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Thank you for that! Especially including the actual intro. I was total there and remember all those VJ’s. Such cheesy 80’s music, but they really did play all videos all the time! It’s funny, as they were playing the intro I remembered all the VJ’s names from yesteryear and was actually quoting the intro. Didn’t know it was tucked away in my long term memory. Thanks for that! Hope others are as excited as I am because it was a serious thing. You planned nothing else that night.
How awesome was it coming home from school and putting MTV on first thing
Pat Benatar’s song You Better Run, was the second video played on MTV, making her the first female artist on the channel. You should definitely check out some of her stuff.
So rumor is, the Buggles who were a British band heard of the coming of MTV and made this video. Having done this almost 2 years before the debut of MTV made it noticed. So MTV made it the first video. I remember when this happened and thought music videos will change the world!!!!
Sadly, this isn't the iconic official video, from 1979. That's what was shown on MTV. The song was two years old, by that point. This was still a fun-looking performance, though! You get the idea. And no, the song wasn't written for MTV, but when they were planning the lineup, I guess they couldn't resist the winking title. The song went to US#40 upon its release, but appearing as the inaugural airing of MTV didn't give it a return to the charts or anything. And honestly, video was nowhere near taking off or taking over in 1979. The only reason so many UK acts made cool videos first is because they used them on TV countdown shows when the bands were touring Europe or the US instead of miming to the tracks in front of a bunch of distracted teenagers. Especially major UK acts, like Queen, David Bowie, and Kate Bush... or even Sweden's ABBA. The artsy, poppy Postpunk, New Wave, and Synthpop acts that defined the early days of MTV were an extension of that tradition. I think Trevor Horn just knew what was in the air. He was the singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist of The Buggles, who were only around long enough to release two albums and a couple of other minor singles.
Trevor Horn would go on to become one of the most iconic and important producers of the 1980s and beyond, though. He helped introduce sampled and digital instruments into traditional Pop arrangements, ushering in the "big" sound of the mid-1980s, but he also pioneered Electronic Pop in general. Some (in some cases, all) of the biggest and best hits by ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys, Malcolm McLaren, Spandau Ballet, and Seal bear his imprimatur. He was also a member of Yes in the early 1980s (during their poppy "Owner of a Lonely Heart" era), and formed the pioneering Postmodernist Electronic Pop(?) act, Art of Noise. Pop or Not, Art of Noise had the goods and had several hits when he was with them before bitterly leaving (I think they are still around, with member Anne Dudley being an important arranger and soundtrack composer, herself). He formed the dynamic 80s Indie imprint, ZTT Records, as well. He produced the smash "Do They Know It's Christmas?" single in 1984. He's an absolute legend with one of the most enviable careers in Postpunk and New Wave. The other dude, Geoff Downes, was in Yes with Trevor Horn right after they dissolved The Buggles, but went on to form the huge-selling but largely forgettable Post-Prog act, Asia.
There are a couple of other songs by The Buggles ("Clean Clean", "Living in the Plastic Age") that are worth hearing, but this is definitely their biggest hit by a country mile. Another band called New Muzik swooped in and borrowed The Buggles sound ("World of Water", "Living by Numbers") concurrent with their own chart action throughout 1980, with both bands falling between the ironic/pissy but catchy New Wave of Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello and the Sci-Fi Synthpop of acts like Gary Numan's pre-solo act, Tubeway Army, and the early iterations of Ultravox and The Human League. And both bands were done by 1982. But if you just *love* The Buggles, definitely check out New Muzik. Also, fun fact: there was actually a slightly more rockin' Power Pop version of this single that came out a month earlier credited to Bruce Wooley and The Camera Club. It was not a hit. Bruce Wooley was an early Buggles member who shared writing credit on the iconic song, though. It's worth checking out, if you're into it.
appreicate that info my man! 🔥🔥🔥
21 in college, Moorhead Minnesota 1981, when music invaded our eyeballs!
Not made just for this. They used it because it fit. The Buggles were already around.
I remember it well, as a 6 year old watching with my older brother and his friend Dan
how sad is it that I know the first and last names of every VJ appearing before the song starts. I havent said or thought of the names Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter or Martha Quinn since the 80s and yet I have perfect recall. The 8 year old brain is truly a marvel.
THE first video, ever, on Mtv
This song is actually about film and TV taking over the old radio days. Radio used to have "radio theatre" and perform plays and serials, etc., so families used to gather in the living room around the radio and listen to the evening's entertainment. Anyway, those were radio stars that video killed.
Not forget to tell: this was filmed on *DISCO* a famous 70´s and 80´s German TV Music Show on Saturday evenings. We never missed it as kids.
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The US had similar chart shows, but somehow the archives of Germany's Disco and England's Top of the Pops are bulging with iconic mimed (and occasionally live) performances by major artists. But I don't see nearly as many performances from American Bandstand, Solid Gold, or really even from Soul Train as I do from these two tv shows.
I was there with bells on, ( not for this specific event though, so thanks for sharing this) !! I fell in love with music videos from day one!! Gathering around with friends and few big ole' fatties was an event, (or a bowl made of toilet paper roll and aluminum foil. lol)!! Thank God we live at a time that I can watch them anytime, any place, anything with the touch of my fingers!! Who would have thought?
Back then we were the remote! Had to walk to the tv and push some buttons on a cable box! 😂
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Song's ridiculously catchy! Gotta ♥ new wave pop!
Rem watchn this in 1981 .was thrilled 😊❤ cod watch fav music videos on tv😊
Back when MTV played music videos.
Too true. lol.
You could hook mtv to your home stereo
Who doesn't know the haunting chorus of The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star"? It was first performed in 1979 by the British band, which actually consisted of two members: Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes. It's been a long time since I've heard it, but it's definitely a classic!
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It was actually released first by cowriter Bruce Woolley with his band Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club. Search his version it’s a bit different.
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Yeah! I mentioned this version in my own comment, yesterday! @@Kevvinm
The very 1st video played on MTV
Staying home from school in the late 80’s and early 90’s was great. I’d watch MTV all morning. It’s a shame what the channel has become.
yea it really is smh i can't believe it
Strange that they didn't actually play the video of this track.
1981; freshman year of High School; watched the first day of MTV airing; video truly did kill the radio star; look at music today; too much emphasis is on how you look 😢
they used to only play music videos
No other nonsense
😂😂😂 the good ole days
@@TeezMcGee Hah, it was just the old days. Mostly it was good though x
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You should listen to endsmouth by agents of oblivion, amazing track
I literally saw the first airing of MTV. What happened to the music???
MRoyClark has the info. This video was from 1979, and MTV was born in 1981, so it wasn't specifically for the channel, but it did fit the message and dynamic of MTV. My family didn't get MTV until 1982, so I missed the debut, but I was an avid watcher and fan, until they started doing stupid alternate programming. Then I switched to VH1, that channel kept playing videos for a while longer, then eventually, no more videos at all. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Great song, and, as others have noted, NOT the original video that was shown on MTV on 8/1/81.
Thanks for the shout-out! It's a shame MTV reformatted so drastically. It really started in the early 1990s when they introduced The Real World. There had always been a couple of game shows, and segmented programming (Headbanger's Ball, Yo! MTV Raps, 120 Minutes) but that's when they had their first huge hit outside of music videos. It kicked of Reality TV in general, actually. Renting a house to put a bunch of young party people in and watching them fight is a lot cheaper than paying union scale for actors, writers, and crew. So, a lot of networks took note. Liquid Television spun off into Beavis and Butthead and (the remarkably still relevant) Daria. But they still showed videos for most of the 1990s. By the decade's end, the best place to catch videos was M2, their premium cable channel. Now, they have a bunch of genre-specific streaming channels, but I really can't be bothered anymore. MTV was great in its 80s and 90s heyday, though.
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They performed this in 2004, and sounded great then too.
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Unfortunately this was very true, many artists were overlooked if they didn’t have a particular look for tv. Song sounds pretty cool though. Great job as usual Teez❤
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For better or worse, MTV and the more image-oriented artists shook up the music industry right when it needed it. After a strong 20 years of the "Rock'n'Roll era", the record industry hit a peak of sorts in 1977. There were several reasons outside of music, like the economy and social progress. But within the music industry, there were a handful of reasons and special records that made this so. Notably, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours LP and the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever are *stiiiill* among the best-selling discs of all time, both released in 1977. Hotel California was released by Eagles in December of 76, so it might as well be a 1977 record, because that's when most of them sold and when the singles were in circulation (though, between Classic Rock and Soft Rock formats, the singles are *still* in circulation). It's also when Disco outsold every other genre in the hit parade for the first of three years. This was remarkable because no other genre since Motown's heyday over a decade earlier had been so universally adored by people outside of Pop fandom. Women, gay folks, black people, and brown people in urban centers all across the US had helped it cross over. But it was the little kids, housewives, and grannies who put Disco into the stratosphere, alternately embracing the lite classical orchestral flourishes and easy melodies. Between the racism, misogyny, and homophobia that had taken over much of Rock (apart from Glam Rock, natch) and when th9is "gay music"., "n****r music" , "granny music" and "music for girls" kept established rockers from chart success and radio plays, it stirred a backlash among longhaired dudes in denim who'd rather listen to a 7-minute drum solo than go dancing.
So, when the Disco Demolition happened in the Summer of 1979, that was an absolute (if uncalled for) revolution in the music world. Within six months time, dozens of nightclubs, record labels, and radio stations either went out of business or reformatted toward Heavy Rock, like it was ten years earlier. Almost every career started by Disco ended. The handful of artists who made a real mark in Disco (CHIC, Bee Gees) went on to focus more on songwriting and producing for other artists and NOT in a Disco style. The style mutated into other genres like Boogie (funky, electronic, syncopated R&B), Hi-NRG (synthetic, unfunky Dance Pop, largely associated with Gay culture), and Dance Rock (an umbrella term for everything from "She Works Hard for Her Money" by Donna Summer to "Beat It" by Michael Jackson or "White Wedding" by Billy Idol. Disco still existed in Europe. They had their own strain of Disco ("EuroDisco") since the mid-70s, already. It was less funky and more synthetic, in most cases. Eurodisco evolved into Space Disco and by the early-to-mid-80s the genre had morphed into a hybrid between Hi-NRG Synthpop, and was rechristened Italo Disco - even if a lot of it wasn't Italian and none of it sounded like Disco sounded in the 1970s. And of course, the connection between Disco and House music is undeniable. And with House Music as the basis of EDM and EDM being one of the biggest genres, worldwide, it seems Disco is having the last laugh. Because Heavy Rock is no longer driving the culture. Dance Music is.
There *was* some great Heavy Rock (as well as Soft Rock and Classic Rock of all stripes) in the late 1970s, but it was clearly nearing the end of its evolution before retreating into endless retro pastiches. Meanwhile, Punk a more aggressive strain of Rock was influencing everything but the airwaves. While Punk was typically abrasive, several strains of Postpunk were more melodic, accessible, and visually captivating than the longhaired Arena Rock acts stubbornly clinging to their macho worldviews and endless guitar solos. And just like Disco had a little something for everybody (except fans of Bad Company and Grand Funk Railroad) so too did New Wave, Synthpop, and Power Pop acts who steered the early days of MTV. Kids, parents, girls, boys, (and after 1983) people of all races were finding something to love in quirky, art-damaged acts like Devo, the B-52's, and Talking Heads, spiky Power Pop like Blondie, Elvis Costello, and Pretenders, as well as the whole Second British Invasion (Culture Club, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet), Synthpop (The Human League, Soft Cell, Eurythmics), and College Radio acts like R.E.M. and Violent Femmes, while long-established, hirsute, guitar-oriented Rock acts were still dressing like it was the 1970s and shooting dull performance videos instead of the colorful and memorable videos associated with the 80s. It took a few years after MTV debuted for most established artists to make their mark, visually. Popstars like Michael Jackson, George Michael, Prince, and Madonna borrowed heaps of influence visually and sonically from the Postpunk/New Wave/Synthpop of the day, too.
So, while I'm 100% certain that the rise of video made it harder for acts unconcerned with their image to cross over to mainstream success, it mostly just shuffled the deck, giving a whole litany of new artists a chance at success in the new decade. A lot of (now legendary) acts like Boy George, U2, and The Police came from all of that. Meanwhile, faceless Arena Rock like Boston had to up its game to survive in the new marketplace. Synthpop and New Wave didn't kill Arena Rock, either. They just forced it into the back seat. Some Rock careers definitely flailed until they failed. The real sea change was in 1983, specifically. MTV debuted in 1981, but it wasn't very widely seen for a couple of years. It wasn't even available in New York California, or Chicago until 1983. That was also the year that almost all recording had made the switch from analog to digital. It's hard to explain the difference to laymen without sounding like a luddite. But digital recording made everything crisp, clean, and maybe a little too perfect, honestly. The lush, warm, shag-carpeted studio sound of the 70s was no more. Even major Rock acts were using synthesizers, samples, sequencers (Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Billy Joel), and drum machines by the mid-1980s. But they thrived in their careers because they were willing to change with the times. The artists who couldn't compete were left behind. But all of this denoted a sharp contrast between the music of the 1970s and the 1980s on MTV and US radio.
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@@MRoyClark Hi, what an amazing analysis of the history of the music industry & effects it had . You helped me look at it all in a different perspective. I appreciate the knowledge, thank you. ✌🏻
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