Circulation

Remember when MTV and Vh1′s programming consisted of music videos 24-7? My memory goes back to 1987 when Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car video appeared on the TV screen – it was the first music video I saw as a wee lil’ tot.

I’ve heard folks make comments about how MTV and Vh1 rarely show music videos these days, moving to high-quality programming such as Tool Academy, Rock of Love, Parental Control and The Real World (which isn’t really so real is it?)* It makes one wish back to the simpler days of music…

Enter mtvmusic.com – MTV’s database of all their music videos. Fast facts: search by artist, song, genre…search for vintage videos (yeah, Wham is on there… so is C&C Music Factory, Billy Ocean, Milli Vanilli, Run DMC, and so on)…

Of course you can search YouTube for music videos – you can probably find all of the above there too, but mtvmusic.com has a social aspect to it where you can create playlists and share videos via the usual social media sites.

So take yourself back and watch a few vintage gems such as Ah Ha’s Take on Me or Aerosmith’s Crazy…

Or kick back and have some fun with the newer stuff, say, Beyonce’s Put a Ring on It?

I’ll leave you now with a pop-up video of Wham’s Wake me up before you Go-Go. Ah, memories:

*Now I do admit that I have been known to watch these shows on occasion… I work with students, so I need to know about pop-culture, right?