SnubTV - Greatest Music Programme Ever?

Probably the only TV programme to totally change my music tastes on a weekly basis. The first place I heard Fugazi, Loop, Sugarcubes, Beatnigs, The Sundays, etc etc etc. And that legendary Butthole Surfers interview

Presumably dead cheap to make, fantastic access to obscure brilliance. Just awesome.

So, any other fans? And any other (terrestrial) contenders for the Best Music Show Ever title?

never heard of it (probably before my time, plus we didn't have a telly at my folks).

links?

only wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snub_TV

it was ace

I mean, look:

Artists featured on Snub TV

* 808 State
* AC Marias Just Talk
* A Certain Ratio
* Barry Adamson Moss Side Story
* Band of Holy Joy What The Moon Saw
* Big Audio Dynamite
* Björk
* The Boo Radleys
* William S. Burroughs
* Butthole Surfers Jimi
* Catherine Wheel
* Ciccone Youth Addicted To Love
* Cocteau Twins
* The Cramps
* The Cure
* Dinosaur Jr Freak Scene
* Dissidenten Telephone Arab
* Dog Faced Hermans
* Dub Sex Swerve
* Edsel Auctioneer
* The Fall Deadbeat Descendants, Bill Is Dead
* Fatima Mansions Only Losers Take The Bus
* Finitribe Electrolux
* Fugazi Suggestion
* Gallon Drunk
* Happy Mondays Do It Better
* The House of Love Man to Child
* Jesus Jones Info Freako
* The Jesus and Mary Chain
* John Moore and Expressway Out of my Mind
* Kid Congo Powers
* King of the Slums Fanciable Headcase
* The KLF
* Robert Lloyd The Part Of The Anchor
* Loop
* Luxuria
* Manic Street Preachers Motown Junk
* MC Buzz B
* MC Tunes
* The Mekons Ghosts Of American Astronauts
* Momus Hairstyle of the Devil
* Mute Drivers Boomtown (live)
* My Bloody Valentine
* New Order Round and Round
* Nitzer Ebb Hearts & Minds
* Pale Saints
* Pere Ubu
* Pixies Vamos, Dead, I Bleed
* Primal Scream
* Ride Drive Blind
* Shamen Jesus Loves Amerika
* Bim Sherman Power
* Sonic Youth Teen Age Riot, Providence
* Spacemen 3 Revolution
* Stone Roses I Wanna Be Adored, Sugar Spun Sister
* The Sugarcubes Birthday (Icelandic version)
* Swans You're Not Real, Girl
* Tackhead
* Ted Chippington
* Throwing Muses Downtown, Dizzy, Mania
* Ultra Vivid Scene The Mercy Seat
* We Are Going To Eat You Heart In Hand
* The Wedding Present
* Wire Kidney Bingos/Eardrum Buzz
* World Domination Enterprises Asbestos Lead Asbestos


If that's not a rollcall of late 80s greatness.

I especially loved the World Domination Enterprises bit - them busking outside big corporate offices..

El Jefe said:

Probably the only TV programme to totally change my music tastes on a weekly basis. The first place I heard Fugazi, Loop, Sugarcubes, Beatnigs, The Sundays, etc etc etc. And that legendary Butthole Surfers interview

Presumably dead cheap to make, fantastic access to obscure brilliance. Just awesome.

So, any other fans? And any other (terrestrial) contenders for the Best Music Show Ever title?

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Certainly the best i've ever seen. Did exactly what it should. No wanky prsenters building a career, no zany waffle. Just really well chosen bands and no-bullshit mix of live stuff, vids )that they often made themselves i think) and interviews. I always remember they showed an AC Marias video with her dancing on the beach that i've never been able to find since. I think they took the approach of a lot of the home-made punk video taped programs that circulated by post and just appllied it to better music. Top notch stuff. Something like that has been missing for a long time now.

i loved the AC Marias one of the girl dancing in the pub to the bemusement of the locals.. Bought the album cos of that.

Must admit, first time I'd ever heard the Mekons too

i have the manics special on vhs somewhere

sarahluv said:

i have the manics special on vhs somewhere

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Have you got any of the good stuff?

I had all the best bits on a couple of long lost VHS tapes..

Remembering Fugazi doing Suggestion still sends a shiver down my spine

Did MTV get anywhere near it? I guess Alternative Nation/ 120 Minutes when Toby thingy was presenting (did anyone see him doing that rubbish travel show on C5 recently?)

it great how all the stuff on youTUBE has been transferred from VHS.
I love the sound of analog -warp.

I really liked Snub TV, sadly it went the route of other really good music programmes that weren't populist

Loved it! Essential viewing. For some reason I remember the Ultra Vivid Scene and Spacemen 3 videos the most. Oh yeah, the hair of Loop has just popped up from memory.

jbob said:

I remember the Ultra Vivid Scene

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another one i bought the next day

Snub was probably consistently the best, but The Tube had some good moments too.

Here's The Lords of the New Church

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jBn_WAlyg0Q&feature=related

Not great really, but it was funny when Paula went live to the dressing room and Stiv was running around naked.

*shrug*

Iggy:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iAQx0uvcNDI

REM:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MPlGMkbGzus

Cocteau Twins

The Tube had some great stuff but you had to wade through so much nonsense.

Snub was all killer, no filler - except for the Manics

Picked up a Snub TV "official" VHS in a charity shop a few years ago - had some good stuff on it but ended up getting rid of it to make space *shrugs shoulders*

For me it was all about 'Alternative Nation' on MTV (back when they only had one channel).

I hate it when old people reminisce because it is always better than the shit I have had to endure. I am the MTV generation.

El Jefe said:

Probably the only TV programme to totally change my music tastes on a weekly basis. The first place I heard Fugazi, Loop, Sugarcubes, Beatnigs, The Sundays, etc etc etc. And that legendary Butthole Surfers interview

Presumably dead cheap to make, fantastic access to obscure brilliance. Just awesome.

So, any other fans? And any other (terrestrial) contenders for the Best Music Show Ever title?

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Yep, loved it.

Never heard of it before. Must be too young. Like the rev, our holy grail was catching vids of alternative nation or 120 minutes off of mtv, friends with cable would record it for you if they remembered!

or, of course, the word.

Yep, and there was also Transmission hosted by the Jazz Butcher which was on in midweek at 4am or something, just videos and interviews, no live stuff iirc.

copliker said:

Yep, and there was also Transmission hosted by the Jazz Butcher which was on in midweek at 4am or something, just videos and interviews, no live stuff iirc.

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fuck, yes. That was good too. I remember this amazingly cynical band who's name I never caught claiming they were 'honoured' to get the opportunity to support the Age of Chance. The sarcasm was so beautifully done..

butchersapron said:

I always remember they showed an AC Marias video with her dancing on the beach that i've never been able to find since.

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You mean this one?



Amazing band. She's now a video producer in London, doing pop videos most of the time.

Ah, no beach - that is it though! I must have got the vid confused with another one. Ta.

There's this one, with what looks like Darcy Bussell dancing in a variety of locations, including a beach...

I think that one must be it. What a song that Just Talk is though. Real lost classic.

Aye fucking top

Got me into much great music

pk said:

You mean this one?

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Odd. I've still got the record, but haven't seen that video for however many years... -I'd forgotten that the pub was full of old regulars; my memory is just of her in the pub, dancing all alone. And that spinning sign out on the pavement.

Classic track though.

butchersapron said:

I think that one must be it. What a song that Just Talk is though. Real lost classic.

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I've always preferred the instrumental of it, myself.

Wasn't somebody from Wire involved? (-Bruce Gilbert?)

Now someone find the King of the Slums stuff please.

Sunspots said:

I've always preferred the instrumental of it, myself.

Wasn't somebody from Wire involved? (-Bruce Gilbert?)

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Yep. What capacity i can't remember though.

<finally notes OP>

Yes, Snub was indeed pivotal viewing.