What year did they start showing all reality tv and no music?

I remember watching the Thriller video for the first time. It was so totally awesome.

Does it make me a loser that I remember all of this? Alan Hunter is from my hometown. He owns a pretty awesome club/art gallery in Birmingham, AL. I know random information that no one cares about.
WORKPLAY

Actually, she kissed Christina right after she kissed Britney.

I had such a crush on Martha Quinn when I was 12. Yes, again I am old. I remember when it debuted and all of those "I want my MTV!" ads that they ran all the time between the about 15 videos that they had.

*raises a fist for his "bro", JJ*



-TM

the first time i watched Mtv I was hooked, and I dont care that i age myself, i saw it when it started........I was 8 years old!!!!!...it's too bad they arent the way they used to be, now they just suck

I miss the sick little cartoons with the mtv logo always played in between videos. I hate that the used to be all videos channels, mtv2, vhi classic, fuse now play lame shows more than videos too.

wait... does that mean I'm, you know, old too?

MTV disapointed me. My parents hadn't let me watched it when until I was like 13, so I dove into it and watched it in all its crappy glory. So, I never got to experiance that rough edged, slightly scary MTV of old. All I got, and what everyone gets is the lowest common denominator brand MTV

Now old do I feel now! I miss the dedication to the music. Too many reality based shows... ok maybe real world.....

VH1 Classic is actually re-airing the first day of MTV with commentary in between by some long haired brunette who I don't know. I just stumbled upon it.

"M.T.V.-Get Off The Air"

Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb
Woof down the beer

Hi
I'm your video DJ
I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes
I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go

My job is to help destroy
What's left of your imagination
By feeding you endless doses
Of sugar-coated mindless garbage

So don't create
Be sedate
Be a vegetable at home
And thwack on that dial
If we have our way even you will believe
This is the future of rock and roll

How far will you go
How low will you stoop
To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill

You've turned rock and roll rebellion
Into Pat Boone sedation
Making sure nothing's left to the imagination

M.T.V. Get off the
M.T.V. Get off the
M.T.V. Get off the air
Get off the air

See the latest rejects from the muppet show
Wag their tits and their dicks
As they lip-synch on screen
There's something I don't like
About a band who always smiles
Another tax write-off
For some schmuck who doesn't care

M.T.V. Get off the air
And so it was
Our beloved corporate gods
Claimed they created rock video
Allowing it to sink as low in one year
As commercial TV has in 25
"It's the new frontier," they say
It's wide open, anything can happen
But you've got a lot of nerve
To call yourself a pioneer
When you're too god-damn conservative
To take real chances.

Tin-eared
Graph-paper brained accountants
Instead of music fans
Call all the shots at giant record companies now

The lowest common denominator rules
Forget honesty
Forget creativity
The dumbest buy the mostest
That's the name of the game

But sales are slumping
And no one will say why
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?

M.T.V.-Get off the air!
NOW

Good old Dead Kennedys.

MTV is, and always was utter shit. Admittedly it's a lot worse now, to the point of being a joke. As someone said to me recently:

"I remember when MTV actually played music"

MTV helped turn modern music into the bland mass-produced shit being peddled out today. Put it in the ground and bury it.

I remember it all. And sadly that just makes me old....and slightly nauseaus.

QFT.

The only good things to be on MTV since 1995.