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  • Why didn't MTV remember their roots on their 30th anniversary celebration....wait they didn't do that their original channel, they played a marathon of Jersey Shore >:(

    Thanks to other 24/7 music video stations (TheCoolTV) I am able to name ALL of those 80s music videos :D (19 year old)

  • Oh Yeah! "Groove is in the heart." Thankyou so much....That jogs the memory.Merry Christmas and thanks again andresgc770

  • 30 years on and i still dont have MTV . just as well i guess

  • guns n roses :)

  • who is the lady in pink at 1:59. I remember the video but can't remember the song title...

  • @Flame991 It's Deee-Lite's "Groove Is in the Heart." One of my favorite videos and songs from the '90s!! :D

  • que pesar que en mtv pasan música muy mierda y se canal se bol vio una mierda canbio mucho

  • Anyone know where i can get old mtv footage from the 90's?

  • I WANT MY MTV!

  • WOW, i think i just went 4:00 without blinking,, and cant wipe the smile off my face. Brain is now a puddle trying to remember all those awesome songs and images hitting me at warp speed.

  • Niiiiice, someone knows how to edit...good job.

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  • This piece was part of an ABC prime time special called "MTV 10" commemorating the channel's 10th anniversary. The show featured special performances by Aerosmith with the Boston Pops orchestra, REM from their hometown of Athens, GA, Madonna, and Michael Jackson. This montage was produced by Mark Pellington and Bruce Leddy.

  • awesome *__*

  • real mtv tanked in 85/86

  • @fluffydolly Are You sure about that????

  • WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF MTV!!!

  • Could you imagine a 2000-2010 montage? I mean, they have Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen, and we have Lady Gaga and Jersey Shore.

  • Whats the name of the song at 1:58?

  • what the hell is that song at 1:58

  • @AlexanderKupo2184 Which one, the song or music video clip?

  • @AlexanderKupo2184 Everybody dance now by c and c music factory.

  • OMG remember when music videos used to be creative back then? where did we go wrong?

  • Oh, right... the M in MTv stands for Music. Too bad reality "stars" replaced rock stars

  • Unlike most stars MTV had completely souled before it was 20.

  • I think now it stands for "Mostlycrap TV"

  • What's the song at 3:30?

  • @grungedog3 You Could Be Mine - Guns n Roses

  • I miss my MTV!

  • When I was in college I took a film appreciation class and the Prof said "The best movies being made today are the music videos on MTV. The music is crap so, I just turn down the sound."

  • Oh wow - thank you so much for making this! It brings back so many memories. I used to be a compulsive taper of MTV vids as well, but unfortunately my tapes didn't make it till now. That were truly the days, loads of great music - and the music videos had real stories and content, something you rarely see in the music vids created today. Anyway, thank you for the nostalgic travel in time and the good memories :)

  • R.I.P.

    Music Television

    (1981-2011)

  • @dmhharris MTV died 5 or 6 years ago

  • Nope, MTV hasn't been MTV in 15 years. The 1st 15 years will be the "music period." The last 15 will be the "shit garbage degradation of society reality" period.

    It's never coming back folks.  We had something wonderful. Just cherish it for what it was and hang on to the memories. Our kids will have no idea why this was important...unless they discover it for themselves.

  • @Korndawg79...So true...I watched MTV from the 1st second it launched in 81.....all the way to the early-mid 90's when the music died..and I feel sad for my neice and nephews to be growing up now in the age of "Reality crap shows, cell phones for all, electronic notebooks, facebook, twitter, post "Great" MTV, post Columbine..I realize how lucky I really am to be a part of the 1 and ONLY "MTV Generation" We were truley the last on the boat for those experiences!!

  • @dmhharris 2011? You mean 2005-2008

  • At 1.07, what song is that. Please, I've been trying to remember the name for a long time.

  • @silverscreenname there are two songs mixed together..."what you need" by inxs and "i wanna go higher" by stereo mcs.

  • For all of you who miss the original MTV, DAPOW.com offers Continuous New Music Video Artists of all genres. Check it out and show support for the concept. Commercial Free, Non-Stop Music Videos... DAPOW.com

  • The problem started when they stopped showing Bananarama videos....then when Satan noticed this she put a curse on MTV and condemned them to show shit reality TV....forever

  • Once USA gave us great artists, now they gave us JUSTIN BIEBER and LADY GAGA.

  • @MrHandsonpaper not disagree with you that gag and beiber are both terrible, but the US isnt responsible for beiber, he was canadas fault

  • @ 3:40 "remember"? oh i remember! do you?

  • Seriously, MTV was only good for about six years. It was when they started playing Home Sweet Home every five minutes that it really started to suck big huge balls.

  • Historic TV moments indeed.

  • Back in the 80's we used to sing Nasty as "who's that eating that nasty taco? Nasty Steve". It was funny then but now it just seems mean.

  • @RadioLaPrincess Since then, "nasty" was redefined by Jackass :D

  • 30th!

  • Now is Shitty Television, miss the real MTV 80's and 90's.

  • I SO agree.... Stopandstare is SO right... MUSIC TELEVISION

  • Dire Straits said in best. I want my MTV.

    I want 80s video style.

    .. Not 10s useless reality garbage style.

  • When MTV was "MUSIC TELEVISION" not a bunch of losers on reality shows showing the whole world that they are losers. GO BACK TO THE MUSIC!

  • I remember taping some of the footage from their anniversary programming, which I since lost. I remember this clip, though, they were playing it repeatedly for a week or so.

  • IF you look at the schedule for a week of MTV programming , you will see that there is a lot of room for the shows on one channel and videos on the other. The way they fill time on the channels is by having mini marathon programming. Whats that you ask? ITs when they run 5 hours of one show then 4 of another. Really whos gonna sit and watch 5 hours 0f Cribs? THey are just lazy and dont care anymore

  • When time machines are invented, here is my to-do list:

    1. Go back in time to 1981 to warn the original MTV vj's about the new MTV. When they laugh and say that is impossible, I give them photo evidence.

    2. Apply for a job as a vj in 1990-late 90s and prevent rap and pop from rising in popularity; instead, I give more time to play hard rock, heavy metal, grunge, and 80s-mid 90s pop hits.

    3. Go to 1994, prevent Kurt Cobain's suicide.

    4. Kill Justin Bieber.

    5. Order = restored.

  • @IwantmyMTVback not rap dude rap talked about the problems this country has but u can take pop because its shit

  • @IwantmyMTVback If you do not acknowledge rap what's the point? '80s rap was integral to the success of MTV as well.Short sighted man. Short sighted.

  • @IwantmyMTVback Also, you never acknowledge the real cause, the root of MTV's demise. Reality TV shows. It's not rap, it's not pop music that's the problem or any style of music. After all, it was 'music television'. It's supposed to be agnostic. What it was never supposed to be, though, was a voyeurism channel.

  • @IwantmyMTVback Why rap? Rap and hip hop is awesome. So are other forms of music. And if rap being popular ruined MTV, then please explain Jersey Shore. All they listen to is electro. Your gun is pointed at the wrong target. 

  • @IwantmyMTVback First, I LOVE YOUR USER NAME!

    My "Back to the Past" TimeMachine list would be:

    1. Go back to 1982, Become a part of the Culture Club band (background singer idc) after Jon & Boy split, I come rushing in, turning him straight. hehe ;)

    2. Not so much heavy metal and grunge, more 80s & mid 90s pop, evolving into some of the good nowadays music. NO RAP!!

    3. Tell everyone in the Twin Towers to take a break for the day and come over for some ice cream & tell NG about the terrorists.

  • @IwantmyMTVback

    Why pop music? Some pop music isn't bad D:

  • @xRaineDropsx I meant like a good bit of the mainstream crap that rules the radio.

  • @IwantmyMTVback Make sure Justin Bieber does not get a proper burial.

  • @IwantmyMTVback never! old school rap ftw

  • @IwantmyMTVback

    Today's MTV should be renamed as CTV as in CrappyTV. I missed the old MTV!

  • what was the clip at 1:43?

  • @usmcdisabledvet Pat Benatar 'Love Is a Battlefield'

  • also at @0:40 is that waldo from Van Halen's Hot for Teacher I spy :D

  • Get shows like Jersey Skank off the air!! I want my MTV!

    Let's all hope Beavis and Butt-head are the crusaders to win MTV back. Kudos to Mike Judge for keeping his game classic!

  • I remember this 10th anniversary stuff and how it seemed like it'd been such a long time, and now it's 20 years since that. Funny to think this was a couple of months before Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" came along and MTV started catering to yet also exploiting grunge and so-called alternative rock. Now MTV doesn't acknowledge these anniversaries because 25 and 30 years makes it sound old.

  • I was very little to remember the late 80's, but I do remember the early 90's, I used to loooove MTV, I would watch it all the time, and thier cartoons like Daria were pretty cool too, it sucks now, I wish they's realized it and went back to what it was... MUSIC TELEVISION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!

  • REAL MUSIC

  • @crystalame and maybe next time you could try giving your advice to someone who actually cares.

  • That's Deee-Lite - groove is in the heart

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  • What video is at 1:59? just after the mc hammer??? Please?? 3 years searching and i can't find anything :(

  • @Ulisseslayer Deee-Lite - 'Groove Is In The Heart'

  • 3:51 Tsk. Such a waste of good cake. D:

  • It seems like the consensus is unanimous that MTV was once good but is now crap. One would think that whoever is in charge would realize this and go back to making MTV actually about music again. I'm genuinely curious how they're benefiting from airing nothing but boring garbage now. The bottom line in television is always profit, so maybe more viewers really ARE into stupid reality shows these days. I guess stranger things have happened.

  • @ral1334 I've often felt the exact same about SNL. I think they just have...I mean I think they're already super-rich and do things not for the money any more. Like they think they rule over everything.

  • happy 30th ann Mtv you suck now you was cool back then but now just suck.

  • MTV needs to start up a station and only play 1981-1991 videos. Well, maybe through 1994. I need some Blind Melon, REM, and Beavis and Butthead.

  • There's 50 times more fasicination in that exploding cake then there is in any Jersey Shore episode.

  • i just want a music industry that doesn't dwell on copyright issues and not launch brilliat songs into other countries. i want a music industry that plays ALL GENRES on every freakin music television. i dont want every frekain radio and music tv to just play gaga. what happened to the other brilliant artists? -_-

  • I'm 19, but was raised on classic rock and metal by my dad, I remember when I was younger (late 90s) they still played actual music on MTV, I loved it whenever Guns N Roses would come on. Now I agree with what everyone says, the network (along with VH1), is nothing but a shithole that promotes nothing but skank ass teenagers and weed smoking gangbangers. It's complete crap....

  • This is when it was good. Those were the glory days.

  • @NiNJASMUUCH - Groove Is In the Heart by Deee-lite

  • you know you're weird when you shout 'omg david bowie's bum!' 

  • This is when it was still good. The first 10 years were definitely the best. How the hell does the present MTV survive? It's shit. WTF is with all their reality shows nowadays? Oh well, at least there is the memories.

  • what's the vid @ 1:59?

    

  • LOL, Weird Al is in this video too.

  • damn, i mean some of the reality shows are cool, but it doesn't belong on MUSIC telivison. Make a new channel for those channels, and bring back MUSIC Telivison.

  • the hunger to go back to this time for soooo many is ridiculous. Why doesnt MTV wake up and create a 80's-90's channel again just for that era. I think they OWE the people that, its what MADE them to begin with.

  • Why is it still called MTV? Shouldn't it be called RTV(reality television).

  • @lrcdert2010 Moron Television, Last year they also cut off the programming for MTV Europe.

  • @nextstep333 So, there is no more MTV in Europe? If it sucks as bad as MTV here in America does, it's no great loss.

  • @KC1971J In Canada we can get the US stream of MTV Hits, which shows videos, MTV Europe has it own Local channels like MTV Spain and MTV Portugal, they are have MTV Rock, Pop, Jams.

  • @lrcdert2010 or they can just call it shit.

  • @lrcdert2010 not today.

    

  • MTV died  in 98-99 with TRL and cutting down music videos to 2 min 30 sec or so plus all the crap on there now

  • I'm still waiting for the smartest person in the room to tell me what the hell a show about pregnant teenagers has to do with music videos.

    PERIOD.

  • Great collections of 80s songs.

  • This was the time when I started watching MTV at the age of 7 years and it was sooooo cool!!!

  • give us the old rockin' MTV back..

  • 0:39

    Sit Down Waldo!!!

  • what song is this..1:00 to 1:04

    plz tell ME, im going nuts here!!!

  • @mrjeremyvids " Do You Really Want To Hurt Me " by Culture Club

  • The video at .42 is an INXS one that I can't remember but the video at .43 is The Art of Noise "Close to Edit".

  • @gypsy0158 The INXS vid to which you were referring is "Need You Tonight" the band's only #1 Billboard pop single.

  • Is it bad that I stayed perfectly sane the whole entire time?

  • The decline of MTV all started with reality shows..the first "Real World"...etc...The first 10 years of MTV was the best...they should just call themselves the teen retard channel now...I mean really who watches any of that garbage ?

  • @calmike14 "who watches any of that garbage"

    Answer: teen retards.

  • @calmike14 So you didn't like Beavis & Butthead either? They're coming back this summer.

  • what is the video at :42 AND :43

    IT IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!

    SOMEONE HELP

  • And where did it go??

  • Where's Nirvana?

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  • thank you very much indeed =)

  • Is it Higher Ground by Red Hot Chili Peppers at 2:13?

  • I can say that song is on which is among the minute 2:13 where it appears Axel Rose

    PLEASE!

  • Words (Missing Persons)

    Mickey (Toni Basil)

    Sunglasses At Night (Corey Hart)

    Electric Avenue (Eddy Grant)

    Vacation (The Go-Go's)

    Antmusic (Adam & The Ants)

    Everyday I Write The Book (Elvis Costello)

  • When Doves Cry (Prince) Express Yourself (again) She Blinded Me With Science (Thomas Dolby) Sowing The Seeds Of Love (Tears For Fears) Ahses To Ashes (again) Hurts So Good (John Mellencamp) Parents Just Don't Understand (DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince) Sledgehammer (again) Born In The USA (Bruce Springsteen) Summer Of '69 (Bryan Adams) Every Breath You Take (The Police) Burning Down The House (Talking Heads) Dancing With Myself (Billy Idol) Love Is A Battlefield (Pat Benatar)
  • Dirty Diana (Michael Jackson) We Didn't Start The Fire (Billy Joel) Losing My Religion (R.E.M.) Straight Up (Paula Abdul) I'm Still Standing (Elton John) Losing My Religon (again) Faith (George Michael) Epic (Faith No More) Welcome To The Jungle (Guns N Roses) Still Of The Night (Whitesnake) I Love Rock & Roll (Joan Jett) China Girl (David Bowie) Express Yourself (Madonna) Wicked Games (Chris Isaak) Father Figure (George Michael) Simply Irresistible (Robert Palmer)
  • Karma Chameleon (Culture Club) Nothin' Compares 2 U (Sinead O'Conner) Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics) Harlem Shuffle (Rolling Stones) The Boys Of Summer (Don Henley) Don't Come Around Here No More (Tom Petty) Live To Tell (Madonna) Hot For Teacher (Van Halen) Missionairy Man (Eurythmics) White Wedding (Billy Idol) Love Will Never Do (Janet Jackson) Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel) Land Of Confusion (Genesis) In The Air Tonight (Phil Collins) Cruel Summer (Bananarama)
  • Here's the list of video from the beginning and between the 3:47 mark and the 3:53 mark in order that's on the second version of The Image Factory: Higher Ground (Red Hot Chili Peppers) Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie) Shock The Monkey (Peter Gabriel) Need You Tonight (INXS) Money For Nothing (Dire Straits) Rockit (Herbie Hancock) Do You Wanna Touch Me (Joan Jett) Video Killed The Radio Star (The Buggles) California Girls (David Lee Roth) I Want A New Drug (Huey Lewis)
  • Ok I need to know the name of the song at 2:32 and the one after at 2:50 SOMEOME PLEASE HALP ME!

  • MTV sucks now! I cannot remember the last time I watched it:(

  • Does anyone have the second version of this video where they have extra stuff not shown on this version. It's taken from PBS' Alive TV in 1992?

  • 1983-89 was my teenage and i enjoyed watching MTV till early 2000-2001. Then the music was music. These songs remind me of my teenage. Those were the days.

  • I want my MTV! (the one from these images that is)

  • love music, love the 80s.

  • At 03:31 it's Tears For Fears with Sowing The Seeds of Love. :)

  • hi mtv have a look at my 80s song it is by me bradley kriel i have rimx it

  • fuck kanye west

  • Music Television - 10 Years Anniversary - The 1982-1989 Montage (1991)/MTV (1991)/MTV(1991)/Music Television (1991)

  • I was just pulled back 30 years....and I couldn't stay. (cry)

  • Here in the Philippines they call

    MTV Philippines. MTV is now

    global and nationwide

  • I agree about the absolute uselessness of MTV's programming now, but it doesn't mean videos can't be made and viewed anymore. The internet has changed a lot of things in the last 10 years. It's just a matter of evolution. We have websites like YouTube/Pitchfork/Consequence of Sound/etc where good video content can still be viewed. There is still creativity in the air and that'll never die out.

  • @TheSwiftDecline yeah that's true but the Corps. are claiming copyrights & blocking video sooo now it's not hardly 'FREE' here now either. :(

  • MTV used to be soooo great, but today you can't watch it anymore, it's crap...

  • The obvious reason as to why music sucks these days is simply the marketing schemes they use are soo manipulative. They put these stupid songs on itunes as singles for 1.29 when they shouldn't even sell singles like that. They should raise the price of singles and lower the album sales. Then see how many ppl will run out and buy a Ke$ha album. She should be a 1 hit wonder. These singles artists with their terrible music is taking over and its such ashame.

  • Man I'm 19 and i wish i was a teen in the 80s. Music was so much better back then mainly because of the variety that was shown all on one station. You could be black and of course love Janet and Michael but still have a love for Madonna and The Culture club or vice versa. Now all you have is the same wack people singing the same type of song which is trash. I don't even want MTV to show videos again especially if they're gonna show the people of today. Its not worth it actually.

  • LOL Bart Simpson & Friends in 1:38

  • People?

    Im from Germany, and now (2011) MTV goes to PayTV.

    That was it, MTV R.I.P in GER.

    Where is the good old MTV?

    The MTV we loved 1992?

    Im rly sad!

  • Can we just get rid of the reality shows and go back to MUSIC Television?

    -The Jersey Shore? A bunch of whores that live together and go to the beach alot? You need to be more creative than that.

    -Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant? A bunch of girls who shouldve kept their legs crossed? Yea i see enough of that at school.

    MTV Cribs? Seriously? I have a house too, wanna see!?? Sorry i dont have 9 cars, 4 pools and a home theatre. But i do have a pile of dirty clothes youre welcome to wash for me ;)

  • @xXxStopAndStarexXx Haha, couldn't have said it better myself.

  • @xXxStopAndStarexXx After we get rid of the reality shows, the music needs to live up to the 80's. No domination of one genre...and lots of bands making great music that we've never heard before. That was what made MTV so alluring back then.

  • @xXxStopAndStarexXx hahaha best comment fTw! :D

  • @xXxStopAndStarexXx How do you define that other sucky MTV reality show "The Hills"? Or "The Real World" or "Road Rules"?

  • @xXxStopAndStarexXx I think a bit of the problem may very well be that we simply don't have the depth in the music industry with a lack of real quality bands. The 80's stood out for one thing probably more than anything else and that was the tidal wave of genuinely kickass bands and performers knocking out track after track of truely awesome music. It's a shame I just don't think there is as much talent around these days.

  • I use to feel that way i was a teen in the 90's and a kid in 80's we wanted music video. But kids today don't care to see music videos on tv anymore. because they have the internet.@xXxStopAndStarexXx

  • @xXxStopAndStarexXx Next time try voicing your opinion without being a misogynistic ass wipe.

  • @xXxStopAndStarexXx - costs too much. Much easier to make so-called "reality shows", dumb down the population, and pocket the difference

  • haha so awesome :D

    i like those videos in the background

    even though i want the old MTV back, i want the MTV format like it used to be in the early 90s of music videos and some very little shows and commercial breaks had music videos in between the shows. instead i have to wake up early to see them and/or go through the trouble and look them up online :/

  • also im 18 not someone who grew up when it launched

  • whats the name of the song at 3:18

    would really appreciate it if someone could tell me the name of that song :)tnx in advance

  • @Nathaniel2888

    Take On Me by Aha

  • @arturocas90

    Thank you soo much :)

  • Honestly MTV's descent started in the late 80's when the certain elements complained that the network was racist. Labels threatened to pull their vids if MTV did not diversify and so it did. Its ratings plummeted and they received complaints but refused to offer any balance. To try to regain its audience, MTV started airing movies, cartoons, then game shows, and started the well detested reality show trend. I haven't watched MTV since the late 80's.

  • @threadgillb I remember that debate--MTV defended itself saying it was a ROCK station. I'm all for diversity, but I wonder, could it have diversified in more marketable ways?

  • please someone make the timemachine!!!

  • MTV was about the music then... now they're just really lame... They soooooooooooooooo sold out..... Music is important to me.... They need to change they're name... I wish a real music channel still existed

  • Was that Genesis in 1:21, followed by Devo?

  • I remember this commercial. Finally, taped it on some VCR tape between movies...and now, who even has VCR's? Yep, MTv was big back then. Premiers were something to keep up on. Funny to think back to then.

  • you can see MJ the most....

  • @poojasp1995 Maddona as well.

  • im just glad i got to grow up in the 80's todays music is just crap i dont listen to it ...ireally cant see any of todays band comeing out with 10 plus albums with just about every song being good.....but wish i was a teen in the 60's and 70's so i could have seen all the greats live hendrix the doors zeppelin beatles floyd in there hey day but i did get to see floyd live twice in 94 so its still good .....but could have been better