Comments on: I’ve Waited 25 Years

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:35:31 +0000

I sent the Townsend videos to some friends…

We had one friend who got MTV 6 months before the rest of us(different cable company)…we used to go over to his house and watch Martha Quinn’s entire shift religiously and fight over which one of us could marry her.

Oh…and this friend was the only one who had that 60 inch front-projected big screen TV. We’d all fight for positions in the living room with the least color distortion…

When Alan Hunter would come on with those pastel-colored shirts and white linen jackets, we’d switch over and play intellivision until our thumbs hurt…but eventually it was the videos that kept us coming back…

By: Cranky

Cranky — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:55:47 +0000

It did Y.S., I was like the crack addicted monkey turning down food and water to watch another video.

Sadly, even at my young and tender age, I was all bitter at the corporate a$$-raping that was MTV.

Remember seven minutes of commercials followed by one video tied into a movie (the song itself played for five seconds in the actual film, btw), five more minutes of commericials (did Skittles own MTV?), a Michael Jackson video and music news, commericals and then maybe a cool rock video?

You could spend a whole four hours waiting to see a single Rock video.

Thems some good times. Y.S. Good times!

By: Yiddish Steel

Yiddish Steel — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:13:31 +0000

Damn! I remember this video from 1982, when Mtv would play the piss out of it. Gawd, if only Mtv were only just half-as-good as they were back in those days. Give me the days of Martha Quinn, Alan Hunter, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson (R.I.P.), and Nina Blackwood. Absolute gold to me in my teens; I watched it all on that channel. The videos, the Saturday Noght Concert, The Half-Hour Comedy Hour, 120 Minutes, Headbanger’s Ball, and even that shitty game show, “Remote Control” (Kenny Huber, Colin Quinn, Adam Sandler). Hell! I remember having the old turn-dial cable box back in ’81 and seeing the promos for Mtv that ran incessantly for almost 6 moths before they launched the channel with all the “I want my Mtv” slogans! Anyone else rememebr that?! Did Mtv in its infancy have the same effect on you?!

By: Cranky

Cranky — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:56:45 +0000

Yeah, annika, Pete admitted as much, about the song. But he didn’t “come out” until a few years later.

By: MTV when it was GOOD

MTV when it was GOOD — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:38:36 +0000

They have a few compelations kicking around out there but nothing of consequence. I collect the early 80′s MTV music and have just about every song I could want from the era. Still, I wish, like you said, SOMEONE SOMEWHERE would do a download service for the vids or put out a quality DVD compelation of the vids from back before MTV sucked.

By: annika

annika — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:20:07 +0000

“i wonder if i could kiss you”?
“gonna get inside you”?

am i the only one who thinks the lyics are totally homoerotic? Wasn’t this released about the same time as Pete came out of the closet?

I remember hearing that he released this as a solo record because it wasn’t the type of song Daltrey would have been comfortable singing.

By: Cranky

Cranky — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:47:36 +0000

It’s also on You Tube. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfqN0wupduI

Mr. Silence, I’m deeply envious. I was heartbroken when I saw them in 1989 from the nosebleeds.

By: Billy

Billy — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:26:15 +0000

Hey, anyone know where I can locate Townsend’s “Face Dances” video? I remember when MTV first came on, that video was on about every hour. The song was mediocre, the video surreal…

By: mks

mks — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:35:34 +0000

OMG! I saw them three times. I still have the ticket stubs!