tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post2544577257974250126..comments2024-03-28T04:50:52.945+00:00Comments on Inventory Full: Wait!? MTV Still Does Music Stuff?Bhagpusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-19189802032754025112021-09-13T21:01:18.221+01:002021-09-13T21:01:18.221+01:00Holy...! I have never seen or heard of either of t...Holy...! I have never seen or heard of either of those songs before and I kind of wish I could have kept it that way. That Dog Police video is genuinely disturbing in so many ways. The Blotto one is just to-curling. I could name a lot of really cheesy early 80s New Wave bandwagon jumpers but none of them could begin to compete with either of those for cheesiness or with Dog Police for straight-up exploitative cynicism. I can't say I'm surprised the guy behind Dog Police was in a Mothers of Invention style outfit - it sounds like something Zappa would have done, which in my book is never a compliment.<br /><br />Dog Police did come out in 1982 as a single apparently but the YouTube entry says "In 1983, the video was featured on MTV's late-night show Basement Tapes. The video played in light rotation on MTV through February 1984." I think it would have been 1983 when I started watching MTV, by when there was a steady supply of high-quality music videos coming on stream. I don't remember anything specific but I do remember we saw the same ones over and over but we didn't care - we were too awed by all-music TV existing at all to question the quality. Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-27387987364119245082021-09-13T19:59:35.908+01:002021-09-13T19:59:35.908+01:00I looked both of those songs up, and neither were ...I looked both of those songs up, and neither were on the air in 1982. My memory has been corrupted by time. I'll go with Pat Benatar as the first artist I saw then. I know she was there!Wilhelm Arcturushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033496821708933394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-7064884481587568832021-09-13T19:55:41.707+01:002021-09-13T19:55:41.707+01:00My parents were selling our house and installed ca...My parents were selling our house and installed cable... I think maybe the buyer wanted it in early... so for the two months before we moved I watched a lot of MTV. That was in the spring of 1982, and I hadn't heard any mention of it, I just found it going through the channels. I think either "I want to be a Lifeguard" or "Dog Police," both obscure songs that got some quick fame because they had music videos when MTV was desperate to show anything that wasn't Rod Stewart (who somehow had a couple dozen music videos when the channel started), was the first thing I saw on MTV. Wilhelm Arcturushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033496821708933394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-47166619805469814822021-09-13T17:20:50.400+01:002021-09-13T17:20:50.400+01:00Heh! I was still post-publish editing when your co...Heh! I was still post-publish editing when your comment came in, which is appropriately on point for the "blogs are social media" theme! I used to love MTV back in the 80s when I watched it on cable at the home of my friend who ran our tabletop RPG sessions. He was the only person I knew with cable. I guess YouTube is our MTV now - or mine, anyway.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-29319455352043895772021-09-13T17:03:11.360+01:002021-09-13T17:03:11.360+01:00While on vacation we were flipping through the TV ...While on vacation we were flipping through the TV channels in the hotel and on hitting MTV, found a music video playing, which got us both to blurt out the usual comment about "MTV plays music?"Wilhelm Arcturushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033496821708933394noreply@blogger.com