Leave it to the great AV Club writers of The Onion to find a link tied to MTV’s last, dying gasp at being relevant. With the show’s return I thought it was a nice surprise while reading Keith Phipps’ reminiscing over 1989 which was also a solid year musically.
Some early shows are rather embarrassing. Boys Don’t Cry? Vanity? John Farnham? Peter Frampton? Maybe taking the program in an “alternative” direction was an afterthought.