Nothing did more to further the cause of Alternative Nation-building than 120 Minutes, MTV’s Sunday-night video showcase of non-mainstream acts. For nearly two decades, the program spanned musical eras from ’80s college rock to ’00s indie, with grunge, Britpop, punk, industrial, electronica and more in between. MAGNET raids the vaults to resurrect our 120 favorite and unjustly forgotten videos from the show’s classic era.
#30: Jack Frost “Thought That I Was Over You”
Your faithful ’90s-rock reminiscer admits to never having actually seen this video from 1991’s Jack Frost. This clip was stumbled upon during diligent Wikipedia clicking research for two past 120 Reasons To Live installments: the Go-Betweens and the Church. It turns out that the only two Australian bands that mattered around that time (c’mon, let’s argue about it) had a fling—or at least the Go-Betweens’ Grant McLennan and the Church’s Steve Kilbey did, moonlighting for two albums under the Jack Frost name. You could easily see a Paul Westerberg or Robyn Hitchcock doing “Thought That I Was Over You”—it’s got that lived-in jangle that fits like the rumpled suit you’ve been drinking in all week. This video also confirms that McLennan was a bit of a ham, which clears his name of any charges of false enthusiasm in the above-linked Go-Betweens video.
