#120 Minutes

[bard-o-lator]

hey nyquil driver…

[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.

[groovytimes]

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

[ilovethecheetah]

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

[morffyne]

Jane's Addiction: Mountain Song

[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).

[allsfairinmartingore]

Part 1

[bard-o-lator]

the end of the tour - 1994

[shadow27]

I'm the sort of goth who saw The Damned's Shadow of Love, on the VHS of #120Minutes that my Adv Algebra classmate made me, and thought "yup that's what I want to grow up to be." 

[onenakedfarmer]

Wherefore art thou, Kevin Seal?

[zombimanos]

When I was 15, my bandmate pushed HUM onto me. "You HAVE to buy this album!" So I did, and I hated it. ...but then a week later I saw them play this on 120 Minutes, & I ended up listening to the album on headphones every night that summer. I was eternally floored. (honorable mention: that was also the the summer I first fell in love & i lost my virginity)

[krispyweiss]

Friday Flashback: Mark Lanegan and Van Conner Illustrate Screaming Trees’ Dysfunctional Dynamic in 10 Seconds of Airtime

Without even trying, Mark Lanegan and Van Conner in 1994 illustrated the Screaming Trees’ dysfunctional dynamic in a seconds-long snippet for MTV.

It’s a station ID for “120 Minutes.” And while there’s nothing remarkable about it, the clip is quite revealing as both Trees seem to not believe they’re where they are and react in vastly different ways.

Sullen and reticent, Mark - first names only in this video - exudes a fuck-this-shit attitude as if he’d rather be anywhere else.

Next to him is the smiling and effusive Van, whose can-you-believe-this-shit? body language indicates there’s no place he’d rather be.

And therein lay the problem. Lanegan was miserable. The Conner brothers were on top of the world.

The Trees split in 2000. Lanegan died in 2022; Conner died in 2023.

Friday Flashback is an occasional series in which Sound Bites looks back at memorable musical moments on television.

6/16/23

[neontrashsblog]

MTV 120 Minutes commercial

[krisfreedain]

Front 242 Rhythm Of Time on MTV 120 Minutes with Dave Kendall (1991.05.12)