Today is the 30th anniversary of MTV. I was too young for it to register at the time and my family wouldn’t have cable TV for another couple years, but I do have some significant memories of specific videos and thought I’d share them here.
First up is the first video I ever saw on MTV. I was at some hotel room with my family and we decided to turn on MTV to check it out.
This song came out in ’83, so I wasn’t TOO far behind the times. U2 went on to be one of my favorite bands in high school.
Hear this on The Lotus Land show on “>WRIR on the way home from work the other day and had to track them down online to ask what it was.
Lyrics:
Looking to the right,
A turn goes by
But not for too long
Our destination
By your misfortune
We are pulling past
Pulling out
But not for too long
So just embrace it Our destination
Dragging away from the high road
We should find a flock of birds big enough
To pull us up from the long road
Come on. Come with us.
We are falling straight down so don’t lose hope
Land on the earth before we crash into the ground.
Lovesick teenagers don’t ever die.
They will live forever
Even when you’re too old.
And you think you’re no more.
And you know you’re no more. You’ll be
Dragging away from the high road
We should find a flock of birds big enough
To pull us up from the long road
Come on. Come with us.
We are falling straight down so don’t lose hope
Land on the earth before we crash into the ground.
Dragging away from the high road
We should find a flock of birds big enough
To pull us up from the long road
Come on. Come with us.
We are falling straight down so don’t lose hope
Land on the earth before we crash into the ground.
