Video Killed the Radio Star

Could and should have been really good.

Whoever came up with the amateur merging of diagonal lines with two small pictures should be ashamed. It is so distracting. Flash, flick, expand, blah blah.

I just wanted to watch and listen, not be treated to some ludicrous, self indulgent dross.

I tried 3 or 4 episodes of my favourite artists but found myself fast forwarding. I've given up and deleted the series. Shame.

I've only watched 3 of these episodes so far, and I love them! Discovering how these early music videos were put together, and what went on behind the scenes, is fascinating. I hope these contunue ti get made. We have lost sooo many of the music legends from this era! The only 3eason I didn't give this a higher rating than 8, is because I think that they are waaay too short! I could watch an hour of this for each artist!

This series is not about watching full music videos. There are oodles of other TV programs that fulfill that purpose - MTV etc. etc. This is a documentary series fulfilling the avid music video fan's desire to know more about what has gone into the classic music videos we so love. There are loads of interesting anecdotes by the musicians in interviews, plus the unsung, but all too important directors without whom there would be no artistic videos. This is an interesting series and certain episodes featuring one's favourite artists are must sees for the music video enthusiast. Each episode is around twenty minutes in length and kept brief and not boring.

I was fascinated by this and seeing Sting explain how the song he wrote "I'll Be Watching You." ( He has a whole new take on it, mainly because he would have been pulled up about it being a Stalker's Lament -- if that's a music sub category -- and he now says, it's a song about surveillance and power, yep that's what it's about Mr Sting but don't worry a good back beat can enable any kind of drivel, all in retrospect because I can assure you it never was so, when it was current) How, this guy wrote the highly rated, Fields of Gold is beyond me, I have never seen such a self-serving individual, only possibly John McEnroe. So, there you are another review by a completely unbiased musicologist. I will say having to write 600 characters for this character did make my pithy review rather drawn out.