#120 minutes

[therealjasonx]

Kids today will never understand the life-altering impact of staying up all night on the weekend. It’s 3 AM and you randomly flip the channel to MTV, only to run across this shit.

[postpunkindustrial]

Thurston Moore on MTVs 120 Minutes introducing a clip of Masonna.

[groovytimes]

Daily reminder of what a poorer place the world has been without Joe Strummer. 🤍

[mused-amused]

So much love between these two. The cutest interaction between bandmates, possibly ever.

[ilovethecheetah]

Hum perform I'd Like Your Hair Long on MTV 120 Minutes 1995

[rockwithbibberly]

Matt Pinfield, in a mini-magazine that was distributed on college campuses in the late 90's (I don't remember which specific year).

[morffyne]

Jane's Addiction: Mountain Song

[chaoticdesertdweller]

Babes In Toyland "Sweet '69"

120 Minutes on MTV 7/9/95

[soupy-sez]

Beastie Boys: 120 Minutes, 1992 [X]

[allsfairinmartingore]

Part 1

[sistermorph1ne]

┌── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──┐

“we walked around

'til the moon got full

like a plate”

└── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──┘

[big-low-t]

Impact Albums, Part 3

@pyretic-perfect-storm (thank you!) posted some of the albums that impacted her while growing up. I thought I would do the same...

Fugazi - "13 Songs" - In college I rented a house with a buddy and some other students were renting the house beside ours. One day I was blasting the Ramones first album and one of the guys next door yelled from his window - "Is that the new Ramones album?" I said "No, it's their first one." He replied "Shit, it doesn't matter, they all sound the same and they are all awesome." So I had a music fan living next door I began talking to him from time to time. I shared a Voivod album with him and one day he played me this Fugazi record. Amazing band. This got me into following and listening to many of the artists on the same label as Fugazi - Dischord Records. I feel lucky to have seen Fugazi play live two times. One of the most amazing bands I've ever seen. One of the greatest bands, EVER.

Skinny Puppy - "Rabies" - I was already listening to "The Land of Rape and Honey" by Ministry at this point of my musical journey. I had heard that Ministry album playing at a frat party in college and me being the music nerd that I am, instead of drinking and chatting up girls I was asking what that band was that was playing on the stereo. So fast forward a bit and I am browsing a record store. I see this Skinny Puppy album. Minstry's Al Jourgenson's name is on this one and that got me to buy it. My fist Skinny Puppy album. Not their best, but wow they were just so different from anything I had ever heard before. So it got me to buy a few of their older albums and I was fully hooked by the time they released "Too Dark Park," which I consider Skinny Puppy's best album. I will forever regret not catching one of their amazing live shows.

Morphine - "Cure For Pain" - I never thought I would find myself listening to a band like this. No guitar, just drums, bass and a saxophone. These guys had some sort of jazz, alternative, blues, smoky bar tinged sound that didn't exactly fit into any normal genres. I couldn't help but like them when I first saw the music video for the song "Thursday" on MTVs 120 minutes show.

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And talk about an impact musically, 120 Minutes on MTV opened the door to so many bands for me. Lush, Pixies, Depeche Mode, Hum, R.E.M., Echo and The Bunnymen and just way too many to list them all. I tried to watch it every Sunday whenever I could.

Thanks again to @pyretic-perfect-storm for her post. Thanks also for anyone brave enough or insane enough to have read all of my music rambling. I'd love to see some impactful albums and artists from some other Tumblr folks... but only if you have the time and want to do it! Have a good day everyone!

[exxcitement1995]

[onenakedfarmer]

Wherefore art thou, Kevin Seal?