MTV said they were going to play all 19,000 in 4 months.
They palyed less than 15,000 in 3 months.
MTV said they would play the rest of the unplayed videos
(mostly New Wave and Alternative) the next year.
Did that ever happen?
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Question about MTV2 A-Z marathon in 2000
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by rockadelic » Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:54 am
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by Rubellan » Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:33 pm
NO! The reason they only played about 15,000 was because they lied. They dropped an average of 2 or 3 programmed videos every single hour, purely to ensure they did not go over. Sometimes, these dropped videos were inserted in the second 12 hour rebroadcast. Another HUGE amount of videos were not played because they have been deemed "Restricted". Their claim was they could not play them without seeking a new clearance from the record label. This turned out to be bullshit because I managed to get them to play a number of these "Restricted" videos during my 3 years of pulling strings behind the scenes at VH1 Classic. So basically a number of those videos will never air again unless they get a video-on-demand channel going, and include their entire catalog, which has all been uploaded to their servers, and available at the push of a button.
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by rockadelic » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:53 am
Is there even a short list of new wave videos not played? Sounds like whoever was able to get that marathon on air was not able to hold back the powers to be that were opposed to it from the start. So many rap videos were played rather than new wave/alternative is a bad sign from the start.
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by SomebodySomewhere » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:04 am
A lot of people sized up right away that most of the vids that got dumped were in the new wave genre. What else is new.
I'm still peeved about a couple I was really jonesing to see again (that have yet to pop up on YouTube) -- Keats' "Turn Your Heart Around" and Combonation's "Girls Like You."
That's of course assuming they were ever on the playlist to begin with. Steel Breeze's "You Don't Want Me Anymore" certainly was not -- and it was one of their heaviest-rotated videos of 1982.
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I'm still peeved about a couple I was really jonesing to see again (that have yet to pop up on YouTube) -- Keats' "Turn Your Heart Around" and Combonation's "Girls Like You."
That's of course assuming they were ever on the playlist to begin with. Steel Breeze's "You Don't Want Me Anymore" certainly was not -- and it was one of their heaviest-rotated videos of 1982.
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