Party Vibe

@Gylfì Guðbjörnsson 975128 wrote:

The last good thing I recall of MTV was Beavis and Butthead as well as Daria….other than that, I got nothing.

there is more than one “MTV” last time I checked there was the original USA channel, one for Asia and MTV Europe (which we get).

They do share some of the programming and the American cartoons.

In the early 1990s MTV Europe moved into the TV-AM building in Camden Lock [with the eggs still on top of it] and they did briefly have a half-decent selection of programming but the shareholders/bosses kept reducing the funding so it got worse and worse (I remember in 1999 regularly sending them replacement circuit boards for their old transmission equipment)

fairly recently the European operation was moved to Poland and the amount of actual European productions [other than trashy “reality TV” single camera productions] scaled down; as these big TV companies claim “youtube is getting all the advertising money” although the quality of music videos has gone way down as well…

@Gylfì Guðbjörnsson 975203 wrote:

I think there’s about 400+ mtv’s now, mtv drone metal is my favourite, as is mtv monastic chant hits of the 1200’s.

There was (maybe still is) an actual music genre called “drone”. it is apparently a form of shoegaze where the intent is to deliberately make the sound low quality and noise.

A while back this dude played it on the community radio during some particularly rough weather – it resulted in one of the directors there telephoning the studio to ask the Station Manager “WTF is this?”; followed seconds later by myself instructing the Station Manager to go outside (into the pissing rain) and check if the studio link antenna was still there and search the car park for any odd bits of metal, clips/shackles etc as I genuinely thought it had been de-masted in the wind.

Since then the lad ha stuck to normal indie/shoegaze which I can at least tolerate; though some of it just reminds me of contemporary Christian music (which might be a variant of it anyway; except you look up to Jesus rather than down at your shows).

I have actually heard “modern pop” versions of monastic songs on Radio Maria (in German); there are two chaps in Austria called Johannes and Roland who sing them – I might use the one about “Mutter Klara (St Clare of Assisi)” to play to the Cats that randomly enter my garden as a distraction technique to keep them clear of the ornamental fish pond as the EU animal welfare law actually states I must not blare harsh sirens or Pfeiftöne at them above a certain level (Pfeitöne also scare the small children within earshot) but can only play them music on outdoor loudspeakers as close to DIN EN 45000 as is practical….