Music videos that define the 80s

Any and all videos by DD.

Come on!

For me, it all comes down to "Mickey" by Toni Basil. I know many detest this song but I loved it then and still enjoy it know. I've always been fascinated by the one (ahem) rather butch blonde cheerleader. This song could never have been recorded any earlier or later than the 1980s.

Debhead here!

Devo's "That's Good" (1982)

It was one of the first videos to run into censorship problems at MTV. The band got a call saying they were banning it because of the French fry and donut. Band member, Gerard Casale explains:

[quote] "We got this call from [MTV co-founder] Les Garland, He was like, 'Look, we know what you're trying to do here.' I go, What do you mean? He goes, 'Ya know, when that cartoon French fry glides through that cartoon donut and then it's with the girl looking happy. You can have the French fry, or you can have the donut, but you can't have the French fry and the donut, Otherwise, you can't cut to the girl.' And I go, 'But what about when the French fry hits the donut and breaks in half and she's sad?' And he goes 'Alright you little smart ass.' It was horrible. Then I go, 'What about that Billy Idol video you have and the girls are in skin-tight pants and their asses are full on in the screen and his head is between her legs and then somebody slaps her ass? What about that?' He goes, 'we're talking about you, we're not talking about them.

Def Leppard, Photograph

Go-Go's "Vacation" - silly upbeat fun

C’mon now. This video is a damn time capsule.

Crowded House, Don't Dream It's Over

My BF played it for me after a bad argument. I still love him.

Level 42, Something About You

Any video that makes you ask "How much cocaine was everybody on?"

Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love.

Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads

Hungry Like the Wolf, of course!

I set the standard for 80s videos, bitches.

R12, directed by Toni Basil at R2.

Iconic.

Big hair, curtains blowing in the wind, running in slow motion, hot young men with tight bodies, a grainy European look - "Total Eclipse of the Heart" WAS the 1980s.

Donna Summer - the first black female artist to be in heavy rotation on MTV.

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

Cute little twink Corey Hart and his pouty lips wearing his sunglasses at night so he can...so he can.

The Monkees' Mike Nesmith, a true '80s video visionary, with "Cruisin'."

Southern California girls in rainbow socks roller skating through the streets of Hollywood meet up with a blonde bodybuilder in a Speedo. What more could you ask for?

And when I was a budding gayling, that opening shot of the Speedo being pulled up over those furry, muscley legs really turned me on.

A big one and pushed the production envelope of the time

The Girl Band also showcased the plastic 80's model look.

This was a really fun video.

Laura Branigan’s Self Control:

Homecoming Queen's...

A Flock of Seagulls

Fish Heads

This is a really fun one for that SoCal vibe.

R29 I loved that one just for the lead singer's big cock bouncing around in his Speedo.

Bronski Beat's Smalltown Boy - the first music video to tell the story of the pain and sorrow of being a gay youth in an unaccepting society.

Sobering and revolutionary.

You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

This is the 1980s:

I can't believe no one has mentioned this one.

Who can forget this banger.

Adam Ant's "Goody Two Shoes" ... because deep-down every (straight) guy in the 80s wanted to dress like a gay pirate who wears makeup and still gets the girl!

Like A Icon

Taylor Dayne - I'll Always Love You. What a voice!

Love is a stranger...

38 posts an no one's mentioned me yet?

Fuck you, bitches!

Visage Fade To Grey

Ultravox - Vienna

Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)

And just how fuckable is Chris Lowe here?

Mr. Mister - "Broken Wings":

Don Henley - "Boys of Summer":

Men Without Hats: Safety Dance

Great song with a video that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Very common in those days. God I miss the 80s!

One of my all time favorites R4 ...always on my playlists

Wow, I haven't thought about MTV in a while, but it defined the era in so many ways. In late Summer 1981, my best friend and fuckbuddy excitedly called me up asking if I had this new channel which I'd not heard of, but flipped on the TV and found it; he said he'd be right over and showed up 10 minutes later. We sat there all afternoon watching the channel, mesmerized. It. was. so. cool. And I thought I was cool because I'd convinced my mother to put cable TV in when we moved into that house.

He and I spent days making up videos to all the hottest tunes. It was one of those times that had we been a few years older, and the equipment was as cheap and ubiquitous as it is today, we would have made videos ourselves. Video cameras were quite expensive and there weren't many people who would trust a couple of randy teenage boys with their multi-$thousand equipment (which was not necessarily a bad thing because we would have, without doubt, filmed ourselves fucking and suffered the multi-dimensional consequences that would have ensued in that era). Regardless, we spent hours choreographing and dreaming up videos to our constantly-updating favorites list. To this day, when I listen to some new music or just replay a favorite, I think of what I'd do if I directed its video.

The Target-like store I worked at part time had a record bar that they were trying to establish to compete with the full-on record stores in the mall. They hired a straight studmuffin to manage the department, and he tried to get them to subscribe to cable so he could show MTV in the department, but cable subscriptions for performance were prohibitively expensive, so he handed me a three-pack of videotapes and asked me to just record as many hours as would fit. Since it was a recording, we all knew what song was up next, and at night after the manager went home and in a scene out of [italic]Glee,[/italic] we (the cashiers) would start dancing to the music and get in trouble, laughing ourselves silly. The cable people were none too pleased and the store got a nasty letter from their attorney and playing home-taped MTV came to an end pretty quickly.

When Michael Jackson's [italic]Thriller[/italic] came out, it was like the world stopped to watch. I'm surprised no one here has linked it yet; it seems, to me at least, the seminal video of the era. Remember how the parents' groups got all wound up over the demonic bullshit? OMG, dancing zombies! In retrospect, how quaint.

Like R45, I miss the 80s too.

On the same angsty level as " Something About You” R9

I love when we could have fun with stereotypes. People weren't so overly sensitive. No one cried because David Lee Roth put a hairnet on the Hispanic dude or made the black guy look like a pimp. It was fun. No one cared. Everyone now is too afraid to be over the top. Everyone's so busy whining and rubbing their pussies.

On Spring break in 1985, a couple friends and I went to LA in search of famous location shoots (among other things...) and this was when I found huge news stands thanks to DeBarge's [italic]Rhythm of the Night[/italic] which was shot in front of Drakes After Midnight on Melrose (the magazine shop, not the later restaurant). This began a long affair with LA's news stands back when magazines were how we got our porn.

🎼🎵Our house. . . in the middle of the street. . . 🎵🎶

How has this not been mentioned yet?

Very 80's memory for me. Phil Oakley was very handsome/pretty with all the makeup!

The first music video to play on MTV when it launched on August 1,1981.

This is late 80's but this thread shows how diverse the decade was in music. Lots of good stuff!

Whether or not one liked the song/Donald Fagen, this was easily one of the best videos (if not THE best) of the early MTV era:

Twisted Sister, "We're Not Gonna Take It"

One of the biggest.

This was the way most the of the US was introduced to Tracey Ullman.

[quote] "Mickey" by Toni Basil… This song could never have been recorded any earlier or later than the 1980s.

Except it was originally recorded and released as Kitty in 1979 by the band Racey

Back in the 80’s, dudes wore makeup and crazy hair and nobody really cared.

While not necessarily one of the defining videos, everything about this is so early '80s.

Prince (featuring Sheena Easton) U Got The Look

“U got the look. U got the hook. U sho nuff to be cookin’ in my book”.

One of my favorites

Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls

This one

Relax!

I can still remember the first time I saw this video

Thank you OP! This is my new favorite thread. . The 80’s weren’t all big hair and loud clothes. We had some great music. Like this one, when Michael Stipe was still cool.

This was a memorable one (and we need a little INXS up in here)

Another classic

The 80’s defined

R48 To this day, it is impossible not to move even if you're sitting when you hear that song.

R63, that's a GREAT song. I thought I was the only one who remembered it.

R48, that’s a great story. Love it!

R69 The little girl in that video always gave me the creeps.

Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

I love early 80s videos like this one.

Another early 80s fave….

David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes

The Motels - Shame

The way lead-singer and songwriter, Martha Davis, merges with herself into a billboard captivated me as a kid.

This would be probably considered "problematic" nowadays. But so much fun.

Toyah - Don’t Fall In Love (I Said)

The UK based performer recorded this video outdoors at night, in a German forest IN NOVEMBER! She is stoic and doesn’t act like she’s freezing to death when in fact she WAS. She is so awesome. I adore this song and video.

Rio ftw.

OP doesn't understand anything about the 80s, it seems.

Never gets old.

Adam Ant's Stand and Deliver, for the seamless blend of 18th century and post-punk.

Dude, that Clash song has got to be one of the best songs ever written. My god, its so FUCKING amazing. You can rock the hell out of it.

That Rio video defined the genre and the e tire decade.

BTW, they finally identified the girl on the Rio cover. She was an 80’s model that had her sunglasses and hat removed from her picture. It truly is a great, iconic cover and now we see the model and she’s a very pretty lady.

Hope the link works

Streisand's "Left In The Dark" video is the winner. Streisand produced the video as a 'movie short', using the best video equipment available to give it a 1950's "film noir" style. She teamed up with Kris Kristofferson and shot the 'mini-film' over three days in September, and released it a month later. The heavily-promoted premiere was on 'Entertainment Tonight' , and there was talk back then that Streisand also wanted to show it on the big screen in LA and NY movie theaters over the weekend, for Oscar consideration (seriously), but that didn't pan out for her. (She tried the same thing a year later with her 'Somewhere' video).

R89 that sucks ass

R90 I agree - but she thought it was Oscar worthy for a 'film short' (or whatever the category was called back then ).

Oh, honey, no. Read the thread title again, R89.

I had no idea that video existed. It doesn’t matter if it had the best video equipment known to man at that time.

This one cracks me up.

Roy Orbison - California Blue

Men at Work - Down Under

For me it's this video that was released right at the beginning of the decade when the song was at the top of the UK charts and eventually in heavy MTV rotation. It was also shown in movie theaters back then as a short before the feature.

R29, I lived right up the street from where that video was shot.

DIre Straits "Money for Nothing" (1985) with its memorable animation. The recognizable drum intro leads into the famous guitar riff, and listen for Sting singing "I want my MTV" at the beginning and end.

It also became controversial for using the word "faggot" in the lyrics (replaced elsewhere with the word "queenie"). Songwriter Knopfler explained that the character speaking the lines is meant to be an ignoramus, and taken in context, he says that he's mocking the jealous and homophobic nature of the antagonist and adopting a third-person point of view to show the irony, bigotry, and ignorance of the character.

Loving this. I don't think I've ever W&W'd this many posts in a single thread before!

Vanity Six, Nasty Girl. Prince had his greatest reign during the 80s

Pebbles, Mercedes Boy

R19

I actually remember seeing that video for the first time - Annie Lennox was mesmerizing.

Wham, Wake Me Up Before Go Go

Whenever I think of Toni Basil's "Mickey," I also think of Weird Al.

Nu Shooz, I Can't Wait

David Bowie, Let's Dance

Yazoo Don't Go.

Alison Moyet & Vince Clarke.

We can't exclude her. Madonna, Into the Groove

Talk Talk, It's My Life

New Order - Blue Monday

R9 A great song and a great video. I always thought the member of the group who's featured starting at 1:41 was so handsome.

R107, I posted Material Girl in this thread.

This is very 80's to me. The multiple images were an early use of this now trite device. Jim Kerr was cute back then. I can see what Chrissie Hynde (the Pretenders) might have seen in him.

Owner of a Lonely Heart -- Yes

Fleetwood Mac—Hold Me. This was in heavy rotation when I first started watching MTV and it established a (somewhat surrealist) aesthetic for me.

🎵🎧All that scratchin' is makin' me itch....

(featuring The World's Famous Supreme Team, who were awesome)

The World Famous Supreme Team, "Hey DJ". This was one of my favorite songs/videos of 1984 (my junior year of high school).

"You see, we're living in a time of Rock 'n' Roll, Hip-hop, New Wave, and Classical....."

Danced me out my doggone shoes.

Pat Benatar's "Love Is A Battlefield" is the most craptastic 80s video ever.

30 year-old Pat is a "teenage" runaway. She looks as old as the actors playing her parents. Her "brother" looks like her son.

Pat walks the mean streets of 80s Times Square clutching her giant purse.

Pat becomes a whore.

The pimp's horrified reaction when Pat busts a move 80s style.

Pat and the other whores shaking their tits on the overpass.

Pat and the other whores high-fiving each other like "we are SO badass!"

It's fucking brilliant from start to finish.

Corey Hart was a fucking snack.

R117, let’s not forget the guy in the wife beater and leather pants coming up the escalator with another guy. Bumps into Pat and just ignore her.

Chaka Khan, "I Feel for You". Everyone associated with this song & video are legends.

Bananarama 🍌

I really miss this era of silly, fun, low budget videos.

My favorite video from the 80s

Not as well known as others listed but this song really evokes early 80s for me - Friday Night Videos and Night Flight before we even got MTV

From 1983, Randy Newman's "I Love L.A." with so many of the city's cultural references from the Big 80s within. One that makes me smile is the shot of the gay boys skipping out of 1 Bar on Beverly Blvd. [3:38].. It was one of the bars in the area that wasn't on Santa Monica Blvd., and when it first opened, it soon became THE place to go. Always jam packed on the weekends.

R117 Benatar comes across looking like Mackenzie Phillips in that video. She should have cast Bonnie Franklin and Pat Harrington to play her parents, and Glenn Scarpelli to play her brother in that video.

We belong...

A very pregnant Olivia rolling around in red satin sheets, complete with candles burning and her sexy husband showing up at the end...singing about oral sex. What more can you want in 1985 ?

I saw the premiere of Soul Kiss on MTV. I was in 7th grade

I love this thread! So many videos I had forgotten about!

What a decade for great music and movies.

Science!!

Anne Murray - Now and Forever (You and Me). Anne is a lonely businesslady in a hot pink power suit who bumps into a stranger and thinks he might be Mr. Right. Cut to Anne wandering around Toronto in sub-zero temperatures in a giant fur coat and she bumps into the man again, but wait! He has a girlfriend.

Anne is too sexy to resist, however, and Mr. Right apparently stalks her back to her building and jumps in the elevator with her. Thrilled, Anne sprawls in front of her fireplace (still in the giant fur coat) and Mr. Right proceeds to fuck her. THE END.

R114 I liked Gypsy better.

[quote]Friday Night Videos and Night Flight before we even got MTV.

Yes! I spent so many nights trying to get a good enough picture to watch videos. And watching "Tomorrow" and "Uncle Floyd" just for the musical guests.

I wonder if there would be a market for some form of the old MTV? Or did Streaming Kill the Video Star?

Kim Wilde - Kids in America

Missing Persons - Words

There actually is an MTV Classic that has blocks of videos from the ‘80’s and ‘90’s and Classic Videos. They show lots of videos on those shows.

Don’t bother with any except the ‘80’s shows.

Men At Work - Down Under

Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody

I think this was also in the great Donnie Darko soundtrack, or one of the several versions of it. Perfect for the movie.

Before I get called out, the song Killing Moon was from 1984 but not absolutely sure about the video.

Recorded in December 1983 and released on January 20th 1984 R141.

Even more than "Down Under," this was the Men at Work video with the aesthetic for me.

Have none of you ever been....

Was not a huge hit at the time but seems to have grown in esteem. It sounds so, so 80s and I love how much fun the band seems to be having.

Here’s some country rock breaking into the 80s while still trying to cling to their 70s roots. Threat song. And their video is pure 80s with their little homage to “Dallas” and “Dynasty.” I wish there’d been more story and fewer wild horses.

Plus Julianne Phillips, Springsteen’s first wife.

*Great song

Bowie/Mercury - Pressure, Bowie - Let's Dance, Madonna - Like a Virgin, Wham - Careless Whisper, The Police - Every Breath You Take, Hall and Oates - Private Eyes....

Well, someone had to post it...

These are all so great. To be a downer what the fuck happened that the world is so shit now and the USA is teetering on the verge of becoming a religious right dictatorship?

Love is a Battlefield is the most 80s of all to me. It’s got all the elements. Anyway back to dumb fun.

R139 I read recently where Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" has been voted as the best pop song of the 1980s (song which defines the decade). Wham's "Wake Me Up" came in a close second. IIRC, Jackson's "Billie Jean" rounded out the top 3.

Meanwhile, Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" is considered the #1 song / most popular song of the decade (Billboard charting history, weeks on the charts, weeks at #1, etc. determines that ranking). Interesting that she set the bar so high as early as 1981-82.

R131 They had this one on in heavy rotation on VH1 back in the day. I remember my brother and I watching it and cracking up at how hard they were trying to make Anne Murray into some kind of sex symbol of the soft pop genre and how uncomfortable she looked in this video from start to finish.

R152 "Physical" was one the 80s greatest pop songs with one of the worst videos.

R153 "Physical" had one of the most 'controversial' videos of the time. When she died two years ago, I remember music reporters were saying there were some television viewing areas which would 'block' the video from airing when it was played on VH1 or other video channels. Her single was banned in some markets, too. It didn't stop her from hitting the top of the charts.

R149 that’s one of THE shittiest and most annoying songs in the annals of pop music history

The unique sound of The Waitresses

It was the most sold single that year, wasn’t it? 1981?

I enjoyed all of Olivia’s music videos from the 80s. Namely

Physical

Strangers Touch

Landslide (not that Fleetwood Mac shit)

Heart Attack

Twist of Fate

Livin’ In Desperate Times

Soul Kiss

Toughen Up

The Rumour

Olivia’s movie - Xanadu was like a 90 minute music video with some dialogue thrown in after each song.

Olivia's music videos were all pretty cheesy.

One of Billy Idol's should be on the list.

I think "Eyes Without A Face" was his biggest hit. I believe the "Rebel Yell" video was basically just a concert typve video. The one for "White Wedding" is memorable, but I think the one I liked most was "Dancing with Myself." It came out right after MTV was launched, so got heavy airplay. It was based on the post-apocalyptic action film, "Omega Man." Pre-Thriller zombies!

"Eyes Without A Face" still sound fantastic. Great song.

Well, if this isn't '80s, I don't know what is...

My Boomer mom and her Boomer friends loved 80s Ladies. It was "their" song!

Yazoo...

The English Beat...

Walk Like An Egyptian

This gem is very much of its time.

I remember this R&B crossover hit so well. It defined a good part of 1985 for me.

Midnight Star - Freakazoid

R161 Yes, Billy Idol.

Samantha Fox

Pebbles, Mercedes Boy

Art of Noise - Moments in Love

More Foley

White limos with powder blue velour seats. Click click on the glass. La Dome. Nicky Iacona on my face.

Gay anthem, "It's A Sin" by Pet Shop Boys (1987).

Phyllis Hyman, Living All Alone

Phyllis Hyman was wonderful. She should've been a huge star. It's terrible that she was so troubled.

Sade had appeared on the Adult Contemporary chart, but she had first big hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Smooth Operator" (1984). They did a second version of the accompanying music video for the extended play 12" version of the song, which is like a little 8-minute drama:

Billy Idol, Eyes Without a Face

Pat Benatar's Love Is A Battlefield video doesn’t fit the lyrics. The lyrics tell of a lovers' fight; the video shows this girl getting kicked out of the house by her dad.

[quote]You're beggin' me to go, then makin' me stay

[quote]Why do you hurt me so bad?

[quote]It would help me to know, do I stand in your way

[quote]Or am I the best thing you've had?

What does “love is a battlefield” have to do with a rebellious girl on a bus? “Heartache to heartache”? That’s a breakup song, not an I hate my parents song. But the choreo is great, the hair is great, the girls are great, the pimp is sinister. Terrific video.

With YT views over the100 million mark, this classic song/ video is still pulling them in =

Erasure - A Little Respect (1988)

For many of us, this defined what we left behind in the 80s.

Danceable 80s angst

R169 The best part of the video is at the end. The girl's sitting out at a table in the rain and is clearly pissed off about it. She glances at someone off camera as if to say, "Bitch, get me out of this rain before my wig starts to smell!"

R185, See R31

Sinead O'Connor, Nothing Compares 2 U Forgive if this was already posted.

Tina Turner's "Typical Male".

What's interesting is that the story goes : in 1985, when Turner was looking for songs for her follow-up album to 'Private Dancer', her manager Roger Davies presented her with "Soul Kiss", "Toughen Up", and "Overnight Observation" - which he thought she'd have three hits with. She rejected all of them (and came close to splitting with Davies). He then played her 'Typical Male' - one of the songs he set aside for Olivia Newton-John's next studio album. She loved it, as well as the others he had set aside for ONJ, and convinced Davies to switch the sets (and he did). She had a top 2 single with 'Typical Male' and ONJ had a top 20 with 'Soul Kiss'.

R190 This video was horrible.

"Hey, guys, we need to make a video for this crappy song of Tina's. You have any props we can use?"

"All we have is this giant shoe we made for the Rose Parade."

"It'll do. We'll just have her walk around it for 3 minutes."

You’re SO happy this thread’s doing well, OP…by the way, what’s with the hair?

r173 see r100

The Tubes - She’s a Beauty

R189 O'Connor's cover wasn't released until 1990. Wiki points out, "the lone face of O'Connor made the video one of the most recognizable of the 1990s."

I only watch Sheena Easton music videos. I will watch Vanessa Williams videos from her The Right Stuff album too

I also view Jody Watley music videos from her 80s period

I love that Anne Murray's management/record company tried to make her over into the hottest, sexiest bitch in Toronto who men lusted after. It was so ridiculous. She had all the sex appeal of a dykey gym teacher.

I remember the premiere of this being hyped up, then nobody wanted to ever see the full version again

Here's the song-only version, because most us still don't want to watch the entire thing again.

R199 I love that song and the short single version of the music video. The longer one is way way too long.

Agreed, R201.

I still think his makeup looks amazing, even after all these decades of seeing more expensive makeup and effects.

Donna Summer came a long way from 1983's video ("Hard for the Money" and "Unconditional Love") when she released her video in 1989 for 'This Time I Know It's For Real'. Much more professionally done, more energetic and interesting. And cute male dancers ! One of my favorite videos from the 1980s. Released 35 years ago.

At the end of Summer's video, there's a close-up of Summer's (then new) album, hanging up in the background. Her face is in white make-up as she looks like a Geisha. Summer explained it was a nod to the extended vacation she had in Japan the year before. She also said she got a lot of criticism for that cover photo and for wearing 'white make-up'. Some people accused her of trying to 'erase her black heritage' by posing with white makeup. Ridiculous.

^^It was a pretty striking cover.

Donna's 1991 Mistaken Identity album had her in a blonde wig and blue contacts.

The Jacksons' "Can You Feel It?", 1981.

A harbinger of things to come. Regardless of how you feel about Michael & the Jacksons, they were making long-form "concept" videos with (then) cutting-edge special effects, before MTV debuted. (the special effects were done by the outfit that did the movie TRON)

This one certainly had an aesthetic of sorts (improved version).

lol, R187. I always felt for her sitting out in the rain while the others are luxuriating in satin sheets or chilling in a bubble bath.

I can't believe NO ONE posted this 80s classic yet (or did they) ?

And then there's this masterpiece...

R210, yes at R17.

David Lee Roth's video of California Girls is a fun music video. The actual music is basically a parody/goof. I used to hate hearing it on the radio, knowing how good the original Beach Boys version was, and I'm forced to keep hearing this instead.

This is iconic if for no other reason than inspiring one of the most hilarious SNL bits of the '80s.

🎶🎶 it started out as Hogwarts, now it’s Lord of the Flies 🎶

Love that version, r211

r210 They did, but it's a great one

Laura Branigan - Gloria.

Total video budget - $15.38.

Life in a Northern Town

Billy Jean and Material Girl. Nuff said.

The Billy Jean video used to make me laugh trying to imagine Michael Jackson impregnating a girl the old fashioned way.

From 1983, "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

This is the second music video for the song that probably got the most airplay. It's sometimes referred to as the "laser version," because of the lighting.

The original music video that follows in the next post was subsequently banned by both the BBC and MTV.

The banned video.

From wiki:

[quote] The first official music video for "Relax", directed by Bernard Rose and set in an S&M themed gay nightclub at Wilton’s music hall in London it featuring the bandmembers accosted by buff leathermen, a glamorous drag queen, and an obese admirer dressed up as a Roman emperor, played by actor John Dair, was allegedly banned by MTV and the BBC, prompting the recording of a second video, directed by Godley and Creme[30] in early 1984, featuring the group performing with the help of laser beams. However, after the second video was made the song was banned completely by the BBC, meaning that neither video was ever broadcast on any BBC music programmes.

Oran Juice Jones

Lisa Stansfield, Been Around the World, Live at the Apollo

Culture Club, Time (Clock of the Heart)

Grace Jones, Pull Up to the Bumper

Salt N Pepa, Push It

Scorpions, Rock You Like a Hurricane

Guns N Roses, Sweet Child 'o Mine

Culture Club, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?

Prince, Raspberry Beret

U2's video for "Where the Streets Have No Name" shot on the roof of a liquor store in Downtown L.A.

Phyllis Hyman? Did she also sing that fantastic dance song “I Like You”

My god that song had an amazing beat!!

They play it every so often on Studio 54 channel on Sirius XM

Not often enough to my way of liking.

Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life

Cameo - Candy

Who can forget Fat by Weird Al Yankovic? He said Michael Jackson loved the video.

I doubt it would be popular nowadays.

This wasn't a big hit but it was a song every video channel loved to throw in as a bit of a "WTF?" quirky moment.

I'll try again.

Richie Havens - Going Back to My Roots

Teena Marie - Lovergirl

[quote]In 1982, Teena Marie got into a heated legal battle with Motown Records over her contract and disagreements about releasing her new material.[20] The lawsuit resulted in "The Brockert Initiative", which made it illegal for a record company to keep an artist under contract without releasing new material for that artist. In such instances, artists are able to sign and release with another label instead of being held back by an unsupportive one. Teena Marie commented on the law in a Los Angeles Times article, saying "It wasn't something I set out to do. I just wanted to get away from Motown and have a good life. But it helped a lot of people, like Luther Vandross and the Mary Jane Girls, and a lot of different artists, to be able to get out of their contracts."[21] She left Motown as the label's most successful white solo act.[22]

R48 had me reminiscing.

I don’t want to get into an argument about the boys or lawsuits. This is a music & music video thread, & rewatching MJ’s videos and performances within aforementioned videos reminds me how out of this universe talented MJ was.

Undisputed greatest entertainer in modern history.

Diamond had no use for girls . Californian or otherwise.

Melt with you. Modern English, and Tears For Fears, Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Later in the 80s Motley Crue and other hair bands. Good times.

Love her or hate her . Bitch was the Bomb.

She also made the era way funnier than what it would’ve been had she not hit the airways.

Bopped to every single song everywhere. NYC, LA, didn’t matter. I took my Walkman & Madonna everywhere I went.

Bananarama - Venus

R243, Here ya go. Tears For Fears - Shout

Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Madonna - La Isla Bonita

Madonna - Open Your Heart

The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter

Prince - Little Red Corvette

I was more of a BET guy rather than an MTV guy, but I lapped up everything. Here's David Bowie criticizing MTV.

Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm

Wham! - Last Christmas

Late for the holiday, I know.

Men at Work: Who Can It Be Now?

Al B Sure: Nite and Day

Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now?

Stacey Q - Two Of Hearts

Animotion - Obsession

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy

Was David Lee Roth gay?