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A tribute to the MTV music video showcase, 120 MINUTES (1986-2003), featuring the brightest names in alternative & indie | Sundays @ Midnight/11c
Joined January 2024
Okay, so starting tomorrow, while IG gets rehashed “BestOf” shit — for you guys, we’ll be adding some videos to the #120Vault. We’ll be retiring the alternative megahits I’ve been reluctant to play. “Why haven’t you played…?” Here you go!. The goggles were fucking ridiculous 🎩
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The Chemical Brothers feat. Noel Gallagher.“Let Forever Be”.Surrender.Astralwerks (1999).Director: Michel Gondry.
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Orange Juice.“Rip It Up”.Rip It Up.Polydor Records (1982). Still a total bop.
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They Might Be Giants feat. Doc Severinsen and the NBC Orchestra.“Birdhouse in Your Soul”.The Tonight Show w/ Johnny Carson (1990).Guest Host: Jay Leno. My favorite use of a late-night talk show band by a guest musician 🎺.
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The Breeders.“Cannonball”.Last Splash.4AD Records (1993).Director: Kim Gordon & Spike Jonze. A looming presence that could drop at any moment on every alt rock station, and we love it every time. The song that bought Kim two houses has bought a #120Vault.
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They Might Be Giants.“Ana Ng”.Lincoln.Bar/None Records (1988).Director: Adam Bernstein. #BestOf12024.
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Suicidal Tendencies.“Institutionalized”.Suicidal Tendencies.Frontier Records (1983).Director: Bill Fishman.
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‘The Adventures of Pete & Pete” opening credits (1993-1996).Song: Polaris - “Hey Sandy”. Top 10 all-time opening theme imho.
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UNKLE feat. Thom Yorke .“Rabbit in Your Headlights”.Psyence Fiction.Mo’ Wax (1998).Director: Jonathan Glazer.
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RIP Steve Albini (1962-2024). Big Black.“Bad Penny”.Live in Seattle (1987). Big Black’s legendary final show. After the gig, Steve would meet Kurt Cobain for the first time. Be well, Steve ✊.
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‘Saturday Night Live’ (1984).Synchronized Swimming. “You’re not angry at him. You’re just pointing at him.”.
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Cat Power.“Cross Bones Style”.Moon Pix.Matador Records (1998).Director: Brett Vapnek.
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‘Portlandia’ (2012).Shooting Star Preschool. “I’m getting very stressed out that the head of our school does not know about Neu!”. Also, the way Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse) says ‘Temple of the Dog’….
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Liquid Television (1991).“Æon Flux - Pilot”.Director: Peter Chung.
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‘It’s Kevin’ - BBC2 (2013).Amish Sex Pistols (Bill Grundy parody). “Nothing. Rude word. Next question.”.
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Björk .“Venus as a Boy”.Debut.OLI Records (1993).Director: Sophie Muller .
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Cracker.“Low” (Live).Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien (1993).David Lovering of the then-recently disbanded Pixies on drums 🥁. This chorus is my personal “Sweet Caroline”. It comes on in public, and I sing like a moron. A true anthem.
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Not even my “favorite” American band of the last 30 years, but the answer is undoubtedly Nine Inch Nails.
greatest american band of the last 30 years? .?.
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Silver Jews.“Random Rules”.American Water.Drag City (1998).Director: Paul Finn.
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PJ Harvey.“Wang Dang Doodle”.Live on 120 Minutes (1993).
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Wilco.“Someone Else’s Song” (Live).‘Snow Job’ - MuchMusic (1997). ‘Being There’-era Wilco is peak Wilco imho.
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Violent Femmes.“Gone Daddy Gone”.Violent Femmes.Slash Records (1983).Director: Doug Martin & Steven Martin.
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PJ Harvey.“Man-Size”.Rid of Me.Island Records (1993).Director: Maria Mochnacz. How do you not fall head over heels for her?.
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The Fall.“Big New Prinz” (Live).The Other Side of Midnight w/ Tony Wilson - Granada TV (1988).
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Pavement.“Shady Lane”.Brighten the Corners.Matador Records (1997).Director: Spike Jonze.
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‘The Kids in the Hall’ (1991).Into The Doors. “Greatest hits albums are for housewives and little girls!”.
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DJ Shadow."Midnight in a Perfect World".Endtroducing….Mo’ Wax (1996).Director: B Plus.
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Sonic Youth.“Shadow of a Doubt”.EVOL.SST Records (1986).Director: Kevin Kerslake .
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Hole.“Miss World”.Live Through This.DGC Records (1994).Director: Sophie Muller .
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The 120 Top 24 of All-Time… of 2024.#3️⃣. Nine Inch Nails.“March of the Pigs”.The Downward Spiral.Nothing Records (1994).Director: Peter Christopherson. An underrated classic we’ve just beat to death in recent years. Doesn’t minimize its greatness.
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My Bloody Valentine.“Only Shallow”.Loveless.Creation Records (1991).Director: Angus Cameron. #BestOf12024.
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The Week in Rock w/ Kurt Loder (1989).Pixies. MTV introduces America to the future of alternative rock music.
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Sonic Youth.“Incinerate” (Live).‘From the Basement’ (2007). Just cos we’re on the subject of SY — I know Daydream & Goo are the 2 top 100 caliber albums. I’ve easily listened to Dirty & Rather Ripped the most. RR with an all-time later-career single 🔥.
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Fine Young Cannibals.“Johnny Come Home”.Fine Young Cannibals.London Recordings (1985).
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Throwing Muses.“Not Too Soon”.The Real Ramona.4AD Records (1991).
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The Cure.“In Between Days”.The Head on the Door.Fiction Records (1985).Director: Tim Pope. Watching this video for the first time is a core memory for me. Arguably, “the best” Cure track.
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The Waitresses.“I Know What Boys Like”.Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?.Polydor Records (1982).Director: Ken Walz.
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Beastie Boys.“Sabotage”.Ill Communication.Grand Royal (1994).Director: Spike Jonze . If I could, I would turn this account into the goddamn 24/7 “Sabotage” channel. But I can’t, so I’ll play it once and retire it. Into the #120Vault, it goes.
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The Housemartins.“Happy Hour”.London 0 Hull 4.Go! Discs (1986).Director: Jeff Baynes.
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Pixies.“Velouria”.Bossanova.4AD Records.Director: Peter "Pinko" Fowler. The opening chords give me chills every time.
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MTV Japan Station ID (1993). Collaboration between ‘Tetsuo’ trilogy director Shinya Tsukamoto and Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor. The pair reunited for 2009’s ‘Tetsuo: The Bullet Man’.
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David Bowie.“Ashes to Ashes”.Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).RCA Records (1980).Director: David Bowie & David Mallet. At the time, this was the most expensive video ever produced (£250,000) 💷.
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Edie Brickell & New Bohemians.“What I Am”.Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars.Geffen Records (1988).Director: Jonas Livingston. If you hate this song, I feel sorry for the level of cynicism in your heart 🖤.
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New Order.“The Perfect Kiss”.Low-Life.Factory Records (1985).Director: Jonathan Demme.
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The Go-Go’s.“Our Lips Are Sealed”.Beauty and the Beat.I.R.S. Records (1981).Director: Derek Burbidge.
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Saint Etienne.“Only Love Can Break Your Heart”.Foxbase Alpha.Heavenly Recordings (1991).Director: Nicola Baldwin.
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Blur.“Beetlebum”.Blur.Food Records (1997).Director: Sophie Muller. Blur vs. Oasis? BLUR — zero hesitation. To go one further… I think Blur deserves the same respect Radiohead gets 🤷♂️.
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PJ Harvey.“Good Fortune”.Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea.Island Records (2000).Director: Sophie Muller.
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Elastica.“Waking Up”.Elastica.Deceptive Records (1995).
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Frank Black.“Headache”.Teenager of the Year.4AD Records (1994).Director: Adam Bernstein.
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The 120 Top 24 of All-Time… of 2024.#1️⃣. PJ Harvey.“Good Fortune”.Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea.Island Records (2000).Director: Sophie Muller. Isn’t the point of music videos to make rock stars look as cool & sexy as humanly possible?.
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MTV Visits Marvel (1992).Host: Karyn Bryant. Before becoming a multi-billion dollar entity, @KarynBryant introduces us to the artists behind Marvel Comics.
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Talking Heads.“This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)”.Speaking in Tongues.Sire Records (1983).Director: David Byrne. If I had to give an answer, this is my favorite song of all time.
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Teenage Fanclub.“What You Do to Me”.Bandwagonesque.Creation Records (1991).Director: Mark Romanek. “The best album made by white people in recent memory”.- Spin Magazine.
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Cocteau Twins .“Love’s Easy Tears”.Love’s Easy Tears.4AD Records (1986).
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Ciccone Youth.“Addicted to Love” (Robert Palmer cover).The Whitey Album.Enigma Records (1988).Director: Kim Gordon. Filmed in a shopping mall make-your-own music video booth.
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Dinosaur Jr. “Feel the Pain”.Without a Sound.Blanco y Negro Records (1994).Director: Spike Jonze. 3 videos up, 3 Spike Jonze videos down today. Will we place more of his into the #120Vault before we’re through? 🤷♂️.
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The House of Love."I Don't Know Why I Love You".The House of Love.Fontana Records (1990).Director: Peter Scammell.
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Pulp.“Babies”.His ‘n’ Hers.Gift Records (1994).Director: Jarvis Cocker.
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Nirvana.“In Bloom” (Original Version).Sub Pop Records (1991).Director: Steve Brown. #BestOf12024.
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‘Portlandia’ (2017).The B-52’s Box Set. “I like the hiss…”. This is a lot of y’all here. Not me. I’m perfect 😂.
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R.E.M. "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)".Reckoning.I.R.S. Records (1984).Director: Howard Libov. My favorite R.E.M tune.
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Björk .“Human Behavior”.Debut.OLI Records (1993).Director: Michel Gondry.
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The Prodigy.“Smack My Bitch Up”.The Fat of the Land.XL Recordings (1997).Director: Jonas Åkerlund. Due to the video’s depiction of drugs/sex/violence, it was relegated to midnight programming, making its debut on 120 Minutes. MTV banned it within weeks.
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Sunny Day Real Estate.“In Circles”.Diary.Sub Pop Records (1994).Director: Russell Bates.
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Cowboy Junkies .“Sweet Jane” (The Velvet Underground cover).The Trinity Session.Latent Recordings (1988).Director: Matt Mahurin.
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The Lemonheads.“It's a Shame About Ray”.It's a Shame About Ray.Atlantic Records (1992).Director: Jesse Peretz. Starring: Johnny Depp.
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120 Minutes (1992).‘A Day in the Park w/ Sonic Youth’. To promote the upcoming release of ‘Dirty’, SY throw a Fourth of July celebration with free jazz legend Sun Ra.
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The Chemical Brothers.“Elektrobank”.Dig Your Own Hole.Astralwerks (1997).Director: Spike Jonze.
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Bauhaus.“She’s in Parties”.Burning from the Inside.Beggars Banquet (1983).Director: Howard Guard.
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The Stone Roses.“Sally Cinnamon”.Revolver Records (1987). My favorite Stone Roses song.
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Tom Tom Club.“Genius of Love”.Tom Tom Club.Warner Records (1981).Director: Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel.
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Slowdive.“Alison”.Souvlaki.Creation Records (1993).Director: Mike Mason.
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The Breeders.“Divine Hammer”.Last Splash.4AD Records (1993).Director: Spike Jonze, Kim Gordon & Richard Kern.
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The Breeders.“Saints”.Last Splash.4AD Records (1993).Director: Frank Sacramento. #BestOf12024.
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Faith No More.“Epic”.The Real Thing.Slash Records (1989).Director: Ralph Ziman . An album so ahead of its time, it took nearly 2 years to chart when the band was busy producing an alternative rock game-changer. #120Vault.
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Pixies.“U-Mass”.Live on 120 Minutes (1991). My favorite band ever, if anyone was wondering 🤷♂️.
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The 120 Top 24 of All-Time… of 2024.#4️⃣. The Stone Roses.“I Wanna Be Adored”.The Stone Roses.Silvertone Records (1989). If you told me this was the greatest song ever, I probably wouldn’t argue with you.
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‘American Movie’ (1999).Director: Chris Smith. “Is that what you wanna do with your life? Suck down peppermint schnapps and try to call Morocco at two in the morning? That's senseless.”.
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The Rentals.“Friends of P.”.Return of the Rentals.Maverick Records (1995).Director: Matt Sharp & Jason Ruscio.
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Concrete Blonde.“Joey”.Bloodletting.I.R.S. Records (1990).Director: Jane Simpson. One of the all-time L.A. rock bands with an all-time power ballad 🔥🥀😭🙌.
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The Stone Roses.“Waterfall” (Live).‘The Other Side of Midnight w/ Tony Wilson’ - Granada TV (1989). Me, grooving behind the amps . #BestOf12024.
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Pavement.“Cut Your Hair”.Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain.Matador Records (1994).Director: Dan Koretzky & Rian Murphy.
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The White Stripes.“Party of Special Things to Do” (Captain Beefheart cover) (Live).‘From the Basement’ (2005). Hate to pile on here (liar, I love it), but do you know who’d never do a crypto show?.
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.“Talk About the Blues”.Acme .Matador Records (1998).Director: Evan Bernard. “I do not play no blues. I play rock ‘n’ roll.”.
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My Bloody Valentine.“Feed Me with Your Kiss”.Isn’t Anything.Creation Records (1988).Director: Douglas Hart.
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The White Stripes.“Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground”.White Blood Cells.Sympathy for the Record Industry (2001).Director: Michel Gondry . The day I bought this CD, I must’ve listened to this song about 15 times before I finally moved on to “Hotel Yorba”.
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‘The State’ (1994).Louie & The Last Supper. “HEY, EVERYBODY!”.
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Elastica.“Connection”.Elastica.Deceptive Records (1994).Director: David Mould.
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Beastie Boys.“Jimmy James”.Check Your Head.Grand Royal (1992).Director: Nathanial Hörnblowér & Lisa Ann Cabasa.
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The Flaming Lips.“She Don’t Use Jelly” (Live).‘The Jon Stewart Show’ (1995). Jon Stewart with an all-time intro.
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The 120 Top 24 of All-Time… of 2024.#2️⃣. The Smashing Pumpkins.“Cherub Rock”.Siamese Dream.Virgin Records (1993).Director: Kevin Kerslake.
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The Beat (The English Beat).“Save It for Later”.Special Beat Service.Go-Feet Records (1982).Director: Julien Temple. #BestOf12024.
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The B-52’s.“Planet Claire”.The B-52’s.Island Records (1979).
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Haircut 100."Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)".Pelican West.Arista Records (1981).
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fIREHOSE.“Brave Captain”.Ragin’, Full-On.SST Records (1986).
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The Beat (The English Beat).“Save It for Later”.Special Beat Service.Go-Feet Records (1982).Director: Julien Temple.
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