- Idolator Comments

Al aka El Negro Magnifico — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:02:44 EDT

@drjayphd: Throughout Much's history, there's always been examples of someone being asleep at the wheel with the titles. The most glaring examples occured during episodes of Much West/East/Going Coastal, with spelling mistakes and factual errors. And that shit wasn't even live, like most of their programming back then! Fuckers.

Al aka El Negro Magnifico

drjayphd — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:22:55 EDT

@dennisobell: And yet, the old credits somehow look even better than the VH1 Classic ones. Which are, it should be noted, better than the asstastic MuchMusic titles.

(Why do I know this again?)

drjayphd

okiedoke — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:18:52 EDT

Wait till you touch the braille credits on their festive Helen Keller Weekend.

okiedoke

Maura Johnston — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:06:08 EDT

@PerpetualCarouse: Well, my TiVo picks up the 4 a.m. video blocks now and then...

Maura Johnston

PerpetualCarouse — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:01:11 EDT

Seeing as how there isn't any actual M on MTV, it's unclear to me how this change will make any difference at all.

PerpetualCarouse

CharlesRockyPamplin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:19:55 EDT

@dennisobell: i think this is true. back in the 90's, MTV europe had these really invasive Title bars that would pop up along the bottom. Now, when, say, '120 Minutes' play a video that they never thought they'd use again ( like "Feed me with Your Kiss" by MBV or Swerverdriver's "Son Of Mutstang Ford"), the only video copy they have is the shitbox 90's one. so up those title bars pop.

and i'm immediately transported back to 1993, and i'm wearing Doc Martens and a Stripy Breton Shirt, with that weird centre parted teenager hair, and i'm failing english "A" Level again and i WAKE UP SCREAMING...

CharlesRockyPamplin

El Tejon — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:16:14 EDT

Is this where we get to make another snarky comment about the lack of videos on this... what you call... Music Television?

I miss the credits on Classic MTV/ VH1 that showed the year.

El Tejon

Chris Molanphy — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:11:04 EDT

This is trés sad, but I'm kinda surprised it didn't happen sooner.

Ever notice when MTV Classic plays an old video, the font looks as aged as the rest of the video? I have a feeling they burned those credit chyrons permanently onto their library copies of the videos back in the day, before technology made it possible to display them on the fly.

Chris Molanphy

CharlesRockyPamplin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:05:36 EDT

*internal jukebox plays loop of 'Bonnie and Clyde'*

CharlesRockyPamplin

Dickdogfood — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:00:25 EDT

Oh I love you Maura for that headline.

Dickdogfood

Maura Johnston — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:35:44 EDT

Yeah. I haven't seen yet -- I'll do a screengrab when I do.

Also, can I just say that this post has resulted in this song being unable to get out of my head?

Maura Johnston

Underclassed — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:05:24 EDT

Ugh, like the awful screen-filling bars on MTV2?

Underclassed