For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we’ve dredged up this “120 X-Ray” segment from a Kevin Seal-hosted show in 1988 that spotlights The Sisters of Mercy circa Floodland. In the segment, bandleader Andrew Eldritch talks about the song “Black Planet” and making the video for “Dominion,” and, in typical understatement, calls America “one big psychopathic Disneyland.”
Check it out via uploader Mindphaser1000.
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- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The The’s Matt Johnson earns an MTV disclaimer while hosting in 1986
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The world premiere of an iconic Sinead O’Connor video — 1990
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Poster Children sit down with Dave Kendall during CMJ — 1991
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Watch most of a Kevin Seal-hosted episode from Sept. 27, 1987
Hey thanks for that. For *decades* this segment was the only place I had ever seen the Black Planet video, and it was just a snippet. And I only saw it once…