My Tea's Gone Cold and I Wonder Why Did I Make Tea, I Don't Even Like Tea

What up blog fans, today is the day you have all been waiting for, the end of the countdown to 30 for MTV, which actually already happened, and I'm only getting to 20 anyway, but not really the point, it's ends today with 2001, partly because I was in college at this point and didn't really watch MTV all that much, and MTV was becoming more and more about crappy shows, which it is now. Most of the time if you wanted to see Videos anyway, you had to turn into MTV2, which I would watch a decent amount, that was until they turned that into basically more of the same crap as MTV was, but we are getting ahead of ourselves now, cause first I got some other stuff for you:

So, I was watching Apollo 13 last night, not sure why, it came on after the Red Sox game was basically over and thought what the hell, not sure that I had ever actually seen the whole thing, or atleast not in a long time. Anyway, watching the movie, I kinda realized why they ended the Space Program, now I realize that these Apollo missions weren't with the space shuttle, but even still, I'm sure there is much the same issue. Basically there is a lot of crap that ends up getting left in space because of these missions, space junk as it were, and well, I don't know about you, but this seems like pollution to me, and we all know how the government feels about pollution theses days. This space junk is clearly causing global warning, Al Gore is pissed, so gotta end it, right? Oh, or it could be cause the government has no money, could be that, I'm no politician, so I just go with what I see in movies. Ok, the other than that I found kinda odd, at the end of the movie, they say that Bill Paxson character Fred Haise was scheduled to go on the Apollo 18 mission, but it was cancelled due to budget cuts, or was it? Apparently there is a new documentary coming out that explains what really happened with Apollo 18:

Ok, so maybe that isn't real, but whatever.

Well, Summerslam came and went, and while it was not quite as good as Money In The Bank, it did provide some shocking results, and if you haven't seen it, don't want to spoil it for you, but here's what went down in the Undisputed WWE Championship match, CM Punk pinned John Cena after the GTS, but Cena's foot was on the rope, which Triple H did not see, but ref's decision is final, so CM Punk was the Undisputed Champion, and then this happened (sorry it's backwards, it's for copyright issues):

Yup, Kevin Nash returned to beat up CM Punk allowing Alberto Del Rio to cash in Money In The Bank and fulfill his destiny. So, then the next night on RAW, there needed to be some kind of explanation, first from Triple H:

And then later Kevin Nash would explain himself:

Now, the most ridiculous part about all of this, is something that I meant to mention in my last post and forgot, and I'll get into a bit more in a moment, but Kevin Nash wrestled with Sean Waltman accompanied by Scott Hall (Who apparently was filming something for ESPN's E:60) vs Road Dogg and Billy Gunn, or whatever they were being called at the Gathering of the Juggalos 2 night before Summerslam, which just bogs my mind. Anyway, as it turned out, Alberto Del Rio successfully defended the title against Rey Mysterio, then after he attacked him, Cena came out and made the save, but then there was apparently an uninvited guest:

So, it might be kinda hard to see, but on the left side of the screen next to Del Rio when they show him after Cena says something, a little white mouse is running around, weird.

Ok, so now over the last weekend there was a festival held in Illinois called The Gathering Of The Juggalos, now, anyone who knows the group ICP is familiar with the term Juggalo, which is what their fans are called, and they have been having this Gathering for many years now, but this years was crazy, featured a ton of artist, some of which, simply surprised the hell out of me, some partly cause I didn't know they were still around and others cause well, what? like for instance Bobby Brown was there, and he brought his own stage:

Or how about MC Hammer:

and how can you have MC Hammer without some Vanilla Ice:


And what's Vanilla Ice without some Ice Cube:

and really you can't have an event this crazy without Charlie Sheen:

Well, anyway, looks like it was probably a ridiculous crazy time, and there were a ton of other artists their too as well as a whole bunch of wrestlers and other crazy unsafe stuff.

Ok, so now it's time to conclude the MTV countdown with 2001, but before we do, what the hell is wrong with me, how did I leave my favorite song of 2000 out of the last post, it's disturbing that I did that and well, yup it;s Disturbed:

And for some reason I forgot that AC/DC was back, but they were:

But now on to 2001, and this next thing is a little confusing, so just try to follow me, and no not that song, I'll get to that later. in 1998, when Female artists decided to thank people, Alanis Morrisette and Natalie Merchant were well know, and got the word out, but there was another female singer, this one was British, who noone really knew and randomly had a song on on the soundtrack to some British Gwyneth Paltrow movie called Sliding Doors, remember when Gwyneth Paltrow thought she was British, so every movie she did she had to have a British accent in, or maybe it just seemed that way, anyway the song was called Thank You and the artist was Dido, the song wasn't released as a single and noone really thought much of it, even when she included it on her debut album in 1999. Now here is where things get confusing, Eminem decided to sample it for his song Stan on his 2000 Album the Marshall Mathers LP, then right around the same time at the end of 2000, Eminem released Stan as a single along with a controversial video that actually featured Dido:

and while this happened, Dido decided to release Thank You as a single and had a music video for that:

So, it was sorta a double edged sword, that song was everywhere in one form or another, not surprisingly the Dido version had more success on the charts, probably cause that was actually more of a song then Stan, but whatever.

Moving on, as I previously ask you to Follow Me, that was a big hit to, by Kid Rock's DJ Uncle Kracker, yeah, I have no idea what the hell was going on then:

But hey, Kid Rock wasn't gonna let his DJ out do him, so he was back with a new album, new single and a new Girlfriend, Pamela Anderson, and they would be featured in the music video:

Now, Pamela Anderson was actually in a good amount of music video much that way I talked a little while back about how Jack Black made his way into some music videos, but now Jack Black actually had a reason to be in one, as his band Tenacious D released an album:

Some new blood was still making it's present felt on the scene, Linkin Park continued their success:

Alien Ant Farm reminded us that Michael Jackson used to be pretty good:

Drowing Pool had everyone hitting the floor:

Nickelback was telling us about how we remind them about what they are, or something like that:

Crazy Town took a random instrumental Red Hot Chili Peppers song and turned that into a hit:

We also got our first ever cartoon band, the Gorillaz, who had a big hit with the help from Del and for whatever reason Clint Eastwood:

Train started annoying everyone:

Puddle of Mudd let us know that they enjoyed getting their ass smacked:

Saliva was throwing it's hat into the rap/rock game:

But it wasn't just about debuting bands, there were also a bunch of bands putting out their sophomore efforts, such as System of a Down:

Slipknot were back with some pretty heavy stuff, definitely their most heavy and radio unfriendly album of all, but despite that, it they did manage to get some airplay with this song:

P.O.D. released their 2nd album, and had a pretty cool video for their song Alive:

Meanwhile Staind was back with their most successful album and song:

Incubus was back with their followup to Make Yourself, with Morning View and had some hits including this one, Wish You Were Here:

But it wasn't all about new bands making their marks and continuing their success, it was also about some bands basically making what would be the end of their runs, like Limp Bizkit:

and Creed:

Now sure, these bands didn't really go away or anything like that, but really that haven't been as successful or relevant since these songs.

U2 also continued the success they had with the release of All That You Can't Leave Behind, with Elevation, also had a huge tour this year as well:

And finally, the man, the myth, the legend, the Prince Of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne was back with a new album, and he would be back on MTV for quite some time, first with some music videos:

And I guess that's a good place to end this, as Ozzy and his Family would go on along with Jackass and the continued success of Real World and shows like that would take over MTV with Reality shows. Now, I'll admit it, I watched the first season of The Osbournes, cause I knew they were crazy and it would be entertaining, but much like anything, once they became award of the success of the show it got ruined and that was that. MTV2 still continued to show a lot of music videos, and I did watch that and saw a bunch of cool videos over the next couple years. They even had this pretty cool show, where they would show a video, and then they would have 3 videos that you could go online and vote for, and the winning video would come on next. But ultimately MTV2 would follow in MTV's footsteps and become all reality and other crap, plus with the internet as it was, it became very easy to just go online and watch any music video you would want, so there really was no reason to watch MTV and have to wait for your favorites to come on, and that was that, and this is that and this is this, so hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane. Guess I'm gonna need something new to write about now.