8.5.18 Alt_Backspace

Hour 1

  • Smashing Pumpkins – Thirty-Three
  • Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime (MTV)
  • Letters To Cleo – Here And Now
  • Beck – The New Pollution
  • The Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star (MTV)
  • Radiohead – (Nice Dream)
  • Urge Overkill – Sister Havana
  • Depeche Mode – Everything Counts
  • Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – Happy
  • Toadies – Possum Kingdom
  • Split Enz – History Never Repeats (MTV)
  • Elastica – Stutter

Hour 2

  • Pearl Jam – Wishlist (live)
  • General Public – Tenderness
  • School Of Fish – 3 Strange Days
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – Aeroplane
  • The Vapors – Turning Japanese (MTV)
  • Sponge – Molly
  • U2 – Trash, Trampoline And The Party Girl
  • Pretenders – Message Of Love (MTV)
  • The Cure – Why Can’t I Be You?
  • Portishead – Sour Times
  • The Pixies – Where Is My Mind
  • The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again
  • Green Day – Nice Guys Finish Last

MTV launched 37 years ago (8.1.81)


The first music video: The Buggles “Video Killed The Radio Star”