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I remember the VJ's (I don't think they call them that any more, they're hosts). I liked Martha Quinn and the guy with the dark curly hair (Mark?)
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If the dark, curly haired guy you speak of is the same guy I'm thinking of, his name is Mark Goodman (I looked it up ;D), and I have a clip of an interview he did with David Gahan and Martin Gore of Depeche Mode in 1985, and he was a complete IDIOT!! He got stuff wrong like how many albums they had out at the time. He said five, and they had to correct him and say they had four out. (Some Great Reward was the most recent album they released, from the year before.) Also, I guess he would play videos from other groups (the videos are not in the clip, just the interview), and he would come back on the air and mention who the last video was by, and say that they were "close personal friends of Depeche Mode." I remember one of them was The Stranglers. It was really annoying.

I live in Canada, and the only dark, curly haired VJ I ever knew was J.D. Roberts of the original MuchMusic crew. :D However, I've seen pictures of the original MTV VJ's and I thought Nina Blackwood was cool. :D

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I remember the VJ's (I don't think they call them that any more, they're hosts). I liked Martha Quinn and the guy with the dark curly hair (Mark?)
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The original VJs were Martha Quinn (cute and spunky girl), Mark Goodman (thats the guy with dark curly hair), JJ Jackson (deep soulful voiced black guy, I thought by far he was the coolest VJ), Alan Hunter (space cadet guy with mullet) and Nina Blackwood (deep voiced woman with usually wild blonde hair).
A few years later they added Downtown Julie Brown and Adam Curry.  I kind of lost track from there.

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I remember him!  He was my favourite VJ on MuchMusic.  I remember when he interviewed Robert Plant on the roof of CityTV and when he used to host "The New Music".  I started to watch MM less and less shortly after he left the show and went to CTV's morning news (??).  Funny, I saw him on TV last year and remembered how he looked in the 80s with his long hair and leather jacket.   :D

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I remember him!  He was my favourite VJ on MuchMusic.  I remember when he interviewed Robert Plant on the roof of CityTV and when he used to host "The New Music".  I started to watch MM less and less shortly after he left the show and went to CTV's morning news (??).  Funny, I saw him on TV last year and remembered how he looked in the 80s with his long hair and leather jacket.   :D
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Ah...the original MuchMusic people. :D Unfortunately, we didn't get Much 'til 1987, so I missed J.D. as a VJ, but I'm sure I probably saw him on The New Music myself as I used to watch it a lot before we got it. My fave from The New Music has to be Jeanne Beker (before she did all the fashion stuff). She was a riot! I saw a clip of her interviewing Iggy Pop and I swear they were both hammered! ;D My favourites from Much: Erica Ehm, Steve Anthony, Christopher Ward, and Kim Clarke-Champniss. (I'm probably the only person in Canada who thought he was really cool.) I watched "CityLimits" all the time when Chris and KCC hosted, and despised it when Simon Evans took over!!

Did you know...........that Christopher Ward is now in Austin Powers' psychedelic 60's group Ming Tea along with Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles? I thought that was interesting. He looks soooo different now. :D

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I've also seen a clip of an interview Jeanne did with Andy Summers of The Police while he was in the bath. Did you see that one?

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Sometime in the early-mid 90's, she did a play (I forget what it was called) with someone I went to school with, and I believe she did have to appear naked!

Quoting:I haven't watched Much Music since 1990.  If they were to do some reruns of their shows from the mid-80's i'd be tempted to tune in.  Ahh... just to be able to wander thru their video archives.... :D
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I stopped watching MuchMusic sometime later on in the 90's when it started going all hip hop and Britney Spears/Shakira/Jennifer Lopez. MuchMOREMusic became more to my liking. :) And even when I was still watching MuchMusic, I was mostly watching the New Music specials and 80's weekends. Speaking of which, there's a particular New Music special that was aired on MuchMusic in or around 1997 or so about 80's New Wave. There were recent interviews with Devo and The Gin Blossoms (before someone in the group died and they split up. They were just reminiscing about the 80's) Other interviews included were: Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet, Sal Solo of Classix Nouveaux, Lene Lovich...the list goes on and on. There were tons of great video clips. It was a REALLY good special, and I had taped it, but I can't find it anymore and may have recorded over it by mistake. (That's what you get for not cataloguing your videotapes!) If anyone knows the special I'm speaking of and has it, PLEASE LET ME KNOW because Internet searches have come up with nothing so far. Thanks!

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Robert Palmer's "Clues", Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" and Talking Heads' "Letting the Days Go By" were all videos that got played in the first week, so they may have aired on the first night. Billy Squier, REO Speedwagon and Spandau Ballet were also on very early.
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The Talking Heads song was "Once In A Lifetime" and you are absolutely right!  All of those videos were on there.  "Riding The Storm Out" by REO Speedwagon, "I Want You To Want Me" by Cheap Trick was another early one, as well as "Touch And Go" by The Cars.

Remember when they had "World Premiere Videos" and they were a big deal?  I remember when "Six Months In A Leaky Boat" by Split Enz was a world premiere.  They were virtually unknown (commercially) here in the US, but the way MTV promoted it seemed like a really big deal and one of the first times that music seemed more "global."  

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Yeah thats about when I stopped watching. I remember they used to play some Canadian Artists too. I don't like how they changed now to "Fuse". I liked the VJ's on Much like from 97-99 when they had this VJ Rick I think his name was. They had this asian girl she was a cool VJ too. I just don't like the music video channels except for MTV2 a little bit nowdays. VH 1 is like MTV now: its all the same. Oh yeah another VJ they had on MUCH in the late 90's was Rachel Perry if I remember right. She later went to VH1.

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They still do. They have to. It's CRTC regulations, 30% Canadian content every hour (unless it's gone up).

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Rick is Rick Campanelli who joined Much as a contest winner to work there as a temp in the early 90's (and he was called "Rick The Temp" for a few years after that). I guess they liked him and needed VJ's so they kept him! He's still there, I think. The Asian girl was Sook-Yin Lee. She used to sing in a band whose name I forget. I don't think she's there now.

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Do we have VH1 here in Canada now or am I missing something? I know we have MTV and MTV2. The only thing I watch on MuchMoreMusic and ever watched on MuchMusic were 80's shows. I don't know who Rachel Perry is.

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Do we have VH1 here in Canada now or am I missing something? I know we have MTV and MTV2. The only thing I watch on MuchMoreMusic and ever watched on MuchMusic were 80's shows. I don't know who Rachel Perry is.

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Vile, I don't know about Canada, but in the U.S. we have VH1, and alot like MTV, there is very little music to be found.  However, VH1 Classic is all music videos (and concert footage and variety show clips, before videos were being made) from the 60s through the 80s (along with old interviews from MTV's vaults).  Probably 75% is 80s though, and it is absolutely fabulous!

They don't just play a bunch of pop stuff either.  They play some pretty obscure stuff from MTV's early days (like the good stuff they played at 3:00 am when not many people were watching).  If you don't have it, DEMAND that your cable company gets it.  Me and all my geeky 80s friends just love it  ;D

Go here:  http://www.vh1.com/channels/vh1_classic/channel.jhtml