Coxon plays the missing son of a sad suburban English family, first seen pictured on the side of a milk carton - a milk carton that promptly comes to life and becomes the video’s happy little protagonist. “It was frustrating because, when he did, everything he did was brilliant.” That intra-band drama found unexpectedly whimsical expression in the video that production duo Hammer & Tongs created for “Coffee & TV,” a single written and primarily sung by Coxon (and a top example of the brilliance James was talking about). “Graham wasn’t happy and he didn’t always turn up,” the Britpop group’s bassist, Alex James, recalled in his memoir, Bit of a Blur. A.G.īy 1999, guitarist Graham Coxon’s drinking problem and creative grievances meant that he was increasingly distant from the rest of Blur. The Buggles dissolved in 1981 after releasing just two albums, but their place in pop music history is forever secure. Horn himself played a big role in this process by producing hits for the likes of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ABC, and Spandau Ballet. Within a couple of years, unglamorous groups like Toto and Kansas were on their way out, and fashion-forward acts like Duran Duran and Culture Club were ascendant.
The choice amounted to the cable network brashly declaring its own importance before most anyone even knew it existed. The very first video the network played was “Video Killed the Radio Star,” a weirdly affecting sci-fi fever dream by Highlander director Russel Mulcahy that dramatized this changing of the pop-cultural guard.
You could feel things changing.” That change came on August 1st, 1981, when MTV went on the airwaves at 12:01 a.m. “I’d heard Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine and video was coming. Ballard and had this vision of the future where record companies would have computers in the basement and manufacture artists,” he told The Guardian in 2018.
Trevor Horn didn’t know that MTV was coming when he wrote “Video Killed the Radio Star” for his synth duo the Buggles in the late Seventies, but he knew the music industry was on the verge of a major change. From Adele’s “Hello” to ZZ Top’s “Gimme All Your Lovin'” - these are the videos that continue to thrill us, delight us, disturb us, and remind us just how much you can do in three to four minutes with a song, a camera, a concept, a pose, some mood lighting, and an iconic hand gesture or two. But all of these picks are perfect examples of how pairing sound and vision created an entire artistic vocabulary, gave us a handful of miniature-movie masterpieces, and changed how we heard (and saw) music. No, “Thriller” is not.) A few pre-date the channel several have never played on MTV at all. You’ll notice some significant changes from the last time we did this. In honor of MTV’s 40th anniversary, we’ve decided to rank the top 100 music videos of all time. Four decades after the channel’s launch and long after it stopped playing them, music videos still complement songs, create mythologies, and cause chatter and controversy. The internet soon stepped in to fill the void. The format proved so durable that when MTV decided to switch things up and devote its air time to game shows, reality TV, and scripted series, thus shutting down the primary pipeline for these promos, artists still kept making them. Entire genres and subgenres - from hip-hop to grunge to boy-band pop to nu metal - became part of the mainstream. The network revolutionized the music industry, inspired a multitude of copycat programming, made many careers, and broke more than a few. Virtually everyone knew what a music video was, and they wanted their MTV. At this point, viewers might have a few questions, like: Is this like a radio station on TV? What is a “VJ”? And what the hell is a “music video”?Ī year later, no one was asking that last question. This wasn’t a news channel it was “Music Television.” If they kept tuning in, they’d see clips and hear VJs talk about bringing you the latest in music videos. And then they’d hear a voiceover, with all the smooth patter of an FM disc jockey: “Ladies and gentlemen, rock & roll.” Cue power chords, and a flag with a network logo - something called MTV - that rapidly changed colors and patterns.
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The familiar sight of Neil Armstrong exiting his lunar module and walking on the moon would fill the TV screen.
In the wee hours of August 1st, 1981, someone flipping through their channels might have come across the image of a rocket blasting into space.
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