MTV 120 Minutes with VJ Downtown Julie Brown - March 15th, 1987
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2023
- What you will see includes videos by The Smithereens, Husker Du, Julian Cope, The Jazz Butcher, Love Tractor, Billy Bragg, The Del Fuegos, Frank Zappa, Iggy Pop, The Damned and some commercials.
This is so ridiculously awesome.. A literal slice of the 1980's.. This brings back a lot of memories.. 120 Minutes, those commercials.. I haven't heard some of these songs in 30+ years!! 🙂
a treasure of an archive. Also I wish I bought those amazing Civil War chess pieces
Same!
I always wondered why Robert E Lee was king and not Jefferson Davis on the confederate side...of course I was 12 in '87
I’m still having my wages garnished by them.
God I know these commercials by heart lol
OMFG...I remember how I had to fight to stay awake in class the following Monday morning after staying up late to watch "120 Minutes". IT WAS ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT! Thanks for sharing this! 🥰🥰🥰
I was a full fledged "metal head" all of 14 yrs old in 1987, but always would watch 120 minutes on the sly because I also loved new wave/alt but couldn't let my metal friends know. Metallica + Jene/Loves Jezebel didn't quite fly back in those days! Lol.
Dude.Yeah! It was PUNK VS, HEAVY METAL since 1980 . Then in the 1990s ; you get some FRAT BOY that loves Green Day , Nirvana , Metallica, Van Halen and Dave Matthews. I loved it back when it was "US and THEM".
That is what always gets me man. Growing up it was like you can only pick one genre to rep. Same with DJ'ing in the 90's. You could only afford to really build a record collection of one or two styles because records were so expensive and most people only liked one specific style of dance music.
I discovered so many other killer bands on 120 mins. but was a dedicated Headbangers ball fan!! the Ramones, pixies,the smiths,etc etc etc.
The quality of the recording, the inclusion of the commercials, and the show itself was like stepping into a time machine!
That Vidal Sassoon commercial was played so much i can still quote every word! If you dont look good, we dont look good. I realize this is about music BUT i DO miss the days when commercials were for products and not E.D. medicine, insurance and every pharmaceutical you can think of. I was 17 that year.
I absolutely loved The Smithereens in the 80's.
This was very cool to watch along with the commercials. One would think MTV could just stream all of these on a channel or on YT.
That would be awsome!
Hell play them on the actual MTV channel! There ratings are trash and going lower. Throw a wildcard and go all music again
This is pretty interesting seeing earlier 120 minutes era. I was a teenager in the 90s, so during that time frame I would stay up late or start recording my VCR so I could watch back all the videos they wouldn't play during normal rotation. Some punk rock and stuff I got from the radio, but a lot of my musical interests came from this late night obsession once a week. I would end up going to school tired the next day just to be able to watch it.
This is like a time portal.. I turned 21 four days after this was recorded. I lived for the alternative radio stations and 120 minutes. 😁👍
First video is "The Connells" from Raleigh, NC. I know Mike Connell (main songwriter). They had so many good songs in the 80's and early 90's. Very under appreciated. They still play around the Raleigh area now and then.
I got up with Pelle's gf a couple times...like for real. She was hot.
That song is so good. Wow I had never heard of so many of these bands.
My sister and I recorded this very show that night. We cut out the commercials and made our own casual cut--on our VCR. This aired when we were sixteen! She played a lot of these songs later that year as a college radio DJ. Good memories! From Husker Du to Huxton Creepers! Thanks for uploading this!
Back when MTV believed in music.Even a quote from Derrick Jarman.
Wow, the World Premiere of Julian Cope’s Trampoline?!
Three months before my HS graduation...great times!!!
I remember this show and I remember Downtown Julie Brown. I grew up on MTV.
In 1982 had a three hour vhs on long play that equaled six hours sent to me by my cousin in America and i got my friends round to watch and our minds were blown,it was magical
What a trip down the nostalgia sewer pipe! Thanks for posting this. I remember watching this episode when it aired. Some of these songs still hold up and others.... well I sort of cringed with a few of these. What a great time capsule, though. It was right before "alternative" became a term and we were about 4 years away from it switching over to the mainstream and being able to make money for record companies. You see 90% of these videos, especially the ones without any major label behind them, are all filmed in grainy black and white (which may look "cool" and "edgy" but it was probably more about not having the budget for color back then!) with no rhyme or reason to them - just randomness that looked like a freshman year film major's first project. I mean that in the most reverential and loving way. This was the time of my musical awakening and when I succinctly left the mainstream behind. LONG LIVE 120 MINUTES!
Thnx to this video I learned Downtown Julie Brown found some time to be on MTV's 120 Minutes. I only remembered her ever doing Club MTV and the people danced so sleepily but importantly Club MTV had all those tvs hanging up.The hanging tvs substituting for 70s disco mirror balls, I guess. In 1987 or 88, I was watching MTV and wanting to see Samantha Fox and Belinda Carlisle videos. I started watching 120 Minutes when they played The Sugarcubes. Bjork stood out to me immediately but I didn't know her name yet. I've said way too much.
Sewer pipe indeed. Terrible music.
@@danielsmith7023his is what inspired your bands Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Even-flowwww
@@danielsmith7023 Why are you here, then?
@@danielsmith7023 That's because it was just an extension of college radio. Back then "alternative" was anything and everything NOT on the Billboard charts.
What better way to kick off two hours of great music than with the Connells' blistering "Hats Off"? Perfection!
You're not excited about the Civil War chess set?!?
@@Teeveepicksures I think I'm the only one commenting here who isn't. LOL
@@6828Lu God damn Bradford Exchange always had some kind of collectors bullshit. And ...",a friend, ahem" fell for the one with the states quarters. It came with a nifty cardboard display. You got two, that's TwO state quarters every other month for just 9.95 EACH...so every two months you got 50 cent ...that cost 20 bucks. ...
Watching 120 minutes Europe and listen to John Peel on the radio was a music education for every alt rock/goth & indie fan in the UK.
Didn't see 120 Mins until 1989,thank you for the upload! Wish I was 6-10 yrs older,1980's was the last good decade.
This video convinced me. I will never use shampoo and conditioner apart again. From now on it's Wash and Go!
Thanks for the upload and for changing my life!
Oh, that God damn Civil War chess set!! I had that blocked out!!!
you WILL complete your collection
Lol. It’s the very first thing on here and I was just caught off guard. Total dejavu. Because I remember those commercials Didn’t even think to fast forward over it. They had me.
I forgot about that too. I was briefly transported back to 1987 for a minute.
I feel 120-years-old after watching this, directly after The Young OnEs at 11; then "Neil"'s spinoff show at 11:30pm est.
It's really interesting and fun to watch 120 Minutes from before 1991, when Nirvana and grunge completely shifted the alternative paradigm forever.
Thinking the same thing... A cool throwback and just a few years before Sound Garden, AIC, Nirvana, etc offered fresh possibilities.
grunge was just one giant american guitar commercial
I love the appropriately placed Franklin Mint Civil War chess pyramid scheme. I know my 16yr old self couldn't wait to recieve his pewter every month. Long live the Reagan era in our collective memory 🤯Thanks for leaving in the commercials, easily the most entertaining thing here.
Reagan destroyed America and tricked Americans into believing it was their choice.
The past was terrible. Nostalgia for something trivial like music doesn't change that.
Franklin Mint was for old people, us kids got suckered into the Columbia House Record Club's "20 CD's for one penny" scam.
@@TeeveepicksuresColumbia HOuse was great as long as I remembered to send in the no thanks card when I didn’t want something
20 cds for a penny?! Hell yeah !!
@@KernelHughesThe past was a mixed bag and music, and art in general, are not trivial.
Some good music there. Funny how Public Enemy was mentioned as this new hip hop group.
I've got to stop watching these throwback videos because sometimes they make me smile, but sometimes they get me so depressed, they put an ache in my heart. I'm not ungrateful for having lived all these years, but sometimes I miss my youth so much it hurts. Everything is so stressful now. I miss the carefree days of my youth.
I was miserable in my youth, and I am less miserable now although not living in utopia. But I did love the music.
The Welsh call that feeling "hiraeth", and define it as "a distinct feeling of missing something irretrievably lost". I feel it too.
There's no harm in indulging this every now and then, but it's probably a good idea to pull out when the sadness hits.
Thanks so much. This is awesome. I had so many of these bands on tape and albums and then cds and now I listen to youtube music. Great document of the time and it was my weekly viewing habit every Sunday night. I know this is ripped from video tape so the sound quality ain't that great so I listened to the songs on my ipod while I watched. Cheers!
This is amazing, commercials and all. I was 9 years old!!
My dad actually owned that Franklin Mint chess set.
the 2 hours a week MTV played anything interesting, late at night when most couldn't see it.
Cool! So much black and white
So much of my musical tastes came from watching 120 Minutes.
Thanks for posting - loved 120 minutes!!
Angry Samoans? The Damned? Public Enemy? Iggy Pop? Wow! MTV was actually good for a minute once!
They always played good alternative/underground bands on 120 minutes even well into the 90s
Loving the 80s Alternative/Indie/Punk bands. Nice left field stuff.
You have to wonder how many of those $576 (plus tax) chess sets they sold. You can start playing in 2 years, 8 months.
When MTV was MTV. Miss This Era.
This is simply one of the most amazing things I’ve seen in a long time. Thank you for the nostalgia. How many commercials that we live through?
OMG Starts w The Connells!!!
Thank you!!!
That civil war chest set is 🔥
You are so amazing!!!! Thank you so much for uploading this!!! You have no idea how much this meant to me! 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓😘👍👏😊
LOL! Was getting ready to rock Spring Break!
🤘😊🤘80's
Husker Du kickd azz. No Husker Du, no Nirvana, remba that.
Exactly the thought I had. Too true!
A video by the Damned I'd never seen starts at 15:36
Also, there's the MIssion (UK) at 39:00
I was surprised to see goth bands playing on 1980s MTV, but then I realized this was "120 Minutes" so it was special late-night programming.
I was 17 and probably stoned as Hell. Angry Samoans are not Psychedelic Punk.🤣🤣🤣
I never knew Downtown Julie Brown hosted 120 Minutes. Was that Dave Kendall's voice talking about the Angry Samoans?
This was a month before I was born. So wild.
I miss 120minutes with Paul King (MTV europe)
HUSKERS!
An era where you didn't know if the next video would be in color, black/white, or sometimes both. Shirley
01:50:04 "The NY band everyone's talking about is Deep Six. They're not to be confused with an old LA band called Dream Six..."
Are people really so easily confused?
Husker Du!
I wonder if those toll free numbers for the fun rock records still work lol
🗣️🌌 Eye Want My Em Tee Vee ... 👁️👃🏾👁️
Sure wish id invested in that Chess set, i may finally be able to play a game
Wow I was 11 going on 12 when this came out!I used to watch the hell out of 120 minutes I especially love the later yrs with Matt Pinfield he was a Rock n roll/Alternative rock Professor schooling us his little Punk/Gothic/Grunge students. Yes I agree with the guy before me about how 4 yrs later it all exploded into mainstream with The Grunge era. I loved 120 minutes though, because it was a place I could put a face to all the bands I loved, also It was a place where they played what your local fav radio station was begrudgingly afraid to play. (My radio station BTW was 106.7 world famous KROQ so I was lucky in the aspect we had Rodney in the Roq who schooled us & introduced us.) It was the 1st place I saw My Bloody Valentine perform Only Shallow, Ride Vapour Trail, & Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas. We used to call it Ethereal Music in L.A. ppl call that shoegazer music today. It was the 1st place I saw Lush's video Nothing Natural another great ethereal classic. It was the 1st time I saw Morrissey's face Riding around on their bikes on the streets and cobblestone streets in England Stop Me if you think you've heard this one before.Also watching The Damned Alone again or video love that song, The Pixies,Blur, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Bauhaus,Joy Division ,Sonic Youth ,everyone's favorite The Cure & Depeche Mode...you get the picture.I loved staying up late to watch it, also discovering something new & going to my local Record store In Downey California's Middle Earth Records & buying their album , because that is what you did when you loved a band or an artist you went out and bought their album, went to their shows you & supported them. Wow now they have to start a side hustle (I'm so tired of the newest celebrity perfume,bra or lingerie/lounge wear line & makeup line) or constantly have to tour.
1 last rant..The one thing I absolutely cannot stand is seeing a person wear a band or an artist Tshirt because it's in style for the moment or the thing to do and not knowing a f#@king song ANYTHING about them, not owning their album, or of went to any of their shows. I always told my kids to never wear an artist shirt unless you can name at least 3 songs of theirs of the top of your head. Back in the day we'd call those type of people POSERS!!😂
THAT REMINDS ME OF DEMI LAVOTO (however u spell her name)WEARING A SONIC YOUTH TSHIRT ON CONAN O'BRIANS SHOW .CONAN BEING THE MUSIC LOVER HE IS HE ASKED HER ABOUT IT he SAID HE LIKED THEM, and SHE SAID THE WORST THING YOU COULD SAY SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT HER STYLIST PICKED IT OUT FOR HER OR SOME SH*T! I WAS FLOORED! 😵 I WAS THINKING SHE NEEDS TO WATCH MORE 120 MINUTES OR SOMETHING! This new generation 👎!!!
Great Post!
I used to be heartened by all the teenagers I see wearing Beatles and Rolling Stones and Nirvana etc. t shirts. Eventually I figured most of them don’t listen to the bands and are just using them as fashion statements.
HUSKER DU!
lol, the 50’s and 60’s music compilations are the most insane cash grab. I guess they knew the boomers would buy. There are so many with the same songs.
I used to learn new music on the guitar to 120 Minutes.
Yeah.....this is around the same time Rap started to raise it's ugly head and absolutely wiped out Rock music as we used to know it. And completely took over. R.I.P dear Rock. I've mourned you're death for close to 40 years!
Remember when MTV used to play music?
Generra clothes were the shizzz back in the day.
Geez, I was around back then and it's a terrible thing to remind me how bad it was - Kuleesterool4, you are cruel.
Quality Husker Du.
Vamos viendo , Julio 2023
No way I would purchase that Civil War Chess set. Civil war South will ALWAYS lose that war. 🤣
They're still fighting it
Wow, cut the best sounding song, red skies…
I actually had no recollection that Julie Brown did this particular show. Always associated her with the dancing show and Matt Pinfield with 120 Minutes
Matt Pinfield didn't host until 93' or 94... In the 80's they had Kevin Seal, Downtown Julie Brown, Adam Curry host before Dave Kendall became the host in the later 80's... Also before 120 minutes there was 'The Cutting Edge in the mid 80's
See that's when ppl looked normal.
Exercise your right to call TOLL FREE NOW 💪
i was 19 and a highschool senior
When you meet random people in jail they ask do you do meth or heroin (in whatever slang words they're using in for that at the time) but were they ever listening to this music playing at all the stores and cafes
BILLY BRAGG 1:30:00ish
I thought downtown Julie brown was the other one
Why the fuck were people always looking through Venetian blinds in the 80s?
Downtown Julie brown. Always loved the music and being silly. In Jesus Christs name we pray amen.
no we don't
Wubba wubba!
Frank Zappa, obviously from the Future, come back to give us a taste of what's to happen to us. like the Dormouse said, Keep Your Head.
The chess board was set up incorrectly by the way
Gezz...odd host.
Never knew she hosted
wait can i still get that chess set
Wubba wubba wubba
Wow! I'd forgotten all about "The Civil War Chess Set". In 1987 each piece is $17.50. And, in 2023 they'd be $45.66!
Rip off!
Wubba wubba wubba...
Didn't even see Julie in this vid at all......
are you blind
@49:12 Huxton Creepers!
Clearasil didn't work BTW lol
I thought Downtown Julie Brown was HOT
A bunch of no hit wonders. Than! The Fixx ! Finally. Red sky's at night ...and it cuts out 30 seconds in. Booooooo
There was a show on Sunday nights at 11 PM on MTV called I.R.S.'s The Cutting Edge. I.R.S. was REM's label before they signed to Warners for Green (the album). That show was incredible. But LAME TV decided they could do it themselves and make more money so they came up with this soft, gut-less and derivative corporate substitute.
And here is the Best of The Cutting Edge, vol. 1 - ua-cam.com/video/5hRjCYMUe7I/v-deo.html
@@Kulesterol4 I love it. Thanks! My brother and I saw that from first episode to the last. It was our CNN of new music.
Way before Nirvana
Loved the commercials, Iggy Pop, General Public, The Fixx. Flesh For Lulu's one hit wonder was halfway decent. You can have the rest, though. And I complain about today's music stinking... P. U.!
How is every song amazing ?
this is college people music yeah?
Distorted 4x3...
Is it true that Scary Spice is her sister ?
no
2 hours of shiite to get to a Iggy video. I remember those days.