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Underrated video. Underrated song.

rapind 2y ago
Knopfler is a magician on the guitar.
havblue 2y ago
Money for Nothing is underrated now? I thought MTV even uses it when they splash their logo. Everyone knows it's great, video as well. I think it's neither underrated nor overrated. It's just rated.
- jazzyjackson 2y ago
  Agree. I associate this song with wandering the halls of home depot, it is Poe's law in a song, indistinguishable from that which it satirizes (I can't find what podcast it was that tells the story of the band absolutely not wanting to do this video, they hated MTV, "I want my MTV" at the head of the song is sung mockingly, but it's so iconic that MTV co-opted it as their brand - an amazing example of "what you resist persists")
aidenn0 2y ago
Underrated video? It got a dozen Video Music Award nominations and won two, including "Video of the Year."
clwg 2y ago
Piling on a bit, but it was also the first video they played when they launched MTV Europe. https://direstraitsblog.com/blog/30-years-ago-money-nothing-first-video-mtv-europe/ https://direstraitsblog.com/blog/30-years-ago-money-nothing-...
- MrDrMcCoy 2y ago
  It was the first CGI music video done by the folks that would do the first CGI TV show. I still have a soft spot for Reboot from my childhood
  - markedathome 2y ago
    Reboot has been posted to youtube[1] and twitch according to the notes on that YT page. In a reddit post on the above[2], I came across information that there is an 8-part documentary[3] on Reboot coming out from September 24th, along with a remaster of the series soon.[4] 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyKRWU_Bdvk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyKRWU_Bdvk [country restricted] 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1fcew8l/reboot_the_90s_animated_show_is_streaming_on/ https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1fcew8l/reboot_the_... 3. https://www.youtube.com/@ReBootRewindDoc/videos https://www.youtube.com/@ReBootRewindDoc/videos 4. https://www.reddit.com/r/ReBoot/comments/1f2ltql/the_d1_decks_and_the_reboot_master_tapes_a_faq/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ReBoot/comments/1f2ltql/the_d1_deck...
    - MrDrMcCoy 2y ago
      That documentary sounds great, thanks! I hope they cover the remastering process, as I expect the challenges of using 90s 3D data formats on modern computers are nothing to sneeze at.

Knopfler is a magician on the guitar.

Money for Nothing is underrated now? I thought MTV even uses it when they splash their logo. Everyone knows it's great, video as well. I think it's neither underrated nor overrated. It's just rated.

jazzyjackson 2y ago
Agree. I associate this song with wandering the halls of home depot, it is Poe's law in a song, indistinguishable from that which it satirizes (I can't find what podcast it was that tells the story of the band absolutely not wanting to do this video, they hated MTV, "I want my MTV" at the head of the song is sung mockingly, but it's so iconic that MTV co-opted it as their brand - an amazing example of "what you resist persists")

aidenn0 2y ago

Underrated video? It got a dozen Video Music Award nominations and won two, including "Video of the Year."

clwg 2y ago

Piling on a bit, but it was also the first video they played when they launched MTV Europe. https://direstraitsblog.com/blog/30-years-ago-money-nothing-first-video-mtv-europe/ https://direstraitsblog.com/blog/30-years-ago-money-nothing-...

MrDrMcCoy 2y ago
It was the first CGI music video done by the folks that would do the first CGI TV show. I still have a soft spot for Reboot from my childhood
- markedathome 2y ago
  Reboot has been posted to youtube[1] and twitch according to the notes on that YT page. In a reddit post on the above[2], I came across information that there is an 8-part documentary[3] on Reboot coming out from September 24th, along with a remaster of the series soon.[4] 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyKRWU_Bdvk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyKRWU_Bdvk [country restricted] 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1fcew8l/reboot_the_90s_animated_show_is_streaming_on/ https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1fcew8l/reboot_the_... 3. https://www.youtube.com/@ReBootRewindDoc/videos https://www.youtube.com/@ReBootRewindDoc/videos 4. https://www.reddit.com/r/ReBoot/comments/1f2ltql/the_d1_decks_and_the_reboot_master_tapes_a_faq/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ReBoot/comments/1f2ltql/the_d1_deck...
  - MrDrMcCoy 2y ago
    That documentary sounds great, thanks! I hope they cover the remastering process, as I expect the challenges of using 90s 3D data formats on modern computers are nothing to sneeze at.