25th year anniversary of MTV - Bilge

I ikitnrev Tiki Socialite D.C. / Virginia Joined: Jul 27, 2002 Posts: 1325	I ikitnrev Posted posted on Tue, Aug 1, 2006 7:50 PM Part of me is amazed - has it really been 25 years since MTV premiered in 1981? That is the equivalent of being in the year 1981, and looking back 25 years -- and finding yourself in 1956, when Elvis Presley first appeared on the music charts. I was in college when MTV premiered, and it is easy to forget how exotic that music channel was when it premiered. I can remember going to nightclubs, where they would have various big screen televisions, all tuned in to MTV, and the place would be PACKED with people -- it may have been that this bar was able to somehow receive the MTV signal, while the local cable network, and certainly the college dorms, could not. The above bar would be full of people chatting and hanging out, but whenever a particularly favorite video would come on, the din of conversation in the whole place would be lowered, as people turned their attention away from their table conversation to the video. For some reason, I can recall the Wall of Voodoo video 'Mexican Radio' popping up on the TV screens, and people chiming in to sing along with the classic line 'I wish I was in Tijuana, eating barbequed iguana.' This was when the legal drinking age was still 18, and at that time, it seemed as almost a perfect world -- finally able to legally share pitchers of beers with one's friends, while watching both MTV and the others gathered in the nightclub. I wonder if elements of my parent's generation have the same sense of camaraderie, nostalgia, and community for the period when Elvis emerged? Vern

Part of me is amazed - has it really been 25 years since MTV premiered in 1981?
That is the equivalent of being in the year 1981, and looking back 25 years -- and finding yourself in 1956, when Elvis Presley first appeared on the music charts.

I was in college when MTV premiered, and it is easy to forget how exotic that music channel was when it premiered. I can remember going to nightclubs, where they would have various big screen televisions, all tuned in to MTV, and the place would be PACKED with people -- it may have been that this bar was able to somehow receive the MTV signal, while the local cable network, and certainly the college dorms, could not.

The above bar would be full of people chatting and hanging out, but whenever a particularly favorite video would come on, the din of conversation in the whole place would be lowered, as people turned their attention away from their table conversation to the video. For some reason, I can recall the Wall of Voodoo video 'Mexican Radio' popping up on the TV screens, and people chiming in to sing along with the classic line 'I wish I was in Tijuana, eating barbequed iguana.'

This was when the legal drinking age was still 18, and at that time, it seemed as almost a perfect world -- finally able to legally share pitchers of beers with one's friends, while watching both MTV and the others gathered in the nightclub.

I wonder if elements of my parent's generation have the same sense of camaraderie, nostalgia, and community for the period when Elvis emerged?

Vern

Post #246181 by ikitnrev on Tue, Aug 1, 2006 7:50 PM