'120 Minutes' archive is a 1990s rabbit hole

If your favorite member of Generation X has had a hard time focusing on work, family and chores this week, now you know why.

First there was Frinkiac, a compendium of 3 million, meme-ready screengrabs from The Simpsons.

And now there's the 120 Minutes Archive, a lovingly catalogued compendium of MTV's influential, late-night, wayward home for college and alternative music of the late '80s and '90s. Alternative music fans used to stay up until 2 a.m. on Sundays to watch Dave Kendall and Matt Pinfield (who are now both DJs on SiriusXM) play videos that never got aired in daylight.

This sentence alone sums up why 120 was everything to Gen X: Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit premiered on 120 Minutes.

Today in 1991: Nirvana's 'Teen Spirit' video debuted

Anyway, what those kids had to stay up late — or learn to program an (analog) video cassette recorder for — you can now browse at your leisure. Browse the playlists from practically every episode and then watch all of those videos in all their standard definition glory.

If you're the kid who borrows your parents' old concert T-shirts and Doc Martens (yes, we kept ours, why?), has a recovering Goth for a favorite aunt or uncle or is in awe of your 40-something co-worker who saw Nirvana live, this is your chance to bond with them.

Our only regret is that the interviews and guest-host videos don't seem to be included. So we went and found some of our favorites for you.

Enjoy this little sampler platter:

Interview with David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor (1995)

In which Reznor confesses he'd never seen Bowie live before touring with him and discovered him by accident via the Columbia Record Club.

Depeche Mode mellows out (1991)

For the record, Martin Gore swears he's really not a miserable (expletive).

Henry Rollins explains why Nirvana sold millions of records and he didn't (1992)

"Hey, better Nirvana than other bands who are featured on MTV that I won't name. I don't wonder why I don't sell millions of records. Look at me."

The Beastie Boys guest host (May 29, 1994)

Nice leisure suit, MCA (RIP)

Radiohead's Thom Yorke talks 'The Bends' and 'OK Computer' with Matt Pinfield (1998)

They were apparently close enough to share their impure thoughts about the scantily-clad women on the cover of Roxy Music's Country Life.

A very young Beck wipes his nose and throws his shoe while being interviewed by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore (1994)

"It's like surfing in some oil spillage." OK, Beck ...