On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Jeff Pitrman wrote:
quoted 15 lines The real reason that MTV completely bites isn't that they hardly play> The real reason that MTV completely bites isn't that they hardly play
> music, and when they do, it sucks. It's that MTV is awaer of and
> recognizes talent, so you'll hear, say, 12 seconds of a Scanner song with
> some trippy little computer animations and an MTV logo during commercials.
> My younger sister (she's 17) watches MTV just about every day, so I've
> gotten intimately familiar with every popular Korn and Limp Bizkit song
> being played right now, since I hear them every day when I wake up, and
> when I come home from classes. Every few weeks I'll sit down and watch it
> with her, just to see if MTV is doing anything interesting. The week
> before last, I saw a brief MTV station ID clip with a Boards of Canada song
> playing. The imagery was just these dots moving around a background, it
> looked like a Flash animation on some web page. It was actually pretty
> cool; stylish visual stuff going on, BoC playing. I could like MTV if it
> were like that all the time. Then it stopped and they started playing a No
> Doubt song where the singer of No Doubt Goes Raving(tm).
It's the same with all MTVish radio stations. A few weeks ago I was
listening to WBCN in Boston and while the DJ was intoducing the next
crappy track he was going to play, Borads of Canada was playing in the
background.