At the tender age of approximately twelve, I received a battered VHS tape of MTV's 120 Minutes from my brother. All videos were taped sometime in 1989, and watching it for the first time sincerely changed my life. I was a little college rock fan, crushing on Tommy Stinson and enamored of anything left-of-the-dial; here, then, was a goldmine. I tend to revisit that tape every summer or so, and a few of those videos have stuck with me ever since.
Cartoon from Soul Asylum (Hang Time, 1988)
See a Little Light from Bob Mould (Workbook, 1989)
The most influential, however, would have to be Miracle Legion's "You're the One Lee". I'm not sure quite what it was about that song or that video, but it cast a new light over my high school years and I haven't looked back since. (I've been exceptionally unsuccessful at finding any of their albums in stores, however. I believe they're all out of print. I did find the 12" single of that very song once, to my delight [featuring the Sugarcubes on one b-side, "Ladies From Town"] and 1988's Glad, but nothing else.)
Others that similarly affected me were Soul Asylum [again!] with "P-9" and Camper Van Beethoven's "Good Guys & Bad Guys", but I'm unable to find either online.
Elsewhere:
*Sixeyes lets us in on the new Beirut album.
The Globe and Mail watches Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Another charmingly-written article, though I'm not entirely sure what makes them "conjunction-hating".
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