I just saw the Tarantula vid on Fuse

[bassgirl]

I was pleasantly surprised to see the Tarantula vid on Fuse this afternoon. It's cool actually seeing the vid on tv instead of the net. Unfortunately, it cut off right after he sings "Oh it's white hot soul they want" so the channel could go to some number one countdown show. Bummer. :( Ironically, the Pumpkins video came on after an MCR one. At least the video is getting some sort of airplay.

[solacematt]

I don't have Fuse, mor MTV2, or Much Music, but I know that VH1 plays the video a few times a day...you know, at the times when they're actually playing music videos. I see it every morning when I'm gettign ready for class, and every night a little after 3am as well. :) I love the line 'If it's a white hot soul they want, It's a black heart they'll get' at the end of the song.
-matt

[chrisothoulos]

who watches those channels for music videos anymore? music videos are so past their time now.

[mc_festus]

i think that videos are just as popular as they've ever been, cept for the late 80's and into the 90's; it's just that the internet and such have made it easier to go elsewhere to see them.

[EdPumpkin]

i bought the video on iTunes. Now it's on my iPod.. i'm watching it right now, at work :)

[CrestfallenAlex]

i think that videos are just as popular as they've ever been, cept for the late 80's and into the 90's;

This is believable to me. People my age will say stuff like, "Oh, remember back in the 90s when people watched videos?" but I always think, well, people who were young in the 80s were saying the same thing ten years ago when they stopped watching MTV and figured that everyone else had, too.

[In Dust and Ashes]

I only have basic cable (I dont' even get the WB or CW or whatever they call it now), and yet I somehow get MTV2 and Discovery Health.....
neither of which I ever watch.

[Cheryl K]

I have ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX. And PBS on a clear day. :cry:

[In Dust and Ashes]

I don't cry about it. It's nice to not be attached to the thing. I can watch adult swim on the computer and I've replaced my saturday morning Batman with saturday morning TMNT on fox (which is really rediculus, but it works). Occasionally I watch Carmon Sandiago on the Spanish channel. That's always a blast.

.....the only things I ever watch are cartoons and news.
crazy.

[CrestfallenAlex]

I turned on the TV for the first time in a while and "Chip 'n' Dale" was being aired. It was much dumber than I remembered, and makes me worry that my conviction that TMNT and Ghostbusters were "sooooo much better" than the crap kids watch today is just patently false.

[Dovecoat]

Yeah... a bout a week ago I saw it on YouTube. It's everywhere now!

[CrestfallenAlex]

Update: Pokemon is still hilariously awesome. There was this scene in the episode today where Team Rocket had kidnapped Ash and were driving him around in a truck. Ash goes, "Pikachu, thunderbolt attack!" and James, driving the truck, goes, "TURN attack!" and turns the truck sharply causing pikachu to fall over. OMFG.

[mr. goth glam]

Kids are still watching videos, as far as I can tell.

Especially, sadly, in rap.

[solacematt]

Videos aren't on as much as they used to be, I think that was really kind of the point though. Remember when MTV played videos ALL THE TIME, and not just 30 second clips. And they had shows like 120 Minutes, Alternative Nation and Matt Rock.
-matt

[In Dust and Ashes]

Update: Pokemon is still hilariously awesome. There was this scene in the episode today where Team Rocket had kidnapped Ash and were driving him around in a truck. Ash goes, "Pikachu, thunderbolt attack!" and James, driving the truck, goes, "TURN attack!" and turns the truck sharply causing pikachu to fall over. OMFG.

wow. I forgot how retarded that show was.

[In Dust and Ashes]

Kids are still watching videos, as far as I can tell.

Especially, sadly, in rap.

yes, unfortunately, the whole world doesn't have your taste in music. let us morn.

[Dovecoat]

Kids are still watching videos, as far as I can tell.

Especially, sadly, in rap.

Not all rap is bad. Not all rock is good.

Honestly, I'd rather see TI, Timbaland, and K-os topping the charts than Hinder, Panic! at the Disco, and Evanescence.

Recently... past year especially, 2 years a bit... I think mainstream rock has been slowly but surely getting better... I actually really like what My Chemical Romance is doing, LOVE Regina Spektor, am happy to see Placebo getting attention (though I don't really like their new stuff, so...), and have actually developed a bit of respect for Linkin Park. I also liked Taking Back Sunday a bit when they were THE band (their music is so-so, in my opinion, but the attitude was perfect... I think they opened the door for the new progress).

Prior to that, for a few years I think hip-hop was the only interesting thing going on in the mainstream. Especially since 2000, it's gotten more layered, more ecclectic... more interesting. Musically, it's not the "repeat the same loop over and over" that it used to be. Add that to a new lot of performers who get the irony of the "lifestyle" and mock it while they play into it, and actually have a broad world-view... and it's not so bad anymore.

It still doesn't really suit my taste... but I understand why people DO like it and frankly respect quite a few of the top artists.

[CrestfallenAlex]

I don't get everyone's obsession with Regina Spektor. Doesn't it just sound like she's making it up as she goes along? To me it is dull and hard to listen to. Give me Fiona Apple any day.

[CrestfallenAlex]

wow. I forgot how retarded that show was.

Never forget.

[Dovecoat]

I don't get everyone's obsession with Regina Spektor. Doesn't it just sound like she's making it up as she goes along? To me it is dull and hard to listen to. Give me Fiona Apple any day.

I've loved Regina Spektor for years now. It doesn't sound like she's making it up as she goes along... Her writing's a bit conversational, yeah... but it works. And that's only with some of her songs. She has some straightforward pop-structured songs, too. I think a lot of it is the classical influence, and the weird structures, which seldom have pop lyrics put to such songs... but hers do, so it seems weird to most. And her lyrics are very literary and indiosyncratic... akin to "The Dubliners" put to music.

And she's a Russian-Jew, and she's really really hot. So she's, like, perfect.

[CrestfallenAlex]

Maybe it's just her voice that bothers me.

Oh boy, where have we all heard THAT before...

[cordero86]

I saw the video.
I definitely liked it, but part of me is praying for a NEW GREAT SMASHING PUMPKINS VIDEO. :P

I haven't seen it on TV though.
I'm tired of all these rock music videos looking like video-book reports.