Guns N Roses wins VMA 1989

[shotsauced]

2:04, Tommy gets the message from Steven that he's too fucked up to be on stage.

[SweetGunsOMine96]

1:48

Ahahahahaah <3

[90192100]

seriously i listen to "old" music and to this crap that we can't even call music and I wonder "how did MUSIC came to this?", i mean how did music changed this much........

[30entersandman]

metallica one is better ! this is epic and scary video ! i love this !

[LoisEatsDinos]

N'aw Duff is so adorable :)

[carlosz013]

sorry Metallica... SAD BUT TRUE..!!!

[skyisfelling]

wowwww.... i didn't know Def Leppard's pour some sugar was the same year..... also one of my fav songs of all time, but Sweet Child is right up there as one of the best songs of all time

[yojoe71]

who is the band announcing them?

[Kamka1978]

@yojoe71 Motley Crue

[yojoe71]

@Kamka1978 thx

[94Cioppa]

One is the best videos of all time. Metallica should have won

[CrushedJustice]

so im watching the VMA's today and these nominees are way better

[CreepingMetallica91]

Guns N Roses And The Rest Of The Nominees Are Good And All, But, Seriously?? They're In The Catagory For HEAVY "METAL"???!!!! I Think They Very Clearly Confused 80's Hair Bands, With Real Metal, I Love All The Nominees, Especially Metallica, But Metallica Really Did Deserve That Award More Than GnR, I Mean, One, easily one of Metallica's most brutal, heaviest songs, and the video is just like eerie and dark along with the lyrics. This Was Some Bullshit......

[kaybye6]

WTF..I was hoping for some Aerosmith....I mean I fukin love GNR as well but not like I adore Aerosmith!!!!! Rag Doll!!!

[RocknRollHairMetal]

Motley Crue and Guns n Roses my favorite bands :)

[roketfingers]

the guy at 1:29 wearing the black n white striped jacket is andrew dice clay !!!! love that guy!!

[daryn1901]

jezzz!! i can't believe sweet child o' mine and one had compited against each other once.. i personally think they shouldn't be listed in the same category but both are masterpieces.. everyone here is right music nowadays compared to this is sh&t!

[HateMePlz123]

guns n roses are NOT hair metal

i know theyr not heavy metal but theyr not hair metal

[Ashe1031]

I love how they credit Metallica xD

[GabeGuitarr]

nothing will ever be this monumental ever again

[mmtna]

true true mainstream music in general sucks ass these days 

[fadcdrake]

The only heavy metal band I saw here was Metallica.... the rest are all hair metal... Yes even Aerosmith and Guns n Roses.... and NO Guns & roses are not thrash metal...not even close....

[hatecrewify]

@fadcdrake what makes u think they r hair metal??

[3021906]

izzys not there that sucks

[baxtodato]

where are Axl and slash ?

[milio1995]

lol steve :)

[51391kelsey]

def leppard should have wonnnnn

[ro42023]

good god look at all that hair

[SixStringIcon]

Famadeus101 @ Who the fuck is King Of Leon? I'm going to check it out...I'm pretty sure it's going to be trash.

[bozhno]

There's one problem... None of these songs are metal except for Metallica's One so this list is practically crap and should be called rock videos and not metal. Not saying anything against songs, just against the list.

[boyxdance]

@bozhno the list should be called "hard rock" videos, not rock videos like you say

Rock is a broad genre that includes the white rock (punk, new wave, hard rock, heavy metal, grunge, etc) and the black rock (soul, funk, disco, dance, etc)

but in this case it may be called heavy metal videos or hard rock /heavy metal videos but not rock videos

[90260]

tough nomination card

[jorgeiramain]

0:47 what a damm beauty girl and all the nominated songs kick major ass

[MrSoulSamCooke]

Check that put

What a hot year for music

And each song they nominated are classics now!

How funny is that!! Lol

[xylxy]

is there any member of guns and roses who are alive?

who?

[JohnnyPieBucket]

@xylxy all of them...

[sloppiejoe87]

the only real metal band was nominated was metalllica...GNR & areosmith are rock not metal

[jorgeiramain]

because heavy metal is not so popular like rock or hard rock but G N' R and aersomith have very hard songs

[xFFTLxETFx4lyfx]

i was born in the wrong fuckin decade. it pisses me off that all the vmas now is just a bunch of rap and pop music. I wish they still had music like this now.

[ronan5547]

is this the awards where vince decks out izzy?

[CrushedJustice]

wow music was actaully nominated in these days

[Scampbell32]

As i was watching i was like "WOW AREOSMITH!! WOW DEF LEPPARD! OMG, SWEET CHILD O MINE??" and i looked at the description that said metallica lost, so i knew they were last. and i was like "i think the only song that could beat sweet child o mine would be...one!" and they still lost! then i realized..."WHO CARES??"in 5 years the nominees for best rock video are gunna be lady gaga, kesha, justin bieber, miley cyrus, and katy perry...

[SoftballCheer6]

i 100% agree with MCfan88,

Music now a days is not even REAL music, its lady gaga, justin beiber, and hip hop shit, what happened to the real music like guns n roses? Rock music is the best out there and "today's rock" STILL isnt the way it should be. Nickleback? Kings and queens? Lincoln park? NOTHING like 80's rock. I hope and pray the music industry starts playing good, real music! i really do. Im 13 years old, and im a girl, all my friends r preppy and listen to todays music,xcept me hah

[Famadeus101]

Kings of Leon can outdo most of your 80's band in terms of musicianship and acclaim. I guess if listening to debauchery like dullshit party rock music is your greater form of art than you are right

[BDFPA]

@Famadeus101 Really? That's a good attempt at starting an argument, but you still fail. Rock from the 60's - 80's is unbeatable in every sense of the word. But in retrospect if you are talking about musicianship then no one come's close to the classical musicians.

[bonfirejovi]

@BDFPA jazz musicians come pretty close

[bonfirejovi]

@Famadeus101 hahahaha mp they can't. kings of leon are a joke, none of their songs require any musicianship. try playing an extreme, queensryche or dream theater song by ear and compare it a bad doors cover band. you are way out of your depth, 80s heavy metal musicians like steve vai were good enough to play with zappa while pop bands like the kings of leon would be designated to his towel boy. indie music is a bad joke, no talent required whatsoever... apart from muse.

[SixStringIcon]

@Famadeus101 Yup, I was right. That band sucks dude..seriously. I hope you were joking about them

[Famadeus101]

@SixStringIcon The critics (new and old) seem to disagree with you. And they give credit were its rightfully due like they did with Guns in 80s.

[crackernumber2]

@Famadeus101 LOL leon is ok, but trying to compare one band to a whole decade shows you have no clue at all about music. sorry to break it 2 ya.

[AbbyxGraf]

Wow I love the ending when motley crue walks off with duff and steven ! I love all of those guys . (:

[tamedlorie]

Wow check the nominees: Aerosmith for "Rag Doll", Def Leppard for "pour Some Sugar On Me," Guns n Roses for "Sweet Child O' Mine," Metallica for "One."

THANK GOD I'M NOT PART OF THE JUDGES!

[Theloquito96]

OLD GUNS N' ROSES 4EVER!!!!

[TheGhettoFineLaxer]

Best bands of all time right there.

[supperunknown]

aah that was sweet :)

Axl wouldn't have dedicated it to metallica,

he would probably thank himself for a half hour

[TheGrungeLibertarian]

The only legit metal band out of all those guys was Metallica. Every other band was hard rock or rock n' roll.

[Numba1Gama]

@TheGrungeLibertarian Yeah, Def Leppard hated it when people call them heavy metal, back then, and still do. So I don't really understand when some people give Def Leppard shit for that because they never tried to bill that they were heavy metal. In a 1988 interview in Japan he corrects the reporter and says "No, not metal, hard rock"

[DEEDRA017]

god steve adler looks so fuckin different now

[MissSweetChildOMine]

If only this was the 2010 vmas.........

[chust1n]

let's see Kanye ruin this one.....

[vonnicolai]

@chust1n Both Motley Crue and Duff+ steven would kick his ass lol =P

[SoftballCheer6]

@chust1n haha

[2346]

hey music artist today may have over 200 million views on youtube but real bands have over 200 million views from the past and over 100 million fans through a time span over 40+ years i wanna see lady gaga being listened to 40 years from now

[ubn00b]

hahaha look at those fucktards when they say guns n roses.motley crue sucks

[GlamMetal38]

@ubn00b fuck you asshole the crue fuckin rules and your the fucktard

[ghoultool]

good thing it cuts out before arsenio says whatever he was going to say

fucking asshole

[chefjayson1979]

nothing against the bands that were nominated but with the exceotion of metallica how can the others actually be considered heavy metal, even for that time. i think a more acurate list of nomines would be metallica,iron maiden, ozzy, slayer, anthrax, the list could go on, bands like aerosmith guns n roses and def leapard r great, but seriously, heavy metal no fuckin way

[jorgeiramain]

@chefjayson1979 that's wright but I prefer hard rock and rock and roll to listen heavy metal

[KullGurl810]

Dude.... AEROSMITH, DEF LEPPARD, GUNS N' ROSES, METALLICA !! I'd give them all a VMA :D

pity, these days vma goes to gaga, rihanna and other crap ! >.<

[lionesss666]

this looks like '88 not '89....

[Estranged68]

Welcome to the world of Motley FUCKIN Crue and Guns N' FUCKINN Roses!!!!!! Two best bands that ever walked this earth on stage.... AWESOME...

[amf188]

dont forget justin fucker

[flogworth]

gn'r is my favorite band but "one" is such an awesome song.

[izzystradlingnr10]

@gleuber94 u r wierd and a fat motherfucker

[gleuber94]

METALLICA IS THE BEST GUNS N ROSES IS POSER MOTHERFUCKERS

[ofalltheranters]

Where was Axl Slash and Izzy? Lol

I love Steven at 1:48

[Danjoker619]

i gotta find a way to go back in time, and live the whole 80's where there was good music!!!!!!!

[RhinierZ]

I mean can you fucking BELIEVE how good music was back then. FUCK

[tecnolocoshagrath]

So fucking amazing, these years was the best

[killyourtyrant]

Oh boy and it's Motley Crue that gives it to them. Who knew that a little while later...

[Danjoker619]

I don't bother Guns and Roses win, because i like sweet child o mine, but c'mon One was the only Heavy metal music video

[Madelaine2121]

yaaaay lovee motley andd gunnsss : )

[comm09]

only during this two years on MTV,could you get,These!,..,& Kylie Minogue MTV Vintage,in the same MTV PLace,2 decades,Covers Alot of world wide culture,YES!!!...,I AM PROUD TOO BE AN AMERICAN!!!...

[WhatTheValle]

ahhh steven and duff... but sweet not is Heavy metal, is rock pop. but i a gunner, and...and.... what ever GUNS N FUCKING ROSES rocks!

[theladieschains2]

yeah i dont know what the fuck happened to the music business, it went and got itself pussified these days, holy shit what a difference 20 years can make, jonas brothers?????? what the fuck

[PUREx25]

gotta love duff's hair

[MrMariokiller]

funny how its duff and steven slash axl and izzy out doing shit lol

[vinniethecoolest]

@pachor2

I did live back then and it was indeed awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

17 years old i was, and a fan for ever.

Legendary bands, motley too.

[pachor2]

look at the nominees...Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Guns n' Roses, and Metallica. When do we ever see nominees of that caliber on these days? I wish I was alive back then watching this at home with all these bands being all over the place. Now we have fucking Linkin Park, Fallout Boys and all that fucking bullshit.

[mclal]

Im so glad you pointed that out.... all about the 80's and the old school!!

[Danjoker619]

@pachor2 I know dude, all the legends are there. OMG dude i wish all this could be happening right now, METALLICA and Guns & Roses, fuck man, nothing compares to them.

[rexkommher1]

@pachor2 im 42 and it sucks.but when i was 21 these band were on .thank god for that

[3M00RI]

@pachor2 i ear you man

[RadicalLucy]

@pachor2 i totally agree and have same thoughts as you, I wish i was born back lol

[Diehardslashfan]

@pachor2 sorry but my band broke up :D

[sa6o9025]

just ''one'' is heavy metal :d

[LaNianfiFru]

Steven's voice was perfect, now I must hear very carefully to understand him.....I love you Steven!!!!!

[Goshman321]

i really do believe that a rock n' roll revolution is comming just give it another 5-10 years. and they will all be doing it for the MUSIC! not the money!

[lagr08]

Wow, that's alot of hair on stage at one time

[200anee]

Guns N' Roses!!!!

[MyDeathslayer]

metallica was better but guns deserd and they dedicated it to metallica

go guns and metallica

[habiteni]

sweet child o mine heavy metal?? WTF

[libertarian93]

@habiteni the band itself was considered heavy metal but that song is a rock ballad

[ciranno]

@habiteni ragdoll is even less

[CrushedJustice]

@habiteni it should've been welcome to the jungle...

[XXcowboyfromhell]

I completely agree with you abbyeric. and fuck you peppermintcreepsify! Metallica = the shit

[peppermintcreepsify]

FUCK METALLICA !

[peppermintcreepsify]

FUCK METALLICA!!!!!

[VH5150MetallicaFan]

peppermintcreepsify= U FUCKING SUCK ASS MOTHER FUCKER

[peppermintcreepsify]

I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN UR EATING OUT OF UR MOMS PUSSY

go fuck urself u fag

metallica are fags!

[abbyeric]

so glad i grew up watching this, god how todays music sucks! This was the time when music awards shows were cool. Todays music is so fake!

[wastagwaga]

OMG LOOK AT ALL THOSE HAIR.

[brianasaurus20]

dis 2mins of video shows just how fuckin shit music is these days,the quality of guns,metallica,aerosmith an leppard al in the 1 clip,wish music had bands of dat callibre 2day,music now,even rock, is 2 fuckin commercial and nobody wants 2 b controversial everybody jus wants 2 b liked,such a loada balls!

[Xx7015xX]

lol i love Steven...

[dickkwikkwek]

lmao. "jethro thull isn't nominated"

Aerosmith: awesome

Guns 'n Roses: awesome

Metallica: awesome

God, music sucks today. Is just fucking sucks ass.

And look how fucking wasted they are accepting the award, rofl.

[Marko0190]

There Was A Time...

[felipoyoalegria]

todos esos grupos eran hard rock -.- y metallica trash metal de todos modos deveria ganar metallica xq le mete el pingo 10000 a 0 y tenian q ganar estos maricones de los guns n' roses -.-

[MadeInHeaven0]

@felipoyoalegria creo que usted no sabe lo que es guns and roses, esta banda logro en poco mas de 6 años de vida lo que muchas han logrado en 20 0 25 años, es cierto que metallica con one merecia ganar, pero tenian en frente a sweet child o mine considerada una de las tres mejores canciones de la historia, fue un grupo increible, se acabo punto...

[squibster]

Gun N' Roses has major respect for metallica and rightfully so. But the Jethro Tull thing was just stupid, Metallica has and will always be better then Jethro Tull. On a side not the crowd roared when the announcer showing the videos said metallica and Guns N' Roses.

[snowflakett]

what does steven say about metallica?

[KillRideMasterAnd]

thats really cool what duff said about metallica... metallica got so robbed with the whole jethro tull thing... ..pisses me off to this day

[kingura]

what did steven said??

[eunicejules]

was this the same vmas that they performed at????

[Metalllians86]

i really wish vma is like this....in the 80's vma its all about rock n roll!!!...now...its like hi hop r&b and shit...

[200anee]

ha . . . and who says that metallica is the best band ever

[MrStylemogger]

Wow they beat some huge songs there! and where was Axl? like i have to ask... probably taking a shower and didnt realise the MTV awards was that night.. lol

[MCfan88]

Man, I wish music was still like this today and the VMAs were given to bands like Guns N' Roses and Metallica. Unfortunately, now its all about the fuckin Jonas faggs and lady gaga bullshit.

[Coreythecheese]

@MCfan88 Perfect motivation to go out, start a band with some attitude and spit in the face of such shit. It's a double edged sword - the hatred that such superficial shit fills us with motivates us to go out and do something about it.

[dudu90tm]

@MCfan88 true :(

[chivas4lif13]

metallica should have won that

[snowflakett]

Who presents the award?

[ninasky1984]

Motley Crue.

[pesmith8768]

go live in a closet (cut off from society) and cut urself till u bleed to seem cool, with ur Sepultura.

[mk4life1]

My two favorite ex members here.

[double91trouble]

Man those were some badass nominees. It's cool how they took it for Metallica. I love Guns N Roses.

[ImOutlawXXX]

That is funny how Steven yells.

[snowflakett]

What did Steven say after "Metallica..." he said something like "Metallica..... Gotta knee 'em"

[Gotynhagnr]

GN'R the best!

kkkkkkkkkkkk!

[richiesamticco]

fuk you dik head ya fukin geek

[FranciscoJavierChiRo]

The number one is Sepultura, is real music, real thrash, real metal, Guns and Roses, Motley Crue, Poison and bands like them glam are stupid trasvestis females.

[maconhadalata]

seu cu sujo e arrombado seu filho de uma puta! sepultura de cu e rola!

[Hilgersom12]

you're a pussy

[2ber90]

you are so stupid that group is a shit what piece of crap

[yourXfatalXaddiction]

GNR wasn't a glam band. You didn't see Axl or Slash walking around with teased hair.

[Steve92crue]

haha yes you did

[Irishpatty17]

Dude, check the "jungle" vid, Axl's hair is teased as a muthafucker, but that was the one an only time, and no they certainly we're NOT Glam!!!

[Manifresh69]

lol none of that was metal

[FranciscoJavierChiRo]

the best band for all time is Sepultura from Brasil (thrash and Heavy MetaL)...no dude...Guns and Roses are fucking pussys.

[2ber90]

hahahahahahaha lol are you droug ? or something

[MeTaLiXe]

FUCK jethro tull, he can fuck his flute mother fucker.

he doesn't even deserve to be in a metal label. fuck mtv fuck grammy

mtv used to show real music. but now they are so gay. they show 50 cent's dick all day just cause he's rich and gives mtv money fuck those sell outs.

guns n roses n metallica like bands play real music.

[WarningPunkSpirit]

yeah you're so right!! real music ended in the '90's now there's only fuck'in comercial

[xBruusx]

Mötley Crüe and Guns, can it be better?

[zackypooofillinois]

how are most of those videos considered metal???

[MrSlashguitar93]

dude...shut up

[7domaju7]

Because back then there wasn't the screaming stuff that people consider metal today. Like From First to Last, Children of Bodom and stuff like that. It wasn't mainstream back then so this was and always will be METAL

[RicRam76]

Lol. A white version of Kanye West should've went on stage and said "Metallica had one of the best videos of all time" lol

[agirard77]

where's kanye and beyonce and justin timberlake and 50 cent and eminem?......musta been nice

[7domaju7]

These days would have been MUCH better for these awards

[Anglynn74]

oh gee look, back when the vma's were actually entertaining

[br71488]

sweet child o' mine is a masterpiece, in my opinion guns n roses best song..i dont believe its metal more hard rock, some tracks off appetite could pass for metal tho..ie welcome to the jungle, nightrain

[Dustehue928]

HAHA!

Duff: Heya we wanna thank everyone for *Interrupting Steven*

Steven: AAAEEEOOUUU!!!!

[fightingfoos]

Billy Corgan

[8Eriquo8]

hey there was music on MTV at one point?

[d0ct0rsweet]

nice point

[Scary2Stroke]

metallica shoulda won but i guess they ended up with the trophy anyways

[Jmangan412]

Um where is axl izzy and slash????

[KillEmAll009]

WTF!!! sweet child o mine es pop-rock... y one es metal puro!!!!! este estaba mas arreglado que la mierda!!!

[bloddyslayer]

say what u have to say in english fucker.

[Henrique11eu]

Sweet Child o' Mine forever

[2ber90]

Sweet Child O Mine is better than One O.o

[slayereren6]

i think one better than this. GNR good but they don't heavy or trash metal

[BaldomeroRococo]

People complain that Guns N' Roses weren't Heavy Metal enough, but the category wasn't called Thrash Metal video either, and besides it's Mtv, what do they know? don't lose sleep about this, it was 20 years ago...

[gunsnroses1ful]

no they didnt and sweet child o mine is way better than one

[RightWingDarren]

Fuck it should have been metallica,fucking GNR had one good album and thats it