I want my MTV

I want my MTV

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LOOK AT THEM YOYOS

THAT'S THE WAY YOU DO IT!

That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he's a millionaire

Huh, now look here people, listen to my story
The little story 'bout a man named Jed

Question. Was this really mindblowing animation for whatever year this came out?

we've got to install microwave ovens

For 1985? Kinda. Keep in mind, it's highly stylized and its supposed to look "computery".

YOU PLAY THE GUITAR ON THE M T V!

you have 5 seconds to name a bad Dire Straits track

go

*EXPLOSIVE ONCE IN A LIFETIME GUITAR RIFF INTENSIFIES*

Literally all of them

THAT AIN'T WORKING

This music video looks like a modern-day "post-ironic" meme honestly

that ain't workin'

See this little faggot with the earring and the makeup?

BABY, PUT A CRYSTAL ON YOUR, LITTLE FINGER
Baby, put a crystal on yo thumb

In college we used to blast this song before the start of every Mario Kart Double Dash race. We'd synchronize the race to start when the guitar riff drops.

MICROWAVE OVENS

We have YouTube now. It's like The Box but you get as many replays as you like and it costs nothing.

Yeah it looks like something andywilson would make.

based

how did this nigga manage to look so smug with just like 5 polygons

*kino guitar riff*

YOU’RE BANGING ON THE BONGOS LIKE A CHIMPANZEE

she looks like she fucks black guys

I cant, even romeo and juliet is good, one of the best 80s bands.

MAKING HAWIAN NOISES

Hot

obsessed

Those special effects are amazing, holy shit.

Why would they mix up Elvis with the Thunderbirds?

>working man talking shit about the popstars is supposed to be a figure of ridicule
He was right though

>Was this really mindblowing animation for whatever year this came out?

As a 9yo in '85 I remember it being, something new, exciting, highly entertaining, different and novel etc, I don't remember it being mind-blowing per se, but maybe that just because it was just a kids perspective back then, it was kinda just like another form of cartoon, and kinda paled in comparison to hand-drawn animation back then, speaking as a kid, I can imagine adults and techies of that era being highly impressed though

Nah, that doesn't make any sense. She's white.

Sultans of Swing is the best Dire Straits song imo.

Look at that mama

CHECKS FOR FREE

very good candidate, along with Telegraph Road and Private Investigations

One day he was shootin'
Ol' Jed was shootin' at some food

I was 6 in 1985 and the aong was good so it made the animation seem less gay, and it kinda looked like super mario.

ever watch some friday night music show in the early 80s before mtv?

You are right

LITTLE FAGGOT

I'm pretty sure I was listening to edited versions for years. I didn't notice the "faggot" lines until I listened to the song on youtube a few years ago. My parents even used to have an official tape with a bunch of their videos including this one wtf

youtube.com/watch?v=aMiRGCGIfCg

BEVERLY HILL BILLIES

Well he was talking about Motley Crue, so yes

>In 2000, Knopfler appeared on Parkinson on BBC One and explained again where the lyrics originated. According to Knopfler, he was in New York and stopped by an appliance store. At the back of the store, they had a wall of TVs which were all tuned to MTV. Knopfler said there was a man working there dressed in a baseball cap, work boots, and a checkered shirt delivering boxes who was standing next to him watching. As they were standing there watching MTV, Knopfler remembers the man coming up with lines such as "what are those, Hawaiian noises?...that ain't workin'," etc. Knopfler asked for a pen to write some of these lines down and then eventually put those words to music.[citation needed] The first-person narrating character in the lyrics refers to a musician "banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee" and a woman "stickin' in the camera, man we could have some fun". He describes a singer as "that little faggot with the earring and the make-up", and bemoans that these artists get "money for nothing and chicks for free".[6]

>Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx claimed that the song was about his band’s outrageous lifestyle. In an interview, he related an apocryphal story that the members of Dire Straits were in a store that sold televisions, and a row of TVs were all playing Mötley Crüe videos.[7][8]

HE DO THE WALK
HE DO THE WALK OF LIFE
*ZYDECO INTENSIFIES*

marc knopfler easily a Top 10 guitarist
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Born in 1999

What was old MTV like?

I WANT TOO
I WANT TOO
LIK PUSY

them guys ain't dumb

I use to run home in 1985, 2 miles, suburban white america to see the top video countdown, which was paradise city as number 1 forever.

Post more dadrock with great guitar.
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It was actually entertaining.

I don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band

I don't like Lady Writer much
that's honestly about it

>Paradise City
>1985

they used to play music videos

It was mind blowing to me. The precision of 3d was something totally new at the time and as blocky as it is that smooth perspective was just completely alien and yeah it blew my mind.
Looking back with what I know now it seems even more mind blowing. There was no Maya or 3dsmax back then, no modelling programs. Every vertex was worked out on paper and typed in manually. Pretty amazing stuff when you think about what's actually in that video.

>ever watch some friday night music show in the early 80s before mtv?

Nah i'm a Britbong.

we didn't have USA-tier music television in the early 80's, we had a few half-hour music shows during the week, Top Of The Pops was the main one which aired around 7pm, hell we only had like 3-4 proper tv stations (yes 3 or 4) and 2 of those went off the air at midnight in the early 80's, never mind cable and music tv.

A lot of radio play omits that verse.

>no modelling programs. Every vertex was worked out on paper and typed in manually.
huh. never thought about that. Guess it is pretty impressive

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I remember watching it on a wooden box tv as a little kid and thinking it was so cool.
There wasn't anything like this.
I was watching hand animated transformers cartoons.

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Look what these guys had accomplished in 1978 with CG it's pretty amazing

Never cared for this song. Sultan's of swing was pure kino though.

It's not all bad. You can store the vertices in a data file just like maya and all those programs. Then you can do matrix multiplication on the verts to animate them. So it's not like they had to calculate the trajectory and input every vert for each frame. This is what 3d modeling programs do when you rotate or translate an object, it's just hidden behind a nice UI. It's all linear algebra and why you should take that class should you get into graphics programming.

There's a station in my area that plays that song and keeps the faggot part. Ear kino

What's the point of the faggot verse? It seems so jarring for the song, but that's probably because I live in 2018 where the word faggot is akin to screaming NIGGER at the top of your lungs.

Of course, but that's a lot of paperwork when you think about it. I have a lot of respect for these early pioneers.

Faggot used to be a more casual insult. Plus people weren't so goddamned spineless in the 20th century.

>every chord is a 1-finger 5th chord
I mean, it is a great riff, and it's nice how he works in the harmonic notes, but still.

Tunnel of Love exists though I lost my virginity to that song

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>tfw you'll never have legions of teenage Japanese girls acting like you're the second coming of the Beatles

My local station used to play the edited version, but the CRTC (canadian equivalent to the FCC) decided to outright ban the song from airplay because of that verse. That pissed a lot of broadcasters off, so a few of them decided to play the unedited song 24h on repeat. The CRTC unbanned the song after a few days and they've aired the unedited version on my local radio ever since (unless it's a "music blitz", which they cut the song into 90 seconds)

Don't stand so close to me. I love this story because Sting was recording in the same building when dire straits was recording this song, so Mark Knopfler asked him to record some background vocals. Same thing happened with Lawrence Gowan and Jon Anderson, Gowan asked Anderson to record some vocals for his song Moonlight Desires and Anderson aid ok. It was a pretty sweet deal because Anderson, having recorded and contributed to the song, also got a free trip to south america to film the video.

the song incase anyones interested. Its pretty sappy but catchy as hell

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He’s singing from the perspective of a bigoted blue collar guy bitching about rock stars.

holy shit i did the same thing but it was for mtv hiphop i got out around 3 and it started at 4 or some shit

I know for a fact that my local rock station continued tot play the unedited version and they did so once an hour in protest of the CRTC's decision. Pissed alot of people off in my town but it was a non starter

The original was edited after fags complained about it and Mark Knopfler eventually caved and cut those lines. Only the music remains for those verses now.

Note that Weird Al actually asked Mark Knopfler for permission to do that parody and he agreed only on the condition that he got to play the guitar bits for it.

all dire straits numbers are too binary
it's only boring hits all the way
it took me 0.0000001 second to formulate it

MTV revolutionized the music business. That's how influential it was back in the day.

> In a late 1985 interview in Rolling Stone magazine, Knopfler expressed mixed feelings on the controversy:

I got an objection from the editor of a gay newspaper in London – he actually said it was below the belt. Apart from the fact that there are stupid gay people as well as stupid other people, it suggests that maybe you can't let it have so many meanings – you have to be direct. In fact, I'm still in two minds as to whether it's a good idea to write songs that aren't in the first person, to take on other characters. The singer in "Money for Nothing" is a real ignoramus, hard hat mentality – somebody who sees everything in financial terms. I mean, this guy has a grudging respect for rock stars. He sees it in terms of, well, that's not working and yet the guy's rich: that's a good scam. He isn't sneering.

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who cares as long as it sounds good

i love mtv

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Imagine youtube before youtube.

>1-finger 5th chord
Those are called perfect 4ths, or a first inversion with no third if you want to get technical, you brainlet no-theory tablature reading retard. God, I fucking hate guitarists

Any video where Weird Al bends the neck of his guitar is 10/10 and gets me every time.

He got most of the lines straight from a guy in a store.

>doesn't jam exclusively to Walk of Life

Scrub

Calling Elvis is really lame

comfiest song
reminds me of Calvin & Hobbes for some reason

I'm having pretty strong Mandela effect here.
I remember first watching this video in the context of this 3d animation showcase.
youtube.com/watch?v=hSvCLdjbsfM
Yet it doesn't seem to have ever been part of it,and I can't imagine what other context I would have seen this video. Does any other oldish fag know if there was another 90's era 3D animation showcase that featured this video and is slipping my mind?

Also on a side note:
When I was in elementary school my computer teacher had us watch The Last Starfighter as an example of state of the art computer animation.

youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q

Still the best animated video