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MTV: Best of 120 Minutes, Vol. 1,Various Artists

- MTV: Best of 120 Minutes, Vol. 1
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Various Artists
Released 1991

Under the Milky Way
00:00
929 plays

World Shut Your Mouth
00:00
917 plays

Dear God
00:00
842 plays

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songs

- 1
- Higher Ground
- 00:00
- 829 plays

- 2
- Sometime to Return
- 00:00
- 514 plays

- 3
- Fools Gold
- 00:00
- 4,609 plays

- 4
- Wasteland
- 00:00
- 652 plays

- 5
- See a Little Light [*]
- 00:00
- 1,499 plays

- 6
- Under the Milky Way
- 00:00
- 929 plays

- 7
- Carolyn's Fingers [*]
- 00:00
- 548 plays

- 8
- World Shut Your Mouth
- 00:00
- 917 plays

- 9
- Mandinka
- 00:00
- 755 plays

- 10
- Kool Thing
- 00:00
- 7,788 plays

- 11
- Balloon Man
- 00:00
- 630 plays

- 12
- Put the Message in the Box [*]
- 00:00
- 567 plays

- 13
- Dear God
- 00:00
- 842 plays

- 14
- Ana Ng
- 00:00
- 822 plays

- 15
- Eye of Fatima, Pt. 1
- 00:00
- 560 plays

- 16
- I Melt With You [*]
- 00:00
- 49,879 plays

album review

Released in 1991, Rhino's MTV: Best of 120 Minutes is one of the last snapshots of college rock/alternative music just before grunge dominated, inflated, and ultimately burnt out the genre. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' version of "Higher Ground" is probably the album's hardest-rocking track -- though Sonic Youth's classic "Kool Thing" comes close -- making way for a brace of moody, quirky, but above all, poppy songs like Camper Van Beethoven's "Eye of Fatima, Pt. 1," They Might Be Giants' "Ana Ng," Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians' "Balloon Man," and World Party's "Put the Message in the Box." Alt radio staples of the era, such as the Stone Roses' "Fool's Gold," Sinéad O'Connor's "Mandinka," XTC's "Dear God," the Church's "Under the Milky Way Tonight," and Bob Mould's excellent "See a Little Light" retain their status as underground classics yet still sound fresh, aging far more gracefully than the grunge and nu-metal that supplanted them. Songs from Cocteau Twins, Julian Cope, Mission UK, and Soul Asylum round out this engaging, somewhat nostalgic time capsule of a time when MTV not only played videos, but gave airtime to smart, left-of-center artists like these. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide