I say it runs up there with Michael Jackson's Thriller.....
what video do you think was the best of the 80s videos....
remember, this was when Mtv and Vh1 actually played videos so search your memory generation Xers and beyond.
2007-01-03 14:27:53 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
or
Devo - Whip It
or
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
2007-01-03 14:29:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I remember when MTV first came on the air. We didn't have cable, but my best friend did, and we spent hours in front of the tube watching what seemed like the same 14 videos over and over. LOL. One of the early ones I remember liking was this video by Kansas called "Play the Game Tonight." It had these guys playing chess, I think, and it seems like it was on all the time. "Rock the Casbah" by the Clash and "Freeze-Frame" by the J. Geils Band were other great early videos.
Later, I loved "Take On Me" as much for the video as for the song. Some of my other favorites, before I gave up MTV when music and videos became excruciatingly painful to bear, were as follows. I liked videos that told a story much more than those where the band was just standing there singing, sweating and looking pretty. These weren't groundbreaking videos like "Take on Me" or "Thriller," but they entertained me.
Madness - Our House
The Cars - You Might Think
The Kinks - Come Dancing
Julian Lennon - Valotte
The Tubes - She's a Beauty
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Huey Lewis & the News - If This Is It
Donald Fagan - I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World This Will Be)
Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield
OMG I can't believe I forgot
Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know
Men at Work - Who Can It Be Now/Dr. Hekyll and Mr. Jive (both great)
The Police - King of Pain (that was the one with all the candles, wasn't it?)
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
Golden Earring - Twilight Zone
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart
I'll shut up now.
I'm sure I could add dozens more, but these were off the top of my head. SIGH. Does MTV ever have retro night?
2007-01-03 15:02:53 · answer #2 · answered by The Skin Horse (formerly ll2) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Michael Jackson's Thriller is the greatest video of the 80's then A-HA's Take On Me and Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer!
â¥â¥We Love You Michael!!!!â¥â¥
2007-01-03 14:42:11 · answer #3 · answered by ♥Stranger In Maine™♥ (Thriller) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can you really compare animation to real ppl? I'm not sure what the best video is because u have so much to choose from between Michael Jackson, Prince and even some of the rockers like Twisted Sister.
2007-01-03 14:31:58 · answer #4 · answered by CreoleSista 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thriller is definitely the best in my opinion. Take on Me is up there in the top ten. I also loved Genesis' Land of Confusion video with all the weird rubber masks. Ooh, and "We're Not Gonna Take It" by, uh. . .Twisted Sister, I think? Those are all I can think of right now, but I'm sure there are more.
2007-01-03 14:31:50 · answer #5 · answered by Casey 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
its been hyped by critics that way because it was so "original" but I disagree, it did not blow me away when I first saw it back then, and I still don't see what all the fawning over it was ever about. It was kinda boring actually. Think about it; Jerry the mouse dancing with Gene Kelly blew people awaywhen animation was FIRST coupled with live action in the 50's. SO..in the 80's (30 YEARS after animation live action had originally been combined), Aha 's video was a just bore.
2007-01-03 14:31:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Take on Me was an awesome video. Definitely top 10. My all time favorite is Sledgehammer, by Peter Gabriel.
2007-01-03 14:32:49 · answer #7 · answered by JD 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take on me was a great video.
The best Dire Straits video was Brothers in Arms.
That was a very DEEP emotional one. If you have a chance, listen to it with headphones. It was done like Take On Me, with thousands of pencil drawings
Thriller was great too. The Cars "You might think" was cool too.
2007-01-03 14:41:49 · answer #8 · answered by bluz dude 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hungry Like the Wolf...Duran Duran
2007-01-03 14:29:28 · answer #9 · answered by Moxie Crimefighter 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Take On Me is my favorite video of all time. i used to just watch MTV and wait for it to come on.
2007-01-03 14:39:54 · answer #10 · answered by Victoria 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋