I really like Vintage TV. I only really watch the 90s stuff and Mellow Vintage, but I’ve been noticing there’s not much variety for music videos even when it’s on shuffle. I’ve separated this into two categories, ones that are played way too much and honorable mentions that get played a lot but less than the first category. Mind you, it’s a bit biased because it’s Mellow Vintage and 90s stuff only, maybe with a bit of genre-related stuff mixed in.
PLAYED WAY TOO MUCH
– The entire discography of Bryan Adams, most notably, “All For Love”, featuring Rod Stewart and Sting, as well as all the songs you’ve never heard of.
– The entire discography of Simply Red, most notably “Something Got Me Started”
– The entire discography of Kirsty MacColl, not so much now because they were madly in love with her back in December
– The entire discography of Beverly Craven, which consists of “Promise Me” and those two songs that weren’t “Promise Me”.
– The entire discography of Sheryl Crow
– 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love”, during every Mellow Vintage segment during the weekend.
– Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing”
– M People’s “Movin On Up” & “Search For The Hero”
– The Commitments’ “Mustang Sally”
– Beverly Knight’s “Sister Sister”. This is the only Beverly video I’ve ever seen on Vintage (alright… I may have seen Feel The Flavour Of The Old School just once), she has way more good songs that should play on that channel.
– Rick Astley’s “Cry For Help”.
– “January, February”, that old song by that one lady.
– That Alison Moyet video with Dawn French
– Lenny Kravitz’ “Are You Gonna Go My Way”
– The Vintage TV special version of Elton John’s “Crocodile Rock”, which, because there’s no proper music video, they just sloppily put a whole load of Pathé stock footage of circuses and make a video from it. They should just use a live performance of it.
– The Vintage TV special version of Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman”. See above, but replace Pathe circus footage with Getty footage of Julia Roberts circa Runaway Bride. They really should just use a live performance of it.
– Ace of Base, “Cruel Summer”, and less so, “All That She Wants”. Always remember that “Beautiful Life” is the best music video of the 90s.
– David Grey, “Babylon”.
– R Kelly, “I Believe I Can Fly”
PLAYED A GOOD BIT
– The Fugees, “Killing Me Softly”
– Queen’s “These Are the Days of Our Lives”
– Elvis Costello’s “She”
– The entire discography of the Bee Gees
– Everything But The Girl’s “Missing”. The original version, even though I’ve seen the remix played twice.
– That Roxy Music video where Bryan Ferry is behind a brown curtain
– Rod’s “The First Cut Is The Deepest”. Actually, Rod’s whole discography.
– Blur, “Girls & Boys”
– That Barry White video where he’s playing the piano [Just The Way You Are]
– Alanis’s “Hand In My Pocket”, and, to a lesser extent, “Thank You” and “You Oughta Know”
– Dodgy, “Staying Out For The Summer”
– George Michael’s “Jesus To A Child”
– That Eric Clapton song from Phenomenon (mid 90s John Travolta movie about psychic stuff or something). There’s a music video for it which they should use, but they sloppily play a live version in which he’s doing Duelling Guitars with two other men. Actually, they don’t really play it anymore.
– Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On”. See above, it’s a live performance a semitone or so lower beginning with some freak Cirque du Soleil performance. There’s a music video for this which is the video every other music TV channel plays.
– Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose”. See above
– REM’s “Shiny Happy People” and “Losing My Religion”, the former more than the latter. “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight” is never played on there, but it’s one of, if not my favourite, REM songs ever, alongside “The Great Beyond” and “Imitation of Life”.
– Massive Attack’s “Safe From Harm”
– The Eels’ “Last Stop This Town”. I’ve only seen it twice, but I think it would be played a lot in the weeks to come. EDIT: Boy I was wrong.
– Belinda Carlisle’s “In Too Deep”. I’ve also only seen it twice, but I think it would be played a lot in the weeks to come.
– The Cure “Friday I’m In Love”
– James’ “Sit Down”
– Crowded House, “Four Seasons In One Day”. I swear this vid is so GIF-able.
– Bjork’s “Venus As A Boy”. Not complaining, I love it.
– That Janet video by Herb Ritts
– Michael Bolton’s “How Am I Supposed To Live Without You” and “When A Man Loves A Woman”, but regrettably not “Can I Touch You… There?”
– Madonna’s “Rain” and less so, “I’ll Remember”
– Mariah Carey’s “Without You”
– U2’s “Shamu” “Mysterious Ways”
EDIT 28/03/14: Cleverly, it seems that whenever they play a video a lot in a short timespace (rn flavour of the month is Belinda Carlisle’s “In To Deep”) then it’s usually for promotion for appearing on a Vintage TV original program (Belinda has recently been featured on the show Needle Time)
OT: As for dieting and exercise, first, I might be getting a gym subscripition if I’m old enough as one just opened across the street from me, just a minute’s walk from my house. And secondly, tomorrow I am only eating fruit and vegetables in preparation for a 5-day master cleanse. Because I want to be Beyoncé.