Category: 120 Minutes Rewind

Earliest known footage of MTV's ‘120 Minutes' surfaces: Watch J.J. Jackson host in April '86

Earliest known footage of MTV’s ‘120 Minutes’ surfaces: Watch J.J. Jackson host in April ’86

We’ve posted a number of memorable clips over the years as part of our “120 Minutes” Rewind feature, but this is a true rarity: some 35 minutes of J.J. Jackson-hosted footage from the earliest-known recording of an episode of MTV’s seminal Sunday night music-video show that took viewers “two hours into the future” every week.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Railway Children chat with Dave Kendall — 1990

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Railway Children chat with Dave Kendall — 1990

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we revisit The Railway Children, from which band members Gary Newby and Stephen Hull stopped by MTV to chat with host Dave Kendall in 1990 about their then-new, major-label third album, Native Place, which featured the modern-rock hit “Every Beat of the Heart.”

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Charlatans U.K. get 'Some Friendly' with Dave Kendall — 1990

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Charlatans U.K. get ‘Some Friendly’ with Dave Kendall — 1990

For this week’s installment of our “120 Minutes” Rewind series, we travel back to 1990 for this Dave Kendall interview with Tim Burgess and the late Jon Brookes of The Charlatans — or The Charlatans U.K., as they were forced to be known as in the U.S. Watch the full 7-minute “120 MInutes” segment right here.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Hüsker Dü gets a ‘120 X-Ray’ post-mortem — 1987

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Hüsker Dü gets a ‘120 X-Ray’ post-mortem — 1987

For this week’s installment of our “120 Minutes” Rewind series, we turn to this Carolyne Heldman-hosted “120 X-Ray” that aired in 1987 following the break-up of Hüsker Dü. The four-minute segment looks back on the band’s career with live footage and pre-split interviews with Bob Mould, Grant Hart and Greg Norton.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Wall of Voodoo's Stan Ridgway goes under the ‘120 X-Ray’ — 1989

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Wall of Voodoo’s Stan Ridgway goes under the ‘120 X-Ray’ — 1989

For this week’s installment of our “120 Minutes” Rewind series, we present this “120 X-Ray” segment on former Wall of Voodoo frontman Stan Ridgway. As you can see below, the segment, which aired June 11, 1989, delves into Ridgway’s time with the New Wave act then proceeds to his solo work.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Siouxsie and the Banshees' hour-long 'Scream Superstition' special

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Siouxsie and the Banshees’ hour-long ‘Scream Superstition’ special

We paused the weekly “120 Minutes” Rewind feature a few months back because we’d exhausted most of the best clips available on YouTube, but, as time as passed, new finds have surfaced, including an hour-long Siouxsie and the Banshees special called “Scream Superstition.”