The first day of MTV is an off-discussed topic, full of fun facts that bedazzled Gen Xers.

But I dug into the first 209 spins that constituted MTV's first 24 hours of broadcast,

and I saw a whole bunch of songs and artists that made me go,

What the heck MTV's first day?

No. that made me go, what the heck MTV's first day? Beyond Yacht Rock, 2000.

Welcome to Beyond Yacht Rock 2000.

It's a podcast about genres.

We come up with new genres.

We count on the best songs in the genres from 10 to 1. But today it's about genres. We come up with new genres. We count on the best songs in the

genres from 10 to 1. But today is number 25. We're wild in the five. My name is J.D. Riznar.

I'm Dave. And to help us with today's topic, we brought in a special guest because Hunter

had to run off on vacation again as soon as he came back. So we have with us here, Mr. Chris Malanthe of the Hit

Parade podcast. Hey, hey, guys. Welcome. We're very excited to have you here. Might be

intimidating for us to talk to somebody that actually knows what they're talking about that isn't

Steve. I know, I know. Steve and I can be a, you know, two-man nerd force on this podcast.

Yeah, we can have a race to find chart positions fastest.

Guess I'm going to have to dial up the cool.

And I'm just going to have to be befuddled as ever.

Okay, well, today we're going to talk about the most confounding songs that appeared in the first 24 hours of MTV.

We're not going to let you down if you love our segments.

Here's a song.

It sure is.

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