From: funga@ecf.toronto.edu (FUNG Alexander Yok-Wai)
Subject: MTV Awards - Wed. Sep 9/92
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:06:44 GMT


A brief capsule of Wednesday night's 1992 MTV Awards show, their 9th annual:

1)The Black Crowes opened with a solid performance of "Remedy"

2) Eddie Murphy presented the Best Male video award:
	ERIC CLAPTON - "Tears In Heaven" <--Winner--
	John Mellencamp - "Get A Leg Up"
	Tom Petty - "Into The Great Wide Open"
	Bruce Springsteen - "Human Touch"
	Wierd Al Yankovic - "Smells Like Nirvana"

3) John Corbett and Shannon Doherty presented the Best Video direction award:
	Rolston - "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" [En Vogue]
	Sednaoui - "Give It Away" [Red Hot Chili Peppers]
	Bernstein - "
	FENSKE - "Right Now" [Van Halen] <--Winner--

4) Bobby Brown performed "Humpin' Around". His exiting line to the audience was "MTV 92, peace,
     we the fuck outta here!"

5) Through a link-up, U2 performed (from Detroit) "Mysterious Ways". They had a pretty silly set-up
     of Dana Carvey (in his Garth persona) drumming along in Los Angeles with the song.

6) Ice-T and Lars and Kirk from Metallica presented the Best Rap video award:
	ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT - "Tennessee" <--Winner--
	Black Sheep  - "The Choice Is Yours"
	Kris Kross - "Jump"
	Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch - "Good Vibrations"
	Sir Mix-A-Lot - "Baby Got Back"

7) Def Leppard performed "Let's Get Rocked".

8) Halle Berry and Jean-Claude Van Damme presented the Best Video from a Film award:
	Eric Clapton - "Tears In Heaven"
	The Commitments - "Try A Little Tenderness"
	Hammer - "Addams Groove"
	QUEEN - "Bohemian Rhapsody" <--Winner--

9) Nirvana performed. I only caught the ending of this, where they finished with their usual destroy-
     the-equipement routine, so I don't know which song they performed.

10> Marky Mark and Vanessa Williams presented the Breakthrough Video award:
	Tori Amos - "Silent All These Years"
	David Byrne - "She's Mad"
	RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - "Give It Away" <--Winner--
	Van Halen - "Right Now"
      This was notable in that the Peppers performed simulated masturbation and oral sex upon
      receiving the award.

11> Elton John did another outstanding performance, this of his single "The One".

12> Pearl Jam performed "Jeremy" excellently.

13> The Red Hot Chili Peppers opened with the starting riff of "Under The Bridge", but instead played
      "Give It Away". Visually stunning performance.

14> From London, Michael Jackson did a blantant lip-sync of "Black Or White".

15> Queen's Taylor and May presented the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award to Guns N' Roses.
      Axl Rose blasted Michael Jackson, saying that 'this [the award] has nothing to do with Michael
      Jackson.'

16> Bryan Adams performed his current single "Do I Have To Say The Words?"

17> Luke Perry presented the Best Metal/Hard Rock video award:
	Def Leppard - "Let's Get Rocked"
	METALLICA - "Enter Sandman" <--Winner--
	Ugly Kid Joe - "Everything About You"
	Van Halen - "Right Now"
      This had a really tacky and tasteless skit of Howard Stern acting as 'Fartman', exposing his
      buttocks and the like.

18> En Vogue performed vocals over a vocalized backing track of their new single "Free Your Mind".

19> The International Viewer's Choice awards were announced. I missed most of them. In Australia,
       the group Diesel won for "Man Alive", and in Europe, The Cure won for "Friday I'm In Love".

20> Dennis Leary and Cindy Crawford presented the Viewer's Choice award:
	Def Leppard - "Let's Get Rocked"
	Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
	RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - "Under The Bridge" <--winner--
	Van Halen - "Right Now"

21> Kris Kross and Magic Johnson presented the Best Female video award:
	Tori Amos - "Silent All These Years"
	ANNIE LENNOX - "Why" <--winner--
	Madonna - "Holiday"
	Vanessa Williams - "Save The Best For Last"

22> Eric Clapton performed "Tears In Heaven". Halfway through the performance, the satellite link
      apparently got bad. Did anyone else get this?

23> Dana Carvey presented the Best Alternative video award:
	NIRVANA - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" <--winner--
	Pearl Jam - "Alive"
	Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Give It Away"
	Soup Dragons - "Divine Thing"

24> Boyz II Men and Wilson Phillips presented the Best New Artist video award:
	Tori Amos - "Silent All These Years"
	Arrested Development - "Tennessee"
	Cracker - "Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)"
	NIRVANA - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" <--winner--

25> Annie Lennox and Peter Gabriel presented the Best Group video award:
	En Vogue - "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)"
	Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under The Bridge"
	U2 - "Even Better Than The Real Thing" <--winner--
	Van Halen - "Right Now"

26> Mick Jagger presented the Video Of The Year award:
	Def Leppard - "Let's Get Rocked"
	Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
	Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under The Bridge"
	VAN HALEN - "Right Now" <--winner--

27> Guns N' Roses with Elton John on piano and Michael Kamen conducting performed "November
       Rain".

In conclusion, this MTV awards was definitely more rock orientated, rather than dance orientated, as
it had been the past few years. Major dance categories like "Best Dance video" and "Best
Choreography" were not televised, as well as miscellaneous others like "Best Editing". Dana Carvey
brought along some of his SNL buddies: Phil Hartman reenacted his Ed McMahon for the Carson-
McMahon scenes, while David Spade did his "Receptionist" skit. Overall, Carvey seemed somehow
inappropriate for this show, as he went through all his personas practically without creating much
laughter. I'd give the 1992 MTV awards a C+, on the part of some great performances.

Alex (funga@ecf.toronto.edu)
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