From Michael J Makunas Sent Tue, Apr 6th 1999, 22:57
From Michael J Makunas Sent Tue, Apr 6th 1999, 22:57
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Jeff Pitrman wrote: > The real reason that MTV completely bites isn't that they hardly play > music, and when they do, it sucks. It's that MTV is awaer of and > recognizes talent, so you'll hear, say, 12 seconds of a Scanner song with > some trippy little computer animations and an MTV logo during commercials. > My younger sister (she's 17) watches MTV just about every day, so I've > gotten intimately familiar with every popular Korn and Limp Bizkit song > being played right now, since I hear them every day when I wake up, and > when I come home from classes. Every few weeks I'll sit down and watch it > with her, just to see if MTV is doing anything interesting. The week > before last, I saw a brief MTV station ID clip with a Boards of Canada song > playing. The imagery was just these dots moving around a background, it > looked like a Flash animation on some web page. It was actually pretty > cool; stylish visual stuff going on, BoC playing. I could like MTV if it > were like that all the time. Then it stopped and they started playing a No > Doubt song where the singer of No Doubt Goes Raving(tm). It's the same with all MTVish radio stations. A few weeks ago I was listening to WBCN in Boston and while the DJ was intoducing the next crappy track he was going to play, Borads of Canada was playing in the background.