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Anita's avatar

My guilty pleasure has been and always will be INXS, one of the most underrated bands IMO. I believe I know every song 🎶 They always put on a kick ass concert. These are some of my favorite memories as a teen. Also, Michael Hutchence 🤤 was my mega crush. His death left me in tears for days.

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Jonathan Small's avatar

Love INXS. Michael's death was the worst.

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Anita's avatar

Also suicide or auto erotic asphyxiation? Your belief? Didn’t he have behavioral changes after his TBI from falling out of the cab? Yeah, I can totally and happily go down the rabbit hole with all things INXS.

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Anita's avatar

I know I can ask my new BFF Chat but do you know if there are any documentaries or movies about INXS or specifically Hutchence?

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Jonathan Small's avatar

I asked Chat!

Mystify: Michael Hutchence (2019)

Directed by longtime friend Richard Lowenstein, this film is a 102‑minute archival documentary featuring rare footage, audio interviews (with Kylie Minogue, Helena Christensen, Bono, bandmates, and family), plus home movies and outtakes

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Anita's avatar

😆 Thanks! But Chat’s my BFF!

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Rebecca Bik Parker's avatar

I love this list. If there were room for more, I'd add something by Adam Ant. Oh, and White Wedding of course. The MTV-playing-videos age was such a fresh time. It was ages after that when I learned that videos existed before the 80's. I have no idea when/how people saw them, but there were some good ones with go go dancers, colored oil drops on overhead projectors, and trippy split-view camera angles.

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the real pambo's avatar

I’m in my 50’s and I STILL want my MTV (from the 80’s).

The Police-Every Breath You Take

Don Henley-The Boys of Summer

Herbie Hancock-Rockit

Cyndi Lauper-Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Eurythmics-Sweet Dreams are Made of This

Men at Work-Down Under

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Jonathan Small's avatar

Great list!

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Jonathan Small's avatar

Thank you for reading!

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DamnFineHaggis's avatar

Adam Ant's "Goody Two Shoes" and The Police's "Don't Stand So Close To Me" are worthy too.

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Kate's avatar

MTV Jams opening with Dire Straights ‘I want my MTV…’ (I know it’s not the name of the song 😜)

GenX version of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

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Anita's avatar

This Gen Xr says 🥳!!

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Hieronymus Hawkes's avatar

Madonna - Material Girl

U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

Bon Jovi - Livin on a prayer

Also they need to bring back 120 minutes epsiodes. They featured so many great alternative rock bands, like REM, the Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Depeche Mode and Radiohead and a lot of others. It was late night, but awesome. It launched "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

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Jonathan Small's avatar

I discovered so many new bands on that show.

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Wendell Wood's avatar

The Chauffeur is great. Duran Duran was huge. Planet Earth captured 80s fashion and who can forget Girls On Film. So many great bands and videos when MTV was MTV.

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Jonathan Small's avatar

I want and need my MTV (from the 80s)

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Kurt Young's avatar

"Bad to the Bone" was one of the first, best to tell a whole story. One of my favorites was this forgotten gem: https://youtu.be/GnPZeVFJ9e8?si=8WHGv-tM4eRYwLvT

It was videos like this that kept you watching all day.

Thanks for the memories

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Jonathan Small's avatar

Thanks for reading! That was a classic vid

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Barbara Faigen's avatar

Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits. Not fancy, but that guitar solo!

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Jonathan Small's avatar

Great song, great band!

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Andrei Petrovitch's avatar

One week only? Boo.

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nora macintyre's avatar

When Doves Cry

And add another MJ video - Billy Jean

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Katrina's avatar

Love this time travel, Jonathan! I vividly remember watching the a-ha video on MTV at a friend's house party in 1987. This is such a great list!!!

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Jonathan Small's avatar

Thanks, Katrina!

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Nick Capuano's avatar

Devo...Whip it. Played more than a few times...

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Jonathan Small's avatar

Hell yeah. Is this Nick from Dobbs?

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Nick Capuano's avatar

Indeed!

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Jeremy Kleier's avatar

Oh god oh god nonononono for fucks sake not the goddamn Thompson twins!!!

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Jonathan Small's avatar

Hahaha. Funny fact. One of the guy’s in the band is now a hypnotist at a nearby clinic. Hold me now!

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A side/B side yoga playlists's avatar

I’d love to see new music videos on a channel 24x7 — not having to do it through YouTube or social.

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