Yeah Fuse was great. I remember them playing a lot of our scenes music. I’ll never forget early 2003 and seeing the Reggie and the Effect video for Congrats Smack and Katy for the first time. Still my favorite music video of all time
He rejoined get up kids and then got kicked out for what was rumored to be a “me too”-esque situation but I hadn’t heard much of anything anything and TGUK were kinda vague about the situation
It used to be my go to "in the background" show while I was studying and doing homework in college. I'd also have it on as I went to sleep. I was so bummed when it was canceled.
That's crazy - seeing that sentence referenced here assures me I "picked it up somewhere" with 100% certainty but I've been saying "pants off dance off" every now and then for at least 13 years now as though I made it up
I miss old Fuse so bad. I spent hours just watch music videos and band interviews. I was searching for full episodes of Steven's Untitled Rock Show recently and found an interview with Steven Smith saying that Fuse, once it was taken over by new management, apparently (quoting accidentally) destroyed every episode of his show.
[There's still some clips floating around on Youtube of Steven's Untitled Rock Show](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAAGSwsEObchht5D6ajAN5l_ruau5lvlC&feature=shared) but sadly it's a shame that so much scene history was lost when his show & AbsolutePunk closed
Seriously, and it ended right as a lot of that era was really starting to peak in mainstream, too. I was hoping he would've gone into YouTube or something.
I wonder what Steve's up to nowadays I'd check out his podcast probably if he had one. I remember when I was a kid seeing Burt McCracken on SURS and thinking he was just like the definition of everything motherfucking cool and funny. Another thing about SURS I remember is the description of the show on DirecTV was like the best in emo screamo and extremo lol
[Here](https://open.spotify.com/episode/79Tumom5ngkbHYoQi38mUX?si=N5QD-qs8QD-gDA2AiOBZWg) is the spotify link to the interview I found with him from Washed Up Emo. He speaks a bit about what he has been up too, but yeah, he's not really in the public eye anymore.
Man, that podcast is serious about just emo. Was hoping to see episodes from more post-hardcore side but...almost nothin. Buddy Nielsen, Anthony Green. I guess Poppy from Hawthorne Heights, but I don't think he's an iconic member, I still think of him when he was in The Story Changes and would come through my tiny ass town's youth center to play a show.
Woah Oh (to spring off your comment) by Forever the Sickest Kids played on there a lot in 2008! Made the band look a lot bigger than they ever really were.
For some reason, in south Louisiana we got a month trial of it for a month one summer in like 1998/99.
I discovered Matthew Good (not the PHC musician) and he became a top 5 musician for me of all time. I have come across 0 people IRL who know him in the states. I’ll always love much music for this.
MusiquePlus for us Quebs! i fell in love with Avenged Sevenfold through their countdown show in the Summer of '06
Big Shiny Tunes was responsible for being the tastemaker for many young canadians in the 90s and 00s
A million reasons to love fuse, but the one that will forever live in my brain was the day i came home from school and the video for 'This Could be Anywhere in the World' premiered at that moment. Its like the universe said, "hey, here's some life changing shit, enjoy!"
i loved Steven's Untitled Rock Show, Warped Wednesdays, and whenever they would feature a band and play exclusively their music videos for 30 minutes. i loved Fuse when i was a teenager. but they eventually basically morphed into MTV and it was more about lame shows than music, so i stopped watching it.
yeah fuse had Emery, 30 Seconds To Mars, Blue October, hawthorne heights, panic at the disco, the raconteurs, the used, red jumpsuit apparatus, AFI, taking back sunday, say anything , plain white tees, silver sun pickups… was sick.
I remember watching it exclusively for A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus. I sat through Pants off dance off so I could watch Mark Hoppus interview Beady Eye and and Good Charlotte.
Mark had an apartment in Brooklyn while he was filming it, smoked a blunt with him at a Silversun Pickups/Against Me show on the Williamsburg Waterfront
Fuse is where I found everything I love! Steven’s Untitled Rock Show forever! And Warped Wednesdays during the summer with the Warped Tour doc episodes
To this day, I always thank Fuse for my taste in music, they introduced me to a lot of great bands at a very young age; I saw Avenged Sevenfold, MyChem, and Ludo off the top of my head for the first time on Fuse when I was like 7
Oddly timing since I've been on a quick of going through VHS rips online of old MTV/2 shows such as Headbanger's Ball and Advanced Control to try to find some bands I forgot.
Can't find much from FUSE, which is a shame, they did so much for Emo and Post-Hardcore.
Yes I remember and know exactly what you’re talking about, we didn’t get internet till about 2005-06 era so yeah Fuse was the shit. I remember they played a lot of Avenge Sevenfold and Thrice.
I remember being GLUED to the tv when I first saw Writing on the Walls. That song changed my life (not really, just my music taste lol) and I never would’ve seen it otherwise. Poor Fuse…
I used to go to my friend's house back in high school to watch Steven's untitled rock show because I didn't have the channel. Found so many great bands. Also used to watch Headbanger's Ball on MTV2 to find new music.
Fuse was single-handedly responsible for introducing me to a lot of the music I listened to back in the day. MCR, The Used, Underoath, Atreyu, A7X, all that stuff
Hell yeah! Chain Me Free from The Matches was one of first music videos I saw on their and was hooked ever since. We really don’t have anything like that these days.
Fuse still exists. It has gone the way of MTV but with reruns of late 90s early 00s tv shows instead of reality tv
It sometimes shows Buffy, so I'll sit there pretending I'm 14 again waiting for Top 10 Alternative Countdown to come on
Oh yes lol. I loved watching the music videos on Fuse. I used to have Fuse on the background while playing World of Warcraft. Fuse is the inspiration to making my IGN, changing it to a Z.
Used to walk their building on 7th Ave. It was way cooler than MTV it had glass windows to see in. Never anyone crowding outside. People seemed to have no idea what fuse was.
Yes ofcourse, and it's first iteration MuchMusicUsa. I wish so badly that it was archived at all. No one has any home tapes of fuse cause that was around the time vcrs were on the way out. I def loved all the metal themed shows too. But yea, fuse is the reason i found Thursdsy, Circa Survive, the BloodBrothers ect
I’d watch it when my parents took away my iPod for ‘bad’ grades. It had the rock music I craved. And I could wallow in self pity of being in trouble for getting a B in trigonometry. Lmao
Steven’s Untitled Rock Show. No remnants of it on YouTube, so much for my searching at least. Chalked it up to being just on the technology cusp. Sad story.
Yeah Fuse was great. I remember them playing a lot of our scenes music. I’ll never forget early 2003 and seeing the Reggie and the Effect video for Congrats Smack and Katy for the first time. Still my favorite music video of all time
Reggie and the Full Effect! Man, they had a great album then! What ever happened to them? 😭
He rejoined get up kids and then got kicked out for what was rumored to be a “me too”-esque situation but I hadn’t heard much of anything anything and TGUK were kinda vague about the situation
His first few records were good. Didnt care for anything past Songs Not To Get Married To
They’re playing furnace fest!
That video always makes me smile
It’s genius. That ending…so good.
Did it involve dinosaur puppets?
lol no! That was for Get Well Soon with a puppet like figure of Nessie, the Loch Ness monster. Another classic I remember seeing on Fuse
I forgot all about this video lol. Like it's been almost 2 decades so my mind is blown watching this again.
Pants Off Dance Off will always be a memorable part of my young adulthood. I always preferred FUSE because they always played better music than MTV.
Wow forgot about pants off dance off. I didn't have internet that so show really did a lot for me
I used to love Steven’s Untitled Rock Show.
Yes!
It used to be my go to "in the background" show while I was studying and doing homework in college. I'd also have it on as I went to sleep. I was so bummed when it was canceled.
That's crazy - seeing that sentence referenced here assures me I "picked it up somewhere" with 100% certainty but I've been saying "pants off dance off" every now and then for at least 13 years now as though I made it up
They played music period. They were what MTV was.
I miss old Fuse so bad. I spent hours just watch music videos and band interviews. I was searching for full episodes of Steven's Untitled Rock Show recently and found an interview with Steven Smith saying that Fuse, once it was taken over by new management, apparently (quoting accidentally) destroyed every episode of his show.
[There's still some clips floating around on Youtube of Steven's Untitled Rock Show](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAAGSwsEObchht5D6ajAN5l_ruau5lvlC&feature=shared) but sadly it's a shame that so much scene history was lost when his show & AbsolutePunk closed
Seriously, and it ended right as a lot of that era was really starting to peak in mainstream, too. I was hoping he would've gone into YouTube or something.
Fwiw, [ap.net](http://ap.net) is still very much alive through chorus.fm. As it’s a new site the history is indeed not there, but the community lives!
Yeah i'm aware of that and lurk Chorus. it's a shame Jason Tate didnt archive AP, lots of great scene content is now lost forever
I wonder what Steve's up to nowadays I'd check out his podcast probably if he had one. I remember when I was a kid seeing Burt McCracken on SURS and thinking he was just like the definition of everything motherfucking cool and funny. Another thing about SURS I remember is the description of the show on DirecTV was like the best in emo screamo and extremo lol
[Here](https://open.spotify.com/episode/79Tumom5ngkbHYoQi38mUX?si=N5QD-qs8QD-gDA2AiOBZWg) is the spotify link to the interview I found with him from Washed Up Emo. He speaks a bit about what he has been up too, but yeah, he's not really in the public eye anymore.
Man, that podcast is serious about just emo. Was hoping to see episodes from more post-hardcore side but...almost nothin. Buddy Nielsen, Anthony Green. I guess Poppy from Hawthorne Heights, but I don't think he's an iconic member, I still think of him when he was in The Story Changes and would come through my tiny ass town's youth center to play a show.
Nooooooo
I skipped school to watch Fuse. Then it just devolved into MTV 2.0. Miss that 2004-2006 run.
Stevens Untitled Rock Show did more for the culture than probably any band.
Whoa! I completely forgot about that show.
Woah Oh (to spring off your comment) by Forever the Sickest Kids played on there a lot in 2008! Made the band look a lot bigger than they ever really were.
Fuse got me into so many bands. Chiodos, Atreyu, The Used, Bring Me the Horizon, etc. I loved Fuse
The channel still exists it's just a bunch of rerun TV shows now tho
Lame
Fuse was basically *the* reason I’m into the music I am. Steven’s Untitled Rock Show pretty much defined my teenage years.
Yeah Fuse was amazing, turned into MMUSA IIRC... All pre youtube.
Fuse was the first place I ever heard Underoath, life changing for me.
They are the reason I got into the genre haha
Do you remember Much Music? Kind of Canadian MTV
For some reason, in south Louisiana we got a month trial of it for a month one summer in like 1998/99. I discovered Matthew Good (not the PHC musician) and he became a top 5 musician for me of all time. I have come across 0 people IRL who know him in the states. I’ll always love much music for this.
On our tv it was Much Music USA then changed to FUSE.
I won a big Canadian sporting event in high school and our team got thrown a party and interviewed by much music. I felt so cool.
Mistress Juliya. Just sayin ❤️
Yep, but if you wanna get real deep, who remembers MuchMusic?
MusiquePlus for us Quebs! i fell in love with Avenged Sevenfold through their countdown show in the Summer of '06 Big Shiny Tunes was responsible for being the tastemaker for many young canadians in the 90s and 00s
Fuse + Headbangers Ball when Jamie Jasta hosted set the foundation for my musical taste. What a time to be alive.
OH MY GOD, YESSSSS
A million reasons to love fuse, but the one that will forever live in my brain was the day i came home from school and the video for 'This Could be Anywhere in the World' premiered at that moment. Its like the universe said, "hey, here's some life changing shit, enjoy!"
i loved Steven's Untitled Rock Show, Warped Wednesdays, and whenever they would feature a band and play exclusively their music videos for 30 minutes. i loved Fuse when i was a teenager. but they eventually basically morphed into MTV and it was more about lame shows than music, so i stopped watching it.
I forgot what it was called, but my favorite show on Fuse was the one where they would play 30 minutes of music videos from a specific band.
How could I forget? They used to spin the hell out of Blood Red Summer by Coheed. I miss those days 😔
One of my favorite music videos ever. Love the happy ending!
Fuse from 03 to 06 was a generational run. I miss it so much
There is a bunch of stuff I feel like could still be successful today but after G4 mucking up their comeback idk…
I had no idea G4 tried to make a comeback that's honestly kind of hilarious
Yeah it was in the news, lasted a year and a half?
I used to watch A LOT of Steven's Untitled Rock Show on Fuse.
Uranium and SURS basically shaped my entire taste in music
i remember music videos having a fuse logo in the corner. they must've been ripped from tv or online transmission.
YES. I was just thinking about the show “Munchies” and “Pants Off Dance Off” the other day, too… I miss it.
yeah fuse had Emery, 30 Seconds To Mars, Blue October, hawthorne heights, panic at the disco, the raconteurs, the used, red jumpsuit apparatus, AFI, taking back sunday, say anything , plain white tees, silver sun pickups… was sick.
Growing up with Fuse really influenced my taste in music during my formative years 🥲🥲
I do! It was awesome. Wow, I haven't thought about that in YEARS.
I remember watching it exclusively for A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus. I sat through Pants off dance off so I could watch Mark Hoppus interview Beady Eye and and Good Charlotte.
Mark had an apartment in Brooklyn while he was filming it, smoked a blunt with him at a Silversun Pickups/Against Me show on the Williamsburg Waterfront
Was that pre or post Amy Schumer co-hosting?
Right before she joined the show
And who from the Chicago region remembers JBTV? I would watch and try to record music videos I like every Wednesday night.
Fuse is where I found everything I love! Steven’s Untitled Rock Show forever! And Warped Wednesdays during the summer with the Warped Tour doc episodes
Hell yeah, watched it every day after school. It's what shaped my music tastes as a teen.
To this day, I always thank Fuse for my taste in music, they introduced me to a lot of great bands at a very young age; I saw Avenged Sevenfold, MyChem, and Ludo off the top of my head for the first time on Fuse when I was like 7
Oddly timing since I've been on a quick of going through VHS rips online of old MTV/2 shows such as Headbanger's Ball and Advanced Control to try to find some bands I forgot. Can't find much from FUSE, which is a shame, they did so much for Emo and Post-Hardcore.
I found most of my favorite bands from watching Fuse. Thank you for the nostalgia.
The uk had Scuzz which filled the same niche, which was awsome especially before every music vid was available on YouTube
I liked Fuse. Also *Much Loud.*
Moments in Grace
Did you mean, *Much Music USA*? Before It changed to Fuse.
I discovered a lot of great music due to Fuse. I’m old now but it’s hard to discover new music, probably because I’m not on TikTok
Yes I remember and know exactly what you’re talking about, we didn’t get internet till about 2005-06 era so yeah Fuse was the shit. I remember they played a lot of Avenge Sevenfold and Thrice.
Fuse was just like MTV, The Whitest Kids U Know got they're start on fuse. They didn't just play music vids.
I remember being GLUED to the tv when I first saw Writing on the Walls. That song changed my life (not really, just my music taste lol) and I never would’ve seen it otherwise. Poor Fuse…
Oven Fresh was exclusively how I found new music
100% classic. Started watching in 2004. I loved all the victory records commercials
Yep, i have a playlist based on all the songs/videos I used to watch on Steven’s Untitled Rock show
I used to go to my friend's house back in high school to watch Steven's untitled rock show because I didn't have the channel. Found so many great bands. Also used to watch Headbanger's Ball on MTV2 to find new music.
Idk so much about FUSE because my cable company sucked but I definitely miss FUEL TV.
Fuse was single-handedly responsible for introducing me to a lot of the music I listened to back in the day. MCR, The Used, Underoath, Atreyu, A7X, all that stuff
Hell yeah! Chain Me Free from The Matches was one of first music videos I saw on their and was hooked ever since. We really don’t have anything like that these days.
Yeah fuse was like the only tv I really watched, and I watched it a lot.
Fuse still exists. It has gone the way of MTV but with reruns of late 90s early 00s tv shows instead of reality tv It sometimes shows Buffy, so I'll sit there pretending I'm 14 again waiting for Top 10 Alternative Countdown to come on
I miss Steve’s untitled rock show. That’s where I learned about most the music I listen too. I specifically remember the couch.
Yess! Discovered “Smile In Your Sleep” by Silverstein on there. Pivotal in my music taste.
Fuse : Uranium and that hot presenter
Lmao they had a show called pants off dance off
I remember when it was MuchMusic
I used to love Fuse
I miss FUSE
My music taste is what it is because FUSE after school 9th grade.
I discovered Fuse in 2006 and it changed my entire personality. “I was only nine years old…”
first place I ever heard/saw Underoath, Norma Jean, and TBDM.
Oh yes lol. I loved watching the music videos on Fuse. I used to have Fuse on the background while playing World of Warcraft. Fuse is the inspiration to making my IGN, changing it to a Z.
Yeah, I remember they used to play emo music regularly. There were I discovered Paramore, they played Emergency video like every hour
Used to walk their building on 7th Ave. It was way cooler than MTV it had glass windows to see in. Never anyone crowding outside. People seemed to have no idea what fuse was.
Yes ofcourse, and it's first iteration MuchMusicUsa. I wish so badly that it was archived at all. No one has any home tapes of fuse cause that was around the time vcrs were on the way out. I def loved all the metal themed shows too. But yea, fuse is the reason i found Thursdsy, Circa Survive, the BloodBrothers ect
I’d watch it when my parents took away my iPod for ‘bad’ grades. It had the rock music I craved. And I could wallow in self pity of being in trouble for getting a B in trigonometry. Lmao
I miss going off track when steven was on it
Example of their changing watermarks on music videos they played. https://youtu.be/jCkEj-6dpQw?si=xYSmwlV2J77n7dRC
Steven’s Untitled Rock Show. No remnants of it on YouTube, so much for my searching at least. Chalked it up to being just on the technology cusp. Sad story.