# What's your favorite 80S music video? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382 "2003-06-25T22:20:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![hikeeba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@hikeeba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hikeeba)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/41 "2003-06-27T02:02:53Z")
New Frontier by Donald Fagen. ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/42 "2003-06-27T02:08:05Z")
Somebody beat me to “You Might Think”! That was a great one. Anybody else ever see the video to Psychotherapy by the Ramones? I only saw it once but it freaked me out to no end. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/43 "2003-06-27T02:20:44Z")
For the cheese factor, I love “I Ran” by A Flock of Seagulls and “You Spin Me Round” by Dead or Alive. As for stuff that’s genuinely good, most of it’s already been mentioned: “Take On Me”, “Sledgehammer”, “Thriller”, plus “Where The Streets Have No Name” and “With or Without You” by U2 and I really like the video for “The One I Love” by REM. ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/44 "2003-06-27T02:32:00Z")
\*\* I Ran - A Flock of Seagulls A-ha - Take on Me Heaven 17 - Let Me Go The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star \*\* Oh, and my all-time favourite, **Gary Numan - Cars** Check this out: [Creating an 80s Video](http://www.geocities.com/transactoid/80svid.html) 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/45 "2003-06-27T02:34:15Z")
I’ve often wished that someone would take a random 3 or 4 hour slice of MTV from, say, 1986, put it on a DVD, and sell it. I’d pay a LOT for a real bit of 80s MTV. Can someone please arrange this and tell me where to send the check? ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/46 "2003-06-27T03:59:28Z")
I also have to agree with Gabriel - Sledgehammer, Collins - Land of Confusion, A-Ha - Take On Me, etc. Here are some others I recall vividly: **Duran Duran** - The Reflex. There was something about the huge columns, red draped background, screen with the shadow outline of the woman with the chain, and that excessively bad “tidal wave” at the end. **Duran Duran** - The Union of the Snake. Dark underground societies, desert influenced garb, an adverturer type vibe. **Um… forgot the band name!** - Obsession. I just wanted her, in a very strong raging puberty kind of way. I always wonder if the guy from Men Without Hats looks back on the Safety Dance video and thinks “Poet shirt, midget, renaissance fair thing… what the F-CK was I thinking?!?” I also would buy DVD’s loaded with 80’s era MTv - assuming it was all videos. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/47 "2003-06-27T04:08:08Z")
I also have to agree with Gabriel - Sledgehammer, Collins - Land of Confusion, A-Ha - Take On Me, etc. Here are some others I recall vividly: **Duran Duran** - The Reflex. There was something about the huge columns, red draped background, screen with the shadow outline of the woman with the chain, and that excessively bad “tidal wave” at the end. **Duran Duran** - The Union of the Snake. Dark underground societies, desert influenced garb, an adverturer type vibe. **Um… forgot the band name!** - Obsession. I just wanted her, in a very strong raging puberty kind of way. I always wonder if the guy from Men Without Hats looks back on the Safety Dance video and thinks “Poet shirt, midget, renaissance fair thing… what the F-CK was I thinking?!?” I also would buy DVD’s loaded with 80’s era MTv - assuming it was all videos. ---
**Author:** ![Grousser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Grousser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grousser)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/48 "2003-06-27T07:49:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lainaf \* > \*\*The 80s was a sweet time for video. I miss it. \*\* Is it my imagination, or nowadays music videos have not the peak and fashion that had in the 80’s? What would be the reason for? ---
**Author:** ![bifar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@bifar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bifar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/49 "2003-06-27T09:46:58Z")
I may be a grouchy old thirtysomething (yes), but I think 80s videos were a load more original and interesting than vids these days, which seem to consist of either 1. Girls in bikinis covered in lipgloss and glittertan trying to look sultry (RnB) or 2. Moody teenagers wandering on a beach (Britrock). In the _old_ days vids were more inventive, more camp, had more of a storyline and were more visually interesting. IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/50 "2003-06-27T09:58:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MeanJoe \* > **Um… forgot the band name! - Obsession. I just wanted her, in a very strong raging puberty kind of way.** The band was named “Animotion.” I’m very upset that I know that. ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/51 "2003-06-27T12:33:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WILLASS \* > \*\*I really liked Herbie Hancocks ‘Rocket’ the one with all the weird robots and the robotic legs walking around the room on a boom. All the other ones I like are already here, but that one still springs to mind as a really cool video…I really like the song still. \*\* Thank you!! I’ve been trying to remember what that video was so I could post it on this thread without having to say “You know, that one video, with the legs in it?” Definitely an awesome video. Of course, I still love “White Wedding,” where the girl’s dancing in the kitchen and stuff’s blowing up. And Cyndi Lauper videos. And most things that were on MTV in the eighties, that have now disappeared forever. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/52 "2003-06-27T13:04:29Z")
I’ve never been a Madonna fan, but few things bring back memories of the 80s more vividly than the video for **Material Girl**. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/53 "2003-06-27T13:39:40Z")
**SolGrundy** - Thank you! I’m very upset that I could not remember that. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/54 "2003-06-27T14:55:47Z")
Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love. Those Stepford Chicks are freaky! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/55 "2003-06-27T15:31:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by saramamlana \* > \*\*Wow, I never would’ve come up with “Spitting Image.” For some reason I was thinking the title would be somehow political. But yeah, that’s the show! Are you sure? _Spitting Image_ was a British show. There was an American show that was similar (produced by Sid & Marty Krofft of _Land of the Lost_ and _H.R. Pufnstuf_ fame) called _DC Follies_, which was set in a bar in Washington. Fred Willard was the bartender and in addition to the expected crowd of muppetlike politicians, had celebrity puppets as well. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382/56 "2003-06-27T18:43:59Z")
Of course everyone loves Dolby’s “She blinded me with science”, but his other one “Hyperactive” was also one of my favorites, him with a box on his head as he peels off photos of his face from the box. ZZ Top’s “Legs” had everything a teenage boy could ever want in a video. Siouxie and the Banshees “Peekaboo” was brilliantly weird. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-80s-music-video/184382.md?page=2)