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Underrated video. Underrated song.

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Underrated video? It got a dozen Video Music Award nominations and won two, including "Video of the Year."

Piling on a bit, but it was also the first video they played when they launched MTV Europe.

https://direstraitsblog.com/blog/30-years-ago-money-nothing-...

It was the first CGI music video done by the folks that would do the first CGI TV show. I still have a soft spot for Reboot from my childhood

Reboot has been posted to youtube[1] and twitch according to the notes on that YT page.

In a reddit post on the above[2], I came across information that there is an 8-part documentary[3] on Reboot coming out from September 24th, along with a remaster of the series soon.[4]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyKRWU_Bdvk [country restricted]

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1fcew8l/reboot_the_...

3. https://www.youtube.com/@ReBootRewindDoc/videos

4. https://www.reddit.com/r/ReBoot/comments/1f2ltql/the_d1_deck...

That documentary sounds great, thanks! I hope they cover the remastering process, as I expect the challenges of using 90s 3D data formats on modern computers are nothing to sneeze at.

Money for Nothing is underrated now? I thought MTV even uses it when they splash their logo. Everyone knows it's great, video as well. I think it's neither underrated nor overrated. It's just rated.

Agree. I associate this song with wandering the halls of home depot, it is Poe's law in a song, indistinguishable from that which it satirizes

(I can't find what podcast it was that tells the story of the band absolutely not wanting to do this video, they hated MTV, "I want my MTV" at the head of the song is sung mockingly, but it's so iconic that MTV co-opted it as their brand - an amazing example of "what you resist persists")

Knopfler is a magician on the guitar.

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