Talk:List of first music videos aired on MTV

message: i believe tony basil's "mickey" was the first if not the second artist played on mtv. she did not even make it in the top ten.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by ROSONNA123 (talk • contribs) 01:34, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, you're unquestionably wrong. Lambertman (talk) 03:51, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: no doubt, Mickey (song) wasn't released until 1982.Sagefats (talk) 21:41, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Mickey

message: Is it true that they ran a test run over the air the night before with another video? [unsigned]
How do you know this info? - TV&MovieFanatic  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C8:A31A:8C01:74CB:D705:D9E9:1C9 (talk) 17:41, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it true 

message: Now that VH1 Classic has aired the videos from the first 24 hours of MTV, should the list be expanded to incorporate all those videos?  And is there another source which can be used to verify VH1 Classic's airing? [unsigned]
:VH1 Classic played a few tracks that categorically could not have been played on MTV's first day. For example, the performance of Genesis' "Turn It On Again" that was captured for Three Sides Live was recorded in November of 1981. Three Sides Live wasn't released until 1982. -- ChrisB 18:42, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Full list? 

message: Let me clarify my edit summary. The original source listed the song as "One Step Beyond" by Split Enz. When it was reposted, someone assumed that "Split Enz" was the mistake, and changed it to "Madness". In truth, it was "Beyond" that was the mistake. -- ChrisB 23:21, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split Enz not Madness 

message: "Video Killed the Radio Star" has been replaced at #1 by "I Ran" by Flock of Seagulls with no cites. Is this vandalism? All references still state that VKtRS was the first (full) video shown on MTV. CFLeon (talk) 03:39, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: it was vandalism. buggles were the first. don't hesitate to undo the vandalism when you see it, especially when it's unsigned and there's only an IP address.Sagefats (talk) 03:28, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Buggles NOT First Video?

message: some genius keeps vandalizing this list, placing Money for Nothing (song) by the Dire Straits as the first video played by MTV.  Since the song debuted in 1985, and since it is common knowledge that The Buggles were first, it is quite impossible for Money for Nothing to have been first.  Sagefats (talk) 19:43, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Dire Straits

message: The link to The Silencers doesn't seem right, since according to the link, that band didn't form until 1986.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Admiralh (talk • contribs) 05:30, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There was more than one band called The Silencers.  Wikipedia does not list the earlier New Wave band, which had disbanded by 1984.  The list is correct (although if it links to the 1986 Silencers, then it's wrong). --Trixter (talk) 20:17, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Silencers 

message: other videos played during first 24 hrs:
-Stevie Nicks: Edge of Seventeen
-Dire Straits: Sultan of Swing
-Pat Benatar: Heartbreaker and Hit Me with Your Best Shot (live version)
-The Police: Roxanne, Message in a Bottle, Don't Stand So Close to Me, De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
-Blue Oyster Cult: Burning for You
-Styx: Come Sail Away, Renegade
-Journey: Anyway You Want It
-The Cars: Just What I Needed--98.226.9.223 (talk) 11:37, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Gotta say I think you're right about the two Benatars and the Sultan of Swing.  I remember thinking about how it made sense (the song had been out about 3 years at the time, and many of the songs were in that age category - I was in film school that summer, and we were all in front of the TV to pay attention to these little mini-movies and I remember thinking Sultan of Swing made a good attempt) .  I also remember Styx "Come Sail Away" because I had no faces to put with the music until that day and wasn't impressed with their video.  I have written down in a journal from that period only one of these songs though - De Do Do DO De Da Da Da, which I state was the "local favorite" of that first day (I was living in student housing, there were a lot of us).  I had no clue who The Police were until that day or that Sting played bass, but if he wasn't on all day long, then my memory (and my journal) are really off.  Could we have been watching a variety of feed?  I was West Coast/Bay Area.QueenofRods (talk) 05:38, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomplete list 

message: Could someone please add a note indicating what the "Appearance" column showing numbers like 1/2 or 2/5 means? It's not obvious at all... ToastyKen (talk) 05:06, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does the "Appearance" column mean? 

message: Why do both #2 and #32 have a note describing them as the first cover song to be played? bd2412 T 20:29, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the descriptions are WP:OR and someone screwed up. - SummerPhDv2.0 02:16, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  First cover song? 

message: Wow. What was the first video by someone with type A positive blood? What was the first video  whose length in seconds is a perfect square?
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These "notes" are absurd. First video on MTV? Sure, I get it. First song from an EP? First from a Colorado-based musician? No. These would invite more OR: first song from a movie soundtrack/compilation/double album/not on an album/released on CD/not available on cassette/... What about the first from New Jersey/Europe/the Southern Hemisphere? The first first from a deceased artist? The first video played twice? We could do this all week with an endless list of meaningless, trivial firsts.
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I'll be cleaning many of these out in the next week or so. Any that anyone would care to restore, please cite a reliable source that discusses the video as being that first in an article about MTV. - SummerPhDv2.0 21:26, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notes/OR 

message: This recording of the first 4 hours of MTV shows Don't Let Him Go by REO Speedwagon as appearing immediately after Olliver's Army by Elvis Costello. Not sure if the video is wrong or the list. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Xc9knROEQnRFE4anI2R3Z4R3c/view?pref=2&pli=1  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:445:4480:14A9:ADFB:B44F:A9FC:6B4B (talk) 01:36, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't Let Him Go - REO Speedwagon 

message: The article begins "This is a list of ..." but there's no list given. WTF?! JezGrove (talk) 22:07, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  List? Where is it? 

message: In the main article there is someone claiming that the list is wrong.  That should be here on the Talk page, not in the main article. Keovar (talk) 12:07, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is there a Talk topic in the main article?