The Box DEAD (1 Viewer)

[VoR]

BOXFRESH no more



How sad. I hadn't watched it in years and I'm frankly amazed it lasted as long as it did.

But it was truly integral to my experience as a pop music fan in the late 90s and early 00s.

I used to love how random shit like this would be on high rotation for exactly three weeks before vanishing into the ether, never to be heard or spoken of again.

 

[Ellie]

20 Fingers Feat. Gillette said to be devastated.

 

[big ron]

Had no idea it was still active!

My main memory of The Box is when my brother had DIAMOND CABLE and you could ring up an automated system to request a song, and people abused it by requesting the same song over and over.

Also, seeing this on there, and until the advent of YouTube, wondering if I'd hallucinated it.

 

[PercyPig]

Box programming seems to showing anything from 1992 to now with a show at 10pm with Lucy Jones about acts that broke on The Box.

 

[VoR]

May flights of obscure failed girl groups sing them to their rest

 

[Ellie]

Had no idea it was still active!

My main memory of The Box is when my brother had DIAMOND CABLE and you could ring up an automated system to request a song, and people abused it by requesting the same song over and over.

Also, seeing this on there, and until the advent of YouTube, wondering if I'd hallucinated it.

I remember that

 

[PercyPig]

What I loved about The Box was that they didn’t really care what was on their playlist - just let the viewers decide via premium rate phone lines.

MTV always felt like it was playing catchup (which really shouldn’t have been the case).

 

[Ellie]

Mentioned these ones tonnes of times before, but prime staples of The Box

 

[AGinAg (38)]

They kinda peaked about 1997-2000 for me. That gorgeous 1970s community cable quality really was the abiding memory. That and just so much Aqua.

 

[ButterTart]

I would like to thank The Box for getting me absolutely OBSESSED with this song, only to totally blue-ball me when the single release was cancelled and they stopped showing it so I had literally no way of listening to it for ages.

 

[Sheena]

LIPPY LOU AND THE LESBIAN LIBERATION

 

[Joseph]

I loved it as a kid. I think it ended here in the late 90s/ early 00s

They had a better variety than MTV was showing. I’m shocked it was still going

 

[Rita]

I occasionally still flick through the music channels. Are music videos a thing of the past now?