Name one good artist (and the song in question) that's ever been played on MTV

Name one good artist (and the song in question) that's ever been played on MTV.

Bonus points if it's not something super obvious like Michael Jackson.

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Max Cavalera and the Sepulturas
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Video Killed the Radio Star - Buggles

Only Shallow - My Bloody Valentine
I'm Not Okay - My Chemical Romance (an extra)

blue nile - the downtown lights

Twisted Sister
most things on Beavis and Butthead basically

Most shit that 120 Minutes was playing for the first ~5 years of its life was some shade of good. Or are you guys too young to remember MTV before The Real World?

Real question is, when did mtv last play music? name the last time a goof artist (and song in question) was played on MTV.

November Rain

Swans - Saved
Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly
Pavement - Cut Your Hair
Stereolab - French Disko
KMFDM - A Drug Against War
Archers of Loaf - Web in Front
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Portishead - Glory Box
Killing Joke - Millenium
Sparklehorse - Someday I Will Treat You Good
Guided By Voices - Official Ironmen Marching Song

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I mean, they still play music videos on rare ocassions, just very infrequently. But by my recollection, around 2000 was when most of their music video programming got moved to vh1 or MTV2 and getting replaced with more reruns and reality shows. By like 2007/2008, they cancelled TRL and completely purged the last of their daily video blocks (which was only like a couple hours at this point) because everyone else had either migrated to one of their other channels for videos or the internet.

Blue Oyster Cult

I get that it wasn't probably viable to keep playing a lot of vids and all that but it was a weird choice to keep the brand name.
Last times I've checked I've seen south park reruns, casino adds and some shore programs there.
If I try to remember a music from there, closest thing I can think of is ....Killers playing the awards at some point. Or was it a different award show all together... kinda blurry.

Also MTV Unplugged ended in '99 too. Plus, the Real World had already become their most popular original series by far by like 1995/1996 and by 2000 it was just insane how big it was.

Not to mention that the major labels stopped alternative in its track by 1997 and 1998 in favor of rnb artists, boybands/girl groups, and rappers that were more easily marketable. This is what led to TRL starting up. The only semblance of "alternative rock" that was getting coverage at that point were these horrible new corporate post-grunge, nu-metal, pop punk things. Any alternative artists that had previously "made it" in the mainstream, U2 in the mid-late 80s, REM in the late 80s-early 90s, Oasis and Smashing Pumpkins in 1996 were now just completely outcast. The only way back was to sell your soul and make shitty, mind-numbing Top 40-skewing pop rock/soft rock/adult contemporary/teen-oriented pop like U2 did with Beautiful Day, Pearl Jam with Last Kiss, Filter with Take A Picture, Liz Phair with whatever those horrible Hilary Duff sounding hits she had in like 2002 were.

I mean, it's not like they totally scrapped vids all together. In the early-00s early internet age (like 2000 - 2002) they were still playing like half-video blocks, half series, but it was almost strictly Top 40 on a loop and literally nothing else. They weren't in the business of making careers anymore, only perpetuating the status quo.

But yeah, by like 2003, that amount of videos they showed dwindled like crazy almost overnight.

They still do the video music awards, but more as "historical cultural icons" than active proponents of music videos.

Kinda miss a good versatile and lively award show that's not grammies. Old MTV awards were a blast because they got mixed genres in the house so you'd have that years hard rock with RnB artists ..it had that good 'ol universal feel to it.

David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans
Jesus And Mary Chain - whatever they had from Psychocandy

mtv once had a show called 120 minutes...it was basically more indie than this entire board. its all dead and forgotten now i guess

Talking Heads - Once In a LIfetime

Most of the users on this board werent even alive when 120 was on mtv

were you even alive when mtv was playing videos and was a cultural force?
serious question