Here's the first ever music video shown on MTV. I don't know how many others had MTV right from the beginning on midnight, August 1st, 1981 but this is a classic and was a perfect launch video. Great song as well. Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles.
It's a classic that must be seen by all. Don't expect high tech special effects!
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TRIVIA! What was the second music video played on MTV?
Too late! Answer:
After the Buggles, the channel aired five spots introducing MTV's veejays (the spots were played in the wrong order). Then the next music video was broadcast -- the tune was "You Better Run" by Pat Benatar. Some fumbling and dead air followed these first two videos, as engineers and veejays scrambled to play videos in the right order. Eventually, the MTV team got their act together and became one of the decade's biggest influences on popular music.
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Buggles actually had more staying power than just their trivia fact first video on MTV. It was only a 2 man band - a collaboration of Trevor Horn on vocals and Geoff Downes on Keys. Shortly after "Video Killed the Radio Star" the two were merged into the popular 70's band Yes to replace vocalist Jon Anderson and keyboardist Rick Wakeman. Although the one album Horn sang vocals for Yes - "Drama" - never sold well, it served as the transition to a more updated Yes band that re invented itself in two ways. First, the band split apart with Downes and original Yes guitarist Steve Howe forming half of the 80's super group Asia. The other half brought Anderson back in and a new guitarist Trevor Rabin. Horn became the band's producer and helped market the new-look Yes back into mainstream with the release of "Owner of a Lonely Heart"
Just always found it interesting that even though the name Buggles dissappeared, the two men that made up that band became even greater influences on 80s rock later in their careers.
Trevor Horn was a very prolific producer in the 80s/90s.
Loads of artists including Tina Turner, Seal, Mike Oldfield (Tublar Bells), Rod Stewart, Pet Shop Boys, Godley & Creme (Cry), Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Band Aid (Do They Know It's Christmas).
He's been a MAJOR influence in popular music in the past 25 years.
There's a comprehensive list of his production credits @ Trevorhorn.com
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miir wrote:Trevor Horn was a very prolific producer in the 80s/90s.
Loads of artists including Tina Turner, Seal, Mike Oldfield (Tublar Bells), Rod Stewart, Pet Shop Boys, Godley & Creme (Cry), Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Band Aid (Do They Know It's Christmas).
He's been a MAJOR influence in popular music in the past 25 years.
There's a comprehensive list of his production credits @ Trevorhorn.com
Pherr the Dorf wrote:Ah-Ha's "Take On Me" was and still is the fuckin coolest vid ever
Amazing how they've still never topped a campy, but catchy one-hit wonder. MTV should be ashamed. How many years have they had now to come up with something cooler? And yet they've failed utterly.
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. - Douglas Adams
Where did MTV start going wrong? I want to say it's when they came out with Real World then moved on to more of those and Road Rules but I think it was before that even.
I remember being about 5 when we first got MTV (on Sky) and it seemed to take a turn for the worse around the age of 11, which puts it at 1994, around the time Bill Hicks and Kurt Cobain died.....
Coincidence?!??!
This is just what my memory is telling me but it seemed to start being cluttered with complete shit from then on, to the present day, which is unspeakably fucking evil.
