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.
Regarding that last part, it's almost as if record labels were paying to have their artists featured.
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.