11/11/25 - Three Tune Tuesday! 1997 Alternative Rock Edition! MTV Is Dead! It’s The Official End Of The Once Legendary Channel MTV 🎸 I Pick Three Of My Favorite Alternative Rock Tunes From 1997! The Year We Got Cable!

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11/11/25 - Three Tune Tuesday! 1997 Alternative Rock Edition! MTV Is Dead! It’s The Official End Of The Once Legendary Channel MTV 🎸 I Pick Three Of My Favorite Alternative Rock Tunes From 1997! The Year We Got Cable!

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It’s the death of MTV! Let’s face it it’s been dead for a longtime! That said even though I missed the prime years in the eighties, I loved watching the year we got basic cable as a kid which was late 1997! I was definitely late to the party but I remember watching and enjoying some awesome alternative rock!

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This week for Three Tune Tuesday I’m picking three songs and music videos I remember were in regular rotation the weekend the cable channel first entered my room! It was late 1997 and I was late to the party but I did catch the last couple years MTV still played some good music! Let’s go!

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Band - offspring
Song - The Kids Aren’t Alright
Album - Americana (1997)

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Band - Everclear
Song - Everything To Everyone
Album - So Much For The Afterglow (1997)

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Band - Foo Fighters
Song - Everlong
Album - The Colour And The Shape (1997)

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And of course we gotta throw in a couple Bonus Tunes! Also all 1997 songs played on MTV In regular rotation when I first got the channel! Blink 182’s single Dammit which was before the bands 1999 pop crossover era when they were an Alt Rock band. Next up it’s Marcy Playground and there 1997 hit Sex & Candy which was actually recorded in 1994 but the album was held up by label for three years, this gives the album an early nineties vibe! Enjoy!

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Band - Blink 182
Song - Dammit
Album - Dude Ranch (1997)

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Band - Marcy Playground
Song - Sex & Candy
Album - Marcy Playground (1997)

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Thanks for swinging by! Drop a comment and let me know what u thought of the tunes! Also big thanks to @ablaze for hosting #ThreeTuneTuesday weekly along with his weekly prize giveaway! Go check ‘em out for more info!

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I had no idea MTV was done, but then again, I had no idea it had made it this long either. I assumed it had disappeared about 15 years ago when I stopped hearing about their reality shows.

I wonder if they would have lasted longer if they just stuck to music…I’m quite sure it would have been more fun, maybe had a few cartoons like Daria and Beavis and Butthead, and The Head!

The offspring was my favorite band in elementary school 🙃 I started with Smash and went backwards, the discovered their label Epitaph and got really into that whole world.

The first 3 Foo fighters albums were fun too. I don’t know why I never got into blink 182 but they’re definitely nostalgic.

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too bad it stopped playing music videos so long ago

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Awesome bands and awesome selections! MTV was great at it's inception in the 1980's and into the 90's, but then reality TV took over signing their own death warrant. To be honest if they stuck to music they would have gone down anyway, as the economic model of television evolved over the years. I love what they once were, not what they turned into, and I think you would hear the same from the pioneers who started the channel. Here's to MTV in their good days, cheers!

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