboardist with the super group ''ASIA'' , with John Wetton ex KING CRIMSON (Lead vocal -guitar) , Carl Palmer (ex ELP on drums) , Steve Howe(ex YES on guitar) . Trevor Horn in 1980 , became the lead vocalist of the group YES , for the album ''DRAMA'' released on 22 August 1980 by Atlantic Records.
I will never forget watching this video on the debut of MTV. MTV did take a nosedive in the 90s though because they stopped having music 24/7 and started putting stupid game shows and talk shows on the channel.
It's got a brilliant beat to the music. A very catchy song. I love this song.
80s classic
Lmao every time he said bugles. It’s BUG els and was the first ever video on MTV
The band is called The Bug-gles & this was the first music video on MTV on August 1, 1981 which MTV doesn’t play music videos anymore which SUCKS
The dictionary equivalent of irony!! Bands did video's before this, but this was the very first one played on MTV. Once MTV took off, it was game on!!!
Buggles, it sounds like juggles! LOL! Geoff Downes was also with Yes and Asia! Two more bands you need to check out!
Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes played significant roles in the music industry after The Buggles. Downes as a contributing member of major bands (incl. Yes and Asia) and Horn as a leading record producer (known as the man who invented the 80s: Yes, Dollar, ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Grace Jones, Malcolm McLaren, Art of Noise, Band Aid).
Had some Bugles not that long ago. They're like salty Chex that you can stack.
Thankyou, what a way to kickstart my Tuesday!
B Peg!!! you are always on point, my man...not for nothing, though..i had mentioned this one last week when you did Pat because her video "You better Run" was the Very second one played when MTV booted....this one was the first and very fitting, yo...Even my man (Metal and Blues drummer) cannot NOT stop in his tracks and play and sing this hook...he also told me to mention to you that the two dudes that did this song founded the group "Yes"...oh, as you say--as cheesy as the video is very ahead of their time...btw, Beastie Boys saved $ self filming before they had money...one reason why these videos were so cheaply done. None of these peeps could get airplay uness they had visuals...so therefore, we thought the weird movie kindof graphics and stuff were like "Totally Rad"...done
The name is Bug-gles, not bugles. It was a play on the Beatles. Trevor Horn, the singer (who also played bass), and Geoff Downes, the keyboardist, went on to join Yes and, later, Downes helped formed Asia, known for their hit "Heat of the Moment".
Wow! I'm excited for this one!!!!! I was 8 years old when this aired on MTV!
First song mtv played. Im 55 years old was there when mtv came idunno online?
I LOVE this song - really brings me back!
I have never seen this video just heard the song of course but the video was hilarious fun 🤩😂
This video always creeped me out as a kid
Me too …. 😊
the one that really creeped me and my friends out was Mr Roboto by Styx... Doesn't help we thought the lyrics were: "I am the maldron man, who hides behind a van" (It's mask not van)
The bass player is Trevor Horn which is one of the biggest music writers and producers of some of the biggest Hollywood movies. His name is on almost everything.
The first video ever played on MTV back in 1981 .
It's The B-u-ggles like in bug my man !
Yeah that background bass is so good
The keyboardist is Geoffrey Downes, known for being in Yes and Asia (by the way, if you have not done so yet, check out Asia's first album... so good). Trevor Horne, the lead singer, has produced some massive hits for others, like Kiss from a Rose (Seal).
This is the "original" with an asterisk, because Trevor Horn and Bruce Wooley co-wrote the song, and then recorded separate versions. So there technically is no one official "original" version. (But this is the version that most people are familiar with, because it launched MTV.)
The Buggles had an interesting career, even merging with Yess for a time, and nearly everyone involved ended up becoming a major behind-the-scenes player in the music industry.
This song exemplifies how I feel about the younger generation learning our music through videos. It takes away from the music itself. We were introduced to all that music just by ear. Not everyone was fortunate enough to be able to go to concerts all the time. So we really listened to the songs and how they affected us and how we interpreted the words. The only good thing to me these days as you can actually find the lyrics online. This song also harkens back to the time when movies started having sound, and the actors in the silent films lost their jobs if their voices weren’t good enough.
Since this came out in ‘79, it predicted MTV, which as others have noted was the first song ever played. The irony was this this song lamented the loss of something special.
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Geoff Downs was the keyboardist for the Buggles and went on to be the keyboardist for Asia whose song “Heat of the Moment “ became one of the early big hits on MTV shortly after.
I remember going home with my friends just so we could see the first video on MTV which was this video!
Trvor Horn (on vocals) was one of the best producers in the 80's. Art of Noise, Flying Lizards, Frankie Goes to Hollywood...and Yes
Wow this tune takes me back to my childhood 😁💛 good times xx
This is very nostalgic song for my generation. This kicked off MTV. NO one had ever seen anything like this. The debut was 8/1/81. Every kid was glued to the TV. If you didn't have cable you were at someone's house that did. We all know exactly where we were when they launched. I still remember like it was yesterday. 😅
Trevor Horn ( lead singer ) - Is considered a musical geniuses by his peers & in the industry
First music video on MTV and now they don't play them at all really.
So 80's, so glad I grew up with this.