MTV Best Of 120 Minutes Live 1996 

…and then they made Henry announce Oasis.

@@mm9773Henry is a corporate shill

I remember when we got cable and I could not wait for Sunday night so I could watch 120. Apart from Headbangers Ball, it was the only show worth watching. I miss it terribly as it was a part of my youth. I don’t even remember the last time I watched mtv, it sucks so bad.

I lived in a small southern town. This was the inky way I hear about new music. I discovered so many new bands because I heard them on 120 Minutes

@@rubaidaallen2764 it really is a travesty what it has become

Yeah I catch that occasionally. But I really wish they would just show old episodes. But I realize copyright law prevents this. So I have to source my nostalgia elsewhere

I'm 25 so I missed this era by quite a bit, but there's plenty of us "not normal" kids in the next generation, we're all comrades waving the black flag.

Just as the generation before us got to see Zeppelin, Sabbath, and Queen grow into world changing superstars, we got to go see bad brains, Soundgarden, the Melvins, Fugazi, Jane’s Addiction, and even White Zombie the same way, on their way up, the heydays, and while I’ll never get to see Sabbath in America in 1970 ever again, you younger gen missed Chris Cornell achieving Godlike statues, but here we are getting older, and the joys we had embracing Zeppelin and Sabbath a decade or more after their apex, can be embraced by you with Nothing’s Shocking, Siamese Dream, and Psalm 69, just like we worshipped Houses of the Holy and Vol. 4. Lint is that as time elapses, none of us really has a gain or loss or truly missed something not offset with another thing our elders missed out on more recently. Gearhead who died by 2000 and lived and breathed Hemi Chargers and Cobra Jet Mustangs, with roughly 400hp, would have sent us straight to the looney bin if we told them in their last days that we would be able to buy a factory warranties, brand new, 800hp American full sized, 120” wheelbase sedan that could eclipse 200mph, and it would cost less than $100,000, PLUS, we’d have portable phones the size of our hands that could help us find out the answers to almost any question you could dream of, besides of course, who killed JR Ewing, why do rockstars commit suicide, and why did Republic as become the opposite of what they seemed to have stood for, while Democrats aimlessly played damage control full time, while simultaneously committing similar offenses as the party which they so often condemned. But we now know that the horse Es carriage did indeed replace the horse when the naysayers against the automobile at the time dwarfed the naysayers against EV cars today. The more things change, the more things stay somewhat similar but slightly different. Those that don’t learn from history, are darned if they do, darned if they don’t.

SALUD!

1 - It doesn't have Matt Pinfield? Not 120 Minutes 2 - "It's been reformatted"... Most people don't realize it's still on the air because it clearly isn't. I could name my bear "120 Minutes" and that doesn't mean "120 Minutes" shits in the woods. I was driving through Texas, so I thought I'd stop off at Paris but I couldn't find no Louvre Museum. What a rip off.

Me too. So so much.

Sure as hell beats the hell on earth this planet is quickly turning into nowadays. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It was even better in the 80s, when it was shockingly new, and bands could get famous for crap songs 'cuz they had a great video.

Ugh that last song (among others) is so bleeding mainstream.

Ok now I know why I never watched 120 minutes. Well that and the fact that I didn't have cable.

"Chump" not Champ🤷‍♂️

@@gorillaointment4653 Shut up its a great song.

@@joelmiddaugh8229 tienes cerebro quebrada

Kento Of Hard Rock when mtv was.

It was even better before this... as much as I hate to say it, Gen X... our cynicism killed MTV.

@@CaalamusTube What you talking about? Gen X was out of youth culture by 2005 when MTV took its plummet.

Reading comprehension... get some! The cause & effect is pretty simple. Gen X grew up on MTv... then we became the execs that turned it into empty v! Also, 2005? I'm at the tale end of Gen X & I was well & thoroughly disenchanted with it by 1999!! Fuck what it became! A sham/e!

Except for Rollins Band, Violent Femmes, and maybe Concrete Blonde these were all pretty mainstream bands. 120 Minutes really did push some raw stuff but this video doesn't really show that.

MTV is one the very causes of this failed generation, when they left music behind and started investing in stupidity

MTV in its full form only lasted less than 20 years. That means that plentiful of youth grew up without MTV and they turned out fine.

I would say it's the other way around. Gladly my experience with MTV can accumulate to few years with plenty of years pause in between. Plenty of idiotic shows before and after my childhood so collectively each generation had some garbage to look at enough to bad influence or simply toxic content something you turn away from anyway if have common sense. I mean watching or better say listening to this video alone is proof that even this contains some things that are garbage. Some of it is good. Yelling into a microphone or mumbling words is not singing ... playing three notes in a loop is not music ... these people should be DJs or something instead of having those instruments only to play 3 chords and 3 notes in repeat ... with that said I can say that you are blinded by nostalgia or whatever you suffer from. But the worst was when they aired "reality shows" and completely cut music content. Which I have no clue what year that would be but gotta be mid 00's least. I know by that time my cable provider didn't had ANY MTV at all and I am glad for it. And never had it ever since, which is probably more then 20 years by now.

That's ok...they were spared of having to witness MTV become the "Ridiculousness" Network...😊😊😊😊😊😊

So youre saying that you don't think pregnant teen mothers are great entertainment?

Me too i just turned 40. These were some good times.

im 48 and i still can smell the 90s as well ... except maybe when i smell burt toast for no reason ... ;)

So i think you remember nothing?!?..... Ok maybe a little taste after fresh puke.... Could i permit, i think.... Skoal girls and boys

I’m 39 i miss watching rap and metal videos and rock some jazz Movies at 3 am hbo

Do you remember dog eat dog, no fronts? m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-41KJCoydlEU.html Really great song even nowadays....

They had to have no knowledge of Henry Rollins at all to not know that would just make him be sarcastically enthusiastic.

Rollins was more entertaining than most of these performances, but that should be expected from me since Sabbath is my number 1 band and Rollins Band (both lineups) my number 2.

I love and respect Henry, but he can play the game with the very best of them. Proof that the best way to play the game is to seem that you ain't playing the game. The crux of punk.

Sure, if you find people with personality disorders funny. I mean, if you're a sociopath, that makes perfect sense.

@@le_th_ huh

Having to listen to green day, oasis and bush will do that to a man…

@@FirstnameLastname-mb2ek 3 great bands

​@@alfiegaishauser5326 I agree for the most part, but they're also three bands that seem hand-picked to enrage Henry Rollins

yes

BUSH!! WHAT A BAND!! .. lol just a hint of sarcasm I think 😂

morons lol ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2_NR1l6QrCc.html

The 90’s could have done away with the Rollins Band- No TALENT AT ALL!!! Man those 90’s record companies really thought anyone that can form a band and wear flannels could sell records!!!

@NotSnarl He isn't Black flags best singer if you ask me but Poser?!?! haha ok.

davidmreyes77 this is the 90s , the decade of irony. After a while no one really knew when or if somebody was serious or no. You barely knew yourself what you actually liked or meant

I remember back in the early Newgrounds Portal days, Brian Beaton of Slitfinger Productions loved them and put Blister in the Sun in his "Scrotum the Puppy" video. He raved about the band so I checked 'em out. He was right.

I liked Aeon Flux too.

You forgot Liquid Television.

what about The State? lots of alums from that sketch comedy show are still around...and please do not forget Liam Lynch's "Sifl & Olly" puppet sketch comedy show, I know my then gf & wife of 23 yrs haven't...so dang funny

Can't forget liquid television. it was where we introduced to Aeon Flux. She died in every episode if my memory serves me correctly. Here in the Denver PBS we had something similar to 120 Minutes called Teltunes. Also bring me tons of Ren and Stimpy.

Also AMP

its almost like a weird but logical extension of the 60s and 70s, and then taking the worst parts of the 80s and giving them polish

I was 28 through most of '96 and I was inexperienced, naive, and stupid

The musicians on the video were pretty much just like you. That's why they were making music.

I was 16/17 in 1996. All I cared about was keeping my car clean and having the loudest radio.

I was also 17 in April 96. I would gladly take it all back, except for the going back to high school part!

@@engident do you remember that Ben folds 5 song everyone loved? 😆

Certainly one of the most underappreciated bands of the era, still love listening to Johnette belt it out.

Anywhere to hear it on the internet?

The secret is that they compressed the 120 minutes.

They sure did, when their guitarist bonehead comes in at 1:15 .. his guitar sound was always so heavy

noLuckyStrike09 bonehead... hahahaha, exactly. I never remembered them having such a heavy sound. Also, watching 120 now I am reminded how much crap music was out there. We tend to conveniently and selectively forget about that.

Agree agree agree!!! Oasis

The "next" Beatles

Their first album is a great, great rock'n'roll record..!

Gorgeous in every way. Dated my fair share of artsy, troubled brunettes back in the 90s, but never managed to re-create anything like THIS.

She is the other World.

thats rough!

Yes, you are among many who thought, I can't make it this time, but he's always going to come to (insert name of city...NYC, in my case) to play....and then *dead*. Ah, to be that young, naive, and short-sighted about life again.

That’s what happened to me too, I was going to see them in 1995 as the previous summer when they came to town I was just a wee bit too young to join my cousins but they said they’re only getting better and I can go next year. And then Kurt died. Shucks.

same they played in Salem Oregon right before he died and i skipped it. I was was way more in to punk

Same here. I was so excited to finally see them live at Lollapalooza 1994... :(

Cool to see that!

I was just asking myself, "Is that Taylor Hawkins?" I had no idea he was the Drummer for Alanis Morissette. And I even have that album in my CD collection. Lol.

Sad that he'd still be playing if he didn't get the jab.

@@pureblood3388safe and effective

@@davidoverstreet6900 ha, you're young

Honestly it was!

So glad to have grew up in that era

Yea me too. Me too.

Someone should write a song about that !

It oozed cringe to me then and it still does now tbh

Johnette was the fucking bomb...

Nice Mark of Cain reference, tied neatly in a t-shirt bow. Made me smile.

They were such a wimpy act

@@GuyOnTheInternet53, I don't even know what this means. If you're judging them by one unplugged MTV performance, you don't know The Femmes at all.

@@bwhee it means wimpy

So you get the point.

Johnette Napolitano. Incredible. I saw it coming.

@@charliedillon1400 everybody knows....

Such a phenomenal band,

I agree. I forgot how great they were live.

they were lame...but a good song...

@@sonnyds6686 Oasis first two albums are some of the best in the whole 90's period. Nothing lame about that.

@@samuelmorse784 they are lame...it's just their style, I'm not taking away their credits as to having great albums, they're just lame ass boring live, particular in this clip...

@Fernando Cunha Nah, it sucked. It all started to go downhill in '98.

That exact moment when you are officially old.

😂😂😂 He knows he kinda sold out by being there lamoo he says how humiliating it is before the last commercial.

@@Positive_Tea Yeah it's certainly funny to watch.

yeah

Kurt Cobain decided to become a musician after going to a Black Flag concert.

A legend in his own mind, yes

possibly one of the most underrated bands ever...

I loved them. Funny, but I haven't thought about them in years. Concrete Blonde hasn't crossed my mind either. We need to get those reaction channels to start reacting to them.

Apparently the singer was a bit of a nut, but still great music

@@jeremyc9593 nah, I met him a few times..was always a nice stand up guy. But of course I don't know him really well.

Book. Judge. Cover. Yeah, something like that.

Can anyone really blame Gwen for falling for him?

I still have it !

That was a great performance.

yes, hello, I'm here for the "born in the early 80s" support group

Dude early Silverchair was so good. It's still good!

^^^exactly. (born in 84) Man, sometimes the nostalgia for the 90s is so strong I could cry. Take me backk!

*Nicole 4 Eva* The movie _Fear_ completely ruined that song for me (edit: the Bush song); as well as "Wild Horses" (the cover version or not). I hear these these songs and I bust out laughing. "Chemicals Between Us" doesn't do that. Marky Mark and Reese Whippersnapper ruin everything I swear

Ya dont say

Lol he had to pretend

Well he did scream quite a few times about how much of a liar he was. 😂

I didnt understand why they changed good shows against crazy teenie story series