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What was the first music video you seen?

yellowwhoyellowwho Posts: 1,661
edited August 2011 in All Encompassing Trip
Was thinking back to when I first got Cable T.V , and that got me thinking about the first music video I ever seen.

Dire Straits.....Money for Nothing

I Think it had to be around 1986 then, So.....

What was the first video you seen, and when was it?
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  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    My parents watch MTV all the time when it first came out back in the day.

    I vividly recall Fish Heads as one of the first videos I watched.

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  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,289
    Probably this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8mB6VsUHw

    I don't remember the first Mtv video. I vividly remember U2's New Year's Day that I would watch when I babysat. We didn't have cable, so we didn't get Mtv. Toni Basil's Mickey was pretty popular, and of course I was glued to the TV of where I babysat when Mtv premiered Michael Jackson's Thriller.
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  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    I think it was Beat It by MJ sometime around 82-83...
  • Mamasan23Mamasan23 Posts: 16,389
    yellowwho wrote:
    Was thinking back to when I first got Cable T.V , and that got me thinking about the first music video I ever seen.

    Dire Straits.....Money for Nothing

    I Think it had to be around 1986 then, So.....

    What was the first video you seen, and when was it?

    I honestly can't remember but the one that sticks out in my brain the most is Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer. What year was that? '88 maybe? That was one badass video.
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  • iamicaiamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    I honestly can't remember but the one that sticks out in my brain the most is Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer. What year was that? '88 maybe? That was one badass video.

    Yeah, I love that one, I think that may have been the first one I ever saw.
    Other early memories of music videos are a weird Tom Petty one where Alice in Wonderland had a cake body :? , and Weird Al's "Addicted To Spuds".
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  • voidofmanvoidofman Posts: 4,009
    I can't remember if I watched any music videos yesterday let alone some 27 years ago. : \
  • StaffanStaffan Posts: 606
    video killed the radiostar - Buggles back in 79

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ


    great stuff....or :?
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  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,289
    Staffan wrote:
    video killed the radiostar - Buggles back in 79

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ


    great stuff....or :?
    Wasn't that THE FIRST MTv video played?
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  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    There was a progam on uhf channel 68 i think, before MTV was on cable, or it was on but not in my area, saw Quiet Riot, Metal Health. Pretty awesome when your 8.
  • loveontwolegsloveontwolegs Posts: 501
    Channel 66 in Chicagoland... First one I remember is Goody Two Shoes-Adam Ant. I was probably 7 or 8?
  • StaffanStaffan Posts: 606
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    Staffan wrote:
    video killed the radiostar - Buggles back in 79

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ


    great stuff....or :?
    Wasn't that THE FIRST MTv video played?

    It was on a music show on swedish television and I remember the announcer making a big story about it, that this was all new and strange, I didn't see MTV until years later when cable came, cant remember when but I imagine mid 80s...
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  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    The Buggles

    I watched when MTV played that first video. As a 6 year old I was addicted.
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  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,067
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM0zINtulhM



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  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    loveontwolegs wrote:
    Channel 66 in Chicagoland... First one I remember is Goody Two Shoes-Adam Ant. I was probably 7 or 8?

    Huh, that's funny ... Boston had its own video station on cable called V66. And yeah, it was on channel 66.

    The first video I ever saw which was before I ever saw MTV was the Police's Don't Stand So Close to Me ... pretty vivd memory of that on some late night Sunday show on network TV that showed videos.

    I do remember being over a friend's house the first time I saw MTV, and the first video I saw on there was Jack & Diane (John Cougar Mellancamp ... or was he just John Cougar at that point? or ... John Mellencamp?)
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  • tinkerbelltinkerbell New Zealand Posts: 2,161
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT1LXhgXPWs

    I would have only been 3 but I clearly remember both of them.
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  • tinkerbelltinkerbell New Zealand Posts: 2,161
    When I was 6 this was the coolest video. Now all I see is the terrible camel toe of the lead singer - which on a guy is .... :sick:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVxiHC9AJQw&feature=related
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