#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.

#tool #sober #bjork #human behaviour #soundgarden #black hole sun #nin #closer #120 minutes #mtv #90s #scarred for life

[ilovethecheetah]

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

#hum band #hum #mtv #120 minutes #matt pinfield #you'd prefer an astronaut #matt talbott #tim lash #bryan st pere #jeff dimpsey #1995 #alternative rock #90s

[soupy-sez]

Beastie Boys: 120 Minutes, 1992 [X]

#beastie boys #120 minutes #1992 #90s #music #90s music #my gifs #gifs #gifset #soupy's #beastie gifs #musicgifs #mca #adam yauch #ad rock #adam horovitz #mike d #mike diamond

[sistermorph1ne]

┌── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──┐

“we walked around

'til the moon got full

like a plate”

└── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──┘

#jeff buckley #so real #120 minutes #mtv #1995 #90s music #grace #1990s #90s songs #alternative #music #song lyrics

[vhsdetritus]

#'90s aesthetic #'90s aesthetics #'90s nostalgia #1990s #90s #'90s #henry rollins #120 minutes #90s music #90s television #vintage mtv #1993

[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!

#big low t #impact artists #impact albums #skinny puppy #morphine #fugazi #mtv #120 minutes

[sick-sad-little-world]

"Hi' I'm Chris and he's..."

"I'm Kim."

"And, we're from Soundgarden, and uh, you're watching 120 Minutes."

"On MTV."

"Right..."

Soundgarden Station ID on MTV 120 Minutes

(via @bearcub81212)

#soundgarden #chris cornell #kim thayil #120 minutes #down on the upside era #what in the world is that dork up to now? #is that his beauty mask? #was he playing pin the tail on the donkey? #🤭😆💋💋 #❤️❤️❤️ #bearcub's gifs

[onenakedfarmer]

Wherefore art thou, Kevin Seal?

#120 Minutes #Kevin Seal #MTV

[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." 

#youtube #The Damned #Goth #Shadow of Love #120 minutes #music #music clip #music video

[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)

#hum #you'd prefer an astronaut #120 minutes #120 minutes was the best show on mtv #it was on at midnight and my bandmates & I would rush home on monday to watch 120 minutes taped on the vcr from the night before #it's a reason i still think fondly of mondays lol #yes i know i'm fucking ancient

[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

#Youtube #friday flashback #mtv #120 minutes #screaming trees #mark lanegan #van conner

[peterbuckmichaelstiperem4ever]

#r.e.m. #rem band #michael stipe #peter buck #mike mills #bill berry #90s #1992 #mtv #120 minutes #my gifs

[exxcitement1995]

#smashing pumpkins #mtv #120 minutes

[dilettantereviews]

Yesterday I was up watching TV until 5 AM (I know) and I ran out of things to watch so I just had MTV on in the background because it was Nineties Nation and to my surprise, Catherine Wheel came on. I sometimes catch I Want to Touch You on their Thursday Rock Block feature but this one was a shock to me. They do have a fairly wide range of videos, but you have to accept you’ll be watching a lot of the same artists again and again and savvier viewers might watch out for certain blocks and write out the exact sequence of videos and wait for a repeat of the same “episode” (in case you ever wanted to know if these were actual episodes or if they were just developed by a Vevo like algorithm). Sometimes if you’re lucky, you might even get non lead singles by relatively small named bands in the Nineties block. My biggest gripe would have to be their 120 Minutes block. They only show it Monday morning 12 AM to 2 AM (AKA Sunday night if you’re like me) which technically, no, it’s not late for me and I could watch all of it and go to bed directly at 2:01 AM and it would be “early” for me. but I only watch it as a treat if I have Monday off. Each 120 Minutes block I am vaguely disappointed at realizing it’s the same group of Radiohead, REM, Beck, Talking Heads, 80′s New Order and maybe Blur. Sometimes they throw in someone left field that surprises me, like Curve, The Sundays, or Aphex Twin, so I always keep it on just in case if I see someone new. But seeing Catherine Wheel on an even broader block was a definite surprise. They don’t get 120 Minutes play (or fellow shoegazers Lush, who I once saw have For Love on a women’s day playlist in March 2018, or My Bloody Valentine, who had a free on demand video on one of the Music Choice/Hive Music/etc options back in the day). If I still had a VHS that I knew how to use, I would just set up an auto recording and fast forward through it each Monday but that sounds like too much (I feel like in the forum era of the Internet we could crowdsource an index of songs that play on which MTV Classic block). I found an archive for an actual 120 Minutes episodes with some summaries for episodes. Although I never watched it, I can feel the nagging responsibility of unfinished homework, the weird hours of Sunday retail, the resentment and then the guilt of not being able to control your family’s Sunday plans and the unspoken dread I would get watching Sunday animation blocks knowing that Monday was one tossing-and-turning-in-bed away just through glancing these. It’s interesting seeing how often some videos would remain in rotation, what the musical hosts would play, or seeing people who I know get completely snubbed from the show (Adore by Smashing Pumpkins was completely snubbed from 120 Minutes at a quick glance). I’m confused because the show that they had after Kurt Cobain’s death didn’t play any Nirvana.

I feel like I don’t pay enough attention to Catherine Wheel. I have Ferment on CD but I still don’t know that much about them. I didn’t even know they were British! According to their Wiki, they vaguely parallel The Smashing Pumpkins with their debut album being different from their other albums, their second albums being heavier (ironically I would call Siamese Dream Smashing Pumpkins’ shoegaze album), their third album having their heaviest rock/metal moments, their fourth album being a new sound album, before taking a pause with their 5th album released in 2000.

Shoegaze is one of those genres where I almost have to compartmentalize it away in a box away because it feels like too big of a genre to just listen to. It takes me back to when I first started to fixate on it on a bad stretch of uninspiring job applications, awkward dating apps, and being at home in the summer when everyone is going away.

#catherine wheel #mtv classic #120 minutes #shoegaze

[littletroubledgrrrl]

I'm thinking of making so many "120 Minutes" gifs, even of recording artists whose music I like, though I don't listen to a lot.

#no doubt #gwen stefani #tony kanal #adrien young #tom dumont #90s #1996 #120 minutes #mtv

[sick-sad-little-world]

"Yeah, it starts when you're a kid and when you first eat sugared cereal, because it looks really colorful and cool and tastes really good.  And, then, you eat it... and it kinda works when you're a kid, but then, when you get older, you start to get constipated from it and bad things happen and your teeth rot."

120 Minutes -- May 19, 1996

(via @bearcub81212)

#soundgarden #chris cornell #120 minutes #down on the upside era #now whenever you listen to pretty noose #you will imagine chris stuck on the toilet!! #💩🚽😆😆 #❤️❤️❤️ #short-haired chris was beautiful #bearcub's gifs