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Back from the commercial break, we are joined again by Kevin Seal, wearing a black jacket over a black t-shirt. “This is the top funky one hundred of 1988,” he says, and then hypes the “Big Bang ’89″ New Year’s Eve event later that night on MTV: “We’ll count down the minutes to midnight, in […]
posted 17 July 2008 in 1988. 2 comments
(There was actually one more ad in that last commercial break, a promo spot for MTV, featuring a guy tied up on the floor of an elevator, being forced to listen to the elevator operator sing along to a swelling orchestral melody.)
“Five of the top 100 videos of 1988 are Michael Jackson videos,” Kevin Seal […]
posted 12 June 2008 in 1988. 2 comments
Back to Kevin Seal, who looks into the camera seriously, apparently channeling Dan Rather, and says, “’88 was a really heavy year for a lot of us, including Glenn Frey.” Seal then cracks a smile and snarks about Frey for a little while, egregiously dropping the G in the title of his latest album, Soul […]
posted 29 May 2008 in 1988. 2 comments
And we go to a commercial break!
First, there’s an MTV promo touting their dedication to new music. “Every major band was a new name at one time,” says a bass voice (moderately portentous, but without enough presence to get movie-trailer work). Then they flash the names of these brand-new bands that they’re backing with the […]
posted 15 May 2008 in 1988. 2 comments
