Special Memorial Day Weekend Edition

Once again back is the incredible, the rhyme animal. Happy Memorial Day Weekend to all of those of you that celebrate this holiday, I know I have some readers from some other countries, might not be aware of it, but that's cool.

Ok, let's get right to it, Friday night the Boston Bruins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 1-0 in game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals, and it was awesome, I was there and here are some pictures to prove it:

So, now it's time to move on to the Stanley Cup Finals and take on the Vancouver Canucks. Not gonna be easy, that's for sure, Vancouver was the best team in the regular season and so far in the playoffs they are continuing that trend, they scored the most goals, allowed the fewest, had the best power play and the best penalty kill. Hopefully, the refs call the games much like they did for Game 7, no penalties, cause that would certainly help out the Bruins, who are the best 5 on 5 team in hockey, and also set a record for having the fewest Power Play Goals in the playoffs for a team that made it to the Stanley Cup Finals, so yeah, power play is not good, penalty kill has been alright, but just rather not have to deal with that. Well, it's gonna be fun, think it will go 6 or 7 and I think the Bruins have an excellent chance at bringing the Cup back to Boston for the first time in 39 years.

Ok, kinda gonna be all over the place today, and for those of who that are friends with me on facebook and actually look at my posts and stuff, some of this stuff might repeat some things, but that need to be put in the blog. First of all, in honor of the Bruins making the Finals and just for Hockey in general, got to share what is and probably always has been my favorite cartoon of all time, enjoy:

Next, and I cannot take credit for this one at all, all credit goes to Conan O'Brien, who has been showing part of this clip on his show recently, but I found the entire thing on youtube, and I have to say, the whole thing is amazing, there is just so much going on with this, you may have already seen it on my facebook page, but still it needs to be seen by everyone. I'm pretty sure it's legit, sometimes with these things, they can be made up, but this one I think is totally real:

See The Special Man.

Just want to make a quick little observation, the new progressive commercials with that guy telling everyone about how much he saved cause they told him the other brands prices are whatever, is it just me or does that guy seem a little bit like Keith Stone from the Keystone commercials? Anyone? No? Come on, just agree with me.

So, I was watching some more stuff with the Macho Man, and I came across something that I always loved when I was a kid, and it featured the Macho Man, now out of context it's probably even better, but the whole feud between Macho Man and Ricky Steamboat was awesome, so, just enjoy the whole thing:

Ok, so there is obviously a lot of stuff here, but if nothing else, check out the 3rd part, towards the beginning Macho Man starts talking to Bruno Samartino, and then Bruno calls Macho Man a piece of slime and attacks him, I always loved that part "YOU PIECE OF SLIME!!!" Also, later in part 3, there is one report where Steamboat is trying to talk again and is trying to say the letter E and can't and then gets really upset, it's fantastic, the whole thing is fantastic.

Moving on, met this girl last night, who's name may or may not have been Guadalupe, didn't matter, that's what I was calling her, probably the reason she stopped talking to me, but whatever, not the point, she was apparently from Ohio, but she had some connection to Belize, now I know nothing of Belize, I have no idea where it even is, but for whatever reason when I heard Belize, it made me think of this:

and you know what, they mention Ohio too, so even more reason to think of this song. Interesting note, of course this was the theme song to the kids game show that was on PBS in the 90s, and it was performed by Rockapella, who, I actually saw sing the National Anthem at a Red Sox game one time, so yeah, I'm pretty damn awesome, take that Carmen San Diego, wherever you are, you too Guadalupe.

On facebook, there is the thing called poking, I've known of it, but never really understood exactly what it was or the point of it, someone explained it to me, still don't really get the point of it but whatever, it does remind me of on Napster you could "finger" people, let's just say that back in college, I had a lot of fun with that, to the point that people stopped talking to me. I guess I'm just annoying, oh well.

Well, ladies and gentlemen it's time once again to relive the past, this time around we will dive into 1993. 1993 was a monumental year for me for a few reasons, graduated from Elementary School and moved on to Middle school, so that was cool, but also it was the year that I really got into music, and as crazy as this sounds now, really into MTV, cause the M used to still stand for Music at that point. So, as I really started to get into music at this point, it was also the time where I really started to make my own opinions on what I liked and didn't like rather then just listening to whatever was Popular, so while that was all well and good, it might make this journey back through time a little difficult, cause while some of this stuff was out there and I liked, maybe it wasn't all that popular, and on the flip side, maybe there was stuff that was popular that I didn't like, but whatever I will do my best. Now, I've already been over some stuff that went down in 1993 way back when I first started this blog, and I generally don't like to repeat myself, but I'll switch it up a bit. So, I've been over the whole Tag Team Whoomp there it is  vs 95 South Whoot there it is thing, like I said Tag Team won that war, but they wouldn't let it go, what do I mean by that, well, later in 1993, The Addams Family sequel, Addams Family Values was coming out, and since they had so much success promoting that movie by getting Hammer involved and his song Addams Family Groove, don't remember it, well here it was from 1991:

Well, now it was 1993, Hammer wasn't to be found, as he was busy trying to reinvent himself, but that's next year, so in steps Tag Team, now maybe they could have written a new song, I don't know, but instead they just did a remix of Whoomp There It Is, and it went a little something like this:

Ok, fine, whatever they still wanted to make some more money of their one hit, so whatever, but it wouldn't end there. fast forward a few months, the Houston Rockets win the NBA Championship, and for some reason Tag Team were happy about this I guess, even though they are from Atlanta? Anyway, in honor of the Rockets winning, they released another version called Hoop There It is. Unfortunately this was pretty exclusive to Houston, as I have never heard it, and can't seem to find it anywhere on the internet, which is sad, but you know what, it doesn't end there, a year later Tag Team was not through, I thought you know. That's right cause when Disney comes knocking on your door and want you to do another remix with Mickey Mouse for Donald Ducks birthday party, well you just have to do it. So, Whoomp! There It Went:



Luckily this would be the end of it and the last we would see from these guys, but no, not the song, yup they lent it out to some people and that was when this happened:

Good God, oh well, the song was also mentioned in a recent AT&T commercial for the iPhone, when the guy says it was 1995, and the other guy says it was 1993, yup it was 1993, but to be fair to the other guy, he may have been thinking of Whoomp! There It Went.

So, believe it or not there was plenty of other things going on in 1993 other then Whoomp There It is. Like for instance someone who I have already featured on the blog way back as a joke because it was Snowing out, yup Informer was a huge hit in 1993, but I've already covered that, but does anyone else remember his other song:

Now, while Snow was doing his white boy rapper, Canadian, reggae, murder trial thing, real rap was heading in a newer direction, that would also shape the 90s similar to grunge, I made a brief reference to it at the end of the last post, but 93 was when Gangsta Rap really took off, sure it had been around for a while NWA was around back in the 80s, but things didn't really get going until The Chronic came out and this song blew up:

Not to be outdone, Dre's former partner in crime in NWA was also putting out some good music back in 1993, you know before he started doing kids movies and shows and Coors Light Commercials, arguing with a bottle:

Also getting his first real exposure in 1993 was this man:

Then of course after making himself known with Dre, Snoop decided to break out on his own at the end of 1993, and well this happened:

Now, sticking with this theme, and I'm not really sure if these next few groups really fit in the same category as the previous ones, like, they're not really Gangsta rap per se, well, I don't know, make up your own mind, but they were big in 1993:

Yeah, I would never really consider myself a big rap or hip hop guy, but this stuff was still pretty good back in the day, not sure where things went bad for me, but I enjoyed this stuff for the most part. Of course what would any year be without some 1 hit wonders, and there were some in 93, not as much as 92, but still, for instance, these guys:

and not to be outdone, even thought the song clearly says 92 in it, it didn't get big until 93, ok:

I was never really sure what was going on with this next group, and not sure anyone else did either, but whatever they had this one hit and then hit the bricks:

Not really sure what to say about this next video other then Whoa!:

Now this next song is certainly a one hit wonder, but I'm not really sure if this is the right year to have this, yes it did come out in 1993, but I feel like it wasn't until later in the decade cause of SNL that it really got popular:

I'm not really sure that these next guys are really one hit wonders or not, but this is really the only song of theirs that I liked, so there you go:

Then of course this was probably the "Weak"est song that was a hit in 1993:

Now, this next group needs a little explaining, they were originally named Green Jello, and their gimmick was they were just going to be a band that made just music videos, they weren't going to release albums or tour or anything, just have music videos, well after they got a hit with this next song, they then decided to release an album rather than just a video, and then they got sued by Jell-O and had to change their name to Green Jelly, but before all that, they gave us a new twist on an old tale.

Hey, remember Meat Loaf, before he went crazy on Celebrity Apprentice? Well, he was back from Hell or went back into hell, or something in 1993 and had a big hit with this song, which I'm honestly still confused about, what is it he won't do exactly?

Ok, now believe it or not, 1993 was the last time that Billy Joel released a new album, sure there have been plenty of greatest hits and old stuff that he put out there, but he hasn't had a new album in 18 years, now, I realized that he has been through a lot, but it's amazing that he hasn't had a new album since then, but you know what, album wasn't that great, and maybe he just figured at that point, ok, I;m done, that;s fine, I got enough music to work with, this is what people are gonna want to hear anyway, grunge and gangsta rap were talking over, he wasn't gonna be bringing in a new audience with any of his new music, so whatever, just tour and play the old stuff, makes sense, but anyway, here was the title song from his last album:

So, the big thing in 1993 was soundtracks, there were a lot of hits from soundtracks, and while not a ton of movies did very well in 1993 cause everyone was going to see Jurassic Park, some of these movies had good soundtracks, my favorite was Last Action Hero, which produced 4 singles, first of which actually featured Arnold in the video:

Next up, Megadeth were a little upset and apparently not for the first time:

Needed a little grunge on the soundtrack, so AIC stepped in:

and a couple steps behind Def :Leppard did their thing:

Not sure I've mentioned this before, but the drummer for Def Leppard only has 1 arm, which actually brings up something else, cause I don't know how I left this out when I was going through the 80s, but the drummer for the Grateful Dead only has one leg or something like that, and in what was their biggest hit, which came in the 80s, Touch of Grey, they reference this, and it was a great video, so not sure how I left it out, so take a break and go back for a minute:

And speaking of forgetting 80s videos, and maybe I forgot this one cause I wanted to forget it ever happened, and Family Guy did a great job with talking about it, and totally blew up my spot, but the video with Mick Jagger and David Bowie for Dancing in the Streets, well, just take a look:

Yeah, I don't know, lets just move on. Coneheads came out in 93 and had this song on the soundtrack:

Sharon Stone was pretty big around this time and had a movie that came out called Sliver, and well, it featured this Number 1 hit by UB40 who decided, Elvis was cool, so let's do one of his songs:

Speaking of Cover songs, there was another cover song that was big in 1993, and while it was not on a movie soundtrack, it was certainly on the soundtrack to my 1993:

I will point out that they did screw that song up, first couple times the chorus is supposed to be "When you coming home Dad." then it switched to Son, but they just did Son the whole time. Anyway back to movies, Johnny Depp was in this kinda goofy movie called Benny and Joon, and it featured a goofy song on the soundtrack, which for some reason everyone loved:

1993 was a pretty big year for some new artists, some of them went on to bigger and better things, some of them kinda fizzled out and didn't do much else, or in this case, some of them died:

I was actually not a huge fan of that song when it came out, actually found it kinda annoying and thought the video was stupid, but over the years it kinda grew on me and now I like it, and the same could be said for this next song:

of course as this song grew on me, the band started to hate it and I don't think they even like to acknowledge that it's even their song anymore. Once again, the same could probably be said about this next song, but to be honest, I'm still not totally sure that I like it, but it was a hit in 1993:

If nothing else, the band had a pretty good name. And who doesn't remember this song all the way back from 1993:

Now in the depressing world of Seattle grunge music and all that stuff, it was nice once in a while to break it up with some fun rock I guess, which that song did to some degree, and this song as well:

On the other hand, this song did not, talk about depressing grunge music, these guys weren't from Seattle, but still:

Scott Weiland and Stone Temple Pilots got everyone on board for what has been one hell of a ride, and considering the amount of people in the music world that have died over the years, it's impressive that he is still with us, and it all started when this song took off:

If people weren't looking to be freaked out by music videos, the these guys weren't on the right page, but you know what, people seems to love these creepy videos, the pictures inside their albums, maybe not so much, but there is a reason why they are named Tool:

Now, back in the late 70s Dave Coverdale did a solo album, name of the album was White Snake, which would eventually become the name of his band, the band would release an album in the early 80s that featured a song called Here I Go Again, so you are probably all thinking, sure I know that song, well maybe you do, but you probably don't cause the version that got popular was actually on their 1987 album and was referred to as Here I Go Again '87. So, you're probably saying to yourself, what's the point of all this and what does it have to do with 93? Well, I similar thing took place in 1993 with Danzig, in 1988 Danzig released their first album and it had a song called Mother on it, it was a single and did alright, although the video was banned from MTV cause it was too violent or whatever, so it never really got a huge audience, fast forward to 1993, Danzig had a live EP coming out and to promote hit, released Mother '93 and had a video for it, which was not banned:

Ok, well, there's an issue with this, this version, was not the version on the EP, the version on the EP was an actual live version and sounded nothing like this, this was simply the original version of the song with crowd noises dubbed in the background. Oh Danzig, why to put one over on everyone, but everyone was rocking to that song in 93, 5 years after it came out, nicely played.

Hey, remember Cracker, No? well do you remember this song, cause I'm guessing you do:

18 years ago these guys came along with this song, and people were like "What?" and they are still around today and people are still like "What?" but hey, She Don't Use Jelly:

These next guys really weren't doing all too much, and then Beavis and Butt-head said they were cool, and things took off for them after that:

So, yup, if it hadn't of been for Beavis and Butt-head we may never had gotten a remake to Halloween, so take that for what it is.

Now while Snoop may have been asking people what his name was, these guys knew what their name was and wanted you to know:

Local boys Mighty Mighty Bosstones burst on the scene with this hit:

Speaking of local boys, Aerosmith had a huge year in 1993 with their followup to Pump, Get a Grip, they also made it a big year for Alica Silverstone, who, although was in the movie Crush, no one really knew who she was until she was in the video for Cryin' which would go on to win the Video Music of The Year award at the 1994 VMAs. Also, pay close attention to the guy that steals the bag.

Did that guy look familiar, well if you are a fan of Lost, he should, that was Sawyer, even back then he was trying to scam women out of their money. Anyway, got a bit of an issue with the end of this video, I'm no scientist or doctor or physicist or anything, but pretty sure if she fell like that and had a cord attacked to her belly button piercing it would rip right out and she would have fallen and splatter on the road below and gotten run over, no? Maybe that was a little harsh, maybe I didn't need to go there, so to cheer you up, here's some REM from 1993:

Wait, what? that didn't cheer you up, that just made you more depressed, well, welcome to the 90s. Couple of foreign bands did ok for themselves in 1993, including the band so nice they named them twice, Duran Duran:

and then the next group, who after having a great album to followup a great album before that, seemingly rushed into their next album, and well, it wasn't good, and neither was the one after that, U2 really only had 1 good album in the 90s, but at least this song had a kinda interesting video:

This next one, maybe it wasn't a big hit in a lot of peoples eyes, but Anthrax were back, they had a new singer, a new attitude and a new song and made one of my favorite albums of all time, and also put out this song which at one point James Hetfield from Metallica called a "Perfect Song"

Guns N' Roses finished off their Trilogy with Estranged, they also finished up their Illusions tour, and people were ready to hear some new music from them, unfortunately they gave us The Spaghetti Incident? and then broke up.

1993 would also mark the release of the last album from Nirvana, and their last music video for Heart Shaped Box

Nirvana would go on and do MTV Unplugged later in the year, and took an interesting approach with it and didn't really play their hits, instead doing weird covers and a bunch of Meat Puppet songs, and then something happened, but we'll get to that in the next post.

You will notice that there is one band that I did not mention here that had a huge 1993, and that would be Pearl Jam, well, simply put after being at the 1993 VMA awards performing Animal:

Then Rockin in the Free World with Neil Young:

Then winning video of the year for Jeremy and Eddie Vedder swearing an live TV a couple times, Pearl Jam pretty much decided they were done with MTV, didn't make an videos for their singles for their new album Vs, which actually up until a week or 2 before it was released was gonna be called Five Against One, and in fact the original cassette that I had said Five Against One on it and not Vs. Anyway, it ended up selling over 950,000 copies in its first week breaking Guns N' Roses record for a couple years before, so I guess not having a video didn't hurt them.

Also, 1993 saw the release of this:

And in the same thought as that, 1993 was the year that Michael Jordan retired the first time, and SNL did a music tribute to him to get him not to retire, sorry about the quality, only version I could find:

Alright everyone, enjoy the rest of you weekend.

Left Behind

Welcome back to the blog, well, unless your were raptured, or maybe they have my blog in heaven, I don't know. Anyway, got to say, wasn't really sure what was going on with this whole thing until the other day, at first I thought people were worrying about Raptors, but then I started hearing stuff about the Zombie Apocalypse, so then i figured, well raptors are extinct, so if people were gonna be worried about Raptors, I guess they would have to rise from the dead and would be Zombie Raptors, or Raptor Zombies, I'm not sure which would be the proper name, it's like the whole Ghost Pirates vs Pirate Ghosts thing from that South Park episode with Korn, if anyone knows what I'm talking about, good for you. Anyway, as it turns out, I was way off, there are no Raptor Zombies or whatever, it was actually the rapture, which as I understand it, is when Jesus returns to earth and you are judged, if you are worthy to go to heaven, then you are raptured and ascend to heaven, otherwise you are left behind as the world ends, which is supposed to happen over 5 months, with fires and brimstone and earthquakes and floods and thing of that nature, and eventually end up in hell, I guess. There are some movies staring Kirk Cameron that explain it, I think is wife, who was also his girlfriend in Growing Pains is in it too. Not sure if his sister Candice Cameron-Bure is in the movie or anyone else from the casts of Growing Pains or Full House or any off the Bures for that matter. Of course when I think rapture, I think of this:

Despite there not being Zombie Raptors, the thing about the Zombie Apocalypse was "real" as the CDC or the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released an article regarding how to be prepared in case of a Zombie Apocalypse. Haven't seen it? well then Check It Out. Now, I'm pretty sure that this is supposed to be a joke, but I don't really understand the timing, seems like something that should have come out around Halloween, but maybe there was some connection to the supposed rapture, I don't really know. Of course if you do like zombies, there are plenty of movies and show to watch that including zombies, and if you have Comcast, I implore you to go to On Demand and under Free Movies, watch something called Pot Zombies, don't ask questions, just do it.

Freak Out, Freak Out! The Tower of Power, Too Sweet to be sour, Funky Like a Monkey, Oooooooh Yeeeeeaaaah! Yup, ladies and gentlemen, sad news Friday, as Macho Man Randy Savage died in a car accident, evidently he had a heart attack and lost control of his car and crashed into a tree, very sad. Macho Man was one of the best, not just wrestler, but movie star, singer and rapper. He gave some of the best interviews and promos of all time, here is just a few:

And, what was probably his last a few months ago, promoting the WWE All-Stars Video Game:

But, it wasn't just his interviews, he was a actually was one of the best wrestlers of all time, and his match with Ricky The Dragon Steamboat at Wrestlemania III is still considered to be one of the greatest matches of all time, sure by today standards, maybe it doesn't seem all that spectacular, but back in 1987, it was amazing:

Now, while Macho Man lost that match, just a year later he would go on to win the World Title winning a tournament by winning 4 matches in the same night:

Of course, then he joined up with Hogan for the Megapowers, until the Megapowers exploded:

He would lose the title Hogan, then become Macho King, then lose a retirement match to Ultimate Warrior, then went to do announcing, and at Summerslam 91, would finally marry Miss Elizabeth, who he was already married to in real life, but now it was official, however, things didn't go as planned:

Yeah, getting a Cobra from Jake The Snake Roberts and a Urn upside the head from The Undertaker are probably not the best wedding gifts to get. Anyway, this would lead to a long feud with Jake The Snake, which lead to this:

Eventually Savage came out of retirement and got his revenge on Roberts, and then just a few months after that at Wrestlemania VIII, he would once again become WWF World Champion by defeating Ric Flair:

He would hold the title for a few months before losing it back to Flair, after that he focused more on commentating and eventually left WWF and actually had a huge falling out with Vince McMahon and didn't do anything related to WWF/E until just last year. Savage went on to WCW, had a decent run, won the WCW Title a few times, was in and out of the nWo, nothing too memorable when compared to his WWF days. Then after he left WCW, he went on to become a movie star, starring in Spider-Man as Bonesaw McGraw:

And then, after conquering the movie world, Randy Savage decided to take on the world of music, rap music to be more specific and called out Hulk Hogan, with the 2003 Hit, "Be A Man" from the best selling album of the same name:

 

Course this wasn't the first time Randy Savage had a music hit, 10 years earlier, he had a hit with a song called "Speaking from the Heart":

The next year Macho Man would make his last wrestling appearance with a brief run with TNA, and then kinda just disappeared. He will be missed.

Bruins really blew a huge opportunity yesterday to take a stranglehold on the Eastern Conference Finals, game reminded me very much of game 7 against the Flyers last year, went up early 3-0. then kinda just took the foot off the peddle, let the Lightning get back in and and get some life, and then Simon Gagne getting the GWG, just like last year. All the momentum that the Bruins had from game 3, they gave back to Tampa, but with winning the one game in Tampa, all they need to do is take care of business at home and they'll be good, easier said then done, sure, but tomorrow night is obviously a huge game, can't go down 3-2 going back to Tampa, can't happen.

The season finale of the Office was pretty good, a little disappointed that they left it as a cliffhanger as to who the new manager is gonna be, but I'm not sure they know at this point. As it turns out, my idea ain't gonna happen, cause although Will Arnett's show on Fox did get cancelled, he's already gonna be on a new show on NBC with Christina Applegate and Maya Rudolph in the fall, called Up All Night or something like that. I don't think it's gonna be Ricky Gervais and certainly not Jim Carrey, might end up coming down to Darryl or Andy, but I still rule out Dwight. Then again, screw it, why not just let Creed be manager, seems like he knows what he is doing. What's the deal with the new girl though? I don't really understand what her job is really supposed to be and not really sure she adds anything to the show. Interesting to see what happens with Gabe, is he gone? Well, I guess we will find out in the Fall.

Alright, well, last time on the Blog I dove into 1991 in the MTV countdown to 30, which was actually the 10 year anniversary of MTV, and before we move on to 1992, I kinda left out some stuff from 1991, most of which kinda carried over to 1992 anyway, but technically they should have been discussed in the last post, but I can't just move on. 1991 had an interesting theme that involved up and coming actors being in music videos, such as Keanu Reeves in Paula Abdoul's video for Rush Rush:

and then Johnny Depp in Tom Petty's video for Into The Great Wide Open:

The end of 1991 actually had a bunch of new artists that came along and made an impact that did last into 1992 as well, most of them didn't really stick around for much longer after that, well, at least not in Music, this guy has gone on to do pretty well in movies, but this was pretty much all he is remembered for in terms of music:

Not really sure what happened with these guys, they had 3 big hits in the early 90s and then just kinda disappeared, but this was the biggest of those hits which came out at the end of 91:

These next guys marked the end of what was the first Boy Band craze, the Boy Band craze would return later on in the decade, but these were the last from the previous generation and they had a nice year run with some big hits including this one:

 Alright, so the real big thing that I missed about 1991 in my last post, was while Michael Jackson was making his latest comeback, there was another guy who just the year before had in his mind kinda taken Jackson's spot and now was back with his followup album, but before he did that, he did something that a lot of people might not remember, and sure Sean "Puffy" Combs/Puff Daddy/P Diddy/Diddy took it to another level, and sure guys like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammed Ali and Cat Stevens were known for it, but those were for religious reasons, and Prince changed his name to a symbol, but that was for legal reasons. But M.C. Hammer decided it was time for a name change and dropped the M.C. and was now just Hammer, and well, he was about to unleash a phenomenon to the world, that even is still around today:

But it all started back in the end of 1991:

Always loved the fact that Roger Clemens was in that video. Awesome. I also remember Deion Sanders and Andre Rison really running with this whole thing with the Falcons when they made it to the playoffs that year, pretty sure Hammer was on the sidelines with them at some point. Ok, so you might have noticed "Michael Jackson" or at least his glove at the end of that video, well, interesting story, Hammer actually challenged Michael Jackson to a dance off, and the winner would get the glove. It never happened, which is too bad, cause it would have been pretty amazing.

Alright, moving on to 1992, before we get to the music and the videos, 1992 was the year that mark the beginning of what was ultimately to become of MTV, and not just MTV, but a lot of cable TV, and that was because in 1992 the first reality show, The Real World debuted on MTV with the first NY version. Now, while the show and all the other shows that have spinned off of the original, I hate, I originally watched and kinda enjoyed this show, the NY, the LA and then SF, after that I lost interest, the only other season that I kinda watched was in 02, Chicago, cause it was on before The Osbournes when that show first started, don't really remember much about it other then one of the guys looked like Paul Pierce.

Throughout the years prior to 1992, MTV would always have these weird little videos and stuff that they would show during commercials and stuff, a lot of them were animated, and they even put together a show that kinda just showcased a lot of short animated clips and other stuff, one of those happened to be something called Frog Baseball by Mike Judge:

People loved it and MTV decided to make it into a show and they also took the idea of having Beavis and Butt-head comment on videos, which was really a awesome idea and really helped the popularity of the show.

Beavis and Butt-head would go on to have quite the run in the 90s including a feature film, but ultimately in 1997, Mike Judge got too busy with King of the Hill and making movies like Office Space, so he ended Beavis and Butt-head, which actually weirdly coincided with South Park starting and becoming big, not saying the 2 are related in anyway, but just an observation. BUT, just in case you weren't aware, since King of the Hill is done, and Mike Judge's movies haven't exactly done great as of late, well, it's time to bring them back, yup, that's right, Beavis and Butt-head will be returning to MTV sometime this summer, possibly to coincide with the 30th anniversary, I don't know, maybe. I will say this though, I'm not sure Beavis and Butt-head really work on MTV, I'm all for bringing them back, but seems like it might work better if they were on Comedy Central, which is owned by the same people, so no big deal, but something tells me that the audience that would be watching Beavis and Butt-head isn't exactly the same people that would be watching Jersey Shore, or Teen Mom or any of that crap, whereas if Beavis and Butt-head is on Comedy Central and airing on between Futurama and South Park, makes more sense, no?

1992 was a pretty big year in music, and while a lot of what was going on in 1991 continued on in 1992, for instance after Magic Johnson had to retired from the NBA in late 1991 due to getting the HIV virus, which btw, I'm no doctor, so I'm not gonna say that I'm up to speed on how the whole HIV/AIDS thing works, but my understanding was that you get HIV that eventually leads to AIDS and you die, so it's been 20 years now, why is Magic Johnson still alive? Does he know something that everyone else doesn't know, and yes I've seen the South Park episode that deals with this, obviously that's not real, but anyway. So, Magic wasn't playing basketball, so he was available to help Michael Jackson out with his next video for Remember The Time, but the question is do you Remember?

Now, as elaborate as this video was and a lot of Michael Jackson's videos were up until this point, he would be outdone as Guns N' Roses would come along with their 2nd video of their trilogy and at the time the most expensive video made:

Other groups who had made an impact in 1991 were still continuing their runs in 92 as well, including Nirvana:

Alice in Chains:

U2:

It's interesting, this was actually the 3rd version of the One video, Bono wasn't a fan of the first 2, which were this:

 

Then there was this version:

 

Speaking of videos that had more then one version, Ozzy wasn't a fan of the first version of the video for Mama, I'm Coming Home, so he made another one, here was the first one:

 

So, Ozzy didn't really like this version, so they made a new one:

 

Metallica also continued their run in 1992:

  

Red Hot Chili Peppers had their biggest hit in 1992:

 

REM followed up their success from 1991 with a new album and a song about Andy Kaufman for whatever reason:

  

Van Halen won the 1992 MTV VMA for video of the year for this number:

 

Not to be outdone, Pearl Jam would win the 1993 MTV VMA for video of the year for this video, eventhough it came out in late 92:

 

But, much like U2 and Ozzy, not the original version, the original version was actually this:

 

Guess Pearl Jam decided that video wasn't gonna get the job done, so they changed it up, go big or go home, or in their case, go big and go home, as after winning the award, this would be Pearl Jam's last video for over 5 years. 

Now, Freddie Mercury Died in late 1991, but that didn't mean that Queen couldn't have a big year, and maybe it was due in part as a tribute, but Bohemian Rhapsody became a big hit in 1992 because of it's inclusion in the movie Wayne's World, and they did a video for it:

 

1992 was also the year that Eric Clapton both put Unplugged on the Map and made everyone cry, after his young son died after falling out of a window, he wrote the song Tears In Heaven, and then did an unplugged version, which became a huge hit:

 

Beastie Boys returned in 1992 with a different sound, kinda reinventing themselves after, although critically reclaimed followup to License to Ill with Paul's Boutique, commercially not as successful, but this time they would get both:

 

1992 had a lot of one hit wonders or at least groups that had their defining hits or moments in 1992, for instance these kids had everyone wearing their clothes backwards and Jumping:

 

But just in case people were not done jumping, there would be more:

 

Now, while there was a character in Wayne's World named Mr. Big, it's interesting that 1992 was also the year that they had their biggest hit:

 

Then again if you are looking real one hit wonders, these next 2 songs were #2 and #1 respectively on the latest VH1 Top 40 One Hit Wonders of the 90s and they both came out in 1992:

 

And despite what Bel Biv Devoe had told us a couple years early about big butts, this guy was not listening:

 

This next song and group all had everyone challenging people to a game of horseshoes, A GAME OF HORSESHOES! Ok, maybe not, but whatever:

 

These next guys, they had a pretty big 1991, but in 1992, they had their first number 1 hit with this song:

 

Now, this next song probably wasn't as big a song or video as the rest of these songs, but it came out in 1992 and thanks to a recent TV ad, has became relevant again, you'll recognize it when you hear it:

 

Yeah, there aren't actually any Hamsters in this video or singing the song, but still a good song.

Finally, this next song wasn't really a huge it, but it's a little bit of a preview for what's to come in 1993, cause this was the debut of a certain rapper:

 

and there you go 1992 all wrapped up and you got to relive it, glad you weren't raptured yet?