120 Minutes: Name That Tune

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To make a long story short, the post-lyrics-from-random-songs-meme is going around again. (Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C) And that's been percolating around in my head with This Post and This Post

Growing up in Idaho, MTV's 120 Minutes was my only exposure to real culture, and heavily influenced my musical tastes. For those of you too young to know what I'm talking about: Once upon a time, MTV used to show music videos - almost all the time. Most of the time these were Top-40 crap, but for two hours in the middle of the night between Sunday and Monday, they played Alternative music. This was before Nirvana and Perl Jam became popular — The point at which the Alternative genre turned from Goth/Industrial/Punk/etc. into Light-Guitar-Rock clones of Nirvana.

Just to be different from everyone else, I'm not going to post lyrics; I'm going to post audio clips! Listen to each clip and try to figure out who the Artist and Song is. Each clip is exactly sixty seconds long. I was considering posting 120 of them, so that there would be 120-Minutes of audio clips, but I figured that no one would have the time to listen to two hours of stuff right now. So, I'm going to make ten posts of twelve songs each.

To make things easier, I've selected clips from videos that actually appeared on 120 Minutes (or Post Modern MTV if you remember that). Just take it on faith for the moment that if I really wanted to stump everyone with obscure music, I could.

Oh yeah, and I accidentally left the ID3 tags on these MP3s when I edited them down. Don't cheat by looking at them.

Audio Clip	Artist	Song Title	Who Got It
Minute 001:	-	-
Minute 002:	-	-
Minute 003:	-	-
Minute 004:	The Creatures	Standing There	caffeina
Minute 005:	The JudyBats	Don't Drop The Baby	girlvinyl
Minute 006:	This Picture	Naked Rain	the_misha
Minute 007:	-	-
Minute 008:	-	-
Minute 009:	Drivin-N-Cryin	Fly Me Courageous	girlvinyl
Minute 010:	Love And Rockets	No New Tale To Tell	girlvinyl
Minute 011:	Peter Murphy	All Night Long	girlvinyl
Minute 012:	Peter Schilling	The Different Story	qdot

Commercial Break!

I don't know [because I don't read my web logs] how many of you have noticed: 1. Livejournal allows hyperlinks in the "Current Music" field. 2. I've been putting links to audio clips in my last several posts.

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010: No New Tale to tell - love and rockets.