was 120 Minutes always like this??

Jeezus, they aired that a lot didn't they? I can barely make it through the whole song without turning it off 17 years later.

hahaha. Yeah it does seem like they played that a lot. Then about ten years ago I had some friends that played that song countless times. So yeah, I've really had it with that thing.

-- nickalicious (nza2342...), April 7th, 2003.

yeah, that performance...fucking.. insane.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jMCbvNrh8x8&search=jeff%20buckley

Thanks for that!

http://120minutes.tumblr.com

(not my site)

The best videos were usually on at 1:50 am. You'd have to sit through the whole show to get to the new GBV video or whatever. Ah, for TIVO back then.

i used to programma vcr.
ff'd through 114 of those mintues.

i think 120mns episodes are the most oft dropped off tapes in plastic shopping bags at my shoppe

just clicked the jeff buckley link:

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Jeff Buckley (Mary I. Guibert, Executrix for the Estate of Jeffrey Scott Buckley)

dunno quite how i feel about this, but i suspect jeff would be pissed to know none of his performances, which aren't available anywhere else, are available anymore :-(

Isn't his executrix also his mom, and hasn't she been involved in getting lots of his previously unavailable performances issued since his death? I guess I'd cut her a lot of slack, after she lost both her husband and her son so young. If she thinks the best way to take care of his estate is to ask people not to use his work unlicensed, who am I to judge that decision?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbUMrq2LrzA - wow, hadn't seen this Juliana Hatfield video before.

I got all excited when I saw that VH1 Classic had "120 Minutes" on the schedule until I discovered that it was just "Alternative" renamed rather than reruns of old 120 Minutes episodes w/ guests.

Rollins takes down Thruston over use of skateboarding in roadie death trib vid: just 1 of 120 minutes tonight onna VH1 VHS ... SLP (for max sound wiggle)

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Juliana Hatfield is so underated- I saw her her at reading 95 and she was awesome. So ballsy
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Not to mention she is cute as!!! The 90's produced the best music of any decade. It is sad to see how the music scene has fallen so...

there is that site that allows to make a playlist of google/youtube etc videos and play them continuously.
I made an account where I selected some newish fun videos
http://aerialescapism.feedbeat.net/
I made it so hopefully people who are following the production of fun new music video more closely than I do would like to add titles to that playlist , or like make a playlist of your own and share the link here plz etc

i've got a few surviving vhs tapes of episodes. the era commercials are pretty terrible yet evocative.

lots and lots of hair club for men with dudes swimming and water skiing and such and their gross permanent wet look pube hair staying on their heads and whatnot. and of course the "...i'm also a member" sy sterling bit.

the come back to at&t spots. back when phone companies were competing for your biz.

spike lee levis spots. dudes throwing fish around in their levis.

clearasil. teen holds up slice of pepperoni: "remind you of anyone's face?!"

some brand of body spray with a racy, naked chick spraying herself down. designer imposters maybe?

basically these on repeat for hours and hours and on through the night when they played "enter sandman" and "life is a highway" endlessly from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m.

"i can do my hair in more of a 90s fashion"

That site is just reminding me how little I actually liked most 90s college rock and how I just watched 120 mins for the general atmosphere of cool.

This was my favorite thing in the world when Kevin Seal was hosting.

coming up on one hundred and twenty minutes we've got brand new videos from wire train, chicago's material issue, and peter murphy. but first here's lush with superblahst.

dk all the way.

dk all the way.

Agreed! Maybe its just that that was during my musical coming-of-age, but the content seemed better/more varied then. I still have a few on tape too, including the christmas 1989 one (with Joey Ramone coming on to do a top 10 list and the Ordinaires doing xmas tunes in the bkground), and one i can never throw away where they first showed Galaxie 500's "When Will You Come Home." 16 year old me went to mall first thing the next morning to get that tape!

Also, re: the ads: tons of art/design school ads i remember. Don't remember which school... Atlanta School of Art or something?

haha yeah. art institute of somewhere or other. there was one where the students were making this sci-fi movie and building sets and costumes and things with a spaceship on a wire and shit. start your career in the art and design world today! so so bad.

Wire Train! I had forgotten that name -- were they the ones with the "Chamber of Hellos" single?

My opionion re. the original question: 120 min. was cool in the late eighties beacause, back then indie was still indie. Maybe I was too young back then but I was so impressed by the "120 minutes into the future" slogan. I thought it was genuine, at least in intention; an attempt to be on the cutting edge. And, in a way, most of that stuff was the future of music. In a bad way, sadly.

Funny, I was casually looking through my sister's videotape collection on Saturday and came across a bunch of 120 minutes episodes from the day. Popped one in and Suede was the guest.

Brought me Thin White Rope so thanks. Oh yeah, and seeing "Babies" by Pulp for the first time was great too (hadn't heard of them before). Never watched it regularly though.

120 Minutes would be a terrible show if it were on nowadays.

It is, and it's called Subterranean, and it is terrible.

wow. thinking back on this show... the world seemed so much more mysterious and fun back then.

Yeah, Subterranean is awful. Did 120 Minutes ever have a host as bad as Jim Shearer? He might be one of the top five worst hosts MTV's ever had, actually.

jim shearer must be the child of a viacom executive because there is no other conceivable reason for his continued employment

Was involved with the show that was taped in Austin back in '85 or '86. The host back then was Peter Zaremba. I guess it was pretty much the first sighting of Daniel Johnston, by normal, non-Austin people anyhow. The fine band called Glass Eye would sometimes literally drag Daniel on stage to play as many or few songs as his mental state would allow. There was a pretty horrible monicker given to the emerging Austin bands at that time ("New Sincerity") but that was a great, great time to live in Austin.

120 Minutes IS on nowadays, at least it is on MTV2 in Europe. They show "classics" from late 80s/early 90s mixed with new stuff that vaguely fits the aesthetic. It's not bad, but I hardly ever watch music TV so I only ever watch it if happen to flick through channels at the right time.

<i>wow. thinking back on this show... the world seemed so much more mysterious and fun back then.</i>

sadly OTM

Although, when I think of 120M now, I get flashbacks of Wonderstuff videos.

Playlist of every 120 mintues episode 1986-2003

Yr all so AMERICAN. I haven't seen it for quite a few years now, but 120 Minutes on MTV2 UK used to be a highlight of my week (I'm cool) and it introduced me to a lot of stuff. I don't think it would really serve much purpose for me now, though. Recent playlists:

The Scottish Enlightenment - Eyes
Bjork - Earth Intruders
The Early Years - Say What I Want To
The Walkmen - Louisiana
Battles - Atlas
Love Is All - Ageing Has Never Been His Friend
Bugz In The Attic - Don't Stop The Music
Errors - Salut! France
Archie Bronson Outfit - Dead Funny
Kristin Hersh - In Shock
Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries
Prinzhorn Dance School - Up! Up! Up!
Sweatmaster - Good Looks, Big Deal
Cornelius - Music
Unkle feat. Ian Astbury - Burn My Shadow
Xerox Teens - Darlin'
Sister Vanilla - Can't Stop The Rock
Tapes N Tapes - Insistor
Dopplereffekt - Voice Activated
Architecture In Helsinki - Heart It Races
I Was A Cub Scout - Pink Squares
Scissors For Lefty - Mama Your Boys Will Find A Home
Pepe Deluxé - Mischief On Cloud 9 (real title is "The Mischief of Cloud 6"?)
James Yorkston - Woozy With Cider
M - Ma Melodie
Cat Power - Lived In Bars
Grindermen - Electric Alice
Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing!
Junior Boys - In The Morning
Sunny Days Sets Fire - Wilderness

Von Südenfed - Fledermaus Can't Get Enough
The Fall - White Lightning
Mouse On Mars - Shlecktron/Frosch
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Loop Duplicate My Heart
Shy Child - The Noise Won't Stop
Freedom Five - No More Conversations
Bonde Do Role - Office Boy
Benjy Ferree - In The Countryside
Cornelius - Fit Song
Emily Haines - Doctor Blind
The Softlightes - Heart Made Of Sound
Flaming Lips - Frogs
Chemical Brothers - Elektrobank
Massive Attack - Live With Me
Field Music - She Can Do What She Wants
Malajube - Pâte Filo
Broken Social Scene - Fire Eyed Boy
Elliott Smith - Son Of Sam
DJ Mehdi - Signature
DJ Vadim Feat. Vakill - It's On
DJ Rolando - Knights Of The Jaguar
DJ Shadow - Mashin'
Clinic - Harvest (Within You)
Peter, Bjorn and John - Let's Call It Off
Xerox Teens - B54
Deerhoof - The Perfect Me
Sonic Youth - Bull In The Heather
Bjork - Oceania
The Knife - Heartbeats
Junior Boys - In The Morning

Was involved with the show that was taped in Austin back in '85 or '86. The host back then was Peter Zaremba...

This is one of the Cutting Edge shows I have on tape. I started to replay each one to make up an index many years ago, but never followed through. I hope they're still playable. I think I also recorded at the slow speed to fit more on each tape, cheap bastard that I am.

That would be IRS's the Cutting Edge!

http://www.altmusictv.com/

I was just about to link to http://tylerc.com/120minutes/, but I see the link in the previous post redirects there. Awesome site.

July 30th a monthly A.D.D.-version of 120 Minutes premieres on MTV2.

It's 120 Minutes on MTV I'm yr host Doive Kendall & that was "Accidentally 4th Street" by Figures on a Beach. Next up, it's a new one from Poi Dog Pondering!

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<3 Dave

Dave kendall loved the shit out of swervedriver

http://www.davekendall.com/newsite/index.html

I always think of Dave Kendall introducing Nitzer Ebb. Whenever I see their name I read it back in my head in his voice.

It's the same for me with Killing Joke

I don't know how I'd forgotten completely about Lewis Largent (his name just spontaneously generated in my brain), especially since he was the host for the entire stretch when I watched the most fanatically.

R.I.P. Lewis Largent. His career had an interesting start:

A native of Southern California, Largent was an enthusiastic golfer as a teen, and he met the general manager of the Los Angeles alternative-radio powerhouse KROQ while working at a country club. Impressed with Largent’s knowledge of music, the GM offered him an internship at the station that led to a full-time role in 1985. He rose quickly through the ranks and was named music director in 1989.

In 1992, Largent left the station to take a VP of music programming post at MTV, where he soon began hosting “120 Minutes.”

Re Dave Kendall — for me it’s him saying Naked Raygun lol!!

Sorry about Lewis Largent :(

https://archive.org/search?query=%22120+minutes%22+MTV