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Watch: someone has recreated the glory days of MTV from each decade (NME)
https://www.nme.com/news/music/watch-someone-has-recreated-the-glory-days-mtv-from-each-decade-3921537Watch: someone has recreated the glory days of MTV from each decade
"No ads, no algorithm, no login, just pure random discovery"
By
Adam England
6th January 2026
After MTV closed down a lot of its 24-hour music-only channels – including five in the UK – on December 31, someone on Reddit has created an online alternative.
The website is called MTV Rewind, and it plays music videos all day without any modern ads (though you might see a few vintage commercials thrown in) or reality TV shows. It hosts over 27,000 music videos from the 1970s onwards, and visitors can filter by decade, step back in time with Yo! MTV Raps or Headbangers Ball, or simply shuffle the vast archive and leave it to fate.
As it says on the site, “No ads, no algorithm, no login, just pure random discovery. Pick a decade. Press play. Let the chaos begin.”
Simply hit play, and it will behave almost exactly like a classic music channel – viewers can’t choose which video to play next, but there are options to fast forward or go back to another song. And, by triple-clicking the MTV logo, there’s the opportunity to save favourite music videos – which are then accessed by clicking the logo once.
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"No ads, no algorithm, no login, just pure random discovery"
By
Adam England
6th January 2026
After MTV closed down a lot of its 24-hour music-only channels – including five in the UK – on December 31, someone on Reddit has created an online alternative.
The website is called MTV Rewind, and it plays music videos all day without any modern ads (though you might see a few vintage commercials thrown in) or reality TV shows. It hosts over 27,000 music videos from the 1970s onwards, and visitors can filter by decade, step back in time with Yo! MTV Raps or Headbangers Ball, or simply shuffle the vast archive and leave it to fate.
As it says on the site, “No ads, no algorithm, no login, just pure random discovery. Pick a decade. Press play. Let the chaos begin.”
Simply hit play, and it will behave almost exactly like a classic music channel – viewers can’t choose which video to play next, but there are options to fast forward or go back to another song. And, by triple-clicking the MTV logo, there’s the opportunity to save favourite music videos – which are then accessed by clicking the logo once.
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That website: https://wantmymtv.xyz/player.html