>>9043471

MTV has NOT always sucked.

The only valid argument that MTV has always sucked is that all of the radio music over the last 40 years has sucked.

The radio music of the last 40 years has been worse than MTV from the beginning of MTV 82 or whenever that was, up until maybe 2000-2005.

When MTV pretty much became 20 year old sitcom reruns and reality shows, they stopped breaking anything interesting. MTV did a much better job of finding the best rock and playing it a lot than radio stations did. Our rock radio has been much worse over the last 15 years than it was the 15 years before that. The 5 years from 2000-2005, MTV was clearly going downhill, playing way too much of the boy bands and that kind of stuff, but they always did find some fresher rock, and occasionally radio stations would pick up on that.

If you want to argue that the world of rock was actually better without any successful bands, maybe you're right, maybe, but MTV when it was trying to find rock, did do a better job than radio did.

>>9043655

Pinfield.

So much of our best rock stuff was played by MTV before commercial rock radio. Pretty much all of it. MTV didn't play much rock, not compared to a mainstream rock station, but they were finding the new stuff. Nirvana. Not going to type all the things. I remember when they played Thursday's Understanding in a Car Crash a whole lot. Before that ATDI One Armed Scissor. All The White Stripes and The Strokes. QotSA No One Knows. That was all very solid.

>>9043685

You didn't make your point well at all.

It was better than the radio.

I did mention the counter argument, which was that there has always existed a cooler version of music that radio barely touched and MTV did a better job than radio of covering. But you didn't make that argument. And it's unlikely that you could make that argument. It's possible, but unlikely.

>>9043706

Well, FFDP is a good example of what active rock / mainstream rock PD/MDs come up with. FFDP is not what MTV was pushing. MTV stopped doing music videos around the time that FFDP came around. I'm one who doesn't like FFDP one bit. MTVs suggestions for that radio format were generally better than what hte MD/PDs at radio came up with by themselves.

>>9043904

I assume you know this, but they took the swab, stuck it in the pawpaw, sent it in to get tested, and the test came back positive. As I understand it. That means that the coronavirus was there on the swab to start. They tested the swab for coronavirus, they found the coronavirus, and the coronavirus did not come from the pawpaw.