Whoa…I thought this was a joke at first but sure enough it’s just as you described it. Although I thought it would be just all recent crap but it’s not. Sadly, I’m old enough to remember MTV’s launch, and that first year when they had next to no videos, and the same ones were played over and over and over again. Some totally “what the fuck” ones too. So I picked the strangest one I remember from back then and typed it in and sure enough it was there. Awesome:

http://www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=58614

haha!

I think the rotation back then was that video, Tom Petty’s “You Got Lucky”, Def Leppard’s “Foolin’”, Rod Stewart “Infactuation”, After the Fire “Der Komisar” and the assorted videos off of Thriller. Also, even more bizarre than the one I posted, they’d occassionaly throw in “Train, Train” by Blackfoot which I just searched for and isn’t on there. Although they do have another Blackfoot song.

I love this site. Just went through Vanilla Ice, Naughty by Nature, Skee-lo, Busta Rhymes, Onyx, Warren G

They don’t have Plant Man by Gary Young. Fuck this service.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQiSgWGAc24

John said:

They don’t have Plant Man by Gary Young. Fuck this service.

Was that ever actually played on mtv?

How the hell do you think I ever knew about it? Actually, I think it was Beavis and Butthead that introduced it. But it started getting played after.

Unfortunately they don’t have my favorite hair/pop metal song, Nelson’s “Love and Affection”.

Glad to hear you’re all putting in to good use.

Here it is anyway. I remember loving this song at 8 years old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHaI4uZ4oeg

John said:

They don’t have Plant Man by Gary Young. Fuck this service.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQiSgWGAc24

haha! plantman!! i borrowed a tape of 120 Minutes one time from owen anderson (rip) and he made sure i watched that video about 10 times. plaantmaaaaaaan, i wish there was a better copy of it somewhere.

Holy fuck Plantman. I had no idea what you were talking about until I loaded that puppy up and the memories came rushing back. I definitely saw that on Beavis and Butthead.

Oh, and fuck, this is awesome:

I’m actually interested to see what everyone’s list of the first five videos they thought to check out on this site is. Mine:

1. Scatman – Scatman John
2. Right Now – Van Halen
3. Sober – Tool
4. Big Chair – Reacharound (wasn’t there, Youtube has it though)
5. I Wish – Skee-Lo

I think it’s pretty clear that I grew up in the mid-90s…

I went with:

1. Michael Jackson – Thriller
2. Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby
3. Naughty by Nature – O.P.P.
4. Busta Rhymes – Woo-Hah! Got You All in Check
5. Warren G – Regulate
6. Onyx – Slam
7. Skee-Lo – I Wish

As soon as I saw this I wanted to see Thriller (the extended 13 minute version), the other ones were just me and my office mates laughing at early 90’s rap.

• Jim Capaldi – Living On The Edge
• Fishbone – Party At Ground Zero (no Sunless Saturday=LAME)
• Kyuss – Demon Cleaner
• Melvins – Honey Bucket
• Urban Dance Squad – Deeper Shade of Soul

1. She-Bop – Cyndi Lauper
2. Rock This Town – Stray Cats (not on there, booo!)
3. Laid – James (not there)
4. I Wanna be Adored – The Stone Roses
5. Atmosphere – Joy Division
6. Orange Crush – R.E.M.
7. Puttin’ on the Ritz – Taco
8. Jump Around – House of Pain
10. The Choice is Yours – Black Sheep

i looked up tons at once.

Jay said:

Holy fuck Plantman. I had no idea what you were talking about until I loaded that puppy up and the memories came rushing back. I definitely saw that on Beavis and Butthead.

Oh, and fuck, this is awesome:

Scatman John |MTV Music

The single best ringtone of all time was that time I recorded you doing the Scat Man. Fuck, I should have kept that phone just for that.

now what would be novel is if there was a way to transfer this to my ipod. someone figure that out for me.

• Once in a Lifetime – Talking Heads
• Punk Rock Girl – Dead Milkmen
• Radio Radio – Elvis Costello

• Space Oddity – David Bowie
• Under Pressure – Queen

I love how in the scatman video there’s actually a guy with a trumpet as if that isn’t a synthesizer… my top 5 is and always has been will be a video pairing, if you will. and you will.

• michael jackson – bad/weird al – fat
• michael jackson – beat it/weird al – eat it
  and then just for good measure
• peter gabriel – sledgehammer

Big Time is also a good one.

I really believe that there was only one possible moment in time for the Scat Man to have been successful, and against all odds, it seems he found that infinitesimally small window. I can’t get more than a minute or so into that video.