120 Minutes
After seeing some great videos on Merlin’s Kung-Fu Grippe, I started plumbing Youtube more seriously for music videos. I remember doing this a couple of years ago, and thinking that a lot of stuff I wanted hadn’t been uploaded. A lot has changed.
I used these 120 minutes playlists as a starting point, and then used Tumblr to create an archive of all the videos I found. So far I’m at 80-90 videos, and It’s been a real nostalgia trip. I remember a lot of these episodes in their entirety, sitting downstairs at 12:30 or one in the morning, and a fair number of these songs I probably hadn’t listened to since then.
I wish that there was a way that tumblr could be one-to-many, so multiple people (or anyone) could contribute to a blog. I’d love to open this up, maybe even find a way to organize the data a little better so it could be organized by individual episode or by original air date.If you’ve got a little time to burn and watched 120 Minutes, or just listened to indie/alt rock in the 90’s, take a look: http://120minutes.tumblr.com/
7 Comments, Comment or Ping
Jenn
I love what you are doing here, I check it almost every day. You are missing one of the biggest bands of the 80’s - Concrete Blonde! Get some of them up there please!
Aug 23rd, 2007
Jason
God bless you, kind sir.
Aug 28th, 2007
jessamyn
Excellent. This is one of the better uses for silly ol’ tumblr that I’ve seen.
Aug 28th, 2007
Danny
I saw your blog mentioned in USA Today and came right to your site. WOW!! ….brought back some really good memories of some great bands.
Others I did not see:
Hoodoo Gurus, Guadalcanal Diary, The Church
Keep up the good work!!
Sep 4th, 2007
Ericka
THANK YOU SO MUCH for the 120 minutes stuff–you are my new favorite person.
Sep 6th, 2007
Kevin Spencer
Very nice trip down memory lane there sir. What can I say but thank you.
Sep 9th, 2007
Bart
Hey
looks like where doing more of less the same
http://bartvanbelle.wordpress.com
(although i’m just getting inspiration from my cd-collection)
Oct 22nd, 2007
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