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| Patrick_Nicholas | Aug 3 2016, 03:10 PM Post #1 |
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Anyone bother to watch these? We all know about MTV and its network decay, but what about the others? Fuse:  I've mentioned a few times on this board and on Facebook that I used to watch Fuse on a regular basis throughout the first half of my high school years. I'll go into more detail on it here. I've mentioned before that a hurricane hitting Florida relatively early into my 8th grade started to open me up to modern music (as opposed to mostly classic rock) thanks to an alternative rock station still being on on the air during the hurricane. During the summer between middle and high school, I became the last of the Ragsdale brothers to be transplanted from my dad's house to my mom's (my parents are divorced in case you didn't know already). I eventually discovered Fuse, and was all-but-glued to it because it was one of the only networks at the time still showing videos. To the point where one of my two asshole brothers (NOT the one I shared a room with, surprisingly!) repeatedly berated me for wasting my life because I didn't have quite as much of a social life as him. I wasn't quite ready for metal yet, so as a result I was into bands like Green Day, Avenged Sevenfold, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, Coheed And Cambria, Blink 182, From First To Last, Hawthorne Heights, and The Used (Fuse used to have a lot of programming on the pop-punk/post-hardcore side of things) as well as the stuff on my then-main alternative rock radio station (which was more on the grunge/post-grunge/nu-metal side of things). My other brother discovered Gorillaz via Fuse as well. I used to like the Kanye songs that aired, but got bored of rap early into 2006... still before Kanye gained his reputation as one of the biggest douchebags OF ALL TIME!!! (Most likely starting with 808 and Heartbreak; solidified with a certain incident that gave birth to a certain meme.) Fortunately all that was pretty much phased out as early as me starting to get into extreme metal (via Slayer and Lamb Of God, later Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir), though not quite out of the woods until some time after graduating (and leaving Florida the next day). But I fear I may find myself looping back into alternative: I've only recently started getting into Deftones and A Perfect Circle, back into System Of A Down (to a lesser extent), even Linkin Park (you didn't see that last one). Only two NIN videos aired regularly, though, ("The Hand That Feeds" and especially "Only") so I mainly used the late MSN Music to find the other NIN videos (YouTube had only just become a thing at the time; my school even BANNED it for a while because some idiot started watching a hip-hop video and walked out with it still running, resulting in a kid catching the tail end of it). Shows that used to air included: Daily Download, their equivalent to MTV's TRL (itself the last music-related show on MTV); F-List, where viewers voted for their favorite videos of a certain theme for a VJ to count down the top five; Steven's Untitled Rock Show, a major contributor to the network's prominence of post-hardcore; Uranium, a metal show I didn't watch much because it was more of an interview show than a video show; 7th Avenue Drop, where bands played concerts at the studio to promote their new albums (and not even Wikipedia lists it for some reason, though there are some YouTube videos from some of the bands' performances); Dedicate Live, music videos + text messages from fans; and No. 1 Countdown. There were some shows that were rather... out there, contributing to the network going downhill: Rad Girls, a female Jackass wannabe; Pants Off Dance Off, advertised as beautiful people stripping to music videos... but most of the people I saw stripping didn't exactly have the most eye-pleasing bodies (not helped that my mother and/or brother walked in on it at least once); Munchies, what in the fuck were they smoking?; and a couple of forgettable anime shows for the sake of having anime on the network, just because. Nowadays their website doesn't even acknowledge any of the shows I mentioned above. Music videos are pretty much confined to mornings now, as a result of them picking up shows that aired on another network until it folded into Fuse, and also as an attempt to be "relevant" to younger viewers. Content includes Transcendent, an MTV-esque attempt to "fuse" transgender issues with trashy reality TV; Big Freedia: Queen Of Bounce, sadly one of the only music-related shows beyond the morning video blocks (the music takes a backseat to trashy reality TV), reruns and reruns of Everybody Hates Chris and The PJs (I used to assume the latter show got cancelled after a handful of episodes. But Wikipedia says it had two seasons on Fox and a third on The WB, before it was renamed The CW), movies with little to no relevance to music (or anything else for that matter), and that seems to be pretty much it for the moment. While I didn't watch it during my last time in New York, I did run though the guide to find that previously it was pretty much all hip-hop related programming (though it always had its fair share of pop and hip-hop). Other networks: VH1 Classic, just recently renamed MTV Classic. At least this remained dedicated to music, though for whatever reason, many live performance films from old bands are pretty much limited to relatively recent performances instead of shows from their prime. It used to air a show called Classic/Current, which, as the name suggests, showed old videos followed by new ones from classic artists. NIN was on a few times; saw "Hurt" once and "Head Like A Hole" a few times, always followed by "Only". There was also That Metal Show, an interview show barely had anything remotely resembling extreme metal; and Metal Mania, which mainly showed videos from 80s hair bands.  MTV2. Unlike its parent network, it did show music videos from time to time, most notably with Headbangers Ball until they moved it to a bad time slot (as in, fucking 3AM!) before it disappeared from the network completely. I also watched reruns of Beavis And Butt-head, Jackass, and Celebrity Deathmatch. And much like its parent network, videos were pretty much phased out as well.  In the UK, there was Kerrang, an alternative rock network with quite a bit of focus on pop-punk (not unlike Fuse, except pop-punk has only gotten worse since then), and Scuzz, another alternative network. The latter was almost exclusive to Sky, my satellite provider during my first of two UK runs. |
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