Mtv Original Broadcast Thursday March 17th , 1983 Part 4

[crazydavesemporium]

This song always made me dance.

[progrocker69]

This was my 14th birthday. I didn't have MTV, or even cable, because my mother was a compulsive gambling, alcoholic malignant narcissist who couldn't spare the monthly fee what with all the cigarettes and booze she had to buy. At least there was still FM radio.

But damn if watching this isn't about to make me cry, and not just for myself but for the absolute sick state of commercial music today and especially for the loss of the once great MTV.

Piss off you greedy corporate fucks.

[jadams2768]

From class and awesome rockers to no class crap like Jersey Shore

[RAID970]

the consumer reports number doesnt work what the hell? Just kidding hahaha

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@RAID970 A lot of old 1-800 numbers have been recycled and bought by sleazy dating agencies to turn them into sex hotlines. The Angry Video Game nerd did a video on an NES game titled "Wally Bear and the NO! Gang" that featured a phone number; 1-800-HI-WALLY that was turned into a sex hotline by the time AVGN got a chance to review the game.

[lidarman2]

Think of all the money you made with the money you didn't spend on consumer reports!

[Lissabon]

Man! Chrissie Hynde at her very best!!

[choo5390]

MTV was once a highly profitable *Music Television Video* (MTV) until the jews bought it out and turned it into a gay and lesbian real life docudrama channel. Now it's simply a deviant sex channel aimed at our youth. They have since bought out most all the American TV channels, along with their "talk radio" aiming at.dumb American voters that will not check into their media ownership and want to be spoon fed.. You can see our foreign policies reflecting their views,,,brilliant on their part.

[DeepSouthWrestling1]

@choo5390 : Jeez, blaming "the jews" literally takes any credibility you might have had straight out of your argument... "jews" aren't the only ones who profit from dumbing down the masses. Look at how many idiots there are who actually believe in Christianity!! Talk about a tool to brainwash the ignorant...

[lilbrother45]

Damn MTV WAS cool. Now they are down to re-releasing old shows like beavis and butthead.

[BigOrangeTitan]

@lilbrother45 Beavis and Butthead is worth watching though.

[Korndawg79]

@lilbrother45

What is gonna be interesting though is if today's generation feels "called out" on the bullshit they are force-fed by MTV as "programming" and realizes that much of it is absolute brain-rot. Probably not, since we are apparently raising a generation to strive to be Snooki and The Situation and be brainless, dependent, drains on society at large. Nothing wrong with partying, but for God's sakes, be a worthwhile human being in the meantime for change instead of a waste of sperm.

[mdogg760]

Young turks, Love that song.

[howardtheman]

This was when music was good,the old days of turning on MTV and watching music video all day all night.

[rottro]

So who didn't want to hump Nina Blackwood? After Yo MTV Raps started it became Hey MTV sucks. And everyone laughed at VH1, who still plays music? RIP MTV

[swamprat79]

@rottro You know VH1 is an MTV/Viacom network, right?

[fuckyourmother1960]

Groovie man groovie

[sladerock]

Man, I miss the good old days of MTV, when it was cutting edge and played videos and had great VJs. Oh well that's how things are. Greed in the disguise of progress ruins the truly great things in the world! Long live MTV in our memories,because that's all we have left.

[cardo1111]

Great footage, reminds me of the days when MTV was actually "music" television. I was hoping to see Dire Straits Money for Nothing..lol. That got plenty of airtime back in the day. Thanks for posting!

[dalekenbuck]

@cardo1111 Money for Nothing came out in 1985

[CarynMBurke]

Dear Drew, Here's to you...fantastic tunage from you...and big lessons learned from Facebook scandal. Devotedly, "toe-less stockings & Sweetwater Golf in the dark"

[CarynMBurke]

Where's my 'I love Steve' pin? Like it or not ...you;ll always remain my 1st love. I still love you...my drummer boy.

[Neptuneman07]

Even in the 90s, VH1 was the place for the retro-80s MTV stuff. After 1998, both channels went downhill quickly. I'd rather watch this any-day over the current Jersey Shore stuff.

[Anglynn74]

Consumer Reports commercial - yes kids, in the days before the internet we had to read books!

[iheartnerds12]

What's the song in the beginning? I loooove it.

[MMacG1167]

@iheartnerds12

It's called "Young Turks", by Rod Stewart.

[reg12269]

so funny.. in beginning with taxxi, thought it was hall and oates' say it isnt so!

[1wantmyMTV]

Nina blackwood posted this on her facebook fan page a few days ago....TOTALLY agree with everyone else - these were the days!!! these were the original VJs and they had it right....a visual alternative to the radio - short talks in between music, NOT a channel full of reality shows!!!! the MTV from the 80s is SO much better!!!!!

[Tangerinez77]

Part 2 &3 :( Dang I miss the days when $ wasn't everything!

[peters9nine]

I find myself watching these videos a few hours each week.

Feels like I'm going back in time. In real time.

[aprilschone1]

Ah....the REAL mtv.....:)

[gabsylv]

iT Was just music then, now it's nostalgia lol

[MrRadarrat]

Wow, this brings back great memories, unfortunately I missed a large part ot the 80's being stationed over seas in Germany, but the music still made it across the pond....Long live real music

[FairBolFL]

MTV of today SUCKS......almost 30 years after the original DJ uttered the words "ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll", there is NO MUSIC on "Music Television". Just crap like "Jersey Shore" and "True Life". Might as well change the name to "Reality Television". Here's a project for all you classic MTV fans like me....call or write Viacom and get vocal!! BOYCOTT MTV!! If there is no demand for this crap, MTV will be forced to change back or die! Tell 'em "I want my MTV......BACK!"

[Wisconsin222]

@FairBolFL Or we as culture can assume the "M" in MTV means Moron, making it Moron Television.

[1989hirokazu]

@FairBolFL I called My cable company after that, and i yelled out I WANT MY MTV!.....BACK! the lady just laughed and said "don't we all?"

[davidpcoppola]

Hynde was pregnant shooting that vid. It's obvious with the jean jacket on.

[AceptableDestruction]

Holy Shit $14 for a subscription! And I thought he'd say $19.99 but no.

[judylynnmeeks]

i was 12 when i watched mtv first air on cable. i remember it like it was yesterday. i was hooked and grew up with it. i wish they had a channel just to air the reruns of mtv just like they do for the old shows. i wonder where and what the 5 original vj's are doing today?

hugs

[gayboytommy20010]

wish she was mtv again mtv sucks now that the 80s have come and gone

[fgldnglbs]

Pick up an axe, Chrissie and don't be so, ahem, Precious.

Zoom forward to when she said to the song's dedicatees, "put on the kettle, Martin and I will be joining you soon." Hope they don't know something we don't.

A few good moments since, but by Chrissie's admission, they've been their own tribute band since "Learning to Crawl."

[whisperingdeath308]

I was there when MTV made its first debut and between Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and Pat Benatar. I think Chrissie was so hot, but Pat was just as awesome. The 80's were way to cool I wish i could time travel back to 1980 and do the 80's all over again.

[fluffydolly]

the good ol days!!!!

[gayboytommy20010]

why do peolpe think think this kind of music rocks.the 80s suck.they are a bunch of druggies,alcholoics long live hip hop

[marc08110]

IF MTV WOULD ONLY START PLAYING MUSIC VIDEOS AGAIN.....!!!! THEY MADE & BROKE ARTIST......NOW A DAYS REALITY T.V MAKES ARTIST WITH NO TRUE TALENT.....WE'RE FED CRAP & THINK IT'S IT'S TRUE GENIOUS.....PLEASE GO BACK TO THOSE GLORY DAYS....YOU DON'T NEED TO BRING BACK THE V.J'S JUST THE MUSIC SO WE CAN THINK FOR OURSELVES AGAIN

[DutchVanSaxon]

I was 12 and hooked on Mtv when this aired.

[DeepSouthWrestling1]

That dude in Taxxi has a BAD ASS "Members Only" jacket!!!! The blue satin job's tight, too...

[TheSwiftDecline]

Somehow I get the feeling that New Order probably got the idea for the whole "people falling in the air" thing for their "Bizarre Love Triangle" video from The Pretenders :^P

[babeeshopiez123]

@TheSwiftDecline The new world order? explain further please???

[TheSwiftDecline]

@babeeshopiez123 I'm talking about the band New Order, you ignoramus.

[TheSwiftDecline]

@babeeshopiez123 Learn to read, you doofus.

[clickflicker]

at least consumer reports hasn't changed...

[brannon67]

Yeah, I was 15 when MTV debuted, and I loved it. I think it stayed on 24/7 in my room back then, unless I was watching a good movie(80's movie). I really miss MTV MUSIC TELEVISION. Thats gone now. It not MUSIC Television now. Its Jersey Shore, The Hills, 17 and pregnant, or whatever the hell it is called, Sweet Sixteen, and other bull shit reality programs, which have nothing to do with music. Oh well, I guess thats why they dropped the music television from the name. Sad.

[peters9nine]

Thank's for bringing me back to my freshmen year in H.S.

[fluffydolly]

i want real mtv back....thanksto you dalekenbuck.....you rock...ol skool!!!

[dalekenbuck]

Part 3 was removed ...sorry !

[sancombru]

@dalekenbuck What the hell r u talking about?? I just watched part 3.

[ClassicMTV1]

@sancombru Dude you watched Part 3 of a different broadcast from a different day.

[sancombru]

@ClassicMTV1 Ur right, my bad.

:P

[Silentzio]

@dalekenbuck EMI can suck my balls. This is a documentary of a cultural milestone dammit.

[polaco327]

@dalekenbuck why was it removed?

[krowy86]

There's no part 3? I can't find it...

[danewson]

I tried to call this 1800 number and it didn't work.

[Lesrevesdhiver]

@danewson If you got ahold of that book, can you imagine how inexpensive things would be, and just think - NO references to websites. After the number, my mind could not help waiting for, "or visit us on the web at..."

[bds1167]

Saw this video many times in '83.... Elizabeth Dailey was so hot as the mom to be, as well as 'Valley Girl' and 'Fandango'...... The Pretenders, The Police, ABC, The Clash.... Fucking awesome vids and a kick ass summer before sophomore year in high school!!!

[cborner1]

I discovered MTV in sept. 83 when i moved from europe to West Chester PA for a year. It really was MTV back then, None of that crap we have now. Now it's Moron TV with underaged retards celebrating birthdays and other stupid stuffs full of nerds. What a shame and what a waist. Thanks to anybody who posted these videos from the eighties. Great memories.

We used to gather in my den with a bottle of Jack and a case of Miller an we had wild fun all nite...and a few hardons looking at Martha Quinn

[GialloHorror]

Dale, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reliving so many great, childhood, memories. LOVE the commercials too lol!

[earlymtv]

just think in 1981,, nirvana had nothing on anyone for they wernt even around yet, thank god. but i think alot of things are timing. i belive even if they or pearl jam would have came out n 81, it would have failed. cause there wasn't a market for that kind of music yet....Its funny in just 10 yrs later how things can change..

[Diskoboy1974]

MTV lost it's soul in 1985. It remained watchable until 1991. It officially died when "Smells Like Teen Spirit" played for the first time. It was all downhill from there.

Nirvana came and destroyed everything. They cut every other genere of music out, at the time, and that turned alot of viewers, like myself, away.

But pre-Viacom MTV.... To quote Indiana Jones; "It belongs in a museum!". Actually, it belongs here, but lawyers have to be assholes and ruin everything.

[imachildofthe80s8089]

@Diskoboy1974 yeah 1983(the year I began watching) really purked up and put MTV on the map!(no more "soft" music no more disco and no more "lame" rock, you know what I mean. We got more of a variety with dance/pop(Lauper, Madonna) more black artists(Jackson, Prince, Ritchie, Kool and the Gang, Donna Summer) and great rock(but of course that got boring after awhile.

[brannon67]

@Diskoboy1974 I totally agree with you, I could not stand Nirvana. They wrecked it all in my opinion, or help to anyway.

[sbrushfan]

@brannon67 Finally! Someone else who didn't worship Kurt Cobain! THANK YOU!!! Nerdvana were just a tuneless pile of garbage.

[noqa]

Gee, i wonder how reliable that Consumer Reports Buying Guide is by today's standards.

[fluffydolly]

fond memories of my teens.

[slaperbonatto]

Unfortunelly, part 3 was removed because problems with Universal Media Group. But is so good see how was MTV in your better form.

[SaskBlade]

The lead singer of Taxxi sounds just like Bono.

[Gerkinstock]

The singer from Los Lobos who sang "Will the Wolf Survive?" sounds just like Steve Winwood. This is in response to your comment, not the clip you were commenting on.

[ricbowenjr]

@SaskBlade

No he sounds like Lou Gramm from Foreigner.

[PattyLove8888]

1:14 ♥

[bwall002]

Young Turks was one of my favorite early MTV videos.

[samsmutt]

Too bad for all of us people who loved MTV the way it was when it first came out, that is.

[samsmutt]

This channel went downhill REALLY quickly once Viacom bought it. It's obvious that their attitude wasn't "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." It's clear they thought that if playing a big hit once was good, then playing that same hit and other hits over and over would be even better. Once MTV started playing the big hits too much, it suffered and died. It got really boring to watch. When the original VJs left, that was the beginning of the end. Too bad.

[drfulmore07]

@samsmutt I love that comment. No disrespect to Beavis & Butthead,Yo MTV Raps,Remote Control and Club MTV,those were my shows but when JJ,Nina,Mark,Alan and Martha left,it was the end of the revolution. If only MTV was like this again,then I'll watch it but for now,I don't wanna see some whiny,spoiled ass kids bitching about nothing or seeing some musical masturbation stuff like Lady GaGa or Soulja Boy on the channel. So I'll give you 10 thumbs up instead of 1.

[imachildofthe80s8089]

@samsmutt When exactly did viacom buy MTV? I'm lost. I watched MTV in the 90's too, but the videos were a lot less and I was more...should we say "active" but yet I do remember the great video hits conitinuing. MTV lost it's spark sometime over 10 years ago.

[samsmutt]

@imachildofthe80s8089 Well, as I said, MTV went downhill really quickly. However, it was like a knife in the heart when Viacom bought it around 1987. After that, all of the original VJs either left or were fired. Then they started airing "original programming," which is really just another phrase meaning CRAP! In fact, most of this was comprised of TV shows that were rejected by other networks.

[bds1167]

@samsmutt dude, the best years of MTV/rock history was between 1981-83.... Madonna, Paula Abdul and faggot hair bands in the mid to late '80's recked rock music forever.... peace, Ben

[samsmutt]

@imachildofthe80s8089 MTV was really only good while it played videos 24/7 in the "rock hits" radio style that was prevalent at the time from about 1981 to 1984-5. Once MTV started playing heavy metal (around 1985) and rap (around 1985-6), it was the beginning of the end. Once the original VJs left I never watched it. Contast that with me being GLUED to the set between 1981 and 1984.

[Jmitchpen1013]

@samsmutt You pretty much nailed it. MTV was a groundbreaking media format in the early 80's but slowly declined over the next decade. I did however enjoy some of the heavy metal years. When the music videos disappeared and the "shows" started to take over I lost all interest. I did think that " Remote Control" was pretty damn good though....

[ScorpioBornIn69]

@samsmutt It is all about money today. Greed. G*R*E*E*D. It is one of the 'Seven Deadly Sins of Man'. Now look what's happening in Washington. Look what greed has done to us. They tried to get several bills through to solve the debt issue and none so far have gotten through. The afterman of greed comes with severe consquences and that consquence is the 'fall of America'. No one listens to the common people anymore. Not corporate owners. Not the politicians. It's all about greed.

[earlymtv]

its funny watching these back in 83. they were brand new..

[AngelofAnguish]

Even though I wish THIS era of MTV were here, TODAY, I'm glad there's YouTube! NOW, rather than be angry and/or bored sick with today's MUSIC-LESS MTV, us "old schoolers" can go back and re-live OUR generation!

[vettefreak89]

@AngelofAnguish I wasn't alive during the start of MTV but I wish MTV would show more music videos and not some crap shows. There use to be some good shows back then.

[Newbell2]

@AngelofAnguish im 13 and I live the "old schoolers" generation now on youtube I know more than my mom and my dad combined a few of my friends do too...

[marc08110]

@AngelofAnguish YOUR SO TRUE.....

[ridewithES]

@AngelofAnguish

I was born in 1991 but is it cool if I can hang with you guys in the 80's era? :)

[papadoza]

@AngelofAnguish Amen to that!

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@AngelofAnguish YouTube isn't exactly about the music either. The only people who are allowed to have music in their videos without risking a "copyright infringement notice" from the KGB of YouTube are the copyright owners themselves, "warnermusicgroup" for example, or one of Vevo's 3,000 YouTube channels. I did some digging around and apparently the KGB of YouTube has terminated a few of your other channels because of their refusal to honor the "Fair Use" section of the US copyright law.

[jityr2]

@MIKON8ERISBACK You know what happened to Limewire. Right? Maybe we'll have to worry about the same thing happening to You Tube music videos. Many good music videos that have been uploaded were taken down.

[RodStewartfan1]

Young Hearts be free tonight! Time is on your side! I LUV THAT SONG!!!!