Okay, finally...here it is. The 120 Minutes Tribute CDR Project.

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This 700MB CDR GO! project evokes the flavor of the MTV series "120 Minutes"; It's a mess of Dave Kendall approved "college rock" circa 1988-1992 (mostly.)
The project is split into four "Episodes"; Each Episode is roughly 2 hours long (if played beginning to end with no interruptions.)
So... here it goes...

EPISODE ONE
808 State - Pacific 707 Adrian Belew and David Bowie - Pretty Pink Rose An Emotional Fish - Celebrate Angry Samoans - Lights Out! Anthrax - I'm the Man (Def Uncensored Version) B-52's - 52 Girls B-52's - Topaz Bettie Serveert - Rudder Big Dipper - She's Fetching Billy Bragg - Sexuality Black Velvet Flag - I Shot JFK Blake Babies - I'm Not Your Mother Bob Mould - See A Little Light Breeders - Cannonball Broken Social Scene - Stars and Sons Bush Tetras - Can't Be Funky Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men (Cover) Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling Chills - Heavenly Pop Hit Church - I am a Rock Church - Under the Milky Way Cocteau Twins - Cherry Coloured Funk Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck Concrete Blonde - God Is a Bullet Cramps - What's Inside a Girl? Cure - Hello I Love You (Rare Doors Cover) Cure - Just Like Heaven (Dizzy Mix) Cure - Purple Haze Danielle Dax - Fizzing Human Bomb Danielle Dax - White Knuckle Ride David Sylvian - Orpheus De La Soul - The Magic Number Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer

EPISODE TWO
Dead Kennedies - Police Truck Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl Depeche Mode - Master And Servant Depeche Mode - World in My Eyes Descendents - Suburban Home Devo - Smart Patrol-Mr. Dna Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind Dinosaur Jr. - The Wagon Divine Comedy - Something for the Weekend Echo and the Bunnymen - Do It Clean Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon Eels - Novacaine for the Soul Elvis Costello - Radio, Radio (SNL Performance) EMF - Unbelievable English Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom English Beat - Tears Of A Clown Enigma - Return to Innocence Enigma - Sadeness Fall - Victoria Falling Joys - Your Names Fear - Let's Have a War Feelies - White Light, White Heat (Velvet Underground cover) Fine Young Cannibals - Ever Fallen in Love Front 242 - Modern Angel (KMFDM remix) Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed Hoodoo Gurus - Come Anytime Hoodoo Gurus - Miss Freelove '69 Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns to Blue Ian McCulloch - Candleland Imperial Teen - Ivanka James - Sit Down Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth Kate Bush - Sensual World La's - Son of a Gun La's - There She Goes

EPISODE THREE
Lloyd Cole - Downtown Lloyd Cole - No Blue Skies Lone Justice - Ways to Be Wicked Loreena McKennitt - All Souls Night Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd Lush - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep Lush - Hypocrite Lush - Sweetness and Light Madness - House Of Fun Madness - One Step Beyond Meat Puppets - Swimming Ground Midnight Oil - Sometimes Ministry - Stigmata Misfits - Teenagers from Mars Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song Mission of Burma - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate Morrissey - Everyday is Like Sunday No Doubt - Oi! to the World! Passions - In Love with a German Film Star Pogues - Turkish Song of the Damned Primitives - Crash Psychedelic Furs - Until She Comes Public Image Ltd - Armada Public Image Ltd - Disappointed Raincoats - No One's Little Girl Records - Starry Eyes REM - Radio Free Europe Replacements - I Will Dare Ride - Vapour Trail Robyn Hitchcock - Balloon Man Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug Roxy Music - Take A Chance With Me

EPISODE FOUR
Sarah McLachlan - Vox (Extended) Scrawl - I'm Ready Shonen Knife - Twist Barbie Shriekback - Nemesis.mp3 Sinéad O'Connor - Jackie Sisters of Mercy - Doctor Jeep Smashing Pumpkins - Siva Smiths - How Soon is Now? Smoking Popes - Pure Imagination Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch - Death Valley '69 Soul Asylum - Sometime to Return Soupdragons - Divine Thing Soupdragons - I'm Free Spandau Ballet - To cut a long story short Squeeze - Up The Junction Stereo MC's - Connected Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster Sugarcubes - Birthday Sugarcubes - Hit Sundays - I Kicked a Boy Sundays - Wild Horses Swervedriver - 99th Dream Terence Trent D'arby - Sign Your Name Terence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well They Might Be Giants - Twisting Thomas Dolby - Airhead Turnbuckles - Super Destroyer Mark II Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65 Wire - Outdoor Miner Wire - Reuters World Party - Way Down Now XTC - Across This Antheap XTC - Grass XTC - Merely a Man Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers - Tomorrow People

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Needs SM and Bob from Pavement interviewed by Lewis Largent.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I think yer giving dave kendall more credit then he deserves. and those mission of burma songs should be mission u.k. songs.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm so tempted to insert fake commericals and fake interviews, but the end result would've been tackier than that Melissa Marchant "interview"

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Passions - In Love with a German Film Star

I love love love this song. Was there ever a video for it?

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know. I don't think so.
I just added it because I like it and it seemed to fit.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

it was '81 though... seems a bit early for the 120 format.

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you need to change one of those Dino Jr songs to Feel the Pain

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Feel the Pain"? By Who?

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't have a copy of "Feel the Pain"

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Nearin' as I can remember, the Mats didn't have a video for I Will Dare. Therefore the song my be Bastards of Young. K? Thx. Bye.

― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

someone should do a v2: the pinfield years

― andrew s, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

proof that though unnamed, the "genre" of Alternative still existed like a rotting corpse. dave kendall is like a bowl of pudding that you think has raisins in it but they are really dead flies

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I favor the Pinfield years m'self...

― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

someone should do a v2: the pinfield years
anyone want to volunteer?

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

No, but I'll make comments...

― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah the the good ol' days, sitting down to watch 120 Minutes for the likes of Broken Social Scene, Roxy Music and The Bush Tertras, brings back some fond memories it does.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Pinfield aka "The Little Troll" who compares everything to either the Pixies, Husker Du or the Replacements.

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

where are the Ostzonensuppenwürfel-machenkrebs? they where all over 120min AFAIR. in europe anyways.

― mrjackhandey (mrjackhandey), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the best things I ever saw on 120 Minutes was Jeff Buckley playing a soaring version of "Grace" live. That, and an obviously-wasted-as-fuck Beck forgetting the words to "Pay No Mind" and mushmouthedly fudging his way through it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I, uh, could do the Pinfield years, uh, seeing as I was the producer of 120 Minutes back then.

But then I'm trying to distance myself from those achy memories.

― scott m (mcd), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

DAVID KENDALL: So, Ned's Atomic Dustbin is an unusual name. how did you come up with it?
NED'S ATOMIC BIN: Uh, you know. That's really an old question that we've really gotten tired of answering. It's a pretty bad ---
DAVID KENDALL: THEN DON'T FUCKING NAME YOUR BAND "NED'S ATOMIC FUCKING DUSTBIN"!

I swear that I saw this on MTV sometime in the early '90s. Yes, I may have been stoned.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

But it's the best band name ever in existence!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

my favorite "120 minutes" moment (don't remember if it was dk though)

INTERVIEWER: "so is beck your real name?"
BECK: "..."
INTERVIEWER: "so um, what are you trying to do with your music"
BECK: "..."
BECK: "..."
BECK: "i just like to freak"
INTERVIEWER: "so, um..."

and at that point beck took off his shoe and threw it across the studio, beaning a camera.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Squeeze in there Curve 'Fait Accompli' and maybe 'The Size of a Cow' by the Wonderstuff

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that was the show that Thurston Moore hosted and interviewed Beck? He also smashed a phone with a bat.

― scott m (mcd), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

is THAT who it was??? i was just out of grade school, i think, so definitely too young to know what "sonic youth" was as anything other than a vaguely recognized name. wow!

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

And Mike D stopped by as well. It's an incredible piece of television.

― scott m (mcd), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, definitely was Thurston. They freestyled over a small transistor if I remember correctly.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"I think that was the show that Thurston Moore hosted and interviewed Beck? He also smashed a phone with a bat. "

Yes, that's probably the greatest thing I've ever seen on television. There was one part where Thurston, Beck and Mike D performed some really odd/genius jam session-type-thing - one of them was playing with a walkie-talkie/radio device, or maybe it was a theremin, and one of them had a guitar that was plugged into a miniature guitar amp, and was sliding the amp over the strings.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

GOD i wonder if this is on mpeg somewhere ... i'd love to see it again.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Thurston and Beck were also on that one teenager's show - God, what was that kid's name? he did the show from his bedroom! - jamming on like hitsticks and a toy guitar or something. Those crazy freaks.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Squirt TV. Lasted like 6 episodes.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

two incidents from the days back when MTV was cool. Both are from "Postmodern MTV"; a sister program to "120 Minutes."

Scene: Tim Sommer interviewing Andy Partridge in a toy store, next to a glass case filled with tiny soliders. "It was cruel to set the interview here. With all these toy soliders." Partridge make "grabby" hand gestures at the toy soldiers through the glass. "This is like porn to me! I love these! I want to fill my attic full of these toy soldiers. (sighs)"

Scene II: The host this week is Robyn Hitchcock. He is immaculately groomed, and decked out in a shnazzy tux and top hat. After showing off a few videos by other people, he shows one of his own -- 'Madonna of the Wasps' -- In the video, he dressed in a shnazzy tux and top hat. The video ends and it cuts back to the studio. Strangely enough, Hitchcock is now all disheveled, unshaven and tired looking. His suit is mussed up and buttoned wrong, and his top hat is damaged. With a look of bloodless exhaustion, he mutters painfully:
"Oh God! I'm glad I don't look like that in real life."

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Include the interview where Bjork is asked how to pronounce her name. (by Largent, I think.) If I remember correctly, and I'm pretty sure I do, it's "beerk" rather than the "bee-york" that most people continue to say.

Also, Catherine Wheel's live performance of "Black Metallic" is worthy of any 120 Minutes history.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I might have an mp3 of "Black Metallic"...but which track (from "Episode One") should dissapear to fit it in?

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually had the Beck/Thurston/Mike D. episode on tape at one point. I'd give anything to find that so I could convert it to mpeg...well, not anything.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I might actually have a copy in my attic.

― scott m (mcd), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I my still have that Cath. Wheel performance on tape, but it was a good ten minutes, so you'd have to toss two or three cuts to fit it.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to have an mp3 of the Thurston/Beck/Mike D jam session, but lost it in The Great Re-Formatting of 2002.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 22 January 2004 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

so...nobody has gotten around to doing a Volume 2: The Pinfield Years, yet?

― Lord Custos Sigma (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 6 August 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i always preferred kevin seal to dave kendall.
less annoying and appropriately smarmy/funny.
also, the comp needs more synthpop. erasure, gene loves jezebel, the mission, book of love etc were common staples on the show too.

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Kevin Seal! That's what that eyebrow guy's name was.
The make this compilation more accurate you're going to want to put more tepid brit crap on so you can fast forward through most of it, just like in the old days.

― sexyDancer, Friday, 6 August 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

did 120 minutes ever really play Death Valley '69? I think it was too gory for them. They played Teenage Riot once or twice but didn't get behind Sonic Youth untill Goo.

Is this the correct order:

Downtown Julie Brown->China Kantor->Kevin Seal->Dave Kendell?

who am I missing?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The longhaired guy and the bald guy.

― sexyDancer, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

matt pinfield, but who was the longhaired guy?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

also, the comp needs more ... gene loves jezebel

No it does not.

No no no no.

1000 x no.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Lewis Largent was the long haired one. He always seemed out of place.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

does Post-Modern MTV deserve it's own thread?

no, I thought not.

Who was your favorite host? Tim Sommers or Robyn Hitchcock?

Hitchcock was CRAZIER then he's ever been.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved Robyn Hitchcock on PMMTV
I loved how he'd start telling bizarre stories that'd sorta lead into the video but sorta not

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a huge crush on robyn hitchcock. he sent me an email once, and i still have it saved. he's very tall, unlike most people that you meet who turn out to be quite short.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

if you asked him he'd probably say he's still growing because his mother mated with deep sea insect creatures.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Lewis Largent was in the music dept. at MTV, he programmed the music for the show. When they couldn't figure out a host, he stepped in. He always sucked. I produced that (goddamn) show for awhile in the Pinfield years. I always thought the "guest hosts" were the most fun. ie Beck and Thurston.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Remember when Rollins guesthosted and called Thurston out as a man for the "%100" video, claiming it made light of Joe Cole's death?
JONZED!

― sexyDancer, Friday, 6 August 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

ok guys, I'm ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE that I have the Beck/Thurston/Mike D 120 Min (which I made copies of for friends back then and we were all obsessed with), the Pavement episode, AND probably most if not all of the Squirt TV episodes on VHS in storage. If I have a chance to to get them out and convert them to mpeg (that is if they haven't totally deteriorated by now) I'll be sure to let y'all know.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

LEWIS LARGENT: So, Paul, it's good to have you here. I'm a huge fan.
PAUL WESTERBERG: Yeah, thanks.
LEWIS LARGENT: I noticed that you never put lyrics in your CD booklet. Why is that?
PAUL WESTERBERG: ...

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I wanted to punch LL in the mouth so many times...

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

anyways, I also had tons of 120 minutes on video, and before that, my sister was taping them, which is why we have episodes with Downtown Julie Brown and Kevin Seal hosting on video. I have a christmas episode from 1989 where Joey Ramone gives Dave Kendell a fruitcake while the Ordinaires play Led Zeppelin songs as a string quartet. One summer during college I went through all my sisters videos and mine and made 3 volumes of videos, also drawing from Snub, Nigth Flight, Yo! MTV Raps, and BET Rap City. Some good videos. Favorites being Christine by House of Love, Kray Twins by Renegade Soundwave(that one care of Snub) etc

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone remember the Cutting Edge show hosted by Peter Zaremba? I've some of those on VHS. I haven't played them in years so it's probably one mass of plastic and rust.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I still miss Night Flight.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude man, Night Flight was BLACK:
http://www23.brinkster.com/nightflight1/prescott.html

― sexyDancer, Friday, 6 August 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I still have a Cabaret Voltaire documentary-type thing I taped off Night Flight. Unfortunately, it did not occur to me to tape Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

They played Teenage Riot once or twice but didn't get behind Sonic Youth untill Goo.

I remember seeing "Silver Rocket" a couple times.

I was pretty obsessive about 120 Minutes when I was at college, 87-91. It was a good way to end the weekend. Was De La Soul ever really on, though? I don't remember any hip-hop on there. We had "Yo MTV Raps!" for that in those days, children. And Terence Trent D'Arby was not on 120 Minutes. Was he?

Other things I do remember: the Connells, Art of Noise, PiL, Mighty Lemon Drops, NIN, Love and Rockets, That Petrol Emotion, Flesh for Lulu, Jesus and Mary Chain...

― spittle (spittle), Saturday, 7 August 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Lewis Largent I believe was the guy who did the really, really horrible commentary in that documentary thingy about Nirvana Unplugged, wasn't he?

ok guys, I'm ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE that I have the Beck/Thurston/Mike D 120 Min ...the Pavement episode, AND probably most if not all of the Squirt TV episodes on VHS in storage

There's not much I wouldn't do for a copy of those. I've been writing to this guy on and off about trying to get episodes of Squirt TV for a while. And the 15-second clip I have of Beck, Thurston and Mike D has been sparking my curiosity for 8 long years. I can only assume it's nothing less than the greatest moment in MTV history.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 8 August 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember the Connells running through the snow and absolutely totally not understanding that kind of music, while being for some reason taken by it.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 8 August 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

yo those here may want to check out this YouTube directory of videos from 120 Minutes:

http://120minutes.tumblr.com

the description (not mine): "I've been curating a tumblr site that serves as a repo for all the videos I can find on YT that played on 120 Minutes. For now I've left off the stuff that debuted there and then got big. There's a lot of great stuff that I haven't heard in 10+ years. Some of the videos even kept their intros, which is a trip down memory lane. I can't be the only one here who spent a lot of sunday nights in front of the TV from midnight til two."

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

Spotify playlist:
http://open.spotify.com/user/jseraf/playlist/5KzNRR2bGt74zzpD01A3dZ

Put together using the 1986-1991 listings (so far) on the 120 Minutes Archive site.

― john. a resident of chicago., Wednesday, 3 August 2011 15:36 (fourteen years ago)

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