Tag: 120 Minutes

Milestones: Johnny Marr is 47 today; watch The Smiths’ full May 18, 1985, concert

Milestones: Johnny Marr is 47 today; watch The Smiths’ full May 18, 1985, concert

Today marks the 47th birthday of one of the signature guitarists of his generation: Johnny Marr of The Smiths. In honor of this peerless player, here’s a full ‘Meat is Murder’-era Smiths show, filmed for Spanish television on May 18, 1985, in Madrid.

Milestones: Robert Smith’s ‘Cure FM’ pirate radio broadcast was 20 years ago tonight

Milestones: Robert Smith’s ‘Cure FM’ pirate radio broadcast was 20 years ago tonight

Twenty years ago tonight, Robert Smith and the rest of The Cure — aided by a pair of American DJs and shadowed by MTV and the music press — set up a pirate radio station at the headquarters of Fiction Records with plans to illicitly premiere their soon-to-released remix album ‘Mixed Up’ over the London airwaves.

Vintage Video: The Cure’s ‘Wish’ TV commercial, from MTV’s ‘120 Minutes’

Vintage Video: The Cure’s ‘Wish’ TV commercial, from MTV’s ‘120 Minutes’

Tweet We here at Slicing Up Eyeballs World HQ recently had a stash of old VHS tapes — filled with vintage “120 Minutes” and “MTV […]

Radio alert: Dave Kendall to spin ‘Really Stupid’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave on Friday

Radio alert: Dave Kendall to spin ‘Really Stupid’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave on Friday

Got an e-mail this morning from “120 Minutes” creator/host Dave Kendall revealing that the Whitman Samplers’ parody song “Really Stupid” will “make its glorious debut” […]

Searching for: MTV’s ‘120 Minutes: Left of the Dial’ radio show promo CDs

Searching for: MTV’s ‘120 Minutes: Left of the Dial’ radio show promo CDs

Loyal Slicing Up Eyeballs reader Chris Cummins — the guest blogger who wrote last month’s excellent “Remembering MTV’s ‘120 Minutes’” post for USA Today’s Pop […]

Dave Kendall of ‘120 Minutes’ tracks down the Whitman Samplers’ ‘Really Stupid’

Kudos to “120 Minutes” creator/host Dave Kendall for tracking down and posting a copy of the long-forgotten early-’90s parody song “Really Stupid,” which poked fun […]

Update: Dave Kendall of ‘120 Minutes’ wants to hear that ‘Really Stupid’ song, too

Update: Dave Kendall of ‘120 Minutes’ wants to hear that ‘Really Stupid’ song, too

Two nights ago, Slicing Up Eyeballs embarked on a (so far) futile quest to find a copy of “Really Stupid,” a long-forgotten early-’90s parody song […]

Searching for that ‘120 Minutes’ song: ‘I’m Dave Kendall … and I am really stupid’

Searching for that ‘120 Minutes’ song: ‘I’m Dave Kendall … and I am really stupid’

There wasn’t much to the song: a sampled riff from AC/DC’s “Back in Black” with the distinctly British voice of “120 Minutes” creator/host Dave Kendall […]