Remember Music Videos?

Cast your mind way,way,way back when MTV stood for Music Tele Vision and  they actually showed such a thing as music videos.....I realize it's from a bygone era of Beta Max,Walkmans,Rubix Cubes etc etc but such a thing did exist......I know it's hard to believe.
MTV hit the airwaves here in 81 even though not everyone could get access to it,meanwhile back in dear old Blighty there was no such thing,we relied on Top Of The Pops maybe showing a music video,the advent of the Video Juke Box in pubs was a saving grace for me,I spent many a happy couple of hours in a public house that had such a contraption,what was the point of bands making these wonderful videos if you couldn't watch them??

On my first trip to America in 85 I was treated to "Friday Night Videos" on NBC at 12.30am,90 minutes of music videos this was just unheard of back home,a  whole show devoted to music videos....no wonder I wanted to move here....of course when I did make the move in 87 NBC cut it from 90 mins to an hour and pushed it back to 1.30am but still it was an hour of music videos!!!
It would be a while b4 I finally got cable by which time MTV had added a two hour show showcasing quote unquote "alternative music" called simply "120 Minutes" beginning in 86 but at midnite on a Sunday.
Between years of no cable,then cable but no vcr or even worse having to work the 11pm -7am graveyard shift I missed more "120 Minutes" shows than I saw
By 2000 it had found a new home on MTV2 but w/in three was cancelled,video may've killed the radio star but it seemed MTV had now killed off "120 Minutes"

Thankfully these days it can be found airing three times a week on VH1 Classic,albeit at 4am but thanks to my trusty vcr I can preset it to record and sit back and watch when it's convenient for me.
It's fun to catch old videos or maybe videos I haven't seen b4 or for a while,in a recent edition these were some of the videos that had me waxing lyrical for days gone by

Killing Joke-A New Day
REM-Can't Get There From Here
A-ha The Sun Always Shines On TV
Blur-There's No Other Way
Oasis-Champagne Supernova
New Order-Perfect Kiss
School Of Fish-Three Strange Days
Midnight Oil-Beds Are Burning
The Cure-Hot Hot Hot
Alice In Chains-Down In A Hole
Sisters Of Mercy-This Corrosion
Ministry-Jesus Built My Hotrod
Nirvana-The Man Who Sold The World
Pearl Jam-Betterman
Rage Against The Machine-Testify