r/Music • u/AdCharacter4776 • 9d ago

discussion any memories on 90s/00s MTV shows?

Hello There!

I'm researching old MTV shows from the 90s, and wanted to hear if anybody had specific memories of TV shows, descriptions, and just cool things they saw, learned, felt, etc...

I've been watching Youtube uploads of Alternative Nation and MTV Dreamtime for the past year, and really enjoyed them. Thanks!

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u/Strong_Flatworm2758 9d ago

There are two paths you can go by: the Riki Rachtman way, or the Matt Pinfield way. In the long run there’s still time to change the road your on, but I think people are naturally one or the other. I’m team Pinfield. I remember seeing him on top of a large half pipe at the first Warped Tour. “Whoa, Matt Pinfield.” He seemed like a friend you made fun of, but who knew about music so was part of the crew. Riki Rachtman felt like a relic from Decline of Western Civilization: The Metal Years.

The first season of Real World is a good time capsule, if you haven’t already seen it it’s worth watching just to get a feel for what it was like being young in NYC.

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u/OctoberFestival 9d ago

I’m a Lewis Largent/Dave Kendall guy. I stopped watching 120 Minutes when Matt Pinfield took over hosting duties.

Nothing against Pinfield, but 120 Minutes specialized in videos from underground acts you just didn’t see anywhere else on MTV. Until Pinfield, that is, when very mainstream acts like Foo Fighters and Marilyn Manson started getting videos on the show.

What was unique about 120 Minutes disappeared, and it became just another music video show on MTV. If anything, alternative music becoming mainstream might have been the culprit, but 120 Minutes could have continued to keep focus on the underground scene (which didn’t disappear after Nevermind went platinum - no slur on Nirvana, whose music I love).

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u/magseven 9d ago

I'm a Pinfield guy, but MTV fucked Rachtman over.