<![CDATA[How Is The Internet So Box Deficient? - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[How Is The Internet So Box Deficient? - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:58:28 EST Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:58:28 EST http://idolator.com/tunes/the-box/how-is-the-internet-so-box-deficient-323825.php <![CDATA[How Is The Internet So Box Deficient?]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/the-box/how-is-the-internet-so-box-deficient-323825.php#c3012354 Ahhhh. I have been looking up the box quite a bit lately in my quest to find the song with the lyrics "Let me put my bass inside your boombox baby." On around the same time as "Put 'em on the glass". Boyfriend. Now Husbands roomates ALWAYS had The Box on. Of course they really high. So it all sort of makes sense.

clogsanationaskswhy

]]> 33:323825:c3012354 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:58:28 EST <![CDATA[How Is The Internet So Box Deficient?]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/the-box/how-is-the-internet-so-box-deficient-323825.php#c3007969 @DHMBIB: I remember staying with an Aunt in DC when Bone Thugs' "First of the Month" played four times (only interrupted between plays three and four by my request for "More Human Than Human").

Halfwit

]]> 33:323825:c3007969 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:44:54 EST <![CDATA[How Is The Internet So Box Deficient?]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/the-box/how-is-the-internet-so-box-deficient-323825.php#c3007753 @mpbx: OMG ME TOO. I remember they showed a lot of videos too naughty for MTV: "Put 'em on the Glass" and the like. This, um, was not at all why I watched it.

DavidWatts

]]> 33:323825:c3007753 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:32:38 EST <![CDATA[How Is The Internet So Box Deficient?]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/the-box/how-is-the-internet-so-box-deficient-323825.php#c3007730 @silkyjumbo: I was used to getting The Box over the air. But when I got cable, and that service didn't have The Box as part of its package, The Box somehow transcended time, space, and FCC regulations to deliver itself to my television. Spooky.

zapfdingbats

]]> 33:323825:c3007730 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:31:36 EST <![CDATA[How Is The Internet So Box Deficient?]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/the-box/how-is-the-internet-so-box-deficient-323825.php#c3007653 @mpbx: yeah, in atlanta you could get the box (later MTV2) without cable.

and @DHMBIB: i remember seeing britney and backstreet boys and thinking "wait, this kind of pop is back?"

silkyjumbo

]]> 33:323825:c3007653 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:27:31 EST <![CDATA[How Is The Internet So Box Deficient?]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/the-box/how-is-the-internet-so-box-deficient-323825.php#c3007530 The Box was always a mysterious, ghostly apparition on my television as a young child. We didn't have cable, and still had the old TVs that made a distinction between VHF and UHF, with separate knobs for each. The Box would come in over the air, all fuzzy, introducing me to all sorts of weird videos through a snowy haze of static that made it a little creepy.

I remember futilely trying to tune the channel in with the little tuner knob that was inside the bigger channel knob.

Later on, in college, I was inexplicably the only person on campus to somehow get MTV2 via The Box's old over-the-air transmitter. What was weirder was that *I had cable,* not rabbit ears. But there it was, haunting me with its fuzzy, just out of reach picture.

zapfdingbats

]]> 33:323825:c3007530 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:21:02 EST <![CDATA[How Is The Internet So Box Deficient?]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/the-box/how-is-the-internet-so-box-deficient-323825.php#c3007486 Comcast cable in DC had The Box during the late 90's. It's the first place I ever heard of an up-and-coming pop princess named...wait for it...Britney Spears. "...Baby One More Time" was in heavy rotation on The Box long before I ever caught it on MTV. Sam goes for Christina Aguilera and "Genie In A Bottle".

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:323825:c3007486 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:18:59 EST <![CDATA[How Is The Internet So Box Deficient?]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/the-box/how-is-the-internet-so-box-deficient-323825.php#c3007439 I can remember when they only had about 10 videos to choose from. It usually ended up with En Vogue videos (who's the hottest member of En Vogue, call and vote!), Special Ed and Primus. Leave it to Viacom to fuck-up the awesome that was The Box.

beta.rogan

]]> 33:323825:c3007439 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:16:37 EST <![CDATA[How Is The Internet So Box Deficient?]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/the-box/how-is-the-internet-so-box-deficient-323825.php#c3007332 The Box was also great for freestyle -- where else could you find videos like Lisette Melendez's "Goody Goody" or Lisa Lisa's (solo!) "Skip to My Lu" in regular rotation? Ah, 1993.

kurtck

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