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Old 27-01-2003, 19:54
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Once the best music channel on TV for indie and metal and its just hip hop and eminem everytime I put it on, MTV have base and dance for this!
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Old 27-01-2003, 20:07
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It's been shit for the last few months now.
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Old 28-01-2003, 00:18
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I thought its got quite good of late (although I haven't seen the socks for a while which is a shame).. They've stopped being just a metal channel and gone back to playing a good mix of genres.. still not as good as the m2 days, but a step in the right direction.. Other than the hip-hop hour, and eminem (its Eminem week, or it was anyway so I forgive them for that..) I haven't seen much hip-hop.
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Old 28-01-2003, 10:46
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Originally posted by RichardS
Once the best music channel on TV for indie and metal and its just hip hop and eminem everytime I put it on, MTV have base and dance for this!
It was Eminem Fornight on MTV, MTV Base and MTV|2. That's why, and percentage wise now that has finsihed rap probably makes up about 5% of its output, not that much really.

Since its re-lauch IMO the channel has gone from strength to strength. They are showing some classic videos now, like High & Dry by Radiohead for one
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Old 28-01-2003, 14:17
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Originally posted by 3EB
It's been shit for the last few months now.
Years you mean. Its been terrible ever since it added the TV between the M and the 2. On M2 you had such a mix of music and styles. Now, its "indie" and all the rap on MTV Base is basically Def Jam/Murder Inc.

Where has all the good music that M2 played got now as a home?

P-Rock is the only channel now playing true "alternative" music, being alternative from the main stream, and not alternative the style... which as you can see from the likes of Avril Lavigne and Limp Bizkit, is just pop and very much the main stream nowadays. They play output from the likes of Wolftown Records, and a lot of Underground Ska-Punk stuff. True independents, on independent labels that aren't associated with the big 5. Its a shame I don't particularly like the stuff they play on P-Rock.
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