In 1985 I was a sophomore in high school and I was young and naive enough to believe that music would always be that good, and MTV would always play music videos.
It's really is amazing how different life is almost 40 years later. It just feels like everything was simpler back then. Less chaotic and confusing. Maybe that's just old man "in my day" talk, but it really just feels more genuine and real than what we are experiencing today. I do wish I could take my kids to this era and just have them experience it like I was able to, without the interruptions of cell phones and social media and what seems to be the constant infighting of our country on every possible issue or non-issue. Of course there were plenty of issues in the 80s, but from a macro perspective, it felt like we'd always get through them together as a country.
85-89 too many words to describe the list is endless multi dimension portal World was alive and happening just who took part was around to live it.We only had 2channels perfection the color the photos the atmosphere big time invented created imagination fairytale u name it.Greatest Toys Cartoons Video Games and Video Tapes Food the Music Entertainment for all the themes the Shows of any genre had and has.Love to return in spirit and soul never leave see how and what i was doin it solely deserves to live on forever eternity the 80s than any other moment in history something so special it delivered thru class skill level league scales will never reach that's what i reckon
Graduated from high school. Had a girlfriend. We sat on the couch watching MTV endlessly, enjoying the acts we liked and goofing on the ones we didn't. I want my MTV!
@@TheCaptjamestkirk People who lived through it look back fondly, but don't remember all the bad about it. Constant threat of nuclear war. Drug use. Global economic recession. AIDS. Reaganomics was not as great as they thought. Chernobyl. Ugly ass American BOX cars. The environment was worse because of the emissions of vehicles that left grime on everything because they still used leaded gas. Ya tend to look at the nostalgia, not the real problems. The music, movies, culture, video games... it was kind of like putting perfume on a pig. Things are way worse now, and I think we'd all still rather live then than now, but it was kind of a shit show...
@@Anarchist86ed It was WAY better than the shit show we live in now! Every decade has their problems, but I will take the problems we had then over the disaster of everything we have now. May have been some ugly cars but you didn't have to pay $40,000 for a car and $60,000 for a pick up! They also went to unleaded gas in 1975. Music basically died after the 90's, most of the music now is completely garbage. I will personally take the 80's over the other decades any day!
@@TheCaptjamestkirk I would rather live then than now too, but I'm not putting a rose on a turd. People back then would say we were lunatics and stupid, true. But... we have the internet. 🤔🙄
@@paulascott5701 I hope you're sitting down because I have news for you: the music industry is still *very much alive* and larger than ever! In fact they're still making these "movies" to promote record sales just like they have been since the 1940s.
@@scottlarson1548 In my humble opinion, they are churning out garbage. Even Country music is corporate garbage. I wouldn't pay a penny to hear any of it.
I was in my teens in the 80's. MTV was such a big deal. Everybody I'd go to visit, MTV was on the TV. It was like we were plugged into each other. The music video was every bit as important as the music in so many cases. We were lucky to have experienced the enigma that was MTV.
I partied all night Friday night and all the way through Live Aid. I lived down in Atlantic City and I had friends that went to Live Aid in Philly. It was so hot that day. God what memories. What a fantastic time.
I graduated in '84 remember goingvover to my girlfriends house to watch MTV she would see a guy with makeup then want to put some on me we had so much fun and life was so much cleaner and fun then
Sophomore in high school. July 12 was a Friday. The next morning me, my dad, and some buddies drove into Chicago to watch the Cubs play the Dodgers. Listend to Live-Aid on the car radio all the way in to Chicago.
I did the same! However my trip was back home to Houston from Corpus Christi. Me and my cousins were in the living room watching live aid on MTV, waiting for our moms to quit talking so we could get on the road. Found Live Aid on the radio in the car and listened all the way home
Those benefit Concerts are ridiculous, a bunch of multi-millionares and billionaires asking the average Schmuck to give them money that we as a people NEVER had.
#MTV #80s The year 1985 was an outrageous year of music, hit TV shows and blockbuster movies.. I was born in 1985..this deeply captures my attention about the good old days of the 1980s. I'm a 80s and 90s guy.
In 85 my family would crowd around the TV for the NBC Thursday night lineup. I believe it was Cosby, Cheers, Night Court and Hill Street Blues. Good times.
I graduated HS in 1987. Mtv was on out tv 22 hours a day. I saw the very first vid play and every good vid make it's debut. Miss the 80s. Times were good.
This was about a week before my 17th birthday and I thought I was invincible, oh ho youth is blindfully bliss. I met my wife the summer of '85, great times.
MTV unfortunately butchered the broadcast of Live Aid, making it about themselves as much as the cause. The BBC did a much better job on their end, showing complete performances where possible.
Thanks for this post. I couldn't have said it better. I assumed since they were Music Television (MTV) they would be the channel to watch. Sadly they ruined the day for me.
1985 was literally the peak of 80s music. So many kinds of genres, and the music really spoke to you and still does. No thugs, hip hop, women with fat asses, chains, you name it. American culture was never perfect, but it was a lot better back then. And the music reflected it.
I was born in the 80s.. I was 3 years old that year. I growed up in Italy but this songs are the proof i growed up fine.. Listened mtv but from middle of 90's when some italian network began to beam the MTV europe and i was young, damn!! thanks for share these vintage moments..
I did not want to go to Live Aid that is until I found out Led Zeppelin was going to be there. My cousin has tickets so I went. Great day. I loved the different performers but Led Zeppelin is why I went
Watching this MTV vidcheck of July 12 , 1985 , the day before Live Aid just brought back so many memories , " Cry " by Godley and Creme just took me straight back to 1985 , and I have always had a special place in my heart for that one song by Night Ranger , the video is great , as well !!! That is the kind of song that you listen to in the evening , it's an evening song !!! It was also great to see Steve Perry bouncing the MTV logo !!! That was the best !!!
My goodness 6 of the first 7 minutes were nothing but commercials and MTV promos. And my was Nina Blackwood uber hot. You can still here her, Mark Goodman, and Alan Hunter on Sirius XM on various channels. Nina sounds like a woman who smoked way too many cigarettes but here she was smoking hot. Also, sad to know that JFK Stadium is now but a memory. The Wells Fargo Center sits on that spot now. I went there twice in the 80's. Saw The Police, Joan Jett, Madness, and REM in 1983 and Pink Floyd in 1987.
Look at us class of 1985 raising money for Africa, raising money for Bangladesh . Iconic Movies, Great Music , emerging technology . Making great Christmas Music with a purpose. A positive can do attitude along with pride in our country. It’s no wonder why gen X rules
One reason I didn't watch as much MTV during the late 80s was because it seemed like it was *always* running endless commercials every time I switched it on so naturally I changed the channel. This video reminded me of that. I counted ten music videos yet *nineteen* commercials in it.
@@cs292 For comparison I watched a MTV vidcheck from a Friday afternoon in August of 1982. I counted thirty five music videos and just five commercials. Yes, only *five* commercials. Those were the days when you could turn MTV on and just watch music all day.
@@cs292 For comparison I watched an MTV vidcheck from a Friday afternoon in August of 1982. I counted thirty five music videos and just *five* commercials. Those were the days when you could turn on MTV and watch music all day.
My senior year summer… At the lake all day Partying and having a no cops in sight good time!! Got a job mid -August… Tried college…watched a butt load of MTV!!!
Someone said before my comment, that MTV was an Enigma, I think thats a great word to describe MTV in the 80s and early 90s, it was so important to those of us who were teens or in our early 20s, it was the way we kept up on new music, as well as a bit of news. Think about the announcement of a WORLD PREMIER VIDEO, take Michale Jacksons "Black or White" everybody watched that premier whether you were a fan or not ! Think about MJs THRILLER video, thats all people were talking about in my High School, I personally like MTV more so in the late 80s early 90s because they played so much more hard rock vids as well as HEADBANGERS BALL, it was a great time to be alive. Then the REAL WORLD came along and that ruined MTV as did many other things. But MTV was an ENIGMA for it's early years !
Just a little Trivia....Nina Blackwood posed in the 1978 issue of playboy as part of the office girl photo shoot. You can just google her name and 1978 playboy to see the photos. Fyi...her hair was black ( everywhere 😂)
…and no one cared..or made a big deal of it…the girl from the Thriller video and also some chick from Little House on the Prairie too..and no one cared. Wtf happened?
MTVs Live Aid broadcast actually was the start of the end to the classic format. The Vjays performance during the concert drew lots of criticism from viewers. Within a year, half of the on air talent was gone and the video/concert format was slowly replaced by Remote Control, a coked up Dewwezil Zappa and Diwntown Julie Brown.
Man, Nina Blackwood was unbelievably fine…back in the day. I went almost 1.5 years w/o watching MTV during this videos recording. Was in my Navy. STG “A”, BEEP and “C” schools. But, it was San Diego and that more than made up for it.
35:05 what a time warp blast, watching tape from back in the day. Fun artistic period, with folks figuring out the methods to make video augment the music. It helped usher in the focus on the visual, which continues to this day. People under 50 prefer video to text (reading). I’m gonna dip more into these archive blocks from MTV.
The year 1985 was one great year & I was when I graduated from high school when I was 20 years old NOT 18!! Nina Blackwood has young good genes NOT good docs & she wears dark glasses!! Nina left MTV either in July or August of 1986 & was the first VJ to leave!!
@@ChatGPT1111 I said the same thing. She looks like a blonde Rosanne Barr now. Oh, and Martha Quinn was on Sirius as well for a while. JJ Jackson, sadly, passed away in 2004.
Nina Blackwood never seemed to be on the air when I was at a friend's house that had cable! So that always annoyed me. And they always played the same videos like Duran Duran hungry like the wolf, or Michael Jackson, Thomas Dolby blinded me with science or the Eurythmics so much you began to get nauseated. Although I did like the Peter Gabriel videos, like shock the monkey or big time. Yeh MTV was pretty cool and all at the beginning but it was also strangely conservative when it came to its play list rotation. Maybe not so strange given the media market demographics that they were targeting and wanting to hold onto. Variety and broad spectrum diversity was definitely not high on the agenda, priority list and ranking.
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80's = The future is going to be awesome! 2024 = Man the 80's were awesome!
Nailed it.
truer words have yet to be spoken!
In 1985 I was a sophomore in high school and I was young and naive enough to believe that music would always be that good, and MTV would always play music videos.
It's really is amazing how different life is almost 40 years later. It just feels like everything was simpler back then. Less chaotic and confusing. Maybe that's just old man "in my day" talk, but it really just feels more genuine and real than what we are experiencing today. I do wish I could take my kids to this era and just have them experience it like I was able to, without the interruptions of cell phones and social media and what seems to be the constant infighting of our country on every possible issue or non-issue. Of course there were plenty of issues in the 80s, but from a macro perspective, it felt like we'd always get through them together as a country.
Yep Class of 1985 here. It really was an amazing time.
85-89 too many words to describe the list is endless multi dimension portal World was alive and happening just who took part was around to live it.We only had 2channels perfection the color the photos the atmosphere big time invented created imagination fairytale u name it.Greatest Toys Cartoons Video Games and Video Tapes Food the Music Entertainment for all the themes the Shows of any genre had and has.Love to return in spirit and soul never leave see how and what i was doin it solely deserves to live on forever eternity the 80s than any other moment in history something so special it delivered thru class skill level league scales will never reach that's what i reckon
@@paultreadaway102dude, take another speed ball 😂😂😂
Seems simpler because it was
Then Pee Wee Herman pops up and you realize how surreal it was back then too.
Graduated from high school. Had a girlfriend. We sat on the couch watching MTV endlessly, enjoying the acts we liked and goofing on the ones we didn't. I want my MTV!
I miss those times so badly.
Same.. sentimental street rips me up! Emotional and good feelin all in one
Yep, 80's were the best.
@@TheCaptjamestkirk People who lived through it look back fondly, but don't remember all the bad about it. Constant threat of nuclear war. Drug use. Global economic recession. AIDS. Reaganomics was not as great as they thought. Chernobyl. Ugly ass American BOX cars. The environment was worse because of the emissions of vehicles that left grime on everything because they still used leaded gas. Ya tend to look at the nostalgia, not the real problems. The music, movies, culture, video games... it was kind of like putting perfume on a pig. Things are way worse now, and I think we'd all still rather live then than now, but it was kind of a shit show...
@@Anarchist86ed It was WAY better than the shit show we live in now! Every decade has their problems, but I will take the problems we had then over the disaster of everything we have now. May have been some ugly cars but you didn't have to pay $40,000 for a car and $60,000 for a pick up! They also went to unleaded gas in 1975. Music basically died after the 90's, most of the music now is completely garbage. I will personally take the 80's over the other decades any day!
@@TheCaptjamestkirk I would rather live then than now too, but I'm not putting a rose on a turd. People back then would say we were lunatics and stupid, true. But... we have the internet. 🤔🙄
I miss mtv from the 1980s so much wish they would bring mtv 1980s back on air and v ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💙💙❤️💙💙💙💙❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This was the glory days of MTV. I don't even recognize it now, but it was raw, different, bonding, and energetic once upon a time.
No, the glory days of MTV were a year before this before the quality of music videos began declining.
@@scottlarson1548 Think about it - why should a recording artist have to make a freak'in movie? This helped kill the music business completely.
@@paulascott5701 I hope you're sitting down because I have news for you: the music industry is still *very much alive* and larger than ever! In fact they're still making these "movies" to promote record sales just like they have been since the 1940s.
@@scottlarson1548 In my humble opinion, they are churning out garbage. Even Country music is corporate garbage. I wouldn't pay a penny to hear any of it.
@@paulascott5701 They are doing better without your support. 😄
I was in my teens in the 80's. MTV was such a big deal. Everybody I'd go to visit, MTV was on the TV. It was like we were plugged into each other. The music video was every bit as important as the music in so many cases. We were lucky to have experienced the enigma that was MTV.
I partied all night Friday night and all the way through Live Aid. I lived down in Atlantic City and I had friends that went to Live Aid in Philly. It was so hot that day. God what memories. What a fantastic time.
I'm from Philly! & I REMEMBER IT CLEARLY!! 👯
I graduated in '84 remember goingvover to my girlfriends house to watch MTV she would see a guy with makeup then want to put some on me we had so much fun and life was so much cleaner and fun then
Do they know.its Christmas is stil,l in 2024 one of my favorite Christmas songs of all time,and Boy George was killing it😊
Omg I have literally not seen the Godley & Creme "Cry" video since I was a kid in 80's. Good times
back to the future was playing at the movie theater.
Wow, It's so hard to add up all the awesome things that were happening consecutively throughout the early to mid-80s.
Including Nina Blackwood 😊
Sophomore in high school. July 12 was a Friday. The next morning me, my dad, and some buddies drove into Chicago to watch the Cubs play the Dodgers. Listend to Live-Aid on the car radio all the way in to Chicago.
Me too.. I was a sophomore in high school. How is 55 years old treating you? lol
@@crashburn3292 5 years and change to retire! Life after 50 has been... interesting.
I did the same! However my trip was back home to Houston from Corpus Christi. Me and my cousins were in the living room watching live aid on MTV, waiting for our moms to quit talking so we could get on the road. Found Live Aid on the radio in the car and listened all the way home
Those benefit Concerts are ridiculous, a bunch of multi-millionares and billionaires asking the average Schmuck to give them money that we as a people NEVER had.
#MTV #80s The year 1985 was an outrageous year of music, hit TV shows and blockbuster movies.. I was born in 1985..this deeply captures my attention about the good old days of the 1980s. I'm a 80s and 90s guy.
In 85 my family would crowd around the TV for the NBC Thursday night lineup. I believe it was Cosby, Cheers, Night Court and Hill Street Blues. Good times.
I graduated HS in 1987. Mtv was on out tv 22 hours a day. I saw the very first vid play and every good vid make it's debut. Miss the 80s. Times were good.
28:08 40 years later, breakin and poppin is what happens when I try these moves 🤣🤣
😂😂🤣🤣
Every house I went to had MTV on. Live Aid was really cool to see as well!!!
This was about a week before my 17th birthday and I thought I was invincible, oh ho youth is blindfully bliss. I met my wife the summer of '85, great times.
"It's such a shame that youth is wasted on the young." - Mark Twain
MTV unfortunately butchered the broadcast of Live Aid, making it about themselves as much as the cause. The BBC did a much better job on their end, showing complete performances where possible.
Thanks for this post. I couldn't have said it better. I assumed since they were Music Television (MTV) they would be the channel to watch. Sadly they ruined the day for me.
I do need to add that I miss California Coolers. They were actual wine coolers back then and not flavored Zima like today.
Bartles & James.
SEA…GRAMS….golden wine coolers. Love ya’ BW.
What do you mean Zima like today? I haven't seen them in stores since the earlier 2000's
@@itaintmebabe714 I believe it was rebooted. Or there was a soft reboot. Or reimagining. Or something.
1985 , was a very good yr
I WANT MY (1980s) MTV (Back)!!
1985 was literally the peak of 80s music. So many kinds of genres, and the music really spoke to you and still does. No thugs, hip hop, women with fat asses, chains, you name it. American culture was never perfect, but it was a lot better back then. And the music reflected it.
Yeah. I'll never get the fat butt thing
83 was technically the peak. 85 was ok, 86 was better, but 85 was the last "classic" year of the 80's. Anything is better than this.
nah, 83 was still building up. metal was just breaking thru but by 85 it was mainstream
@@TheLordGoat
I more meant pop culture not metal. thrash etc@@magamaga1827
Look at black music. It went from Diana Ross to Cardi B.
99.9999% sure I was watching this. I think MTV pretty much owned this weekend.
I was born in the 80s.. I was 3 years old that year. I growed up in Italy but this songs are the proof i growed up fine.. Listened mtv but from middle of 90's when some italian network began to beam the MTV europe and i was young, damn!! thanks for share these vintage moments..
I was 2 years old in 85’ it’s interesting to see mtv and just how the world was when I was a baby. The commercials make me laugh.
I did not want to go to Live Aid that is until I found out Led Zeppelin was going to be there. My cousin has tickets so I went. Great day. I loved the different performers but Led Zeppelin is why I went
Did you enjoy peeing in the horse toughs?
Haha, I still remember this. I just recently turned 20 that year but on April 😂❤.
Thought music and times would always be cool like this. WTF today.
Yea! seriously today... WTF
Watching this MTV vidcheck of July 12 , 1985 , the day before Live Aid just brought back so many memories , " Cry " by Godley and Creme just took me straight back to 1985 , and I have always had a special place in my heart for that one song by Night Ranger , the video is great , as well !!! That is the kind of song that you listen to in the evening , it's an evening song !!! It was also great to see Steve Perry bouncing the MTV logo !!! That was the best !!!
Night Rangers’ lyrics were always a bit 🤷
Night Rangers lyrics were always a bit weird , right ? @@cs292
E.T. was re-released in 1985 if you were wondering.
Funny I just left a comment saying something isn’t right
ET came out in 82
I didn’t know they re released in in 85
😂 thanks!
@@RCALivingStereo Glad I could help.
Thank you! I couldn't figure out why they showed the ET clip
Now that you mention it I remember it being re-released@@Anarchist86ed
Yup. It had a brief stint in theaters in '02 also.
Little did these people know that Queen was going to put on the best rock show in history, and they were going to bear witness.....lucky bastards.
You got that right! Freddie Mercury owned that stage🎉
Mmmmmmm...
Nina Blackwood...
That tooslie hair...
That FM radio voice...
Makes me hungry...
You should hear her now. She sounds like she was a chain smoker in her youth. She also put on a few pounds. She looks like a blonde Rosanne Barr.
Hungry for what? You sound like a disgusting old creep. And wth is “tooslie hair?” 😂
@Rockhound6165 oh yeah! She sounds like both of Marge Simpsons sisters now.
It's Nina Blacklung now
Awe Pee Wee Herman 48:00 RIP
My goodness 6 of the first 7 minutes were nothing but commercials and MTV promos. And my was Nina Blackwood uber hot. You can still here her, Mark Goodman, and Alan Hunter on Sirius XM on various channels. Nina sounds like a woman who smoked way too many cigarettes but here she was smoking hot. Also, sad to know that JFK Stadium is now but a memory. The Wells Fargo Center sits on that spot now. I went there twice in the 80's. Saw The Police, Joan Jett, Madness, and REM in 1983 and Pink Floyd in 1987.
All these years and I never seen E.T ….. bucket list! 😊
You've never seen Gertie ??
@@GS-zc4sk Unfortunately…Not yet ..Soon….. 👍
ET is utter rubbish
MTV Stinks today
The best summer of my high school life! Great memories!
The word bittersweet was invented to describe my memories when I watch this.
I can’t look away.
It was the greatest time of all and it was over before we know it!
Ah the Big Adventure with Pee Wee contest at the end
@03:42 - “The Emerald Forest” is a fantastic movie! These commercials are great!
Satisfaction guaranteed---theFirm!.. forgot about this one--great song
Look at us class of 1985 raising money for Africa, raising money for Bangladesh . Iconic Movies, Great Music , emerging technology . Making great Christmas Music with a purpose. A positive can do attitude along with pride in our country. It’s no wonder why gen X rules
Life was definitely much happier back then,, much less electronic invasion into our lives,,
Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page that was a good lineup
28:18
Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton Fresh Prince) living his best life😂
I thought his dance moves on Fresh Prince was a joke but it was a reference to his breakin' an poppin'. he must have been teased to death on this.
One reason I didn't watch as much MTV during the late 80s was because it seemed like it was *always* running endless commercials every time I switched it on so naturally I changed the channel. This video reminded me of that. I counted ten music videos yet *nineteen* commercials in it.
They skipped some videos though so it seemed like more in this vidcheck
@@cs292 I included the videos they skipped in my count.
@@cs292 For comparison I watched a MTV vidcheck from a Friday afternoon in August of 1982. I counted thirty five music videos and just five commercials. Yes, only *five* commercials. Those were the days when you could turn MTV on and just watch music all day.
@@cs292 For comparison I watched an MTV vidcheck from a Friday afternoon in August of 1982. I counted thirty five music videos and just *five* commercials. Those were the days when you could turn on MTV and watch music all day.
@@scottlarson1548 can you post it? I’ll look.
The commercials back then were freakin awesome
MTV Promos and Commercials Were Incredible Before The Internet
My senior year summer…
At the lake all day
Partying and having a no cops in sight good time!!
Got a job mid -August…
Tried college…watched a butt load of MTV!!!
Nina Blackwood was so pretty.
Someone said before my comment, that MTV was an Enigma, I think thats a great word to describe MTV in the 80s and early 90s, it was so important to those of us who were teens or in our early 20s, it was the way we kept up on new music, as well as a bit of news. Think about the announcement of a WORLD PREMIER VIDEO, take Michale Jacksons "Black or White" everybody watched that premier whether you were a fan or not ! Think about MJs THRILLER video, thats all people were talking about in my High School, I personally like MTV more so in the late 80s early 90s because they played so much more hard rock vids as well as HEADBANGERS BALL, it was a great time to be alive. Then the REAL WORLD came along and that ruined MTV as did many other things. But MTV was an ENIGMA for it's early years !
Just a little Trivia....Nina Blackwood posed in the 1978 issue of playboy as part of the office girl photo shoot.
You can just google her name and 1978 playboy to see the photos.
Fyi...her hair was black ( everywhere 😂)
…and no one cared..or made a big deal of it…the girl from the Thriller video and also some chick from Little House on the Prairie too..and no one cared. Wtf happened?
The comersials smiled ..everything smiled just Like david lee roth said of the early mid 80s
July 12th-14th was Archon 9 at the Henry VIII Hotel. We sat in the hotel room and watch MTV/Live Aid!
E.T. was first released in 1982 but was re-released in theaters in '85.
A lot of hairspray up there
Now this is music! Thanks Mickey.
I have a ton of 80s mtv on vhs with commercials. I should get it put on a flash drive.
Get them on here 😊
Alfonso Ribeiro(Carlton from Fresh Prince) selling a Break Dance instructional book was peak 80's
MTVs Live Aid broadcast actually was the start of the end to the classic format. The Vjays performance during the concert drew lots of criticism from viewers. Within a year, half of the on air talent was gone and the video/concert format was slowly replaced by Remote Control, a coked up Dewwezil Zappa and Diwntown Julie Brown.
this was on my 14th birthday.....good times!!
Happy Birthday … it’s was my 7 th birthday 🎂
@@WalterWhite-sm2dr nice!!
It was two days before my 14th birthday!
I miss MTV
Loved “This Time” by JCM. Those were the days ✌🏼@9:42
I was in college. SDSU Fuckin great times
My older brother took me to Live Aid for my high school graduation I graduated like a month before
Awesome!
For an hour i got to go back to my 15th summer. Thanks Mickey!
Man, Nina Blackwood was unbelievably fine…back in the day. I went almost 1.5 years w/o watching MTV during this videos recording. Was in my Navy. STG “A”, BEEP and “C” schools. But, it was San Diego and that more than made up for it.
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Nina blackwood que amor.....
You should see her now.
this just hit me i think mtv hiring martha nina and alan hunter was inspired by threes company
Thank god the eighties are past, what a banal era. I was working at Record Plant in LA when this aired and the music coming through was the worst.
Great time to be a youth.
Peaceful times in the world back then.
I'm still doing the King Tut...poppin' baby!!
Unfortunately MTV was already shifting to the crap show around this time. Gotta go back to ‘82 to find the good stuff!
Nah.
35:05 what a time warp blast, watching tape from back in the day. Fun artistic period, with folks figuring out the methods to make video augment the music. It helped usher in the focus on the visual, which continues to this day. People under 50 prefer video to text (reading). I’m gonna dip more into these archive blocks from MTV.
The year 1985 was one great year & I was when I graduated from high school when I was 20 years old NOT 18!! Nina Blackwood has young good genes NOT good docs & she wears dark glasses!! Nina left MTV either in July or August of 1986 & was the first VJ to leave!!
Funny thing is that Nina is still a DJ on Sirius/XM. Mark and Alan too (and they sound the same). Nina sounds like she smoke 20 packs a day 😂😂😂
@@ChatGPT1111 Back around December of 1984, Nina Blackwood wore a very sexy red dress but I cannot find it though!!
@@ChatGPT1111 I said the same thing. She looks like a blonde Rosanne Barr now. Oh, and Martha Quinn was on Sirius as well for a while. JJ Jackson, sadly, passed away in 2004.
Nina Blackwood ❤
When MTV Was Awesome...
some of these groups are NO hit wonders. I was almost 20 at this time, listened to a ton of music and there's a few unknowns here. 44:24
Live Aid was a great experience...very hot but cool in Philly.
I just graduated high school
Christ, how did we get here!😅
@27:30 Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton from Fresh Prince and current host of America's Funniest Videos) selling a Break Dance instructional book.
Everyone should see ET.
😂 pink tofu??? Memories flooding back
Nina Blackwood never seemed to be on the air when I was at a friend's house that had cable! So that always annoyed me. And they always played the same videos like Duran Duran hungry like the wolf, or Michael Jackson, Thomas Dolby blinded me with science or the Eurythmics so much you began to get nauseated. Although I did like the Peter Gabriel videos, like shock the monkey or big time. Yeh MTV was pretty cool and all at the beginning but it was also strangely conservative when it came to its play list rotation. Maybe not so strange given the media market demographics that they were targeting and wanting to hold onto. Variety and broad spectrum diversity was definitely not high on the agenda, priority list and ranking.
Life sucks now. So digital. I miss those analog days.
Nina Blackwood always reminded me of Tweetie Bird
Something is messed up bc ET came out in 1982 .
10:58 this riff sounds pretty sweet at 1.75x speed
Time for E.T. 2! Come Drew, Michael and Henry, come out of retirement!
Oh and nothing has changed in 40 years, mtv's not playing music videos.
Henry isn't retired. He's still working. He was in that really bad Pet Cemetery movie that came out last year.
Back then,15,000 meals at $15 each raised over a million dollars. Today that's only $225,000. I guess even math has had inflation since then!
Even the commercials were better😅
1984 is the undisputed greatest year of the 1980s but 1985 is def second
This was my 18th birthday.
i think the second version of mtv music generator was coolest
The more things change the more they stay the same