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120 REASONS TO LIVE

120 Reasons To Live: Killing Joke

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.

#50: Killing Joke “Millennium”

After 49 posts about old 120 Minutes videos, we found out that there are going to be some new 120 Minutes videos. The program will soon be back on MTV2, with Matt Pinfield at the helm. We’re on Team (Dave) Kendall, but it doesn’t really matter; the show’s host has never been as important as the playlist itself. One wish, however, for Phase III of 120 Minutes: In the midst of all the Phoenix and MGMT videos, bridge the gap with previous college-rock generations by drawing from the deep well of clips we’ve been featuring here. They’re not really that old or irrelevant, and many of the videos—despite a deeply entrenched awfulness characteristic of the ’80s visual aesthetic—are still engaging and complex. What’s that? There’s a Killing Joke video above this paragraph? Fuck.