'real version' remakes of some early MTV videos

[thrihyrne]

I'm hooked. I admit it; I became a fan of doing laundry in 7th grade solely because my mom said I could watch MTV if -- and only if -- I was folding laundry. Some of these literal remakes are genius and show just how awful some of the original videos were. This one, of Billy Idol's White Wedding, I have to embed. In fall of '83, I was the last one in my household to go to school. My sister and brother went off, and my mom went off to grad school. Once I had the house to myself, I would illicitly turn on MTV and then call my then-best friend, Kelly Killingsworth, with whom I shared a birthday, when this video came on.

Yes, it's Thev trivia. And the literal remakes are glorious camp. Any others born around 1970 or thereabouts... welcome to parodies of our early adolescence.

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[wolfiekins.livejournal.com]

Oh, MTV...back when it was, well, musically oriented!

WHITE WEDDING was a total favorite!

We were so easy to entertain back then, weren't we? I'm a bit farther down the road than you, but believe me, we goggled MTV like mad. This was back in my uni days, when three of us lived in a two bedroom apartment above a dear old lady whom we most likely sent to an early grave. We goaded her into having the entire house wired for cable TV (she used the old 'aerial' before we came along) just so we could have our MTV. We paid for everything, even HBO for her, which she eventually enjoyed.

Ahh, the good old days...