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Who remembers 120 minutes?!? The Best of MTV
Posted on 5/30/23 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 5/30/23 at 1:08 pm
120 Minutes was, in various formats, MTV’s premier alternative music video series in the United States. The program originally aired on MTV from 1986 to 2000, then on MTV2 from 2001 to 2003, when MTV2 replaced it with its one-time successor, Subterranean. In 2011, MTV2 resurrected the program briefly as 120 Minutes with Matt Pinfield.
The Smiths, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., The Replacements, The Cure, New Order, Cocteau Twins, The The, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Love & Rockets, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Pixies to Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, The Breeders, Bjork, Dead Milkmen, Social Distortion, Oasis, Blur, Pulp,...and thousands more
What was you favorite video to wait and press record on the VCR for?
Depeche Mode- But Not Tonight
People are People
The Jesus and Mary Chain- Just like Honey
INXS- Never Tear us Apart
OMD- If You Leave
The Cure- Lovecats
REM- It’s the end of the world as we know it
Love and Rockets- No new tale to tell
And then there was Alternative Nation later with Kennedy
This post was edited on 5/30/23 at 3:30 pm
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Posted on 5/30/23 at 1:09 pm to STigers
Hated it and couldn't understand the people who like it - especially when there was Headbanger's Ball. 
Posted on 5/30/23 at 1:23 pm to Big Scrub TX
Matt Pinfield was awesome as host in the mid 90s.. they eventually replaced him with Howard Stern's friend Booker.. he wasn't all that great.. nice guy though
Although Jesse Camp and Norm MacDonald as VJs were much more awkward.. Puck actually wasn't that bad the few times he hosted Alt Nation replacing Kennedy
Although Jesse Camp and Norm MacDonald as VJs were much more awkward.. Puck actually wasn't that bad the few times he hosted Alt Nation replacing Kennedy
This post was edited on 5/30/23 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 5/30/23 at 1:50 pm to STigers
IRS's The Cutting Edge also.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 1:57 pm to sertorius
Posted on 5/30/23 at 2:20 pm to Keep Stirring
quote:I knew it more in the late 80s - and it was brutal. I remember being always just so underwhelmed. It wasn't the host, it was the music.
Matt Pinfield was awesome as host in the mid 90s.. they eventually replaced him with Howard Stern's friend Booker.. he wasn't all that great.. nice guy though
Although Jesse Camp and Norm MacDonald as VJs were much more awkward.. Puck actually wasn't that bad the few times he hosted Alt Nation replacing Kennedy
Posted on 5/30/23 at 2:39 pm to Big Scrub TX
I dunno, 120 Minutes might've been the only program in the '80s on MTV that played relatively good music.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 2:42 pm to STigers
I still have Never Mind the Mainstream: The Best of MTV's 120 Minutes, Vol. 2. Discovered a few things on that one.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 3:11 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:
Hated it and couldn't understand the people who like it - especially when there was Headbanger's Ball.
I loved both.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 3:28 pm to STigers
I discovered a lot of great music watching 120 minutes back in the 80s. Sugarcubes, Sonic Youth, Billy Bragg, Cramps, X, New Model Army. I didn't care for most of the the waiver stuff but would sit through it to see the good stuff.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 3:47 pm to Keep Stirring
The Bodeans. For whatever reason, the music didn't survive. Never see them on any of my services even though I listen to very similar music.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 3:48 pm to Keep Stirring
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Playlist of almost every episode.
Thanks for the link
Pretty interesting to see the artists next to the dates
Nitzer Ebb
Afghan Whigs
Juliana Hatfield
The Sugarcubes
Evan Dando
KMFDM
Peter Murphy
Siouxsie
Johnny Rotten
I miss these days
Gonna watch some episodes later
Posted on 5/30/23 at 3:55 pm to AlxTgr
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The Bodeans. For whatever reason, the music didn't survive. Never see them on any of my services even though I listen to very similar music.
they are on Youtube Music, Spotify etc.
may have to spell it as BoDeans (no the)
For some bands, there must be weird rights issues.. like the Plimsouls' second album with A Million Miles Away or Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey album isn't on any of the streaming sites
This post was edited on 5/30/23 at 4:05 pm
Posted on 5/30/23 at 4:23 pm to Keep Stirring
Yo! MTV Raps and Headbanger's Ball were way better. shite, even Club MTV might have been better.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 5:12 pm to STigers
Was alright
I took it for granted at the time
Eta
I took everything for granted in those days
I took it for granted at the time
Eta
I took everything for granted in those days
This post was edited on 5/30/23 at 5:42 pm
Posted on 5/30/23 at 6:57 pm to STigers
It still comes on one of the mtv channels and I have it set to record
Posted on 5/30/23 at 7:00 pm to AlxTgr
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Bodeans. For whatever reason, the music didn't survive. Never see them on any of my services even though I listen to very similar music.
I hear them on Pandora. They are still active and touring, would love to see them
Posted on 5/30/23 at 8:50 pm to Keep Stirring
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I dunno, 120 Minutes might've been the only program in the '80s on MTV that played relatively good music.
This. Must see TV in the 80s on Sunday nights.
Someone here found this:
Full archive of every song played on 120 Minutes
Posted on 5/31/23 at 5:41 am to Vandyrone
Dave Kendall was the original VJ... recorded it every Sunday night!
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