Who the F are all you losers watching MTV?

[Strike]

I still have never forgiven MTV for killing the Headbangers Ball. With no warning, no less. One weekend it was on, the next, nada. Total bull the way it went out. Riki Rachtman didn't even get much of a heads up. Yeah he was kind of a but he got all the big metal bands to sit in back in the day. Who remembers Nirvana came in with Kurt Cobain in a dress? TV GOLD. I miss the classic like The Ball, YO! MTV Raps, Remote Control, Friday Night Rock Blocks, mid to late 80's . Rockumentary was a cool show (pre-"Behind The Music") and obviously classics like Beavis & Butthead, and Jackass were all the . But when music became less and less of a focus, I stopped watching.

And why the won't they release "The State" on DV- ING-D? WHY??????

[dirk4mvp]

Fantasy Factory is great. And that's about it.

[baseline bum]

. Yes. I didnt even like rap at the time (didnt appreciate NWA, EZ-E until much later), but Yo! MTV Raps was always amusing.

Ed Lover.

NWA was such a sick group. Cube is probably a top 3 rapper all-time, Eazy top 5-10, and Ren is probably the most underrated lyricist in the history of hip hop; maybe because his solo stuff he tried to be too hard and really fell off after Kizz My Black Azz, but no one can tell me this isn't a great flow:

[Ghazi]

I HATE that ! (MTV)

[Booharv]

The best moment on MTV ever was when Old Dirty Bas took MTV along in a limo with his numerous kids to pick up his food stamps/welfare check.

[Jacob1983]

MTV blows. They only show music videos from like 2am to 5am. Fuse is the best in my opinion. They actually show music videos most of the time. It's sad that there is an MTV and MTV2 and they hardly ever show music videos.

[NewJerSpur]

MTV died in the mid 90s for me.

Or should I say, Real World Killed Television as We Knew It.

It sure did.....now the only thing allowed on television is Reality shows, even though many are staged to a degree. I did like real world X however in New York, mainly because of Coral.....yeah, she was a witch, but boy she had some tig ole' biddies.

[NewJerSpur]

I miss the old MTV. Maybe I liked it becuase I was a teen, and now that I'm older I don't like the things teens like now

But I miss:
The Tom Green Show
Singled Out (I don't know why)
MTV Beach House for the Summer
120 Minutes
MTV UNPLUGGED (most especially)
YO! MTV Raps
Lip Service (a lame show, but it was funny)
Beavis and Butthead


I also miss the music video blocks. I know that MTV changed because they want higher ratings, but if they went back to the old format they would still have a loyal following. There are a ton of 20-30 year old that would love a MTV classic or something. It wouldn't break ratings records, but it would still be solid. I miss all the old they did, now it's all a bunch of lame reality shows


I don't know if I miss it or not, but does anyone remember the name of the show where they would play like 3 videos and you would have to call in and vote which one stays? I forget the exact format, but it gave you the percentage at the bottom and it would change throughout the show

Wasn't as big on Tom Green or Beavis and Butthead as my peers, but I liked the rest of it.....and having a Classic MTV channel would be a great idea IMO.

[phyzik]

how can there possibly be an Mtv thread and no one mentions Liquid Television? WTF?

[resistanze]

The best animated series ever was on MTV, Downtown. Of course, they cancelled that after one season. Luckily the creator of the show was sellling DVDs on the series and I was able to get one shipped to me.

[LnGrrrR]

And why the won't they release "The State" on DV- ING-D? WHY??????

NO ING !

My brother and I used to love that show! And then they came out with a few episodes on Xbox Live... and now they're nowhere to be found. Wtf? Bas s!

Put the State on DVD, you assholes!

[BWS-1994]

MTV Jams
Beavis and Butthead
Jackass
Daria
Celebrity Deathmatch

Pimp My Ride and Cribs were interesting too.

And yeah, they did have MTV Classics before (mostly about the 80's and early 90's) at least here in South East Asia.

MTV was better here when it covered the whole SEA, rather than having one MTV per SEA country now.

[NewJerSpur]

I also forgot about Liquid Television. The funny thing was it had some rather riskay animation on it, yet it came on rather early during the day on Sundays....I thought it was weird, but strangely entertaining.

Pimp My Ride was cool when the service location was "West Coast Customs" (the personnel their was funnier), but when the contract was up there and they went with "Gas" it got real corny real fast to me. Cribs has to be the most addictive Reality television program out there.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Props to whoever remembers the beachhouse mtv summer programming.

"I-am-tha-MIGHTY BEACH HOUSE TIKI GOD!!!!" lol
MTV got too gay for viewing when Real World got really popular, B&B stopped, Carson Daly was hired, and TRL started. These all happened within a year or so of each other, around 97 or 98.

MTV2 was supposedly amazing when it was M2, and played constant music videos. But I never had the channel.

I admit I used to watch Singled Out. But only for Jenny McCarthy. Then for Carmen. I even watched the Jenny McCarthy show for the onscreen poon.

the liquid tv era was more amazing than any of us realized at the time. Anyone with the foresight to record all the original beavis and butthead in their entirety, before they got editted by nutless neocons and their wives' activism, and copyright issues, would be worth twice his weight in gold today.

Without B&B pushing the envelope the way they did, South Park gets cancelled after three episodes.