MTV vidcheck (July 12, 1985)

[TheCaptjamestkirk]

80's = The future is going to be awesome! 2024 = Man the 80's were awesome!

[drewgeraci]

Graduated from high school. Had a girlfriend. We sat on the couch watching MTV endlessly, enjoying the acts we liked and goofing on the ones we didn't. I want my MTV!

[Perminator]

It's really is amazing how different life is almost 40 years later. It just feels like everything was simpler back then. Less chaotic and confusing. Maybe that's just old man "in my day" talk, but it really just feels more genuine and real than what we are experiencing today. I do wish I could take my kids to this era and just have them experience it like I was able to, without the interruptions of cell phones and social media and what seems to be the constant infighting of our country on every possible issue or non-issue. Of course there were plenty of issues in the 80s, but from a macro perspective, it felt like we'd always get through them together as a country.

[zd]

This was the glory days of MTV. I don't even recognize it now, but it was raw, different, bonding, and energetic once upon a time.

[crashburn]

In 1985 I was a sophomore in high school and I was young and naive enough to believe that music would always be that good, and MTV would always play music videos.

[sean]

I miss mtv from the 1980s so much wish they would bring mtv 1980s back on air and v ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💙💙❤️💙💙💙💙❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[cuddzilla]

I was in my teens in the 80's. MTV was such a big deal. Everybody I'd go to visit, MTV was on the TV. It was like we were plugged into each other. The music video was every bit as important as the music in so many cases. We were lucky to have experienced the enigma that was MTV.

[surfshack]

I partied all night Friday night and all the way through Live Aid. I lived down in Atlantic City and I had friends that went to Live Aid in Philly. It was so hot that day. God what memories. What a fantastic time.

[stevencoffman]

back to the future was playing at the movie theater.

[latrishabledsoe]

Do they know.its Christmas is stil, l in 2024 one of my favorite Christmas songs of all time, and Boy George was killing it😊

[AK-jwrx]

This is gold, esp with the 80s commercials. Thanks for posting

[seththomas]

Sophomore in high school. July 12 was a Friday. The next morning me, my dad, and some buddies drove into Chicago to watch the Cubs play the Dodgers. Listend to Live-Aid on the car radio all the way in to Chicago.

[robertoportoni]

I was born in the 80s.. I was 3 years old that year. I growed up in Italy but this songs are the proof i growed up fine.. Listened mtv but from middle of 90's when some italian network began to beam the MTV europe and i was young, damn!! thanks for share these vintage moments..

[bobbillings]

Omg I have literally not seen the Godley & Creme "Cry" video since I was a kid in 80's. Good times

[AldenRDavis]

#MTV #80s The year 1985 was an outrageous year of music, hit TV shows and blockbuster movies.. I was born in 1985..this deeply captures my attention about the good old days of the 1980s. I'm a 80s and 90s guy.

[brlngtn]

Every house I went to had MTV on. Live Aid was really cool to see as well!!!

[RupertMay]

I graduated in '84 remember goingvover to my girlfriends house to watch MTV she would see a guy with makeup then want to put some on me we had so much fun and life was so much cleaner and fun then

[irafranklin]

Watching this MTV vidcheck of July 12, 1985, the day before Live Aid just brought back so many memories, " Cry " by Godley and Creme just took me straight back to 1985, and I have always had a special place in my heart for that one song by Night Ranger, the video is great, as well !!! That is the kind of song that you listen to in the evening, it's an evening song !!! It was also great to see Steve Perry bouncing the MTV logo !!! That was the best !!!

[IsoNurFace]

This was about a week before my 17th birthday and I thought I was invincible, oh ho youth is blindfully bliss. I met my wife the summer of '85, great times.

[jacksonmarshallkramer]

I graduated HS in 1987. Mtv was on out tv 22 hours a day. I saw the very first vid play and every good vid make it's debut. Miss the 80s. Times were good.