This is the only time I watched it. All I remember is lots of horrible reality and game shows, Spring Break dance parties, Top 40 videos on repeat, and lots and lots of re-runs of the "good" shows. I think 120 minutes was just once a week, at a weird time, and I almost always had something better to do. The only other thing I remember is lots of Kurt Cobain death coverage.
Re: Cable TV station: MTV
12Regarding that last part, it's almost as if record labels were paying to have their artists featured.Wood Goblin wrote: Mon Sep 13, 2021 9:14 am It wasn’t actually that good in the 80s either. It mostly just frustrated you, because the occasional airing of “Paranoid” or Van Halen or something good was surrounded by Pat Benetar, Poison, and Bel Biv Devoe.
120 Minutes was a lot worse than you remember.
WF for Beavis and Butthead.
Edited to add: I just glanced at a bunch of 120 Minutes playlists. That show did play a fair amount of good stuff, but it’s amusing me how much MTV pushed Lloyd Cole, the Mighty Lemon Drops, Gene Loves Jezebel, Mojo Nixon, Big Audio Dynamite, and Guadalcanal Diary on the audience.
120 Minutes and Headbanger's Ball were good. Remote Control was pretty good. B & B was good. Those were the only two good things outside of music, IMO.
Let's not forget Saga's "On the Loose" and Aldo Nova's "Fantasy." They also played a LOT of Duran Duran, always.