<p>Bang a Gong comes back rocking from hiatus to talk about MTV: that is, <em>Music Television</em>, as we remember it from its heyday in the 1980s.&nbsp; Brad kicks it off by dishing on the hundreds of hours of vintage VHS recordings gifted to Gen Xers through the Internet Archive, for a too-brief time (D**n you, Viacom!) back in May.&nbsp; And where else could this lead, but to talk of the Buggles, Golden Earring, "Total Eclipse of the Heart," and—God bless her—Martha Quinn?</p>

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