New subscriber....I'm from the States, more specifically, rural Alabama and when MTV2 first came out it in the mid 90's it was just M2 and was only available at first on the big giant satellite dishes that were prevalent in the rural areas where I lived that didn't have cable. It really opened my ears and eyes to so much music that never aired on MTV or was even played on the modern rock stations or was even too weird for 120 Minutes. Hammer and Tongs who did the Last Stop This Town video also did the incredible Coffee and TV video from Blur. I probably never would've discovered DJ Shadow, Aphex Twin, Ween, and Air among many, many others had it not been for that channel. We always hear how MTV changed music in the 80's, but we rarely, if never hear how M2 and it's free form and yes very esoteric playlist, changed alot of kids perspectives on music in the mid and late 90's.
New subscriber....I'm from the States, more specifically, rural Alabama and when MTV2 first came out it in the mid 90's it was just M2 and was only available at first on the big giant satellite dishes that were prevalent in the rural areas where I lived that didn't have cable. It really opened my ears and eyes to so much music that never aired on MTV or was even played on the modern rock stations or was even too weird for 120 Minutes. Hammer and Tongs who did the Last Stop This Town video also did the incredible Coffee and TV video from Blur. I probably never would've discovered DJ Shadow, Aphex Twin, Ween, and Air among many, many others had it not been for that channel. We always hear how MTV changed music in the 80's, but we rarely, if never hear how M2 and it's free form and yes very esoteric playlist, changed alot of kids perspectives on music in the mid and late 90's.