Episode description: We wanted our MTV. We got our MTV. We got Nirvana. Then we got pushed aside by the Millennials while the Boomers kept an iron grip on things. We’re Generation X, and this podcast is going to amplify our voices.

Links from this episode:

• Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles, the first video played on MTV
• Brass in Pocket by the Pretenders, the seventh video played on MTV
• The first 116 videos played on MTV, a Wikipedia article with solid links
• I Wanna Be A Lifeguard by Blotto, the 36th video played on MTV and the funniest of the first day
• Black Magic Woman by Santana, a clip from the German program Beat Club
• Larks’ Tongues in Aspic by King Crimson, also from Beat Club and one of the weirdest things ever broadcast
• IMVDB.com, which catalogs music videos
• Business Insider piece with the Smells Like Teen Spirit casting call
• Top 100 music videos of 1992, per IMDB
• Samuel L. Jackson sums up the first five seasons of Game of Thrones