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Hi all, I'm new to the board and I need your help. My friend and I are starting a night at the club we both bartend at and our plan is to play nothing but underground alternative stuff from before '94. While we both have a decent collection already, we want to expand, and we thought the easiest way would be to track down some old transcripts or playlists from MTV's 120 Minutes. My long searches on Google have turned up this message board a few times, so I thought I'd post a plea for help.

What I am looking for is anyone who has old tapes of 120 Minutes before '94 who would be willing to write out a list of the videos played for me for a few of them (specifically maybe a video list from a fall and spring show of '92 and '93), or someone who perhaps knows where I can find such a thing already online. Maybe we could even barter something for copies of the tapes, we have TV's in the club and it'd be great to have the videos to play too.

Let me know, I'll love you forever!! :)

Melanie
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Billboard magazine used to print Mtv playlists, but I don't know if they printed the playlists from 120 minutes. It would be wicked cool to see some lists like this though..

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Billboard magazine used to print Mtv playlists, but I don't know if they printed the playlists from 120 minutes. It would be wicked cool to see some lists like this though..
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Sorry to say that the MTV playlists published in Billboard at that time were not segregated by any of the special shows in their programming, such as "120 Minutes", "Headbanger's Ball", etc...

My (relatively) easy solution to this would be to scan through all of the songs that made Billboard's "Modern Rock" (i.e., alternative) chart in 1992-93, and in an effort to keep it more "underground", skip over those that also crossed over to the pop chart. And just to get the list started, here's all of the songs that qualify by artists whose names began w/ "A" or "B"... :-)

"Sunshine Smile" - ADORABLE  (Summer of '93)
"Debonair" - THE AFGHAN WIGS  (Fall of '93)
"Them Bones" - ALICE IN CHAINS  (Fall of '92)
"Angry Chair" - ALICE IN CHAINS  (Winter of '93)
"Silent All These Years" - TORI AMOS  (Spring of '92)
"Crucify" - TORI AMOS  (Summer of '92)
"Get Out of Control" - DANIEL ASH  (Winter of '93)
"We are Each Other" - THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH  (Spring of '92)
"Slow Dog" - BELLY  (Spring of '93)
"Miss Teen U.S.A." - BEST KISSERS IN THE WORLD  (Fall of '93)
"Tell it Like it T-I-Is" - THE B-52'S  (Summer of '92)
"The One I Love" - BIG COUNTRY  (Fall of '93)
"Los Angeles" - FRANK BLACK  (Spring of '93)
"Hang on to Your Ego" - FRANK BLACK  (Spring of '93)
"Funky Ceili (Bridie's Song)" - BLACK 47  (Winter of '93)
"Tones of Home" - BLIND MELON  (Fall of '92)
"Chemical World" - BLUR  (Fall of '93)
"Lazarus" - THE BOO RADLEYS  (Fall of '93)
"Jump They Say" - DAVID BOWIE  (Spring of '93)
"Sodajerk" - BUFFALO TOM  (Fall of '93)
"Eat the Music" - KATE BUSH  (Fall of '93)
"Who Was in My Room Last Night?" - BUTTHOLE SURFERS  (Spring of '93)
"She's Mad" - DAVID BYRNE  (Spring of '92)

Now all you need is "C" through "Z"... ;-)

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Sorry to say that the MTV playlists published in Billboard at that time were not segregated by any of the special shows in their programming, such as "120 Minutes", "Headbanger's Ball", etc...

My (relatively) easy solution to this would be to scan through all of the songs that made Billboard's "Modern Rock" (i.e., alternative) chart in 1992-93, and in an effort to keep it more "underground", skip over those that also crossed over to the pop chart. And just to get the list started, here's all of the songs that qualify by artists whose names began w/ "A" or "B"... :-)
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that would work pretty well.. the music on the modern rock charts is probably right up their alley.. I'd say anything that didn't chart higher than 40 on the pop charts though, since there's probably plenty of stuff in the upper reaches of the pop chart that would still be of interest..  

Joel Whitburn's book publishes the pop chart peak position, so this would probably only take a few hours to do..