was 120 Minutes always like this??

I still have it on tape somewhere.

*sigh*

Easy target, since that that video was in heavy rotation forever - but duty requires me to smite:

> POW! <

OK done.

Also, the Catherine Wheel did a great, probably 10-12 minute, version of "Black Metallic" that I wish I had taped.

*sigh*

second best MTV day since the day they played nothing but "True Blue" videos for that contest. My sister and I watched the whole day's worth.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nD13JLVP0Zk

Hey, I thought he destroyed a phone! I distinctly remember Beck destroying a toy phone during this interview!

Beck, I mean. Of course.

actually yeah, i think you're right! i hadn't seen it since it originally aired, so my sharpest memory was of beck throwing his shoe.

I still kind of like the speed-up-slow-down tape recorder bit though, and I chuckled when Mike D said Oprah Winfrey was on his tour.

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.

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

And Swervedriver rules... They should bring him back for the new show.

Is that his online resume?

Oh Dave Kendall - such a lack of personality

He was the one John Lydon called out on-air for wearing a wig, I believe.

T/S: Dave Kendall vs. Matt Pinfield

I found an ancient VHS rip online a while back and realized for the first time that 120 Minutes was actually briefly hosted by Kevin Seal of all people.

i had no idea that show was still going in 2003

yeah I used to watch the Kevin Seal 120 Minutes. Dave Kendall would show up to a record report segment (before taking over as host)

I'm pretty sure I was watching during the Kevin Seal days. There are entire branches of my music taste that are based entirely on specific episodes during that time.

Dave Kendall with his accent saying "Videos coming up from Inspiral Carpets . . . The Charlatans UK . . ." is imprinted on my brain forever.

Joke we had back in the 90s about 120 Minutes was that Dave Kendall in an office re-org had to go to work for "Speed Week" and then one of my roommates would do in Kendall's accent 'This week on Speed Week we got interviews with Cale Yarborough and the new car for Bill Elliot'.

Alan Hunter hosted a lot of the first year's episodes. Adam Curry and Downtown Julie Brown hosted a few as well.

He was the one John Lydon called out on-air for wearing a wig, I believe.

Kendall came out to introduce the bands at a show I went to in 1991 or 1992. I can't remember if it was a Front Line Assembly show or a Laibach show. Probably the former.

I do not remember bald Dave Kendall.

Matt Pinfield, on the other hand...

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