Re: (idm) did anyone see amp tonight (MTV sucks)

From Andrew Hime
Sent Wed, Apr 7th 1999, 02:23

> Well, if you were thrown by the switch to DST like I was you would
> have been awake at 2:00 am MONDAY morning (ie, really late Sunday
> night) and would have caught some shitty drum and bass videos off
> the WaxTrax label and turned off amp like I did.  I can't guarantee this
> is the normal airing time but it would kind of make sense - hide it in
> the least watched block of time during the week.

Yeah, it comes on after 120 Minutes most weeks. I usually stick around for
a few minutes and watch the first video.

> You'll get your eyes worth if you can catch MTV's baby sister, M2 - all
> they show is videos, all genres, old and new, with only a bunch of 
> annoying M2 bumpers to disrupt them.  Too bad it only seems to be
> available on the direct satellite services.

To their credit, MTV do seem to be trying to fix this, by asking viewers
to contact their cable companies, who will then pat response them off the
phones. But hey, what can you do?

M2 is the bomb, though. I often tape it when I visit my parents (they have
a dish). Other friends do the same, and then we bring the tapes home and
watch them. :) Jancey Dunn rules, too. Who else can name drop Madder Rose?
Probably not that loser Pinfield... speaking of which, is he dead? He
hasn't been on 120 Minutes in months, not that I'm complaining.