bakoon: mtv used to be great, you'd put it on and watch a video by echo and the bunnymen, then see a small cartoon based on a charles burns comic, then another video. maybe a good one! now it is just rob dyrdek's 24/7 distressed asset marathon

mtv used to be great, you'd put it on and watch a video by echo and the bunnymen, then see a small cartoon based on a charles burns comic, then another video. maybe a good one! now it is just rob dyrdek's 24/7 distressed asset marathon

Come ON, Paramount! What the hell?! latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

these rich nerds killed cool/hip shit so they could buy jet skis for their ugly date rapist children

i think it was ron bennington who said "no matter what, it's always suits vs tshirts" in any type of creative media endeavor and it's pretty obvious who ends up winning

Some of the best filmmakers alive got their start making weird, surrealistic, experimental short films for MTV.

the daria cartoon as well

yeah [takes a deep drag of my parliament], she was cool

god daria whipped

First time I heard of Antoine Fuqua

Everybody knows Weapon of Choice right? But I particularly love Jonze's "Let Forever Be" by the Chemical Brothers

Literally banned from YouTube, Sofia Copolla and Kate Moss at her most *gulp* *wipes sweat* vimeo.com/58981925

I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myselfvimeo.com The White Stripes "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" Official Music Video. Directed by Sofia Coppola feat. Model Kate Moss. On iTunes…

holy moly

Whoops it was Gondry, easy to do 😅

Spike Jonze says, wha?

I made a whole playlist for this following a thread on the Olde Birde Site youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Music Videos 90s Kids Rememberyoutube.com Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

This would be a cool thread...

they had mojo nixon do promos!

Aeon Flux aired on mtv 🫡

Just now over dinner I made a reference to spraying drugs directly onto my eyeball and well now I know which of my friends were cool in the early 90s

Mixing this up with cowboy bebop, I'm an idiot I'll show myself out

…. bloody eye….

Donal Logue as Jimmy the Cab Driver www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irzu...

MTV Promo “Jimmy The Cab Driver” - Commercial (1994) played by actor Donal Loguewww.youtube.com

Not trying to be ageist but Rob Dyrdek looked like he was 60 in 2011 what could he possibly look like now

One of the most important people who made MTV cool long ago moved on to other networks. Fred Siebert was key to signature eras of MTV, Nickelodeon & Cartoon Network. You'd think he'd be the kind of person no media conglomerate would ever, ever let go, but nope. Hard to replace & it shows.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=xTjA...

MTV Oddities Promo (1994)m.youtube.com *Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, ...

MTV has been acquired by FailArmy

I remember learning about hum, eels, and flaming lips on mtv. Pretty cool era in music.

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