Readable enough, but there's a surprising dearth of wild and crazy stories. It's more a collection of A&R types bickering about arcana like who should get the credit for MTV Unplugged. As if it were the cure for cancer!

I've read really great oral histories, e.g. Once in a Lifetime: The Crazy Days of Acid House and After . They weave together a fantastically entertaining tale that's greater than the sum of its parts. With I Want My MTV the assorted interviews never coalesce into anything so great.

Don't get me wrong there are enough bits in here to catch your interest that it's worth flipping through. But I feel like it should've been much better given the material.

Also it bugged me that they only interview 2nd stringers and biz execs-- no Kurt Loder, for instance. A lot of the most prominent MTV personalities/musicians don't get any interviews in the book.

They mourn the end of the golden age of MTV, but f*** that, Youtube gave us the golden age of music videos right now!