TV KILLS (and I'm a mass murderer)
 

Ok so obviously problems with country differences and whatnot apply here, but in your homeland, what is the best music television station? The amount of crap ones here are obscene, but as I see it MTV 2 is generally the real deal. It plays a nice amount of indie, and keeps the emo and metal-heads happy I think…Zane Lowes Gonzo is pretty good despite hime being more annoying than a Crazy Frog farm. Other contenders would be Kerrang!, The Amp and *shivers* Q…Or are there any good music shows on your terrestrial TV? There’s none in Ireland really….We poor unprivileged souls…

The Square-Eyed Indie Bar Kid

I have to say Kerrang, Scuzz and Mtv2 although VH2 can be all right.

I love Zane Lowes Gonzo. I think he is really funny and he has a wide range of music tastes. He knows his stuff and they have great guests on their show too. I am a regular watcher

So yeah anyway thats my fave stations

theres a local channel here that plays alot of good music 24 hrs a day. Ive seen alot of live Clash, Social D, old Nirvana footage, and alot of other live performances as well as videos from Phish to Exploited on it. Its called something like Bohemia Music Channel or something like that. We simply refer to it as Channel 44. Its what is usually on if the tv is on at all at my house.

info here
http://www.azreporter.com/?itemid=346&catid=43

we'll ....in Croatia ( that is the country i am from......no, seriously.....it is!), if you don't have a digital satellite dish or cable there is only one music show ( we have 4 national tv networks ), it airs twice a week for 2 hours, saturday and sunday,sometimes on a saturday they play stuff like the bravery, hot hot heat, u2, kaiser chiefs, franz, QOTSA ( if you're really really lucky ), and on sunday and most saturdays it's good ol' jenifer lopez,britney , eminem, fitty, and other bushit.....suffice to say it targets 9 year olds....( really, they have this sms thingy on the bottom of the screen and all the messages are form kids in 5th or 6th grade...)
am i frustraded much? yes....but thats why i have this forum to bitch and moan.....i'm getting a digital dish.....i have to get one or i'll go insane...and i would really really like to get your mt2 or other uk mtv...i can't take the german mtv bullshit anymore....it's horrifying!!...but i probobly can't get it....

Why don't you open Croatias first terrestrial indie-alt-emo-punk-metal-50'sfunk TV station...I can be the special Irish correspondant

"And in today's Irish music news, the corpse that is our music scene is finally buried as Crazy Frog stays number one for the 33243th week in a row!"

i find all music channels crappy mtv makes me angry mtv2 can play good stuff SOMETIMES but i just stick with c.ds and listening to stuff online :)

yeah TV is no reliable place for good music......

that's true...
well the local channel Ztv has a few good moments with their general selection if you're lucky but the good shows are late at night like the rock where they play a variety of rock, then there's one roughly translated to 'editor's suggestions' they must have a really good editor because they play a whole bunch of good music from all genres. the show where they show new vids is usually good(where i first saw my nine black alps vid) especially if the selection's good that week. that's probably the best music channel. it's wideranged and they sometimes play classics in one show where they play vids for an hour that are all part of a certain theme, e.g GnR, Nirvana, Covers and originals, etc...
SVT1 and SVT2 sometimes have concerts or they have movies about the greats and the less famous artists, it's really great but that's not very often...
sometimes if i catch it(i don't know the mtv schedule) they might have a few good vids in the 'alternative nation' show...but Ztv is definately the best music channel(considering i only have 2)

you're so spoiled.....i only have two....try none!

you're so spoiled.....i only have two....try none!

There was fuse BEFORE it started adding a bunch of rap and stuff... and MTV2 does have some decent stuff... but usually I don't turn to T.V. for music... if I want music videos... then I'm screwed... but generally I just listen... and radio is all crap nowadays... so I turn to C.D.'s and Phex.

hey mtv doesn't really count as a music channel contrary to its name!

Yeah generally "Music Television" constitutes actually playing music, not a 48 episode of "pimping out yo' ride, mutha!"



They are some "dope" cars though...

i think i've seen them repeat the same episode of pimp my ride 20 times.....it's exhausting....
they're also the reason i know all the words to a vast number of pop songs without having seen whole videos! i know all usher songs through flipping the channels!

i think they have recently changed their name to "Musical Television" which is more approiprat (or however the hell you spell it)... cuz its like... the stuff is kinda revolving around music__no... wait... no it isn't...

but you have to admit... seing Don Vito getting pissed off is funny...

silly big guy.

I have to say VH2 is the best one... im not a big fan of MTV2 ever since i watched the 'queens of noize....' ..... not impressed. And there was this one time on VH2 where they had a whole hour of just Radiohead versus Coldplay and i was like 'WOW'.

But usually I'll put the radio on.

Jen xx

we get crap music stations here.... on free to air anyway.... cant speak for cable stuff.... i prefer magazines with local gigs n shit....

VH2 is OK but the stadium rock starts to suck after about 20 rotations of the same Guns n' Roses, U2, Coldplay cycle...

That 4play (it's not as boring as the thing it's making a pun of, trust me) thing they do is pretty good though when they play Kasabian and the 'heads and cool stuff, but if they'd just cut the bloody Oasis weekends it'd be perfect

And whats wrong with Queenz of Noize?!?!?! There just two harmless STI-ridden grime-screwing,ADHD crackwhores! And look at the well placed "z"s in the name! Theyre so "street"...

i get this weird russian channel, its pretty kick ass. considering that i dont speak a lick of russian.

Heh I've got a Russian channel too! Doesn't play music though....

it's really cuz there's this channel that shows different things depending on the time
6am-6pm nickelodeon
6pm-9pm some nature channel
9pm-midnight, i think channel that has stupid action movies that didn't get fame
midnight to when nickelodeon it shows some sort of porno channel!! what would happen to little billy and/or penelope if they woke up in the middle of the night expecting cartoons instead they get porn!

Music is for listening to not watching.

Not watched ANY tv music station since about 1992 & not going to either.

Yeah, Music videos are pretty lame. I like the occasional documentary and concert video though

Sometimes the video adds to the overall message of the track, and there are some truly great artistic videos, particulary Radioheads. However bands like Coldplay who (not that Im surprised) churn out basically the same video each time, the whole "Look its me, Chris Martin, and these are my backing dancers" are just a waste of the medium.