This song is nostalgic to me and literally brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it because it represented a fundamental change in the music industry that went from audio to video through MTV when it aired and this was the song they used to exemplify that change. It was like saying goodbye to and era in music that allowed you to visualize whatever you wanted while listening to music, but when video's replaced the audio genre it took away that part of inner visualization that people created for themselves and was replaced with someone else's visual ideas. It didn't just kill the audio music genre, it killed people's individual introspective creativity. It could now become another propaganda tool by the music industry and our government agencies.
the significance and greatness of this song is not only that this was the first song ever on MTV on August 1, 1981, but also the words of the song, that's 41 years ago, WOW !
The tall dude playing the bass at the end, and singing, is Trevor Horn. From Wikipedia: Trevor Charles Horn CBE (born 15 July 1949) is an English record producer and musician. His influence on pop and electronic music in the 1980s was such that he has been called "the man who invented the eighties" Subscribed 💖👋🇦🇺
When we got first cable television, we finally got to see MTV when it used to air music videos 24/7, we learned later that this was the first video to debut on the MTV channel. I'm glad you found the opportunity to see the video! I'm going to see the Pentatonix video you suggested. I enjoyed your reaction! ☮ and 💕
Deep core memories here. Wasn't there on first day of MTV, but my family had it within the first year or so. Lots of those original videos were still being aired. Such a damned catchy tune.
I just saw the Buggles live a couple of weeks back, their first EVER tour in the US. The only original member is the singer/bass player, and he still sounds absolutely incredible. And this song, closing their set (of course) had the house rockin'.
That "singer/bass player" is Trevor Horn, one of the best record producers ever, check out the list of stuff he's done. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Horn_discography
Interesting bit of trivia: when you see the Buggles in their silver suits and the singer is playing bass the guy in black at the back in front of the big synth is none other then Hans Zimmer. He didn’t play on the recording (although might have helped with setting up some of the synthsounds) but just helped on this video shoot.
Oh yeah, another kid-product of the 80's here!! Nothing but pure fond memories. I most definitely remember this as the first MTV video, ever! Trevor Horn is a legend, so prolific!
@@Hairmetallurgist I don't know if it is top five, but it is up there. Not a bad song on it, great playing, great sounding. I really wish they would have done one more album. Imagine the whole Fly From Here suite recorded back then, and a studio version of Go Through This. They could have had a #1 in 1981 with something like that.
@@MyCrazyDogs32 Second only to CTTE for me, much prefer it to 90125 or Anything else after CTTE. I've got the 'I Am a Camera' Buggles single somewhere - not as good as the Yes version.
@@quarkwrok Oh wow! I wouldn't rate it that high. I would put CttE, TYA, TFTO, Fragile, Relayer, and GftO ahead of it. But not Tormato, 90125, Big Generator, etc. So I guess it is my #7, and the debut album then is #8.
This was the first video played at MTV's network debut. How fitting. It marked the end of artists for art's sake. From then on, if you weren't pretty or handsome and did not already have your foot in the door of the music industry, there was no getting in. As a result, a lot of talent went to waste.
CLASSIC!!!!!,,When MTV DEBUTED.....GREAT MEMORIES!!!!!!!Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson....the ORIGINAL CAST!!!!
The best part of MTV was listening to different types of music. Being a Metalhead hearing rap and some pop I wouldn't typically listen to was great. 🤟🤟🤟
This song is about the end of theater on the radio. Shows that included comedy, Sci-fi westerns detectives , all kinds of shows audio only, being pushed out of business by television 📺. I got hooked on them on XM's OTR channel.
Somehow I always thought they were referencing television coming into everyone's home, and killing off all the old radio dramas, comedy's, musicals etc. Where families sat around those big old radios and you used your OWN imagination about what was happening with the sound effects, etc. Thanks for your channel!! It's appreciated!! 👃✌️🥰🇨🇦
I thought it was anticipating what would happen to the less attractive singers once they were expected to produce videos. It was predictable, based on what happened to some silent movie actors once the film industry started making “talkies” with sound that was synced with the video. Some poor actors looked great but either didn’t have a good voice or they had a strong accent that didn’t match the roles they usually played. This took place mostly in the late 1920s. The hairstyle of the woman dancing in the giant tube reminds me of a hair bob that was popular with flappers during the twenties so I think they’re deliberately suggesting that history is about to repeat itself.
@@terri2494 Thank for this! Are you aware of the run-up to the American election of Nixon vs Kennedy? 1963? Apparently the televised "debate", maybe even the first...., The huge radio audience put Nixon as the "winner".... TV audience Kennedy won...... (??) Nixon refused the make-up for television content BUT he won on SUBSTANCE!!
And these two guys - Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes would later join the band Yes are the lead singer and keyboard player in 1980 when the released the album Drama. Geoff Downes is back with his second stint playing keyboards in Yes with Steve Howe. And it was Trevor Horn who played bass on this song. I should also add that after Yes broke up in 1981, Steve Howe and Geoff Downes would go on to form the group Asia, which had the biggest selling album of 1982.
My wife and I were in the car and this song cane on the 80s on 8 Sirius/XM channel. I started singing "Spotify killed the video star..." we both got a nice kick out of how history is kind of repeating itself.
Funny with famous composer Hans Zimmer appearing in the video. Dressed in black. The B-side of the single had the song Kid Dynamo which was also great. Backing vocals on Video Killed The Radio Star were done by Debi Doss and Linda Jardim. Most backing vocals on The Plastic Age album were done by singer Tina Charles. Known for I Love To Love and the group 5000 Volts. Big hit I'm On Fire. She also did backing for Steve Harley And The Cockney Rebels on their hit Make Me Smile.
The bass is played by trevor horn who singing the lead. He's also a producer and did work with frankie goes to Hollywood, grace jones, Barry manilow, Paul McCartney, pet shop boys, rod Stewart, tina turner.and Yes. He's a very clever guy and a well respected musician.
What is going on here brother video killed the radio star and pop music I can't cope I grew up with this awesome memories and thank you so much Mel love you man ❤
Maybe some random knowledge that made my brain explode when I heard this for the first time: The dude in the back behind the keyboard is Oscar-winning film score componist Hans Zimmer. The group never made much else than this video and only perfromed it live once, as part of some festivities in the UK around 2010s. A remarkable piece of pop-culture history.
*Jamel* Like the fact you loved it..I love it,too..This was the Debut Music Vid of the 1ST 24 hours Of the Debuting Channel MTV...I EVEN,When I was younger,Saw the Debut of the channel...WITH THIS MUSIC VID... I thought it was a bit crazy,but I felt it Slapped... Glad you gave it a chance! Thank You!!!
The second time I ever saw Yes was in September 1980 at the Hartford Civic Center. Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman had split the band a few months earlier. Substituting for them on tour was the lead singer of the Buggles, Trevor Horn, and Buggles keyboardist, Geoff Downs. I went to the concert expecting it to be OK at best. Boy was I ever wrong. They absolutely nailed it! Trevor Horn covered the entire vocal range that Jon Anderson could cover and did a fantastic job. And Geoff Downes was amazing on keyboards.
Very first song on MTV when it went on the air. I was there! Watched the whole thing! And it's "Buggles" as in "BUG-Guls". Great reaction as always, Jamel!
You need to check out Tempus Fugit by Yes. It features the same lead singer and keyboardist. The bassist, Chris Squire, is one of the best of all time.
On the Yes song "Run Through The Light" (DRAMA), that's Trevor playing fretless Bass (at Squire's insistence)! Chris was Trevor's Bass hero growing up, so you can imagine what an honor that was. And his Bass on that is incredible...
Jamel, some trivia for you: Trevor Horn, (singing) went one to join Yes briefly before they broke up. When they reformed he wasn’t with them but produced the mega hit album 90215. He continued to be an in-demand producer for years. Geoff Downes, the keyboardist, went on to join the reformed Yes, as well as being a founding member of the supergroup, Asia.
It used to be kinda nostalgic hearing and seeing this video. Now that the MTV era is long gone it's even more so. Crazy how it ushered in the 80s and the MTV era with one video giving us a glimpse of things to come, almost prophetic.
It really nails what happened in the music industry. We knew it at a gut level when MTV videos started but it took a while to really get full steam. This tune predicted it. Not so good looking musicians could make it on the radio. I think we were better off for the old way. Video came along and now (too often) shaking your butt is more important than the music.
The first video on MTV and that bass is pure bass made by analog keyboards and can't be replicated with all the new digital synthesizers. And thanks to this song all the great bands of the time got forced to make videos to go with their songs. That or get left behind.
Can you imagine a group with Hans Zimmer, Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes? Yes they are the Buggles! To check the great work of Trevorn Horn take a look to "Produced By Trevor Horn: A Concert For The Prince's Trust - Live At Wembley Arena London 2004", Hans Zimmer doesn't need presentation.
Brother Jamel... Trevor Horn, the vocalist and bass player, was also a member of Art Of Noise ("Kiss" the Prince cover, with Sir Tom Jones) and was with YES for a couple of years, and is also a very big producer. Geoff Downes, the keyboard player, was also in YES and was also in ASIA. Now you can spiral down THOSE rabbit holes! Peace and Love, as always!
Trevor Horn did many things and was a top producer for many songs over the years he was the singer for Yes for one album, Drama, I believe. In 2009 he produced the Robbie Williams album called.... Reality Killed the Video Star. If you haven't yet you need to do some Robbie Williams songs, he is a huge artist everywhere but North America, I suggest anything from his Live at Knebworth album, his biggest song are Angels, Feel, Come Undone to name a few....
I've recently developed a new affection for this song. It was so overplayed on MTV that I was sick of it. BUT, I recently saw Seal in concert and The Buggles, w original vocalist/bassist Trevor Horn and the original keyboardist, were the opening act (and band for Seal the rest of the show, too. Trevor Horn produces Seal's songs.). They put videos up on the screen behind them that reminded me of early MTV so much that it hurt in a great way. Oh, NOSTALGIA! A really good time.
Sorry to burst your bubble but the original Buggles keyboard player is Geoff Downes and he most certainly wasn’t with Horn and Seal on their recent tour as he is a fulltime member of Yes these days.
Check out MISSING PERSONS!!! Pre Gaga & pre Maddona…… DALE was just rockin it!!! You won’t be disappointed!!! WORDS & DESTINATION UNKNOWN are 2 good tracks.
Jamel, it's BUG-les, not Byoogles (spelled for accent). But anyway.... they had a second music video on MTV back in the day, "Living in the Plastic Age". They made two studio albums, and I have them both on multiple formats. I love this band, and thought they were well ahead of their time. Trevor Horn (bass / vocals) and Jeffrey Downs (keyboards) still get together and do shows, but mainly, Trevor works as a producer for other artists. I was actually channel surfing the night MTV went live, and managed to land on it while this video was playing. I stopped in my tracks, and saw the first few hours of MTV as they originally aired.
The guy in the glasses is Trevor Horn, a well known producer, amongst others Frankie Goes To Hollywood. You should try “living in the plastic age” by The Buggles as well.
@@kmf65I disagree a bit...I think the proliferation of simplistic recording has completely saturated the market...it is so relatively simple to sit at a computer and literally have a "song", ready for mass consumption, posted and available in a matter of hours, it's exposed the lack of actual musical talent in the world. And the young audience, inundated with substandard muck, has become immune to garbage. But fear not, the avant garde, the innovators, the freak musicians still exist, it's just a bit more work to find them.
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This video was the first video that played on MTV .
Ironic, isn't it?
@@nancywest1926 I think that was on purpose.
It was dire straits, "money for nothing" for us in the uk and the rest of Europe.
We didn't get MTV until 1987.
You got to say it first! 😂 Trevor Horn was also in Art of Noise.
Yes it's was the first on mtv, saw it while cutting collage.
Memories of being a high school teen during the wonderful MTV era at the start of the 80's! ❤
I guess you can get a pretty good idea of the age of your audience by how many commented that this was the first song ever played on MTV. 😊
Yes we are old, but we had the best music and memories. Lol. Thank you for reacting to this ❤
or people can look things up using google
This song is nostalgic to me and literally brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it because it represented a fundamental change in the music industry that went from audio to video through MTV when it aired and this was the song they used to exemplify that change. It was like saying goodbye to and era in music that allowed you to visualize whatever you wanted while listening to music, but when video's replaced the audio genre it took away that part of inner visualization that people created for themselves and was replaced with someone else's visual ideas. It didn't just kill the audio music genre, it killed people's individual introspective creativity. It could now become another propaganda tool by the music industry and our government agencies.
3:28 A closeup look of that little girl looking up while feeling in shock is so adorable ❤
the significance and greatness of this song is not only that this was the first song ever on MTV on August 1, 1981, but also the words of the song, that's 41 years ago, WOW !
I always remember this as the first video to ever be shown on MTV... Back when they actually played videos...
Yup! My sister, and I were watching the static waiting for MTV to go live. The little astronaut came on, and then this video came on.
First song on MTV!!!! Followed by Pat Benatar/You Better Run
The tall dude playing the bass at the end, and singing, is Trevor Horn. From Wikipedia: Trevor Charles Horn CBE (born 15 July 1949) is an English record producer and musician. His influence on pop and electronic music in the 1980s was such that he has been called "the man who invented the eighties"
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He also spent a brief time as the lead singer for Yes. Even after that, he produced them.
When we got first cable television, we finally got to see MTV when it used to air music videos 24/7, we learned later that this was the first video to debut on the MTV channel. I'm glad you found the opportunity to see the video! I'm going to see the Pentatonix video you suggested. I enjoyed your reaction! ☮ and 💕
Deep core memories here. Wasn't there on first day of MTV, but my family had it within the first year or so. Lots of those original videos were still being aired. Such a damned catchy tune.
Such an iconic song. First song to be played on MTV. Great memories 👍
I just saw the Buggles live a couple of weeks back, their first EVER tour in the US. The only original member is the singer/bass player, and he still sounds absolutely incredible. And this song, closing their set (of course) had the house rockin'.
Wow, I would love to see them live. I wonder why Geoff did not join for this tour?
That "singer/bass player" is Trevor Horn, one of the best record producers ever, check out the list of stuff he's done. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Horn_discography
Interesting bit of trivia: when you see the Buggles in their silver suits and the singer is playing bass the guy in black at the back in front of the big synth is none other then Hans Zimmer. He didn’t play on the recording (although might have helped with setting up some of the synthsounds) but just helped on this video shoot.
Oh yeah, another kid-product of the 80's here!! Nothing but pure fond memories. I most definitely remember this as the first MTV video, ever! Trevor Horn is a legend, so prolific!
Trevor Horn, in addition to being the lead singer of the Buggles and an amazing producer, is an incredible bassist.
He was much maligned as the lead singer in Yes, but I loved Drama and his performance and contributions to that and to Yes in general.
@@MyCrazyDogs32 "Drama" is in my top-five list of Yes favorites!
@@Hairmetallurgist I don't know if it is top five, but it is up there. Not a bad song on it, great playing, great sounding. I really wish they would have done one more album. Imagine the whole Fly From Here suite recorded back then, and a studio version of Go Through This. They could have had a #1 in 1981 with something like that.
@@MyCrazyDogs32 Second only to CTTE for me, much prefer it to 90125 or Anything else after CTTE. I've got the 'I Am a Camera' Buggles single somewhere - not as good as the Yes version.
@@quarkwrok Oh wow! I wouldn't rate it that high. I would put CttE, TYA, TFTO, Fragile, Relayer, and GftO ahead of it. But not Tormato, 90125, Big Generator, etc. So I guess it is my #7, and the debut album then is #8.
The "Bug" els is how it's pronounced. I still remember the day it first played on MTV. I was about 12 yrs old. Miss those days.
A few years ago I saw Asia in concert and they played this song since the keyboardist Geoff Downes was in both bands.
This was the first video played at MTV's network debut. How fitting. It marked the end of artists for art's sake. From then on, if you weren't pretty or handsome and did not already have your foot in the door of the music industry, there was no getting in. As a result, a lot of talent went to waste.
Like Christopher Cross.
Nah dude there was a good seven to ten years until that truly took effect.
Unless you come up with a clever, must-see video, like Blues Traveler did with Run Around.
Aug 1981. First video on MTV. Jamel thank you for being a good human.
CLASSIC!!!!!,,When MTV DEBUTED.....GREAT MEMORIES!!!!!!!Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson....the ORIGINAL CAST!!!!
The best part of MTV was listening to different types of music. Being a Metalhead hearing rap and some pop I wouldn't typically listen to was great. 🤟🤟🤟
This brings back memories! I liked the song back in the day. 🎶🎶🎶
"We can't rewind, we've gone too far". Pretty much sums up the non-stop march of technology in music, film, TV - pretty much everything.
Love, love, LOVE this song!
Postmodern Jukebox does a great cover as well.
I still love this song to this day, it never gets old.
The first video played on MTV when they launched. I was watching when MTV very first came on the "air".
What an awesome the song brother!
Semper Fi ❤️🇺🇸
Tina Weymouth totally rocks. And is often overlooked.
Jamel I’m so sorry they’re continually doing that crap to you. Keep at it, we love you!
The singer on this, Trevor Horn, is playing the bass. He went on to become a successful producer.
Didn't he produce 90125 by Yes?
@@annieholbis2430 He also sang on YES's albums Drama and Fly From Here-Return Trip.
@@paulweiss3818 I knew I recognized his name from their albums!
This song paid for his studio back then. Geoff Downes on keyboards. Also a member of Yes back then
Geoff Downes also a founding member of the Prog Rock band Asia.
I remember see this on MTV day 1, hour 1, video 1. Damn, I'm old.
The dude playing keyboard in the background, wearing the black jacket, is the world famous music composer, Hans Zimmer!
This song is about the end of theater on the radio. Shows that included comedy, Sci-fi westerns detectives , all kinds of shows audio only, being pushed out of business by television 📺. I got hooked on them on XM's OTR channel.
I WAS THERE WHEN MTV PREMIERED, THIS IS THE VERY FIRST VIDEO MTV PLAYED. OH THE MEMORIES......
Love you bro
It started it all! Geoff Downes went on to great fame with Yes and Asia. Trevor Horn worked with Yes and did some producing. Fun song!
Love all of those people you mentioned ❤
Trevor horn and Geoff downes didn’t just work with yes there on the yes album Drama and that album is like cyberpunk Prog rock and it’s awesome
@@barryismygod True :)
@@jwynn1812 😊
Somehow I always thought they were referencing television coming into everyone's home, and killing off all the old radio dramas, comedy's, musicals etc. Where families sat around those big old radios and you used your OWN imagination about what was happening with the sound effects, etc. Thanks for your channel!! It's appreciated!! 👃✌️🥰🇨🇦
I thought it was anticipating what would happen to the less attractive singers once they were expected to produce videos. It was predictable, based on what happened to some silent movie actors once the film industry started making “talkies” with sound that was synced with the video. Some poor actors looked great but either didn’t have a good voice or they had a strong accent that didn’t match the roles they usually played. This took place mostly in the late 1920s. The hairstyle of the woman dancing in the giant tube reminds me of a hair bob that was popular with flappers during the twenties so I think they’re deliberately suggesting that history is about to repeat itself.
@@terri2494 Thank for this! Are you aware of the run-up to the American election of Nixon vs Kennedy? 1963? Apparently the televised "debate", maybe even the first...., The huge radio audience put Nixon as the "winner".... TV audience Kennedy won...... (??) Nixon refused the make-up for television content BUT he won on SUBSTANCE!!
oh the 80s baby lol!!
It's stunning how much the live version sounds like the studio version. I'd love to see a reaction to the live video!
🕊 🩷 💗 📻 📺 🎻 💗 🩷 🕊 Dear Jamel, that's the closest I can find to a nice bass. Enjoy!
Great memories of when MTV was about music videos, thanks for your time Jamel!
First video ever on MTV.
And these two guys - Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes would later join the band Yes are the lead singer and keyboard player in 1980 when the released the album Drama. Geoff Downes is back with his second stint playing keyboards in Yes with Steve Howe.
And it was Trevor Horn who played bass on this song.
I should also add that after Yes broke up in 1981, Steve Howe and Geoff Downes would go on to form the group Asia, which had the biggest selling album of 1982.
Cool. Was from around the start MTV, yeah? Nice. Will check it out. . It went smooth! Thanks
I love this song. Thanks for the reaction!
My wife and I were in the car and this song cane on the 80s on 8 Sirius/XM channel. I started singing "Spotify killed the video star..." we both got a nice kick out of how history is kind of repeating itself.
Wow! This brings back memories….. I played it on cassette. 😁
I remember this! 😍😍. Changed music forever! Also……Rush rules! 🥰
Funny with famous composer Hans Zimmer appearing in the video. Dressed in black. The B-side of the single had the song Kid Dynamo which was also great. Backing vocals on Video Killed The Radio Star were done by Debi Doss and Linda Jardim. Most backing vocals on The Plastic Age album were done by singer Tina Charles. Known for I Love To Love and the group 5000 Volts. Big hit I'm On Fire. She also did backing for Steve Harley And The Cockney Rebels on their hit Make Me Smile.
The bass is played by trevor horn who singing the lead.
He's also a producer and did work with frankie goes to Hollywood, grace jones, Barry manilow, Paul McCartney, pet shop boys, rod Stewart, tina turner.and Yes.
He's a very clever guy and a well respected musician.
Trevor Horn the singer is also the bass player.. he also produced and played a couple YES albums "Drama". & 90125
It's just beautiful.. gives me chills 🥺 🥲 🌺 ☀
What is going on here brother video killed the radio star and pop music I can't cope I grew up with this awesome memories and thank you so much Mel love you man ❤
First Video ever played on MTV!!!
Maybe some random knowledge that made my brain explode when I heard this for the first time:
The dude in the back behind the keyboard is Oscar-winning film score componist Hans Zimmer. The group never made much else than this video and only perfromed it live once, as part of some festivities in the UK around 2010s. A remarkable piece of pop-culture history.
*Jamel* Like the fact you loved it..I love it,too..This was the Debut Music Vid of the 1ST 24 hours Of the Debuting Channel MTV...I EVEN,When I was younger,Saw the Debut of the channel...WITH THIS MUSIC VID... I thought it was a bit crazy,but I felt it Slapped... Glad you gave it a chance! Thank You!!!
I wish MTV had not sold out I do miss the videos
I remember it very well, as a teen at the time, it is iconic
The lead singer is Trevor Horn who produced Relax by Frankie goes to Hollywood!!
The second time I ever saw Yes was in September 1980 at the Hartford Civic Center. Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman had split the band a few months earlier. Substituting for them on tour was the lead singer of the Buggles, Trevor Horn, and Buggles keyboardist, Geoff Downs. I went to the concert expecting it to be OK at best. Boy was I ever wrong. They absolutely nailed it! Trevor Horn covered the entire vocal range that Jon Anderson could cover and did a fantastic job. And Geoff Downes was amazing on keyboards.
Very first song on MTV when it went on the air. I was there! Watched the whole thing!
And it's "Buggles" as in "BUG-Guls". Great reaction as always, Jamel!
These early videos are a trip. Little art house movies.
Lead singer Trevor Horn was also the bass player for the Buggles. (He went on to a very successful career as a producer.)
Buggles, rhymes with snuggles.
Flashbacks to when MTV actually played music 🤘😎
Instead of a bunch of sleaze buckets getting knocked up by assorted father's.
You need to check out Tempus Fugit by Yes. It features the same lead singer and keyboardist. The bassist, Chris Squire, is one of the best of all time.
On the Yes song "Run Through The Light" (DRAMA), that's Trevor playing fretless Bass (at Squire's insistence)!
Chris was Trevor's Bass hero growing up, so you can imagine what an honor that was.
And his Bass on that is incredible...
Loved Chris Squire may he RIP ❤
Jamel, some trivia for you:
Trevor Horn, (singing) went one to join Yes briefly before they broke up. When they reformed he wasn’t with them but produced the mega hit album 90215. He continued to be an in-demand producer for years.
Geoff Downes, the keyboardist, went on to join the reformed Yes, as well as being a founding member of the supergroup, Asia.
Loved it! Happy to see anything you are able to put up music video wise. Huge respect to you!
It used to be kinda nostalgic hearing and seeing this video. Now that the MTV era is long gone it's even more so. Crazy how it ushered in the 80s and the MTV era with one video giving us a glimpse of things to come, almost prophetic.
It really nails what happened in the music industry. We knew it at a gut level when MTV videos started but it took a while to really get full steam. This tune predicted it. Not so good looking musicians could make it on the radio. I think we were better off for the old way. Video came along and now (too often) shaking your butt is more important than the music.
Yep first video played on the day tv 📺 launched …This was back when MTV was great not a reality channel..
The first video on MTV and that bass is pure bass made by analog keyboards and can't be replicated with all the new digital synthesizers.
And thanks to this song all the great bands of the time got forced to make videos to go with their songs.
That or get left behind.
Great choice of song! I completely agree with you about that bass. The highlight of this tune for sure!
I remember seeing this on Nickelodeon PopClips a year before MTV went on the air.
I recently saw on UA-cam. Someone posted the entire first day of MTV, starting with this song of course.
Can you imagine a group with Hans Zimmer, Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes? Yes they are the Buggles! To check the great work of Trevorn Horn take a look to "Produced By Trevor Horn: A Concert For The Prince's Trust - Live At Wembley Arena London 2004", Hans Zimmer doesn't need presentation.
This was th e first song ever on MTV and VH1. 24 hour music channel before laptops and cell phones !
Brother Jamel... Trevor Horn, the vocalist and bass player, was also a member of Art Of Noise ("Kiss" the Prince cover, with Sir Tom Jones) and was with YES for a couple of years, and is also a very big producer. Geoff Downes, the keyboard player, was also in YES and was also in ASIA. Now you can spiral down THOSE rabbit holes! Peace and Love, as always!
the VERY famous soundtrack composer Hans Zimmer...Dune, Interstellar, etc is in this band!! and in the video!!!
The FIRST MTV VIDEO!
What a great song!!!
Trevor Horn did many things and was a top producer for many songs over the years he was the singer for Yes for one album, Drama, I believe. In 2009 he produced the Robbie Williams album called.... Reality Killed the Video Star. If you haven't yet you need to do some Robbie Williams songs, he is a huge artist everywhere but North America, I suggest anything from his Live at Knebworth album, his biggest song are Angels, Feel, Come Undone to name a few....
Definitely a one hit wonder! First music video on MTV!
Not a one hit wonder in the UK and Europe
This is a very first music video shown on MTV on August 8th 1981. But the song actually come out in 1979.
This was the first song that was ever played on MTV
I've recently developed a new affection for this song. It was so overplayed on MTV that I was sick of it. BUT, I recently saw Seal in concert and The Buggles, w original vocalist/bassist Trevor Horn and the original keyboardist, were the opening act (and band for Seal the rest of the show, too. Trevor Horn produces Seal's songs.). They put videos up on the screen behind them that reminded me of early MTV so much that it hurt in a great way. Oh, NOSTALGIA! A really good time.
Me too. Especially loved his performance of Owner of a Lonely Heart by Yes.
Sorry to burst your bubble but the original Buggles keyboard player is Geoff Downes and he most certainly wasn’t with Horn and Seal on their recent tour as he is a fulltime member of Yes these days.
Give the album it came from, Age of Plastic a listen. The entire album is incredible and underrated.
@@ChrisEchoes My mistake. I thought the Yes tour got switched around. Still really enjoyed The Buggles set.
One hit wonders have some of the coolest songs. Try Missing Persons "Words" sometime.
Fun fact, for me at least....the closing song during my HS graduation in '83 was Destination Unknown, by the Missing Persons! 😁
Check out MISSING PERSONS!!! Pre Gaga & pre Maddona…… DALE was just rockin it!!! You won’t be disappointed!!! WORDS & DESTINATION UNKNOWN are 2 good tracks.
Don't forget about WALKING IN L.A.
The Buggles... sounds like Bug. So, bug gils, said quickly. =)
For 2023 all you have to change is to replace VIDEO with AI
Jamel, it's BUG-les, not Byoogles (spelled for accent). But anyway.... they had a second music video on MTV back in the day, "Living in the Plastic Age". They made two studio albums, and I have them both on multiple formats. I love this band, and thought they were well ahead of their time. Trevor Horn (bass / vocals) and Jeffrey Downs (keyboards) still get together and do shows, but mainly, Trevor works as a producer for other artists.
I was actually channel surfing the night MTV went live, and managed to land on it while this video was playing. I stopped in my tracks, and saw the first few hours of MTV as they originally aired.
Forty-three years . . . "We can't rewind, we've gone too far."
I remember waiting for this song to play on the radio when I was 11
The guy in the glasses is Trevor Horn, a well known producer, amongst others Frankie Goes To Hollywood. You should try “living in the plastic age” by The Buggles as well.
I miss the 80s and original MTV.
I love this song soooooo much! Wonder if today sadly, it would be ''Reality TV killed MTV's music video stars?''
Reality TV....or the fact the quality and originality of music has hit the bottom of the barrel.
@@kmf65 Not all music, but mainstream definitely.
@@kmf65I disagree a bit...I think the proliferation of simplistic recording has completely saturated the market...it is so relatively simple to sit at a computer and literally have a "song", ready for mass consumption, posted and available in a matter of hours, it's exposed the lack of actual musical talent in the world. And the young audience, inundated with substandard muck, has become immune to garbage. But fear not, the avant garde, the innovators, the freak musicians still exist, it's just a bit more work to find them.
This was the very first song MTV played when it came on the air.
Trevor horn went on to produce bands in the eightes including frankie goes to hollywood👍 and a sound bass player too❤
Trevor also 'produced' the Art Of Noise, one of My FAVOURITES OF ALL TIME!
So many great YT reaction channels, but you have to be one of my FAVS!