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By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Chris Dalla Riva, author of the new book Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves. Chris is a fixture here at Numlock, we're big fans of his newsletter Can't Get Much Higher and have been eagerly waiting for this book, which tracks the history of music by coasting along the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The book can be found at Amazon and wherever books are sold, grab a copy!This interview has been condensed and edited. Chris Dalla Riva, it is great to have you back on. Especially great this week, because you are finally out with a book that I know you've been working on for a very long time, Uncharted Territory. Thanks for coming back on.Yeah, thrilled to be back, but also thrilled to have the book come out. The book publishing world is one of the only worlds left in the world that moves slow enough where you're waiting for so long for something to happen.You have guest-written for Numlock before; you have been a staple of the Sunday editions in the past. You are definitely familiar to the audience at this point because you are doing some of the best music data journalism out there. You've been working on this thing for, I feel like, as long as I've known you, and it is just great to have it come out finally, man.Yeah, actually, I met you because I was working on this project. I was trying to track down some data that you'd used at FiveThirtyEight, and you responded to my email with your phone number. You were like, “This is easier to explain over the phone.”Yeah, I remember I had scraped the radio for months at FiveThirtyEight just to see where it went, and you hit me up with that. I think that you focused some of your energies on the newsletter, and that's been so fun to follow, but this is truly what you've been working at. It is great to get you on finally to talk all about it.What would you describe this book as? How would you describe it, either to folks who might be familiar with your newsletter or unfamiliar with your newsletter, about what you're setting out to do with this particular project?The subtitle, I think, is helpful. It's What Numbers Tell Us About the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves. My typical pitch is that it's a data-driven history of popular music that I wrote as I spent years listening to every number one hit song in history. You get a balance of music history, data analysis, just random music chart shenanigans. I wrote it over such a very long period of time that you get a little bit of how my life was intersecting with this book over the years as I tried to get it published.I love the angle on the No.1s being a place to go with, because it gives you a pulse on what's popular at the time and not necessarily what's the most influential at the time. You can see there's a lot of stuff that hit number one at one point or another that have no musical legacy whatsoever, but nevertheless are still interesting. It's dipping your toe in the stream, right? You can see that a lot of things that we assume about how the music industry works weren't always the case.You wrote a little bit about the early transition from big bands to singers as the front-facing people in their operation. That was informed in no small part by what was performing on the charts, but also, I think, labor action, right?An under-discussed part of music history in the last 100 years is that when thinking of any band now or any musical artist, you almost certainly think of the front person being the singer. But if you go look back at big bands of the 1930s and 1940s, anyone whose name was attached to the band was often not a singer. Some that come to mind are Glenn Miller, the Glenn Miller band. Glenn Miller was a trombone player. Artie Shaw was a clarinet player. If none of these names are familiar to you, that's okay. But you can ask your grandparents.Why does this transition happen: suddenly, the lead singer is always getting top billing in a band? There are a bunch of things that contributed to this. One thing I talk about pretty extensively is just the advent of better microphones. If a voice cannot be heard over the roar of an orchestra or a big band, you need a choir of people to sing. It makes the singer less identifiable. As we get better amplification, better microphones, you can get a wider range of vocal styles. Those vocalists can now compete with the sound of a ton of instruments.At the same time, something you mentioned that I think is a fun bit of history is how music used to be much better organized. They had better labor organization, the same way that Hollywood has much better labor organization than music these days. There still exists a group called the American Federation of Musicians. For two years, they had a strike for a work stoppage, when no new music was being recorded. This was during World War II. You weren't allowed to strike during World War II.They were frowned upon very much, it seems, yes.Yes, even if you were a musician. People were like, “Come on, why are the musicians striking?” There's a lot of interesting history there. One of the weird loopholes was that singers could not join the American Federation of Musicians. Because of that, some labels would get around the strike by just recording acapella songs or songs with instruments that were not eligible to be membership because they weren't “serious” enough, like the harmonica. There were weird harmonica songs that were popular at this time. By the time the strike ended, by the time World War II ended, suddenly, singers had a much more prominent role because they were the only ones allowed to perform.There is tons of weird stuff about this strike. Like, labels backlogged tons of recordings because they knew the strike was coming. “White Christmas,” maybe the best-selling record of all time, was one of those backlogged recordings — recorded in July of 1942 and put out however many months later.That's fun. That's basically why Tom Cruise is in a union but Bad Bunny isn't?I guess so. Music and labor have a history that I'm not an expert on. For some reason, musicians have had a much more difficult time organizing. It seemed to be a little bit easier back when there were these big bands that needed to be rolled out to perform in movie theaters or local clubs. You needed a tuba player and a trombone player and a sax player. I guess it was easier for those musicians to organize. Whereas now, things are so scattered and productions can be super small, and you could record something in your bedroom. They never got that level of organization. I think it's actually hurt artists to some degree because they don't have the protections that the film industry does.Because you're able to just coast along at the top of the charts throughout basically the century, you're able to get lots of different interweaving stories of labor and also legal disputes/legal outcomes, as well as this technological evolution. What are some of the ways that technology has informed how the music that we listen to changes or evolves over time? Or even some of the litigation that we have seen over the course of the century of musical creation. It just seems like it's a really fun way to track some of these bigger trends that we don't even know are really trends.Yeah, totally. I think one of the key themes of the book is that musical evolution is often downstream from technological innovation, which has a nice little ring to it. But in general, there's this idea that creativity is being struck by the muse, and you create something. Whereas in reality, there are usually physical constraints or technological constraints that shape the art that we make. One of the most basic examples is the length of songs. From the '40s up till the early, mid-60s, the pop song sits around 2.5 to three minutes. The reason for this is that vinyl singles could literally not hold more sound without degrading, which is completely backwards from the idea that there was an artist who chose to write a 2.5-minute song.I was like, “Well, you had to work within the constraint.” Then technology gets better, singles start to get longer. During the disco era, they actually made bigger discs to put out these long dance mixes. The single sat around like 3.5 to 4.5 minutes for decades until about 10 years ago, when it started to shorten again. People typically point to music streaming for this reason, because artists are paid if a song is listened to for more than 30 seconds, so it's really just a volume game. If you have a 14 minute song that someone listens to one time, they get paid once. But if I listen to a two-minute song seven times (which is again, the same amount of time spent listening), I will be paid out seven times. There is this financial incentive to shorten songs.I don't think artists are sitting in the studio thinking about this constantly. But what I see, what I saw again and again, is that artists were rational beings to some degree and would work within the constraints that they were given. They would usually push against those constraints. That's where a lot of great art comes out of.Even new mediums are offering new opportunities. You wrote a little bit about MTV and how that really changed a lot of what was able to be successful at the time. You had new types of acts that were able to really start competing there, and other acts that just weren't. Do you wanna speak a little bit about like what video did?Yeah, video certainly changed the game. There were artists who had visual presences earlier. The Beatles had a very visual presence. I think part of their success is tied to the fact that television was becoming a thing, and mass media was really becoming a thing. However, we associate musicians with visuals so much these days. That really emerged in the 1980s, where you needed your visual concepts to be as strong, if not stronger than, your musical concepts. I think because of that, you start seeing some artists break through who I don't think are considered great musicians.I always sadly point to the song, “Hey Mickey” by Tony Basil. If it's your favorite song, sorry. I don't think it's a masterful musical creation, but it had this fun music video where she's dressed up as a cheerleader. A lot of that song's success was just the fact that MTV was willing to put that in heavy rotation because it was a fun video to watch. We live in the shadow of that era where visuals matter just as much as anything else.When you think about the most popular artists, outside of maybe a handful, you think of their visual concepts. You think of what Beyoncé looks like, what her videos are like, same with Taylor Swift, as much as you think about their music. That really reshaped our relationship with popular music. We expect to know what artists look like. It's odd to think about that; it really wasn't a thing decades before. You could be a fan of an artist and not really know what they look like. How would you know? Maybe you saw them in a magazine. Maybe you caught them on one television show. The idea that we have access to what everyone looks like is a pretty new phenomenon.That's fun. It's just so interesting to see how a simple change, whether it's today an algorithm or then a medium of distribution, can just have material impacts on the popularity of British synth music in America.Yeah, that's the perfect example. There's a great book called I Want My MTV, and it's an oral history of MTV. They talked to one of the founders. Early MTV would play, as you're saying, all these British new wave acts. Think A Flock of Seagulls, Duran Duran or even someone like U2. They asked the founder, “Why were you playing so many British artists on early MTV?” He was like, “For some reason, British artists happened to make music videos. And there were about 200 music videos in existence. We had to fill 24 hours of programming.” A Flock of Seagulls was gonna get played a bunch of times just because they happened to make music videos.It is a weird thing. Why would anyone make a music video if there was nowhere to really play them? I don't know why specifically the British had more videos, but there were occasional times where television shows might show a video.They do love that over there, like Top of the Pops. I can see why.Music and television have always been connected. You even think Saturday Night Live still has musical acts. Back then, say your label didn't wanna send you out to Britain to go on Top of the Pops. Maybe they would send a video of you instead. There were videos that would float around on these variety shows, and some early videos were just concert footage. It was like, it was a chicken or the egg thing. Once some people had success on MTV, everyone started producing videos. MTV somehow pulled off the miracle of convincing labels that they needed to make videos and that they needed to front the cost for that. Then they had to give MTV the video for free. I don't know how MTV managed to do that.Well, all of Gen X can't be wrong. If you do wanna get it out there, you do have to get it out there. One really fun recurring thing in the book — which again, like I really enjoyed. I think it's a phenomenal work. I think it's a great history. I'm telling stories that I learned in your book to everybody. It is a really fun read in that regard, I wanna say.I do love how you occasionally clock a genre that really only exists briefly. There's one that always goes around for like the strangest things to hit number one, like the Ballad of the Green Berets. I think like there's a Star Wars disco track that I definitely have on vinyl at home about that. You wrote a lot about like teen tragedy songs. What are some of the fascinating like brief trends that only made a small splash and that all of us have forgotten ever existed, but nevertheless achieve some measure of immortality?Yeah, the teen tragedy song is a good one. That actually inspired the writing of this whole book because I got 50 No. 1s, and I was like, “Why are there so many number ones about teenagers dying? That's a little weird.” And then I did a little digging and tried to piece together why that was. The teenage tragedy song, late '50s, early '60s, there are all of these songs about two teenagers in love, usually high schoolers. One tragically dies often in a car crash, and the other is very sad and maybe says that they'll reunite again one day in the afterlife. Some of the big ones are “Leader of the Pack” by the Shangri-Las and “Teen Angel” by Mark Dinning.It's a very weird blip in popular music history. I won't say it has cast a long shadow, but there are some occasional people who pull from that tradition. The craziest teen tragedy song ever was “Bat Outta Hell” by Meatloaf, in which Jim Steinman tried to write a nine-minute motorcycle crash song. I think that's a really interesting one.Disco: bizarre in the amount of people that made disco songs. I really came to like disco and the best disco music, I'm like, “These are the greatest sounds that have ever been recorded.” But it got so big and so popular that everyone felt the need to record disco songs.Not everything is “I Feel Love,” right?No, most things are not. It strikes me that this happened with disco, but has not happened with other genres. Frank Sinatra recorded disco songs. Basically, every television theme song got a disco remix. I Love Lucy had a disco remix. The Rocky theme song had a disco remix.What? I'm sorry, Frank Sinatra did a disco song? Is it good?It's not good. It's “Night and Day” over a disco beat. And it's not clear to me if they just remixed it or if he actually recut the vocal because I just cannot imagine him doing that. In the mid-60s, there was a nun who topped the charts, The Singing Nun with a song called “Dominique.” Of course, during the disco era, it was remixed as a disco song. There are examples of this where people went sort of disco. The Rolling Stones record “Miss You” and it has the disco beat, or Pink Floyd does “Another Brick in the Wall” or Queen does “Another One Bites the Dust.”Everyone was gonna give it a try. There was so much money being made in the disco world at the time. You can always find some artists you would never think would do a disco song probably tried. They probably gave it their best.That's great. It's just fun because the things that hit number one for a week don't necessarily have to be good. They just have to be popular for like a week. Even the construction of the Top 40 chart, which you get into in the book, isn't exactly science. A lot of times, it's a little bit of intuition. It's a lot of what's selling and what's selling where specifically. It is a little bit woo woo, right?Yeah, definitely. The goal of this chart is “What's the most popular song in America in a given week?” Back in the day, that meant what were people buying? What were people listening to on the radio? What were people spinning in jukeboxes? Today, most music is done on streaming. It's consumption-based, rather than sales-based. So the chart's the same in name only, but it's really measuring very different things. The equivalent would be if we knew after you purchased your copy of “I Feel Love,” how many times did you actually play it at home? You could have purchased it, went home and never played it again. Something like that would not register on the charts these days.I respect the people at Billboard because they have an impossible task. It's like “We're gonna take all the information and we're going to boil it down into choosing or measuring what the most popular song is.” It's an impossible task to some degree.I have watched the evolution of the chart, and I go back and forth on whether they have given up on actually trying to rank stuff or if they are just ranking things in a different way. I think that the apples-to-apples between the era stuff is just so hard to do.One thing I really enjoyed about your book, in particular, is that it's not a story of why these songs are the best. It's a story of why these songs were popular at the time, just dipping the toe into the river of human sound. One thing that I'll ask as you wrap: as you were going through these eras, who did you hear a lot more of than you thought? Who did you hear a lot less than you expected?I joked with some people that if you just looked at the top of the charts, the greatest rock band of the 1970s is either Grand Funk Railroad or Three Dog Night because they both had three number one hits, and many other bands in the classic rock canon have none. Led Zeppelin does not really exist on the pop chart, the singles chart. Led Zeppelin really only put out albums. The Eagles were also big during the '70s on the music charts. But Three Dog Night, they're the legends.There are tons of people that I didn't realize how much I would see of them. Someone like Lionel Richie and Phil Collins, of course, they're tremendously popular, but they were so popular. Phil Collins was popular at the height of the bald pop star era, which I think is a thing of the past. You had multiple bald men who were regularly topping the charts in the mid-80s. You see a ton of Phil Collins, more than I was expecting, even though I know he's very popular.Who don't you see a ton of? Sometimes you don't see people until a bit later in their careers. This is actually an interesting phenomenon. Artists do not score a number one hit during their most critically acclaimed period, and then a decade later, they do. For example, Cheap Trick. They have a number one hit, but it's at the end of the '80s song called “The Flame.” Whereas if you hear Cheap Trick on the radio, it's probably their live album from the 1970s. This is a phenomenon you see again and again. Some old timer will get their number one much later in their career. Tina Turner gets her number one when she's probably in her 40s. It's always interesting to see that.There are also some artists where I feel like there's a divergence between what their most popular songs are these days and what was topping the charts. Elton John is a good example there. “Benny and the Jets” was a number one hit, still a tremendously popular song. But he's got a lot of weird No. 1s that I don't think have as much street cred these days. He has a song called “Island Girl.” Did not age like fine wine. I don't even think he plays it live anymore because it's considered somewhat racially insensitive. But it was a No. 1 hit at the time. “Philadelphia Freedom” is another one by Elton John. I feel like when people think of the Elton John catalog, it's probably not the first song that comes to mind. But it was a No. 1 hit, huge smash. His cover of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was a No. 1. Elton John has been very popular throughout the decades, but I feel like the reasons he's been popular have changed.People have just gravitated towards different songs as time has gone on. You get distortions at the top of the charts. But I think, as you mentioned, it provides a good sample of what was actually popular. You have the good, the bad, and the ugly. Whereas if you look at some other sources, people are just gonna be like, “Oh, listen to these records. These are the best records.” In reality, the bad records are important, too.Yeah, bad records are great. They're at least interesting. I imagine also some of this process must have been missing out on a lot of interesting music because one song was just dominating the charts. Were there any songs in particular that come to mind that wooled the roost for potentially a little bit too long?Yeah, the quintessential example is the “Macarena” in the ‘90s.Oh, no!I think it was No. 1 for 13 weeks.Christ!There's a great clip of people at the Democratic National Convention and '96 dancing the “Macarena.” It's so bad. Yeah, so a very popular song. There are tons of stuff that gets stuck behind it. There's a great No.1 hit in the '90s called “I Love You Always Forever.” It's a very nice song by Donna Lewis. It's stuck at No. 2 because it just happened to be popular during the “Macarena's” very long run. YYour life's work, your greatest accomplishment, being stymied by the “Macarena” feels like a level of creative hell that I have never envisioned before.Yeah, there are other artists who got unlucky. Bruce Springsteen never performed a No. 1 hit. He wrote a No.1 hit for another artist. His closest was “Dancing in the Dark” got to No. 2, but that was also when Prince released “When Doves Cry,” so it's a tough, tough week. Bob Dylan, similar thing. He wrote a No. 1 hit, but he only ever got to No. 2. I think he got to No. 2 twice. Once, he got stuck behind “Help” by the Beatles, and another time he got stuck behind “Monday Monday” by the Mamas and the Papas.This is another thing when I talk about the charts. There could be many fewer units sold in a given week, or there could be many more units sold. There's a lot of luck involved if you're gonna go all the way to No. 1. You could be Bruce Springsteen: you release the biggest record of your life, and Prince also releases the biggest record of his life at the exact same time.Incredible. So again, I have read the book. I really, really like it. People are doubtlessly familiar with the newsletter at this point, but I am also a big fan and booster of that. But I guess I'll just throw it to you. Where can folks find the book, and where can folks find you?Yeah, you can find me, Chris Dalla Riva, basically on every social media platform under cdallarivamusic. I'm most active on TikTok and Instagram. The book, Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us About the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves, should be available from every major retailer online. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, Booklist, all that good stuff. Not available physically in stores, so definitely order it online.Like I said, I spent years listening to every No. 1 hit in history, built a giant data set about all those songs and used that to write a data-driven history of popular music from 1958 to basically 2025. So go pick up a copy, buy one for your mother for Christmas. Or your father, I don't discriminate. Yeah, check it out. I'm hoping people enjoy it, and I'm really excited to finally get it out in the world. It's been a long, circuitous journey to get it published.It's a really fun read, and I wish it nothing but the best. And yeah, congrats, thanks for coming on.Yeah, thanks for having me.Edited by Crystal WangIf you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! Send links to me on Twitter at @WaltHickey or email me with numbers, tips or feedback at walt@numlock.news. 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While Dire Straits were a solid band that had radio hits since their first album was released in 1978, there was nothing to portend the outrageous fortune they would find in 1985 with Brothers in Arms. Their previous album, Love Over Gold, failed to go platinum in the US or produce any big radio hits. Twisting By The Pool from their 1983 EP was catchy but also kitschy and made some wonder if they were trying to parody the oldies instead of creating an homage. While the live album Alchemy was fantastic, it was not a huge seller. Lead singer, lead guitarist and songwriter Mark Knopfler had success in the studio with Steely Dan and Bob Dylan, produced some great movie soundtracks and wrote songs for others like Private Dancer for Tina Turner. But he hadn't made a Dire Straits album that captured the public's imagination. Until they made Brothers In Arms in 1985.... Mark brought in a young keyboard player named Guy Fletcher to give his songs more texture and eventually brought in legendary session drummer Omar Hakim to lay down all the drum parts. The result was an album that hit #1 around the world selling more than 4.5 million in the UK, 9 million in the US and 30 million around the world. The single Money For Nothing topped the charts around the world and featured Sting singing the famous line I Want My MTV. Of course at the time MTV played videos by artists who wrote music and played instruments and between Sting's catchphrase and the cutting edge (at the time) computer animation, it went into heavy rotation and would be heralded as one of the greatest videos for years. But the sound was so crisp on this album it was used to sell CD players in stores and was the first record to sell more on CD than on LP, thanks in large part to recording on digital tape and Knopfler's never ending search for quality sound. Songs like Your Latest Trick and Why Worry may be mellow but you can hear every note. Walk Of Life was fun, upbeat track that featured 2 different videos for the US and UK markets. And while the second side of the album might not have featured the big hits as the first side, Knopfler's lyrics take on more serious notions like war, life and death. the final and title track brought up visions of pain from the Falklands War that had affected so many in the UK and Argentina and is seen as a respectful tribute to those who fought (and often played at military funerals0. You can't tell the story of MTV, the 1980s or Dire Straits without this album and we dug in for an in-depth conversation about its impact at the time and how it sound today. Plus, we have a little audio from Guy Fletcher talking about Dolby Atmos mixes for the upcoming 40th anniversary edition which will include a concert from the Live in 85 tour. This was a big one and we treat it accordingly. Check out our new website: Ugly American Werewolf in London Website Visit our sponsor RareVinyl.com and use the code UGLY to save 10%! Twitter Threads Instagram YouTube LInkTree www.pantheonpodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While Dire Straits were a solid band that had radio hits since their first album was released in 1978, there was nothing to portend the outrageous fortune they would find in 1985 with Brothers in Arms. Their previous album, Love Over Gold, failed to go platinum in the US or produce any big radio hits. Twisting By The Pool from their 1983 EP was catchy but also kitschy and made some wonder if they were trying to parody the oldies instead of creating an homage. While the live album Alchemy was fantastic, it was not a huge seller. Lead singer, lead guitarist and songwriter Mark Knopfler had success in the studio with Steely Dan and Bob Dylan, produced some great movie soundtracks and wrote songs for others like Private Dancer for Tina Turner. But he hadn't made a Dire Straits album that captured the public's imagination. Until they made Brothers In Arms in 1985.... Mark brought in a young keyboard player named Guy Fletcher to give his songs more texture and eventually brought in legendary session drummer Omar Hakim to lay down all the drum parts. The result was an album that hit #1 around the world selling more than 4.5 million in the UK, 9 million in the US and 30 million around the world. The single Money For Nothing topped the charts around the world and featured Sting singing the famous line I Want My MTV. Of course at the time MTV played videos by artists who wrote music and played instruments and between Sting's catchphrase and the cutting edge (at the time) computer animation, it went into heavy rotation and would be heralded as one of the greatest videos for years. But the sound was so crisp on this album it was used to sell CD players in stores and was the first record to sell more on CD than on LP, thanks in large part to recording on digital tape and Knopfler's never ending search for quality sound. Songs like Your Latest Trick and Why Worry may be mellow but you can hear every note. Walk Of Life was fun, upbeat track that featured 2 different videos for the US and UK markets. And while the second side of the album might not have featured the big hits as the first side, Knopfler's lyrics take on more serious notions like war, life and death. the final and title track brought up visions of pain from the Falklands War that had affected so many in the UK and Argentina and is seen as a respectful tribute to those who fought (and often played at military funerals0. You can't tell the story of MTV, the 1980s or Dire Straits without this album and we dug in for an in-depth conversation about its impact at the time and how it sound today. Plus, we have a little audio from Guy Fletcher talking about Dolby Atmos mixes for the upcoming 40th anniversary edition which will include a concert from the Live in 85 tour. This was a big one and we treat it accordingly. Check out our new website: Ugly American Werewolf in London Website Twitter Threads Instagram YouTube LInkTree www.pantheonpodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EPISODE SUMMARY: Lyndsey Parker is a veteran music journalist who has held roles at Yahoo, SiriusXM, and Warner Music, and interviewed numerous artists. She shares her experiences meeting artists, hosting shows, writing articles, and immersing herself in pop culture.On this episode of Chachi Loves Everybody, Chachi talks to Lyndsey Parker about:Growing up as a valley girl in the San Fernando ValleyHer avant-garde clothing style and how her mom supported her expression growing upExploring the LA music scene and her early music influences including Duran Duran, The Monkees, and The Beatles and later MTVCreating a fanzine and going from interviewing budding music stars to Gene SimmonsWorking at Launch.com before getting bought by Yahoo where she interviewed many major artists and witnessed innovations in digital musicExplore her passion for music and entertainment as a host on the radio host and on AXS TV Her fascination with reality TV and all things pop cultureWriting the book 'Permanent Damage' and getting the opportunity to collaborate with Miss Mercy and share her incredible life storyJuggling multiple jobs while working for Yahoo for yearsAnd more!ABOUT THIS EPISODE'S GUEST: Lyndsey Parker is an award-winning music journalist. You may know her as the host of WMG's successful podcast series and Roku television show ‘Totally '80s,'  longtime music editor at Yahoo Entertainment, or the former host of the SiriusXM radio show ‘Volume West' with Chad Smith and Davey Havok.Considered an expert in music and pop culture, she is a She Rocks Awards honoree, a four-time Southern California Journalism Awards winner, and an Online Journalism Award and National A&E Journalism Awards nominee. She is also the co-author of the autobiography of legendary muse and former GTOs member Miss Mercy,Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl, and the author of Careless Memories of Strange Behavior: My Notorious Life as a Duran Duran Fan. Additionally, she has served as the managing editor at LAUNCH.com; is a recurring cast member of AXS TV's The Top Ten Revealed and Music's Greatest Mysteries; is a regular moderator at the Grammy Museum; and has appeared in Netflix's The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story, A&E's I Want My MTV, and various other documentaries. She has appeared as a music and reality TV expert on TV shows for numerous major networks, including MTV, CNN, Fox News, VH1′s Behind the Music, Lifetime, Fox 11′s Good Day L.A., CBS's The Insider and KCAL morning news, and Spectrum News. She has written for NME, Mojo, Elle, MOJO, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles, and Guitar, among other publications. She also lost on Rock & Roll Jeopardy once.She currently resides in Hollywood with her internet-unfamous cat Pussycow; Nagel, a white snake who has met David Coverdale; piles of records, books, and Hello Kitty and Pac-Man memorabilia; and a vintage television set that is always, always on. Her website, Lyndsanity!, is a catchall for her interviews, podcasts, media appearances, and other adventures she gets up to while obsessing over music and pop culture.ABOUT THE PODCAST: Chachi Loves Everybody is brought to you by Benztown and hosted by the President of Benztown, Dave “Chachi” Denes. 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Mick Jagger, Madonna, and David Bowie were amongst the megastars who participated in the ‘I Want My MTV!' campaign which debuted on 1st March, 1982; credited for getting music television to a sustainable number of cable providers and thereby kickstarting a whole genre: the music video.  Ad guru George Lois had come up with the slogan, inspired by an earlier cereal commercial he'd worked on. The promotion hit such a nerve with Generation X that it even made it into a hit single, when Dire Straits and Sting sang ‘I Want My MTV' in ‘Money For Nothing'.  In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain why the music and cable industry both needed persuading of the merits of taking the new channel; consider why adopting the segregated playlists approach of American popular radio was a mis-step for the originators of the network; and reveal why so many British artists played a role in the early days of the playlist… Further Reading: ‘How MTV changed pop music and TV forever - but it all began in cramped room above deli' (Mirror, 2021): https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/how-mtv-changed-pop-music-24659108 ‘George Lois Dead: Icon of Ads & Magazines Popularized ‘I Want My MTV'' (The Hollywood Reporter, 2022): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/george-lois-dead-icon-ads-magazine-i-want-my-mtv-1235266407/#! ‘I Want My MTV' (MTV, 1982): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGZSWdh17l0 We'll be back on Monday - unless you join

I Want My MTV! We broke down one of the most influential companies in music: MTV. I'm joined by friend of the pod, Zack Greenburg, who wrote a book about one of MTV's biggest star's ever, Michael Jackson.We discuss the highs, lows, challenges, controversies MTV faced. From its business model over the years, shift to reality TV, VMAs, TRL, Yo MTV Raps, impact on culture, and its missed opportunities.[00:08:43] MTV business model, rise of cable TV, untapped teenage market[00:15:50] The impact of Michael Jackson and “I Want My MTV”[00:25:22] How MTV sparked one-hit wonders[00:30:01] Yo MTV Raps![00:38:59] Movies, VMAs, and more[00:53:55] Reality TV vs music videos: what fans really want?[01:00:47] MTV animated shows, spring break, Super Bowl, Rock the Vote[01:05:58] Music industry peak, TRL, and big budget music videos[01:12:17] Why Ridiculousness is now on MTV all the time[01:20:44] MTV's missed chances over the years[01:37:26] Who won and lost the most from MTV?This episode is sponsored by DICE. Learn more about why artists, venues, and promoters love to partner with DICE for their ticketing needs. Visit dice.fmEnjoy this podcast? Rate and review the podcast here! ratethispodcast.com/trapitalTrapital is home for the business of music, media and culture. Learn more by reading Trapital's free memo.

MTV News had a great 36 year run-Kurt Loder the original host-The VJ's who did the news-Politics started with the 1992 election-Does MTV still play music videos-Most played artists early days of MTV

1:46:01 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The supermarkets along the highway, Snuffy’s, Timewave Zero, biorhythms, astrology, instant grits, Phish tour, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, mouse robot, save a spider, Fovy, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:05:16)… Commercial – I Want My MTV [collection], Maple Leaf Rag (1899, Zachary […]

1:46:01 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The supermarkets along the highway, Snuffy’s, Timewave Zero, biorhythms, astrology, instant grits, Phish tour, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, mouse robot, save a spider, Fovy, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:05:16)… Commercial – I Want My MTV [collection], Maple Leaf Rag (1899, Zachary […]

The story went from a Monkey to a Mogul to the birth of a new Music Medium. Welcome to MTV. Dave Young: Welcome to the Empire Builders Podcast, teaching business owners the not-so-secret techniques that took famous businesses from mom-and-pop to major brands. Stephen Semple is a marketing consultant, story collector and storyteller. I'm Stephen's sidekick and business partner, Dave Young. Before we get into today's episode, a word from our sponsor, which is, well, it's us, but we're highlighting ads we've written and produced for our clients, so here's one of those. [Best Home Services Ad] Dave Young: Welcome to the Empire Builders Podcast. Dave Young here, Stephen Semple alongside. You told me just 10 seconds ago we're going to be talking about MTV, and that's the first thing that popped into my head. I'm not bad at that, am I? Stephen Semple: No, that's not bad at all. It's amazing how MTV has changed, but, anybody from our generation, that's MTV. Dave Young: We remember when they played music. Stephen Semple: We remember when they played music. Dave Young: They gave awards for music and music videos. Stephen Semple: Yeah. They've really changed, but we're going to go back to the fun early days when they were actually a music channel. That campaign was amazing. We're going to pause for a minute and we're going to slot in a whole pile of those I Want My MTV ads at a certain point here because the list of musicians that they had do that is just incredible, just incredible. Dave Young: You may not have as deep awareness of this as I do. Do you know the very first song that they played when they launched MTV? Stephen Semple: I do, and you can share it right now. Dave Young: Well, because I was in the radio business, right? The first song was The Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star. Stephen Semple: Killed the Radio Star, yeah, exactly, which was so funny. Dave Young: Everybody in the radio business is like, "I like MTV, but this is ominous." Stephen Semple: Yeah, you got to really have a sense of humor to do that. Dave Young: We're in trouble now. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Exactly. Dave Young: Then they quit playing music and radio was fine. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Exactly. Radio outlasted MTV in the end. MTV was launched on August 1st, 1981, and it's the flagship property of MTV Entertainment, which is now part of Paramount. Yeah, it's not in the music world really today, but, when it launched, it changed the music world, and that's what we're going to really talk about is the change that happened. The idea, I don't know that you're aware of this, Dave, but the idea for MTV was created by Michael Nesmith, who people from our generation would know as one of the monkeys, so one of the monkeys created the idea for MTV, which I thought was really, really incredible. Dave Young: Really, and he was such a creative, even a filmmaker, right? He did music videos before MTV. He did films. Stephen Semple: He did. Yes, he did. He was a real pioneer in music videos. He wrote this solo tune in 1977 called Rio, and he was asked to create a clip for it. What everyone was expecting was the standard clip that was done at the time, which was a guy standing in front of a microphone singing the song, right? Instead, what he did is he created this clip where there were shots from locations and all these other things that didn't necessarily have anything to do with the song, and this is considered the world's first music video, because this is not what people were expecting. They were expecting this shot of him singing in front of a mic, and they got all this other stuff instead. What ended up happening was this ran, this got aired in Australia, the video, and Rio went number one in Australia with the airing of this. Now, it wasn't called a music video at the time. It was called a video record is what they first called it.

Award-winning filmmaker Tyler Measom specializes in high profile, character-based nonfiction films and series.Measom is the co-director of the hit Netflix series Murder Among the Mormons. He also co-directed the documentaries In The Balance: Ballet's Lost Year and I Want My MTV (Tribeca, A&E), An Honest Liar (Tribeca, ITVS) and Sons of Perdition (Tribeca, Oprah Documentary Club). He has produced the films TAKE (Tribeca, Showtime), the Showtime doc Jesus Town, USA, and the NYTimes documentary ELDER. Measom is the producer and host of the Webby Award winning documentary podcast Was I In a Cult?Tyler is currently directing the three-part documentary series I Wanna Rock: Chasing the 80's Metal Dream for Paramount+ and the music documentary Lost and Found for Boardwalk Pictures.Murder Among the MormonsTyler co-directed, with Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite), the Netflix true-crime documentary series Murder Among the Mormons. Produced by: Jannat GargiExecutive producer: Joe Berlinger Sons of Perditionfollows three teenage boys after they escape from the secretive FLDS polygamist sect and must fend for themselves in mainstream America.After premiering at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, Sons of Perdition went on to play at over 60 film festivals worldwide and in 20 U.S. theaters. It is part of the OWN Network and is currently on Netflix.Tyler Measom co-directed the film with Jennilyn MertenI Want my MTVco-director, producer, cinematographerI Want My MTV details the implausible genesis of MTV, the rapid rise of the brand, and the global revolution that followed. Features interviews with Sting, Billy Idol, Pat Benatar, Run DMC, Dee Snider, Eurythmics, Tori Amos, Bret Michaels, Norman Lear and many moreThe film had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and is playing on A&E.Variety Review - “The first thing you want from a history of MTV is to get dunked in the hot-but-cool nostalgia of it, and the fast, fleet documentary “I Want My MTV” delivers those 1980s goods about as good as you can get.”Was I in a Cult PodcastHosted by Tyler Measom and Liz Iacuzzi, Was I In A Cult? is a documentary-style podcast showcasing individuals who have been in, and most importantly, successfully left a cult. Told first-hand by the experiencer themself, these are raw, riveting and inspirational tales of what it means to be a survivor. ShannyPantsShow.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul and Rob are back and they're reliving the glory days of MTV. A time when they actually played music, it was the 80s and it was glorious. Journey back with them to a time when the people proclaimed, “I Want My MTV!!!!!!!” Join the chat or call in: 215-240-7839 to join in the fun! Join The Rabbit In Red Radio Network Family For EXCLUSIVE Shows and More: www.patreon.com/RabbitInRedRadioNetwork1 For More Rabbit In Red Radio: Listen To Our Internet Radio Station Or On Demand Episodes: www.rabbitinredradio.com Call The Show Or Leave A Voicemail: 215-240-7839 Email The Show: mike @rabbitinredradio.com Join Us On Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/rabbitinredradio https://www.facebook.com/groups/27965... Follow Us On Twitter: @RIRShowOfficial Grab Some Rabbit In Red Radio Goodies: www.teepublic.com/user/rabbitinredradio Help Crippled Cody Out: https://gofund.me/932caabf For Audio Versions Of The Show Visit: www.rabbitinredradio.com

In an I Want My MTV spectacular I discuss marriage equality!  Brilliant.  The American Trucking Association has a Women in Motion thing going.  Why is that not a good idea?  Discrimination.  Is old school trucking better?  Yes and no for sure.  The Driveri driver cam is here from Netradyne and it is going to give … Continue reading Trucking Answers | Trucking News | Automotive | A Reason we are not on Mars | #101 →

Writer and huge dumbass Rob Tannenbaum (I Want My MTV) joins Joe & Kristen to talk about the importance of MTV to this year's inductees. More importantly though, he's berated and insulted, as per the agreements of the bet he lost on a previous episode. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

"I Want My MTV!" shouted rock icons like Sting, David Bowie, Pat Benatar, and Mick Jagger, in an effort to convince American teenagers to demand their parents get cable TV. And it worked! For decades, the original music channel entertained us with one amazing music video after another, thrilling us with brilliant innovation while shortening our collective attention span at the same time.

On Episode 265, we list the Mt. Rushmore of Song Intros!  There are a lot to choose from, but we try our best. We also discuss the following: Aaron Rodgers had a rough week Neil Young takes a stand R.I.P. Meathloaf Politics are Dividing everyone Enjoy and make sure to follow us on all the socials: Facebook Twitter Instagram Tik Tok  

This week Aries and Andy discuss Cleveland, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and A&E's I Want My MTV, Comedy Guest: Manny Griggs Social Media Instagram: @SpearsBergPod Twitter: @SpearsBergPod Facebook: SpearsBergPod Patreon: SpearsBergPod Youtube: SpearsBergPod  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

My guest this week is Lyndsey Parker. We have been friends for a long time, and I'm thrilled to say that her latest book which she co-authored, the autobiography of legendary muse and former GTOs member Mercy Fontenot, "Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl", is not only just incredibly well written, but the nods from the press and readers have been sensational ! We speak about Mercy's last few years helping Lyndsey get the book together, and of course the funny stories that went along with it.Lyndsey is the music editor at Yahoo Entertainment and host of the daily SiriusXM Volume show Volume West and Rhino Records' podcast series Totally '80s. Considered an expert in music and pop culture, Parker is an Online Journalism Award nominee and has written for Elle, MOJO, Rolling Stone, NME, and Guitar. She is a regular commentator on AXS TV's The Top Ten Revealed and has appeared in the Netflix documentary The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story and the A&E documentary I Want My MTV, as well as on VH1's Behind the Music, CNN, MTV, The Insider, and Good Day L.A.Tune in now as we speak about all things Rock and Roll.This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

My guest this week is Lyndsey Parker. We have been friends for a long time, and I'm thrilled to say that her latest book which she co-authored, the autobiography of legendary muse and former GTOs member Mercy Fontenot, "Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl", is not only just incredibly well written, but the nods from the press and readers have been sensational ! We speak about Mercy's last few years helping Lyndsey get the book together, and of course the funny stories that went along with it. Lyndsey is the music editor at Yahoo Entertainment and host of the daily SiriusXM Volume show Volume West and Rhino Records' podcast series Totally '80s. Considered an expert in music and pop culture, Parker is an Online Journalism Award nominee and has written for Elle, MOJO, Rolling Stone, NME, and Guitar. She is a regular commentator on AXS TV's The Top Ten Revealed and has appeared in the Netflix documentary The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story and the A&E documentary I Want My MTV, as well as on VH1's Behind the Music, CNN, MTV, The Insider, and Good Day L.A. Tune in now as we speak about all things Rock and Roll. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest this week is Lyndsey Parker. We have been friends for a long time, and I'm thrilled to say that her latest book which she co-authored, the autobiography of legendary muse and former GTOs member Mercy Fontenot, "Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl", is not only just incredibly well written, but the nods from the press and readers have been sensational ! We speak about Mercy's last few years helping Lyndsey get the book together, and of course the funny stories that went along with it.Lyndsey is the music editor at Yahoo Entertainment and host of the daily SiriusXM Volume show Volume West and Rhino Records' podcast series Totally '80s. Considered an expert in music and pop culture, Parker is an Online Journalism Award nominee and has written for Elle, MOJO, Rolling Stone, NME, and Guitar. She is a regular commentator on AXS TV's The Top Ten Revealed and has appeared in the Netflix documentary The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story and the A&E documentary I Want My MTV, as well as on VH1's Behind the Music, CNN, MTV, The Insider, and Good Day L.A.Tune in now as we speak about all things Rock and Roll.This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

My guest this week is Lyndsey Parker. We have been friends for a long time, and I'm thrilled to say that her latest book which she co-authored, the autobiography of legendary muse and former GTOs member Mercy Fontenot, "Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl", is not only just incredibly well written, but the nods from the press and readers have been sensational ! We speak about Mercy's last few years helping Lyndsey get the book together, and of course the funny stories that went along with it. Lyndsey is the music editor at Yahoo Entertainment and host of the daily SiriusXM Volume show Volume West and Rhino Records' podcast series Totally '80s. Considered an expert in music and pop culture, Parker is an Online Journalism Award nominee and has written for Elle, MOJO, Rolling Stone, NME, and Guitar. She is a regular commentator on AXS TV's The Top Ten Revealed and has appeared in the Netflix documentary The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story and the A&E documentary I Want My MTV, as well as on VH1's Behind the Music, CNN, MTV, The Insider, and Good Day L.A. Tune in now as we speak about all things Rock and Roll. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ein Ende kann ein Anfang sein, auch für unser Filmdoppel. Bevor der letzte Vorhang fällt, möchten sich Ralf und Fabian noch fünf Podcast-Wünsche erfüllen und gehen noch einmal jeden Donnerstag im Dezember auf Sendung. Los geht es mit dem klaren Bekenntnis zum musikalischen Kurzfilm. „I Want My MTV!“ bedeutet für das Doppel, „I Want My Mylène Farmer, My Rammstein, My Ultravox, My Pink Floyd, My Gloria Estefan“ und natürlich „I Want My Pet Shop Boys“! Unverbesserliche Businessmänner, kubanische Hotels, grimmige Adler und eine afrodeutsche Germania beweisen letztendlich: Liebe ist für alle da! Und ein tolles Musikvideo sowieso.

We've had a busy couple of weekends lately, with festivals, fairs, homecomings and work, work, work, but Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast couldn't let a Marvel blockbuster go by without sharing our review!  So after Cliff lets us know how he did in a bout of toy trivia against some podcasting pals and we cover a couple of recent documentaries, it's on to "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings." Length - 01:23:53 Language - PG-13.  (Contains mild adult language.) - 0:12:22 - MOVIE NEWS "Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed" explores the life of the beloved artist and the corporate maneuverings that stole his name, the earliest days of Music Television discussed in Biography's "I Want My MTV" and a biopic about a comic book creator's unconventional romance, "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women." - 0:41:43 - SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS Marvel Studios' 25th film had another record-breaking release and we share our SPOILER-filled opinions about the mashup of martial arts fantasy and superhero origin story.

Adam Curry was one of the VJs (video jockeys) of MTV back in the 1980s. In this position, he “interviewed” some of the most popular musicians of the time including Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney. Adam is an early tech adopter and pioneer because he embraced the web and podcasting long before other people. He helped make podcasting “a thing” by collaborating with Dave Winer on podcasting technology, and he created one of the first podcasts, the Daily Source Code. In 2005 Steve Jobs previewed Apple's podcasting efforts by playing the Daily Source Code on stage at D, the most exclusive tech conference. It is a huge deal when Steve used a product like this. Adam also started companies along the way that offered services such as web design, video-sharing, incubation, and podcasting. He currently co-hosts the No Agenda podcast with John Dvorak. Get ready for another great interview on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast!

Jay Jeffers (The Partially Examined Life) and Dan Kaufman discuss the beginnings of MTV and their recollections of it, on this 40th anniversary of the music channel. 3:40 - Aug 1 marks the 40th Anniversary of the launching of MTV in its “original iteration.” 6:20 - How Jay and Dan first got into KISS 13:30 - Jay and Dan discuss their personal histories with MTV / The importance of “Thriller.” 34:30 - Was MTV the beginning or the end of something? The 80’s vs. the 90’s. The impact of the Cold War. 51:30 - The atomization of music audiences and the fracturing of youth culture. 59:50 - Youth culture, social capital, and power. 1:18:25 - David Bowie confronts MTV on black representation on the channel. Links: Rob Tannenbaum’s, I Want My MTV (2012). https://www.amazon.com/Want-My-MTV-Uncensored-Revolution/dp/0452298563 Why MTV doesn’t show music videos anymore. https://slate.com/business/2013/08/why-mtv-doesn-t-show-music-videos-but-does-show-the-vmas.html David Bowie on black representation on MTV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGiVzIr8Qg&ab_channel=MTVNews Jay at the Partially Examined Life. https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/author/jay-jeffers/ The Buggles, “Video Killed the Radio Star.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs&ab_channel=TheBugglesVEVO Molly Ringwald on the cover of Time magazine in 1986. http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1986/1101860526_400.jpg Dan's essay on “OK Boomer.” https://theelectricagora.com/2019/11/08/ok-boomer/

It was August 1, 1981 when MTV launched and changed the course of music history in several ways. Music videos were on the rise and soon became a necessity for artists to earn airplay on the specialized cable channel, which would gain popularity over the next few years thanks to encouraging people to call their cable carrier and tell them: "I Want My MTV." In the coming years, MTV would be a worldwide phenomenon and a real hit-maker, introducing its viewers to multiple modern music genres and offering "Closet Classics."his week on Revenge of the 80s Radio, we play songs from the first 25 videos ever aired on MTV (mostly in order) and a few others from Day 1 as we look back at the days then the cable channel actually played videos.Despite what the channel has become over the last two decades, MTV was for a time cutting edge, interesting, fun to watch and a prime source to hear (view) new music from new as well as established artists. Happy 40th, MTV.

Amy's and Robbie-Ann's first MTV experiences, which led to hours lost in front of the television. Amy talks about the book "I Want My MTV," an oral history of MTV. Amy's designer discovery, and being influenced by the Video Vixens. The thrill of being able to "see" the music. Robbie-Ann discovering what her musical heroes actually looked like. The images and weird effects. The cliches: wind, smoke, mirrors breaking, tigers. Dreamy Duran Duran in Sri Lanka. Simon LeBon's "eyes and teeth." Did Duran Duran influence Sonny Crockett's look? The perfect women - where did they find these flawless vixens? Robbie-Ann's exposure to new music not being played on the radio. Split Enz, Talking Heads and weird haircuts. Robbie-Ann's philosophy about the lie of music genre marketing. The segmentation of MTV. David Lee Roth's iconic videos, including the meta "Just a Gigolo" MTV parody. Did abstract artsy videos mean something or were they just weird? Lisa Vanderpump's cameo in ABC's "Look of Love" and "Poison Arrow." Icon/Goddess Stevie Nicks and her scarves, walking on a treadmill. What the heck were The Fixx videos about? Peter Gabriel's dancing chickens. Amy's analysis of "Material Girl." Mall bangs: a how-to. Videos that ruined the song. Marylin Martin's great 80s song "Night Moves" becomes a goofy vampire story. Superstar Pat Benatar's fantastic song "Shadows of the Night" is set to a bizarre WWII spy drama. Amy's assertion that 90% of the videos were cheesy. Amy's daily viewing of Bananarama's "Venus," and her realization that it was a silly devil story video. Vampires: the go-to video gotcha. Robbie-Ann defends Billy Squire's "Rock Me Tonight" song against its video treatment. The Cars' innovative "You Might Think" video. Did it beat "Thriller" for Video of the Year?! Amy finds out. The Go-Gos. Wham! Record labels discover MTV as a selling tool. Did MTV torpedo the stellar Christopher Cross' career? Robbie-Ann defends Christopher Cross's handsome-ness. Amy's fear of Prince. Twisted Sister!

"Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?" - Alanis Morissette   Ahh, the 90's, where nothing was smart but the music was incredible.    Welcome back to the 90's, uhm, we mean Three Ugly Guys!  On this episode, we bring on our friend Frank to talk about a golden era of music on TV: MTV's Unplugged. Hear us traverse some of the history of MTV's Unplugged and talk about some of our favorite artists who appeared on the show. We also spend some time connecting all genres so there's something for everyone. I WANT MY MTV!   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/threeuglyguys/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThreeUglyGuys Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/ThreeUglyGuys Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/ThreeUglyGuysPodcast   *Intro and Outro music created by John Bartmann (entitled "90s Sitcom Joy") and found on "Freemusicarchive.org". Original song edited by us to fit our Intro and Outro needs.       License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/       Website: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/John_Bartmann/Royalty-Free_Soundtrack_Music_Album_Two/90s-sitcom-joy

Tyler Measom is an ex-Mormon filmmaker of incredible documentaries like "An Honest Liar" and "I Want My MTV." He recently co-directed the Netflix miniseries "Murder Among the Mormons" and joined Jess for a bonus interview. We discussed how Mark Hoffman's actions affected the Mormon Church, what happens when experts are fooled, and what he learned from the people he's interviewed. We would recommend watching "Murder Among the Mormons" before listening to this episode since we discuss the conclusions at length and spoilers abound. (Also: It's really very good!)

Comedians and Music Insiders Marty DeRosa and Paul Farahvar request mixtapes from their fun friends every week! THIS WEEK, they interview author/music journalist and TRUE music insider Rob Tannenbaum to discuss the book "I Want My MTV". Part two of their two part interview with Rob discusses his five most influential videos on MTV. Watch it on youtube at: https://youtube.com/paulfcomedy Email us at paulmartymix@gmail.com

Comedians and Music Insiders Marty DeRosa and Paul Farahvar request mixtapes from their fun friends every week! THIS WEEK, they interview author/music journalist and TRUE music insider Rob Tannenbaum to discuss the book "I Want My MTV". Part one of their two part interview with Rob discusses the book creation and development. Watch it on youtube at: https://youtube.com/paulfcomedy Email us at paulmartymix@gmail.com

This episode of Talking Metal was recorded live on Jan.21, 2021. It includes new interviews with Riki Rachtman from MTV's Headbangers Ball, Alex Grossi of Hookers and Blow/Quiet Riot and Ricky Warwick of Black Star Riders.You can watch video versions of these interviews on our YouTube page.First up we speak with Riki Rachtman. Topics include his plans for his new show “The Ball”, his recent battle with COVID-19, the Cathouse, his podcasts, MTV’s Headbangers Ball, Axl Rose, Duff McKagan, Duff's Brooklyn, Riki’s Ride, Sharon Osbourne, Loveline, Steve Stevens, Eva Neu and much more.The second interview is with Alex Grossi. Topics include his work with Public Enemy, if Frankie Banali knew they were going to continue Quiet Riot without him, new Quiet Riot music, new Hookers & Blow music, Operation: Pipe Dreamers, the M3 Rock Festival, and more.The third and final interview is with Ricky Warwick and it starts at the 1 hour 28 minute mark. Topics include his new solo album When Life Was Hard And Fast, songwriting, Black Star Riders, Scott Gorham, Andy Taylor, Keith Nelson and more.Follow Riki Rachtman on Twitter: @RikiRachtmanCheck out AlexGrossiMusic.comFollow Alex Grossi on IG.Follow Ricky Warwick on Twitter: @RikiRachtmanSubscribe to Mark's weekly email here: www.MarkStrigl.netFollow Mark Strigl on Twitter at these accounts: @talkingmetal & @striglFollow Mark Strigl on Instagram.Support this show by making a PayPal donation.Get bonus content and support Mark on Patreon: www.patreon.com/talkingmetalPlease link through us to make a purchase on Amazon.Support Talking With Mark Strigl Through Amazon US Support Talking With Mark Strigl Through Amazon Canada ---Support Talking With Mark Strigl Through Amazon UK#mtv #headbangers #kiss #quietriot #blackstarriders #talkingmetal #strigl #publicenemy

Comedians and Music Insiders Marty DeRosa and Paul Farahvar request mixtapes from their fun friends every week! But THIS WEEK they discuss the book "I Want My MTV" in a special book report episode online. Five fun facts about the book discussed! Go Watch at www.youtube.com/paulfcomedy Email us at paulmartymix@gmail.com

 LISTENIn the early 80s the cry went up across America and then the world; "I WANT MY MTV!" In this episode, the OGs reflect back on a time of excitement, an unprecedented blending of music and visuals, strange white studios, ridiculously out of place violence, and... oh yes, the smoothest man ever on TV, J.J. Jackson. Also in this episode... so much Leon Redbone. The glory of TAPEHEADS. Were you a Martha Quinn or a Nina Blackwood? And MEAT SHEATHS!  Join the conversation (and see our artifact album) on our Facebook: facebook.com/oldguyswholovethings and talk to us via email: oldguyswholovethings@gmail.comOLD GUYS MERCH: https://www.redbubble.com/people/oldguys/exploreOLD GUYS WATCH CLUB (YouTube playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_lfD1EhrKokbJiiyG9mYVI8gvBslswEvOLD GUYS SPOTIFY PLAYLIST:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4cChDIOuO6HfHo9QryZQKd?si=e3E0JXlxQSOx21T9gbwmjQFind Shawn online: http://www.gruegallery.com  and  https://www.shawndooleyart.com and http://www.dooleyfreelancedesign.comFind Eric online:  http://www.epschwartz.com (all music by Eric)

Greg T. Can't believe that "Elvis Duran" actually called in to discuss his moment in the Die Hard movie. The guys ask, "Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie?" The crew also discovers a great new book, "I Want My MTV" and a fun pit stop in Glenn's Garage to talk about the American Jeep. Not even a Technical Difficulty can derail Episode 11 of this Podcast.

Young And Free, I Want My MTV! This week, Josh and Tracy are talking all things MTV. From ‘The Real World’ cinematic universe to the boom boom kacks of ‘Making The Band,’ they take you through the channel’s best (and messiest) moments. Then, they get a sense of what it was like to work there from Erika Clarke, a former MTV producer who spent 10 years working on iconic shows like ‘Cribs’ and ‘Diary’ (y’all, she worked on the Aaliyah episode!!!). Additional Material By: ViacomCBS, Walt Disney Television, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, J Records/Trans Continental/BMG, and CW/Warner Bros. Production Music courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com. For transcriptions, please visit our website at https://pineapple.fm/back-issue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast returns with an episode full of time travel, award shows, 70s sitcoms, football, TV trailers and more fun-ass documentaries than should be allowed by law.  So hop aboard our train of thought and hang on for the ride!Length - 01:20:32Language - PG-13.  (Contains mild adult language.)-0:07:30 - THE TIME WARPA time travel mystery with an Agatha Christie feel in "The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" by Stuart Turton.-0:12:18 - TV RECAPS & REVIEWSThe winners of this year's socially distant Emmy Awards, "Happy Days" just gets weirder and weirder in its later years, docuseries "The Vow" examines modern day Hollywood cult, "I Want My MTV" episode of A&E's Biography chronicles early days of groundbreaking channel, a minority perspective of the genre in "Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror," Ridley Scott's "Raised by Wolves" debuts, a season unlike any other documented by "Hard Knocks," Hulu's "Helstrom" set in a supernatural corner of the Marvel Universe, more footage of "WandaVision" from Disney+, "Father of the Bride Part 3(ish)" reunites the family for charity during quarantine, excitement builds for season two of "The Mandalorian," and a podcast recommendation about a struggling actor in "Dead Eyes."

I WANT MY MTV!! Or at least I used to want it. Now....ehhhRemember when MTV, Music Television, actually played music and wasn't full of garbage reality shows? Well, we do. The things is, at one point and time, MTV was pretty awesome. In this episode, we'll be discussing how MTV got started (Ted Turner and marijuana were involved), it's fledgling beginnings, meteoric rise and eventual descent into the doodoo it is today. Ride along and enjoy!

Hooman is on to review the movies Tenet,  I Want My MTV, Muluan and  Vinnie reads all your contributions through text messages! See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

This Week We Need 2 Talk has a huge announcement, plus we discuss the new Netflix space drama, Away, the A&E MTV documentary, Big Brother, Real Housewives, Julie and the Phantoms and some crazy F Factor Instagram Drama.

Liz Garbus ("What Happened, Mrs. Simone") returns to the podcast with her co-director Lisa Cortés to discuss their new doc "All In: The Fight For Democracy" which delves into the subject of voter suppression & premieres on 9/9. Also, making his first appearance on the podcast: Tyler Measom with his doc "I Want My MTV" which premieres on Biography on 9/8 at 9PM.

VB talks to Rock royalty, Nancy Wilson of Heart! She talks to VB about her music and the new documentary "I Want My MTV". Heart had a big part in the early start of MTV. Hear the full interview, here!

Today is the 39th anniversary of MTV and for today's throwback interview from The Time Machine archives it is with original MTV VJ Nina Blackwood. She talks about career pre and post MTV. She can be heard on 80's On 8 on Sirius XM along the rest of the surviving original MTV VJ's (RIP J.J. Jackson). Enjoy this throwback interview and say loudly at the top of your lungs I Want My MTV!!!!

This is The Spoon, where Karen Basset is our guest, and we're tearing down dustbowl statues like a crapton of Liams.  Music By  Kariannes  The Wrong Dots  Rebel Pebbles   Spoon Feeding  Polaroid Cameras   Big Dogs   I Want My Mtv!  Big Little Lies  The Men Of The Spoon Robbie RistChris Jackson Thom Bowers The Spoon on FacebookSubscribe via iTunesEmail: the_spoon_radio@yahoo.com

This is an interview of a lifelong friend and golf enthusiast. Dave and I discuss growing up playing golf in Connecticut, thoughts about the game, Tiger, Nicklaus, some mental stuff and other golf shit. Dave is a professional in the film and entertainment industry. He has created documentaries such as Restrepo, The Last Patrol, I Want My MTV, etc. His work can be found on Amazon and Netflix and at Saboteurmedia.comThis episode was conducted with a few cocktails and cigars.You can check out the Gopher Golf website for more golf tips at this link: Gopher Golfwww.gophergolfinc.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/GopherGolf)

Do you remember your first time? Special guest Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" joins host Lyndsey Parker (Yahoo Entertainment/Sirius XM Volume) to talk about the early, formative days of MTV - the videos, the commercials, and the impact it had on 80s kids and pop culture.

On August 1, 1981, MTV premiered and began its influence on the music and television business that would permeate for decades.Join Don and returning guest host Ros Radley as they discuss the influence of MTV and how might music and television have been different in a world with no MTV.Link to "I Want My MTV" Ad that opens the show.Links to Background ItemsMain Wikipedia Article on MTVList of First Videos Aired on MTVBillboard Top 40 for Week Ending August 1, 1981The Cable BoxInterview with Authors of I Want My MTVLinks to Mentioned Videos:Video Killed the Radio Star (The Buggles)Separate Ways/Worlds Apart (Journey)Oh, Sherrie (Steve Perry)Foolish Heart (Steve Perry)Shadows of the Night (Pat Benatar)Love Is A Battlefield (Pat Benatar)Pop Goes My Heart (from the movie Music and Lyrics)Listeners can get a FREE audiobook with theirFREE 30-Day Trial Membership from Audible CLICK HEREWebsite: www.aforkintimepodcast.comE-Mail: aforkintimepodcast@gmail.comDirect Link to Listener Survey: https://www.aforkintimepodcast.com/listenersurveyIf you enjoy the podcast, you can help by supporting us via Patreon.https://www.patreon.com/aforkintimeYou can follow A Fork In Time on….Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintimeTwitter: @AFITPodcastPinterest: www.pinterest.com/aforkintimeTheme Music: Conquer by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/aforkintime)

I WANT MY MTV!!! Come share some of the classics WITH us!  Go watch the clip (online or from your own video collection) and then listen to the Cherry Ice Cream Smiles girls' thoughts. Join in with us, too -- just add your comments on the Instagram page! (@cherryicecreamsmilepodcast)  This time we're watching: Pressure Off, Electric Barbarella and Lonely in Your Nightmare.

Los Angeles Times music editor and author Craig Marks joins Tim to talk about the birth of MTV and how it changed culture, music and television. Craig is a co-author of the book, “I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution.” https://traffic.libsyn.com/shapingopinion/77_-_MTV.mp3   The date was August first, 1981, otherwise known as 8/1/81. That was the night music television was launched. Fittingly, the first video viewers would see was called Video Killed the Radio Star. It was a two-year old song by the Buggles that said it all. Before Music Television, radio and the record companies controlled the music industry. They decided what you would hear and who you would hear. They decided who the stars would be. After MTV, a lot more people had a say, and the music industry would never be the same. Dwight Garner wrote in the New York Times in 2011 that when it launched, “MTV delivered not just new music, constantly on tap, but also a jumpy new visual aesthetic.” It didn’t take long for MTV to have an impact. But before that could happen, the stars had to convince cable companies to carry the channel. That mission inspired the first iconic images of MTV, when David Bowie, Sting and others starred in TV spots demanding, “I Want My MTV.” Those spots drove demand on the part of young, baby boomers and the first cohort of Generation X. And cable television companies responded. But before you can fully appreciate the impact MTV made on culture, it’s important to know what it was like before music television. Craig Marks tells the whole story from those crazy ‘80s videos and bands, to the impact Michael Jackson and Madonna had on MTV and the impact it had on them. At the same time, MTV would usher in the Reality TV phenomena with the creation of The Real World. Our gratitude to Viacom for its permission to feature the classic "I Want My MTV" promotional spot audio in this episode.  Links I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum, Amazon MTV.com MTV Launches, History.com When the Music was Still on MTV, Vanity Fair About this Episode’s Guest Craig Marks Craig Marks is the Los Angeles Times’ music editor, responsible for coverage of popular music. Marks has previously been executive editor at Billboard; editor in chief at Spin and Blender magazines; and co-founder and editor in chief of Popdust. Most recently, he was editorial director for Townsquare Media, a radio company that owns and operates several music websites. He is the co-author of “I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution” and of a forthcoming oral history of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE).

Beatie Wolfe interviews current LA Times Music Editor and former top Editor at Billboard/Spin/Blender Craig Marks about being at the helm of Spin for the rise of Nirvana and the importance of meaningful music journalism and curation in this age of metrics. Listen to this dublab radio show that takes you from suburbia to MTV via the thread of Dirty Mind. Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across Space, Science, Art, Health, Film & Technology by talking to the leading luminaries in each field from Nobel Prize winners to multi-platinum producers and hearing the music that has most impacted them, their “Orange Juice for the Ears”. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN Women role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum. Craig Marks’ Orange Juice for the Ears First song that imprinted? "Hello, Goodbye" by The Beatles First album that shaped who you are? Dirty Mind by Prince - track played "When You Were Mine" The music you would send into Space? "Love is Strange" by Mickey and Sylvia The song you would have at your memorial? "Enjoy Yourself" by The Specials The album you would pass onto your kids? The B-52's by The B-52's – track played "Dance This Mess Around" The show opens with “Stumblin In” by Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman, a track Beatie Wolfe most associates with Craig Marks after their reunion karaoke duet at Montero's in Brooklyn. This show first aired live on LA’s dublab radio.

It's episode 16 of Season 11. On this week's show we have five tales about nasty nature, terrifying transformations, and malicious malls. "My Town is Being Infested by Strange Bees"† written by René Rehn and performed by Matthew Bradford. (Story starts around 00:03:15) "The Taking Tree"† written by Tobias Wade and performed by Armen Taylor & Nikolle Doolin & Erin Lillis. (Story starts around 00:14:20) "It Was A Different Time"‡ written by C.M. Scandreth and performed by Kyle Akers & Graham Rowat & Nikolle Doolin. (Story starts around 00:31:00) "I Want My MTV"† written by Rachele Bowman and performed by Addison Peacock & Peter Lewis & Dan Zappulla & Kyle Akers & Matthew Bradford & Erika Sanderson. (Story starts around 00:56:30) "The Open Secret of East Hall"¤ written by Meg Molloy and performed by Jessica McEvoy & Addison Peacock & Dan Zappulla & Atticus Jackson & Mike DelGaudio & Mick Wingert. (Story starts around 01:19:50) Click here to learn more about the voice actors on The NoSleep Podcast   Click here to learn more about our Season Pass bundles   Click here for tickets to Harmontown in Los Angeles on Oct 1   Click here to learn more about René Rehn   Click here to learn more about Tobias Wade   Click here to learn more about C.M. Scandreth   Executive Producer & Host: David Cummings Musical score composed by: Brandon Boone Audio adaptations produced by: Phil Michalski† & Jeff Clement‡ & Jesse Cornett¤ "My Town is Being Infested by Strange Bees" illustration courtesy of Mark Pelham Audio program ©2018 - Creative Reason Media Inc. - All Rights Reserved - No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of Creative Reason Media Inc. The copyrights for each story are held by the respective authors.

It's episode 16 of Season 11. On this week's show we have five tales about nasty nature, terrifying transformations, and malicious malls."My Town is Being Infested by Strange Bees"† written by René Rehn and performed by Matthew Bradford. (Story starts around 00:03:15)"The Taking Tree"† written by Tobias Wade and performed by Armen Taylor & Nikolle Doolin & Erin Lillis. (Story starts around 00:14:20)"It Was A Different Time"‡ written by C.M. Scandreth and performed by Kyle Akers & Graham Rowat & Nikolle Doolin. (Story starts around 00:31:00)"I Want My MTV"† written by Rachele Bowman and performed by Addison Peacock & Peter Lewis & Dan Zappulla & Kyle Akers & Matthew Bradford & Erika Sanderson. (Story starts around 00:56:30)"The Open Secret of East Hall"¤ written by Meg Molloy and performed by Jessica McEvoy & Addison Peacock & Dan Zappulla & Atticus Jackson & Mike DelGaudio & Mick Wingert. (Story starts around 01:19:50)Please visit www.thenosleeppodcast.com for full show notes and links to learn more about our authors, voice actors, and producers.Executive Producer & Host: David CummingsMusical score composed by: Brandon BooneAudio adaptations produced by: Phil Michalski† & Jeff Clement‡ & Jesse Cornett¤"My Town is Being Infested by Strange Bees" illustration courtesy of Mark PelhamAudio program ©2018 - Creative Reason Media Inc. - All Rights Reserved - No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of Creative Reason Media Inc. The copyrights for each story are held by the respective authors.

Welcome to episode 102 of MADAS. This week Blavid educates Kathryn on his MTV experience while growing up. In Episode 102 | I Want My MTV • Libation corner  1:37 • So what’s going on with you guys?   6:58 • Stoned Conversations with Blavid and Kathryn  (I Want My MTV) 10:17 • Listener Letters (Greening Out!)  27:30 • What’s going on in Kathryn’s Grow?  34:47 • Shoutouts!  40:01   Don't forget to send your questions and comments to momanddadarestoned@gmail.com. If you happen to be an electronic musician who creates music (like the kind on this podcast) and want to write music for our show, let us know! Interested in becoming a member so you can hear even more podcast episodes? Learn more here. Also, if you feel like spending some money on some unique stoner items, go check out our shop site here. Mom and Dad are Stoned is available on itunes, Google Play, Spotify and Stitcher.

Brian and Brian listen to one of the best selling albums of all time (30 mil worldwide), Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms. This episode was inspired by a recommendation via a 5 star iTunes review from all star listener & friend Brian Brown. If you'd like to hear a record on the show, do what Brian did - leave us a 5 star review on iTunes. Any albums referenced in a 5 star iTunes review will be taken under serious consideration. volcanovinyl@gmail.com @volcanovinyl #vv084

I WANT MY MTV! Today's Episode we discuss the MTV Movie & TV Awards, The Challenge Finale, and look back at MTV VJs.

Was the Taylor Swift / Apple Music dustup nothing more than a premeditated hoax? Maybe! Listen to our argument! Plus, "I Want My MTV" is out, and "I AM My MTV" is in, but will anybody care? Brand authority Tom Asacker and Media Strategist Mark Ramsey go inside what's really happening in media.

I WANT MY MTV....to stop sucking.

The co-authors of the incredible oral history I Want My MTV stop by to talk about the 400 people they interviewed for the book, MTV's influence, and why the 80's were the best decade for music.

Happy New Year! On this episode of How Was Your Week, one of the authors of I Want My MTV, the fantastic oral history of MTV, ROB TANNENBAUM is here! And Rob is all to happy to talk to us about the Canadian almost-beauty queen who played the teacher in the "Hot For Teacher" video, the '80s versus the '60s in the pop culture status canon, Prince's on-set whispering techniques, and Cher's wonderful comeback at the first-ever VMA's. Plus, how much Guns N' Roses' videos would cost, with inflation! David Fincher Versus Michael Bay! How Pauly Shore represents sexual slavery, in Julie's mind! The satirical origins of the "Cherry Pie" video! And why "Downtown" Julie Brown and Adam Curry are the same (seemingly rotten) person. Also, Julie discovers an online brotherhood that wants no part of her membership! The Today Show's target audience is found to be cats! A tweet from Siggy Flicker! Things We Wish We Didn't Know! News of exciting progress made in the Linda Lovelace biopic! And exciting details about the February 2nd How Was Your Week Live show at the Bell House. A pop culture-palooza of wonderful show-ness for your face and spirit.

MTV turned 30 this week, and Jim, Tim & Kirk discuss its influence and the time that Kirk said “I Want My MTV” for a cable tv contest. (03:45 – 15:25) Then, it’s a Musical Moment to Die For with “Duel” by Swervedriver (15:30 – 17:33) Game of Thrones is totally blowing up right now, […]