Friday Mix Tape: 120 Minutes – 20 Years Ago

Before I started listening to Phish, the Grateful Dead and Blues Traveler, I was a huge fan of alternative rock and would tune in to MTV’s 120 Minutes each Sunday night for a taste of the latest and greatest artists within that genre. I learned about so many wonderful bands through both that show and suggestions made by my older sister. With the news that 120 Minutes will return to the airwaves on July 30, I wanted to use this week’s Friday Mix Tape to pay tribute to the seminal program by picking six songs that were featured on the July 14, 1991 episode of 120 Minutes.

Thanks to TylerC.com you can view the playlist for nearly every 120 Minutes episode and I had a blast remembering some of my faves after looking through these lists. While I don’t specifically remember the episode from 20 years ago yesterday, there were plenty of good tunes involved. Our mix starts with the energetic Rush by BAD II and continues along the same vein with Jane’s Addiction’s Been Caught Stealin’. From there we move on to the first Cure song I ever heard and still one of my faves – Just Like Heaven.

We turn to Leeds-based post-punk band Gang of Four for our next track, Cadillac, from their severely underrated Mall LP. Keeping with the Brits, Siouxsie and the Banshees give us Kiss Them For Me, the band’s best-selling single ever here in the U.S. Finally, while Primus was formed years earlier, the Les Claypool-led group burst into the national consciousness in 1991  with the release of their major label debut Sailing The Seas of Cheese. From that album we’ve got Jerry Was a Racecar Driver. We’ll be watching MTV2 on Saturday, July 30 at 1AM ET/ 10PM PT when 120 Minutes with Matt Pinfield returns to the airwaves. Let’s hope the music shown is good enough to warrant a playlist like this in 2031.

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