The 120 Minutes Archive

1988 | MTV | 120 Minutes

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December 25, 1988Sugarcubes special
December 18, 1988They Might Be Giants
November 7, 1988host Kevin Seal
October ?, 1988(no guest listed)
October ?, 1988The Godfathers special
September 25, 1988host Kevin Seal
September 18, 1988host Kevin Seal
August 21, 1988host Kevin Seal
August 7, 1988(no guest listed)
July 31, 1988(no guest listed)
July ?, 1988(no guest listed)
July 8, 1988(no guest listed)
July 1, 1988(no guest listed)
June ?, 1988(no guest listed)
June 12, 1988host Carolyne Heldman
May 22, 1988Midnight Oil
May ?, 1988(no guest listed)
May ?, 1988(no guest listed)
May 1, 1988host Kevin Seal
April 17, 1988(no guest listed)
April ?, 1988(no guest listed)
March 13, 1988host Kevin Seal
February ?, 1988(no guest listed)
January 24, 1988host Kevin Seal
January 17, 1988(no guest listed)
January 10, 1988(no guest listed)
November 7, 1988
Source for this playlist: Karen G.
Host: Kevin Seal

Date for Playlist: Kevin Seal "Tomorrow it's the V word... Vote!" Election day was on November 8. Also a commercial, "Child's Play starts Wednesday November 9". The DVD begins with Dave Kendall introducing the top 10 college radio chart and ends after The Feelies video.

COCTEAU TWINS - "Carolyn's Fingers"
THE BALANCING ACT - "Can You Get to That"
SINEAD O'CONNOR - "Mandinka"
THAT PETROL EMOTION - "Cellophane"
FISHBONE - "Freddie's Dead"
PETER SHELLEY - "Telephone Operator"
THE TIMELORDS - "Doctorin' the Tardis"
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES - "Peek-A-Boo"

Kevin Seal introduces the second half of 120 Minutes: "coming up, videos from the Lime Spiders and The Pop Tarts"

SUGARCUBES - "Motorcrash" (World Premiere)
THE THE - "Infected"
EDDIE BRICKELL AND THE NEW BOHEMIANS - "What I Am"
THE JACK RUBIES - "Be With You"
THE FEELIES - "Away"
LIME SPIDERS - ?
THE POP TARTS - ?
September 25, 1988
Source for this playlist: Amy Macnamara
Host: Kevin Seal (in tux with a bluescreen closeup of a mouth talking behind him)

Date clue: Commercial for "INXS Sunday" which was to be "next Sunday Oct. 2nd"

X-Ray: XTC
"Talk About The Passion" - R.E.M.
Alternative Top 10 Albums - #1 Tighten Up Vol. 88 by Big Audio Dynamite
"Just Play Music" - Big Audio Dynamite
"Away" - The Feelies
"Every Word Means No" - Let's Active (Cult Classic)
"My Bag" - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
"Back On The Breadline" - Hunters & Collectors
Dave Kendall record reviews: Rank by The Smiths, Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven by Love & Rockets reissue, Lightning Strikes by Lightning (Dave says it's "crap", Kevin interjects and says it was "funny"!), and Ghost Stories by Dream Syndicate
"I Have Faith" - Dream Syndicate
TAPE ENDS :(

Throughout the episode Kevin Seal mentions videos by The Primitives, The Church, In Tua Nua, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Screaming Tribesmen, Iggy Pop, Shriekback, and Moev.
September 18, 1988
Source for this playlist: Amy Macnamara
Host: Kevin Seal

Date clue: Kevin Seal says "We're all still getting over the Video Music Awards" which is typically held in September. I looked up the air date for the 1988 VMAs and it was September 7. This episode is probably from Sunday, September 18, 1988.

I didn't record all the videos. I cut some out :O But here is what I have:

"Back On The Breadline" - Hunters & Collectors
Dave Kendall (before toupee and he was lookin' HOT!) has a story on the LA Underground Club Scene. He's at a place called Alcohol Salad.
"The 51st State" - New Model Army
"Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before" - The Smiths
"I Have Faith" - Dream Syndicate
"Confusion" - New Order (Cult Classic)
More Dave Kendall at Alcohol Salad
"Get Down Tonight" - Shriekback
Psychedelic Furs video (cut the video before the title of it)
Top 10 Alternative Records - #1 Tighten Up Vol. 88 by Big Audio Dynamite
"Just Play Music" - Big Audio Dynamite
"We Have The Technology" - Pere Ubu
"Christine" - The House Of Love
"Jim Morrison's Grave" - Steve Taylor
"Peek-A-Boo" - Siouxsie & The Banshees
"Doctor And The Tardies" - The Timelords
X-Ray on Joy Division
"Atmosphere" - Joy Division

Throughout the episode Kevin Seal also mentions videos by Screaming Tribesmen, Michelle Shocked, Sugarcubes, Thowing Muses, Public Image Ltd, and Paul Kelly.
August 21, 1988
Source for this playlist: Keith B.

hosted by Kevin Seal
(date clue: before Aug 23rd - concert dates. last week's guest was Paul Garrin)

Psychedelic Furs - All That Money Wants
(Top 10 College Radio Chart with Dave Kendall - Crowded House - Temple of Low Men; The House of Love - s/t; Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peek-a-Boo; Paul Kelly - Under the Sun; Iggy Pop - Instinct; Big Audio Dynamite - Tighten Up Vol. '88; Patti Smith - Dream of Life; The Primitives; Shriekback - Go Bang; The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good)
The Sugarcubes - Cold Sweat
Hunter & Collectors - Back on the Breadline
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek-a-Boo
Patti Smith - People Have the Power
Stump - Charlton Heston
James - What For?
Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back
Big Audio Dynamite - Just Play Music
(120 X-Ray - The Primitives; interview with Tracey Tracey)
The Primitives - Crash
Ranking Roger - So Excited
Close Lobsters - Let's Make Some Plans
Iggy Pop - Cold Metal
(New releases with Dave Kendall - Hugo Largo - Drum; James - Strip-mine; Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Abbey Road EP; Suicidal Tendencies - Trip at the Brain)
Beatnik Beatch - Beatnik Beatch
The Cure - Why Can't I Be You
The House of Love - Christine
Depeche Mode - Strangelove
Soul Asylum - Cartoon
Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Living Colour - Middle Man
(Music news - Paul Garrin vid - Elliott Sharpe - "Free Society")
Sparks - So Important
June 12, 1988
Sources for this playlist: Annie Z., Keith B.
Host: Carolyne Heldman
(date clue: The Great Outdoors opens Friday)

YouTube has a user-uploaded video of an MTV station ID and open for this episode of 120 Minutes with host Carolyne Heldman. You can find it on YouTube at Carolyne Heldman MTV 120 Minutes 1988, if it is still up. (last checked April 4, 2011)

The Church - Under the Milky Way
(Top 10 College Radio Chart w/ Dave Kendall - Jesus and Mary Chain - Barbed Wire Kisses; Timbuk 3 - Eden Alley; Soul Asylum - s/t; The Pixies - Surfer Rosa; Tracy Chapman - s/t; Thomas Dolby - Aliens Ate My Buick; Graham Parker - The Mona Lisa Sister; Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers - Conscious Party; Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart; Peter Murphy - Love Hysteria)
Peter Murphy - All Night Long
Big Audio Dynamite - The Bottom Line
Graham Parker - Get Started. Start a Fire
Thomas Dolby - Airhead
Shona Laing - Soviet Snow
Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers - Tomorrow People
The Jam - A Town Called Malice
Soul Asylum - Sometime to Return
(120 Mins. X-ray - Tracy Chapman)
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
Morrissey - Everyday is Like Sunday
Smithereens - Only a Memory
(Record reviews with Dave Kendall - Ramones - Ramones Mania; Anarchy 6 - Hardcore Lives!; Wire - A Bell is a Cup Until It's Struck; Devo - Total Devo)
Prefab Sprout - The Golden Calf
Mighty Lemon Drops - Fall Down (Like the Rain)
Timbuk 3 - Rev. Jack & His Roamin' Cadillac Church
The Cure - Why Can't I Be You
The Fall - Victoria
The Mission U.K. - Tower of Strength
They Might Be Giants - (She Was A) Hotel Detective
[unknown video - not identified, not Google-able, not Shazam-able, not very good]
(New Music News - 2 Live Crew, Sinead O'Connor)
The Mekons - Ghosts of American Astronauts
March 13, 1988
Source for this playlist: Keith B.

hosted by Kevin Seal
(date clue: D.O.A. "starts Friday" - rel. 3/18/88)

Billy Bragg - Greetings to the New Brunette
Balaam & The Angel - I Love the Things That You Do to Me
The Grapes of Wrath - Backward Town
(Top 10 College Radio Chart with Dave Kendall - Fishcotheque - The Jazz Butcher; She's Having a Baby - OST; The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland; T Bone Burnett - The Talking Animals; Jerry Harrison - Casual Gods; The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God; The Church - Starfish; The Godfathers - Birth School Work Death; Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust; Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Globe of Frogs)
Big Audio Dynamite - C'Mon Every Beatbox
The Christians - Forgotten Town
R.E.M. - Finest Worksong
The Connells - Over There
Ministry - Revenge
(Fields of the Nephilim interview)
Fields of the Nephilim - Blue Water
The Godfathers - Birth. School. Work. Death
Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning
Screaming Blue Messiahs - Bikini Red
(New releases with Dave Kendall - Nick Lowe - Pinker and Prouder Than Previous; Jimmy Cliff - Hanging Fire; Fini Tribe - Make It Internal; False Prophets - Implosion)
Jane Siberry - Ingrid (and the Footman)
T Bone Burnett - Killer Moon
The Cure - Hot. Hot. Hot.
The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon
The Church - Under the Milky Way
World at a Glance - Burning Out
Bomb the Bass - Beat Dis (excerpt)
(120 X-Ray - Bomb The Bass "Beat Dis" video excerpt, Tim Simenon interview)
The Woodentops - Wheels Turning

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