20 years ago I had just graduated from high school. 120 Minutes was still the best thing on MTV and yeah, Beavis and Butthead and the rest of Liquid Television were great. I still consider "The Real World" the start of when MTV (and TV in general) started moving in a direction I personally didn't like. It was MTV's big move toward scripted and unscripted dramas and away from music videos and some other "experimental" video like the aforementioned Liquid TV.
I get that it was a market-driven move. Networks show what gets the viewers and viewers wanted Real World/Road Rules. Just bummed me out when those shows started pre-empting or replacing the stuff I enjoyed like Beavis and Butthead and Sifl and Olly before eventually replacing the music videos themselves.
At least there are way more avenues for finding music and videos these days so I can't really be too annoyed outside of curmudgeonly nostalgia.
This is from July 1995, so the very early songs (eg January) are probably not in the site, also no music videos released after July are there right now.
Also many of the songs in that list are currently on the site, maybe you didn't got lucky (is random) and you didn't get the ones that were played enough times to be memorable (for you)
This is more of what I remember: http://www.mtv.com/music/yearbook/index.jhtml?contentId=1536...
and:
The Real World
Beavis and Butt-head
Singled Out