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MTV's "120 Minutes"

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February 22, 2018

This week on the show, we look back at a program that happily lived on MTV every Sunday night from 1986 through the late 90s: "120 Minutes" brought us some of the songs and bands we wouldn't be able to check out anywhere else but maybe on college radio and a few alt-rock stations around the country. And for many of us, it was a not-to-miss program each and every Sunday. And if you're like Jake Rudh, you had the VCR set to "record": R.E.M., Sonic Youth, Pixies, the Smiths, Talking Heads ... we're going to hear all those and much more

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