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MTV 120 Minutes

Posted:
Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:06 am
by bionicbigfoot
Hey everybody,
I just wrote an article about 120 Minutes for USA Today's Pop Candy website.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... bering-mtv’s-120-minutes/1
I think some of you may enjoy that. Also, if anyone here has tapes of 120 Minutes (from its debut in 1986 through the Kendall era) or Post-Modern MTV, I would gladly transfer them to DVD for you free of charge, and I would send them and the DVDs back to you. I would love to see this stuff again.
While we are on the topic, does anybody have any mp3s or CDs of 97.5 WPST's Post-Modern PST radio show that aired in the late 80s/early 90s. It aired in New Jersey/Philly and was hosted by Mel "Toxic" Taylor and Scott Lowe (On the Go).
Thanks folks!

Posted:
Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:10 am
by bionicbigfoot
The correct link for that article is:
http://tinyurl.com/l3jtpq

Posted:
Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:25 am
by budaniel
for a while, 120 Minutes was being aired on VH1 Classics on a regular basis. It may still be.

Posted:
Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:09 pm
by thefxc
[quote][i]Originally posted by budaniel[/i]
<br>for a while, 120 Minutes was being aired on VH1 Classics on a regular basis. It may still be.
[/quote]
It pops up from time to time at 3 or 4 AM. They're not the original episodes, tho--only videos that they used to play on 120. (As well as a few they never played--they showed Wire's "Silk Skin Paws" a few weeks back and I know 120 never played that back in the day...)

Posted:
Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:58 pm
by Wayne
Funny, whenever I briefly catch 120 Minutes on VH1 Classic it looks nothing to me like anything that resembles the original. Just a bunch of mainstream pseudo-alternative mostly chart-topping videos from yesteryear, nothing edgy about it (unlike the real 120 Minutes I remember).

Posted:
Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:26 pm
by DJ Phoenix
[quote]
Originally posted by bionicbigfoot
[br]Hey everybody,
I just wrote an article about 120 Minutes for USA Today's Pop Candy website.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... bering-mtv’s-120-minutes/1
I think some of you may enjoy that. Also, if anyone here has tapes of 120 Minutes (from its debut in 1986 through the Kendall era) or Post-Modern MTV, I would gladly transfer them to DVD for you free of charge, and I would send them and the DVDs back to you. I would love to see this stuff again.
While we are on the topic, does anybody have any mp3s or CDs of 97.5 WPST's Post-Modern PST radio show that aired in the late 80s/early 90s. It aired in New Jersey/Philly and was hosted by Mel "Toxic" Taylor and Scott Lowe (On the Go).
Thanks folks!
[/quote]
LMK if you find any? I've been looking for the original shows from it's inception, till 1990, forever.
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Posted:
Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:09 am
by glokstadt
I had many [i]120 Minutes[/i] episodes taped on Beta Max (Sony's big floped video format)--don't know what I did with them...
My most fave episode was when Larry "Bud" Melman (sp?) hosted a really crazy show, wher he made fun of the "King o' Pop's" glove for the Run DMC video of [i]It's Tricky[/i], IIRC...
But the ones I remember were all hosted by Peter Zaremba (sp?) of The Fleshtones.
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Posted:
Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:36 am
by glokstadt
[quote][i]Originally posted by bionicbigfoot[/i]
<br>The correct link for that article is:
http://tinyurl.com/l3jtpq
[/quote]
Nice article, well written, and I liked almost all the videos/songs you picked... I watched from 1986 to 1988-ish all the time! Then I had no cable for a period of time, and now all MTV is one giant reality show after another, yuck!

Posted:
Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:05 am
by Spudboy
[:I]I had a crush on Kennedy, so I liked the ones she hosted![:I]
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Posted:
Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:42 pm
by thefxc
[quote][i]Originally posted by glokstadt[/i]
But the ones I remember were all hosted by Peter Zaremba (sp?) of The Fleshtones.
[/quote]
Are you thinking of the IRS Records Cutting Edge Happy Hour? Zaremba hosted that, not 120.
That's a show somebody needs to recover from the archives.

Posted:
Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:26 am
by Retro_NRG
Thanks for posting the article, brings back many a fond musical memory from that time 20+ years back.
OMG.. I TOTALLY forgot about the Whitman Samplers- Dave Kendall <a href="http://davekendall.com/Audio/reallystupid1.mp3" target="blank">'I am really stupid' parody!'</a> Talk about 92.7 flashbacks[}:)]
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Posted:
Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:34 pm
by glokstadt
[quote][i]Originally posted by thefxc[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by glokstadt[/i]
But the ones I remember were all hosted by Peter Zaremba (sp?) of The Fleshtones.
[/quote]
Are you thinking of the IRS Records Cutting Edge Happy Hour? Zaremba hosted that, not 120.
That's a show somebody needs to recover from the archives.
[/quote]
Oh yeah, I just confused the two shows there thefxc. I didn't tape 120 Mins., I taped [i]The Cutting Edge[/i] show that Peter hosted. I sure confused the two, haven't thought of that show in soooo long, the memory banks had cobbwebs...[:D]

Posted:
Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:01 am
by thefxc
[quote]
Oh yeah, I just confused the two shows there thefxc. I didn't tape 120 Mins., I taped [i]The Cutting Edge[/i] show that Peter hosted. I sure confused the two, haven't thought of that show in soooo long, the memory banks had cobbwebs...[:D]
[/quote]
I think they showed them back-to-back, maybe with The Young Ones in between? My god I had a lonely childhood.
But yes, while I'd love to see old 120 shows, I'd kill to watch Cutting Edge again.

Posted:
Sun Sep 06, 2009 3:17 am
by Slicing Up Eyeballs
Wasn't there also a show called "Post-Modern"? Maybe with Kevin Seal hosting?
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Posted:
Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:53 am
by Ollie Stench