The early 90’s is also when they started showing less and less music and more shit like The Real World, Road Trip and Beavis & Butt-Head. Even when I was a kid and saw Nirvana’s Unplugged set (arguably the best episode of Unplugged), the saying that “MTV doesn’t have music videos” was already a popular joke.
Music Television doesn’t necessarily have to be showing videos, but showing something at least tangentially related to music would be nice. MTV is now what every channel is: put whatever is required in front of the viewer to sell ads. All channels are the same shit now.
…at least through ninety-five they still ran music videos overnight and weekly themed shows (120 minutes, headbanger’s ball, MTV raps) at specific timeslots, but by the mid-nineties music videos had been relegated to graveyard-shift filler as the network increasingly focused on conventional programming…
…fourteen years is a pretty fair assessment, methinks…
They did give at least a solid twelve years of music. The best unplugged episodes were in the early nineties.
The early 90’s is also when they started showing less and less music and more shit like The Real World, Road Trip and Beavis & Butt-Head. Even when I was a kid and saw Nirvana’s Unplugged set (arguably the best episode of Unplugged), the saying that “MTV doesn’t have music videos” was already a popular joke.
Music Television doesn’t necessarily have to be showing videos, but showing something at least tangentially related to music would be nice. MTV is now what every channel is: put whatever is required in front of the viewer to sell ads. All channels are the same shit now.
Beavis and Butthead were riffing on music videos for almost half the show though at least. Sometimes was the best part
True. The modern ones feel weird to me with them instead riffing on The Jersey Shore or TikTok videos.
I think my favorite one was for Black Hole Sun.
“Hey, Butt-Head, what’s a black hole?”
“Uhh… It’s like a big bunghole in space that grinds everything up into diarrhea.”
I still break out a few of those unplugged jams from time to time.
…at least through ninety-five they still ran music videos overnight and weekly themed shows (120 minutes, headbanger’s ball, MTV raps) at specific timeslots, but by the mid-nineties music videos had been relegated to graveyard-shift filler as the network increasingly focused on conventional programming…
…fourteen years is a pretty fair assessment, methinks…
I loved the Unplugged series! Still my favorite version of a few Nirvana tracks.
I love the series. I still regularly watch/listen to a couple of gigs.
KISS Unplugged is simply awesome. And Pearl Jam. And Alice in Chains. And… sigh good times, man.
no they didn’t