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MTV Compilation: 20 Years of Pop Music

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This is supposed to represent 20 years of Pop music?? Almost all of these are from the past decade. The CD is full of TRL junk, not traditional pop! Typical of MTV to cater to their 13 year old audience and only include recent stuff. Where's all the 80's stuff that really made MTV popular to begin with? MTV has done a disservice to all the artists who came before Christina who actually have talent besides having a prtty face! Of course since MTV now plays videos about a whole 2 hours a day and fills the rest of their programming with terrible shows (like the Really Fake World), the whole thing seems rather pointless anyway.

How to describe what's wrong with this cd. In a word, everything. Although MTV took on the uneviable task of trying to jam 20 years' worth of pop onto a 15 track cd, and on sheer song value they do an okay job, it's just not what I expected. Leaving out key artists, which have been mentioned in other reviews, essentially forgetting about 80s music (I know the fashion was bad, but I have some great childhood memories of the songs), and playing up too much to certain genres (what ever happened to the rock performers of the early to mid-80s??) ruined all chance of me actually buying this "compilation" after listening to a friend's copy for two weeks (hey, I gave it more than one spin, okay?). I guess it just goes to show how far MTV is falling from the station that once played videos 24/7 and revolutionized the music world, to something that panders only to specific groups at certain times and has the attention span of gnat.

Maybe a better idea would have been to release a cd of the performances from the 20th anniversary special that aired on TV-I would have appreciated it, and bought it, since it did have such a great diversity of acts. At least then I would have Billy Idol's fantastic performance of "Rebel Yell" with Steve Stevens, one of the songs that defined pop/rock/new wave music in the early 80s and got great play. (This, in my opinion, was the best performance of the night--the 40 year old showed the kiddies how to truly *rock* the house).

i thought 20 years of mtv would inculde such artists as prince, nirvana, pearl jam, guns and roses, cyndi lauper, but instead i got fluff, full of very forgetable songs, these artists isn't what mtv was built on, its what mtv's down fall lies in.

The music on this CD is fine. No problems there. The only drawback that keeps it from being 5 stars is that with 20 years to cover, they should have put 20 songs on it! In an Era where the "Now" series can put out 19-track retrospectives of the last few months, would it have been too much to ask for 5 more songs? My additions: "Better Days" Citizen King, "Smile", Vitamin C, "Sunglasses at Night" Corey Hart, "Rain or Shine" Five Star, and to be obscure, "Youre a Zombie" Artist unknown, but big during the MTV glory year of 83-84. Maybe a volume 2 in the future?

When I heard MTV was releasing a compilation called "20 Years Of Pop Music," I thought it was gonna be terrible. I was pleasantly surprised to see only 2 songs from the current era of bubblegum pop music (Backstreet and Christina). The other things I saw were quite surprising to say the least. I may be the only one, but I think that artists such as Beastie Boys, Weezer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and even No Doubt are misplaced. I would place none of them in the Pop category (Beastie Boys - Hip-Hop, Weezer- Punk Rock, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Rock, No Doubt-Punk/Alt. Rock.) I like them, but they aren't pop. For them and them alone, this CD gets three stars. Other than them, don't wast your time and money. Listen to the underground music, it's better than anything else out there nowadays.

Congratulations MTV...way off the mark. A span of 20 years and you put songs like Watefalls on there? Man, want a trashy compilation. Once again, in the true spirit of MTV....I am ashamed of you.

this collection is an awesome summer find. it has everything from backstreet to beastie boys and its awesome to bring with you on a roadtrip or to the beach. plus, its got weezer. which automaticaly makes it good in my book.

This album isn't even pop, it has a few songs like "Waterfalls", "I Wanna Dance With Somebody", "That's The Way Love Goes", "Borderline", "No Sleep Till Brooklyn", "I Want It That Way", "Genie In A Bottle" but the rest is just a joke, they arn't even popular songs. Who ever picked this track listin need a bop in the head.

I thought that this cd was truly remarkable!The mix was very good and realy defined "POP".I recomend this cd to anyone who enjoys great music!