most dated video: anything by Wham!
most memorable: the moment they flipped the switch. Yes I was there, we were glued to the screen, the buildup was huge and we WERE the MTV generation. Now everyone my age is sobbing over how much they lost in the stock market, how much hope they’ve lost in Obama, and how sad it is that even with Viagra nobody will fuck them anymore. See what MTV will bring you? RIP Howard Zinn and JD Salinger. xoxo

2. Paula Abdul, Opposites Attract

3. The Mae Shi, Run To Your Grave. Don’t know if this is DIY but it has the look and feel.

4. The young Ones, The Buggles and Headbangers Ball

5. Neil Young turning to The Band and saying “They got it now Robbie”. Or Chuck Berry correcting Keith Richards on how to play one of his songs. Richards face is priceless.

Low amount of responses today, this post took some effort to put together.

2. Favourite laughably dated music video.
I used to follow a band called King Kurt back in the day and they made some remarkably bad videos esp for a song called banana banana

3. Favourite massively DIY music video.
As scientist said I Like Trains did some good early stuff

4. Strongest memory of MTV.
Nirvana unplugged

5. Favourite band-related moment in an actual motion picture.
the only thing I can come up with is in Shaun of the Dead when they are deciding which lp’s to use as frisbies sorry for that.its been a long hard day

1 – Sigor Ros, Untitled.
Watch it in the wrong mood and woe betide you! Incredibly provocative imagery and soundage. Its awesome though; makes me feel aaaall funny.

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

2. Prodigy – Out of Space. This is brilliant. I have loved this since it first came out. The hair, the tune, the clothes, everything so wonderfully early nineties! This tune played at a Silent Disco at Tartan Heart Festival last year and I lost my tiny mind, (and shoes).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di9OBlcCiDk

3. Rareform – Spinechilla. I have no idea who put this on Utube but I did this ten years ago with frozen footage (it was a cowuld day) for some DnB friends.
Filmed in the Arches in Glasgow, the woods behind my house and for some reason, a terrifying tenement block in Pollock!!

Sheer DiY. Dont mock me, I was young! ( This is where Matthew changes his mind about me doing a video for the Foxx! )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9yrBWydhHU

4. Being on MTV. The Lick came to Glasgow and I danced my then, very RnB influenced, arse off. I would find the footage but I have better things to do Trevor Nelson actually said hello to me; oh the fame.

5- Band, movie, umm. Back to the Future when Marty McFly plays with the band and his fingers start disappearing? Will that do?

Merry Christmas.

2. So many to choose from! “Love is a Battlefield” by Pat Benetar is the first that springs to mind…or pretty much any of the countless smoke/broken glass/horse wandering down a street videos of the ’80s. And I guess the flannel-clad Pearl Jam/Nirvana/Temple of the Dog videos of the ’90s are dated now, too.

3. “Niejasności” by Gaba Kulka, though I admit bias since she’s an old friend.

4. A few are strong since watching MTV was very popular for me and my friends in the early ’90s. The premieres of “Novemember Rain” and the pilot of The Real World. But probably the very strongest memory for me personally was watching/hearing Courtney Love reading Kurt Cobain’s suicide note aloud to his fans at a vigil just a few days after he was found dead. It’s sad to think of how MTV has declined over the past decade.

5. The entirety of Hedwig & The Angry Inch. Ok, so they aren’t a real band, but they should be!

2) Prince “The most beautiful girl in the world” as nominated by my other half : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQyERNB7udA

3) Yeah Yeah Yeahs ‘cheated hearts’ same idea as the feeder vid but with fans sending in their vids of themselves as YYYs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBGWOJwg7X

4) Nirvana Mtv unplugged this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xHl-P_arVA

5) Nick Cave as a saloon singer in The Assassination Of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikam-i4_J_k

2. Pretty much any video by MTV Europe stalwart DJ Bobo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMJBk7YhsN0

3. Yacht Rock. Love the Loggins-McDonald stuff, but the casting of the Eagles as high school bullies to Steely Dan’s nerds is brilliant. ‘Do you hear dark sarcasm?’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb_XEwgfmDk

4. The ubiquitos ‘VJs’, say what you like about music telly nowadays, but at least they’re gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVG4pE26Fr0

5. The first five minutes of A Hard Day’s Night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkKra3_pfBY

1) Shakira – Hips Don’t Lie. It’s wrong but, I love her. I love her so very very much.

2) Jai Ho! – The Pussy Cat Dolls. Dated the second it came out.

3) Streams of Whiskey – The Pogues.

4) When I was on tour we used to put on MTV in the morning because we were doing Opera and listened to Public radio in the car and needed arse time. That and jet lag. It’s the only program on at 4:00am.

5) All of Tom Waits scenes in Mystery Men.