Do you remember the 80s? What was your favorite MTV music video?

There were 5 Original DJ's, not 4:

Martha Quinn

Mark Goodman

Nin Blackwood

JJ Jackson

Alan Hunter

Martha was HOT!!!!!

Der Kommissar, The Metro, New Years Day.

Every video from 1983 rocked.

Far and away, the best video has to be Take On Me by A-Ha. Others were good, but this one blew them all away (and, even in the age of total digital animation, still rules the pack). But there were other good videos from cinematography and/or artistic perspectives, like "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson with the light-up street tiles, or any of Peter Gabriel's material, like "Sledgehammer" with the stop-motion animation. Some weren't SEEN as good (like Rio by Duran Duran or anything by Adam Ant), but were still good music... so the video didn't matter (who could actually look at the TV while dancing around the house :) ). And then there were the more "interesting" videos, at least from the perspective of an adolescent teen boy, like "She's a Beauty" by the Tubes, "I Want Your Sex" by George Michael, and almost everything that Madonna put out. BTW, did you hear that MTV productions is looking to start a third music video channel? One that actually plays videos and doesn't have ANY game shows, reality TV or anything OTHER than music videos? It'll be like jumping back in time by 20 years! :)

"Don't Come Around Here No More"--Tom Petty (freaked me out, but I always loved the Alice in Wonderland imagery

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"One Lonely Night"--REO Speedwagon. Loved the song, and then saw the video once or twice; just totally not what I was expecting, but delightfullly quirky.

"Take On Me" and "Thriller" were both great, too, you're right. It's back when people still played with the idea of video representation of their music--and didn't just use the video as a means to tell the world how sexy they are (although, to be fair, there was plenty of that happening too...good lord, how many videos of rock concert footage did you have to go through to get to a creative one??).

Thanks for the question! That's a good one!

Yeah, I remember, Alzheimer's hasnt kicked in yet....I loved it when MTV played a video by Dokken, they never got the airplay they deserved...I loved all of Madonna's videos back then too! OMG I just put it on VH1 Classics and "In and Out of Love" from Bon Jovi's 7800 Fahrenheit's album is on!! OHHHH YEAH!!

Martha Quinn was my fave original veejay!! Nina Blackwood, JJ Jackson and Alan Hunter!!

I also liked Take on Me

Tears for Fears Shout

All the Madonna songs

Rod Stewart If you think I'm Sexy song

Thriller!!!!

Girls just Wanna have fun

Van Halens Jump!

Whitney Houstons old stuff

There are so many, I was always dancing around! I was in 3rd grade when it all started!

Girls just wanna have fun! I loved seeing Cyndi dance around with pink hair and high heeled boots. Her lips looked square when she sang, "Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world..". And all the people dancing in her bedroom at the end. She was SOOOO Cool then!

Lets hear it for the boy - was also cute and...

Like a virgin - gondola love and the panting tiger

I have to agree with Take On Me. But loved Adam Ant "Goody Two Shoes"! And the original VJ's were JJ Jackson, Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood and Alan ???? Then Mark came in.

Hey! Cool question.... MTV was MY WAY on the 80's....

Have you seen all those cool videos from David Lee Roth??? California Girls... Goin' Crazy... Yankee Rose... They were hilarious....

"It's the Fabulous Picasso Brothers!!!" - That's right! The party's back! So hide your valuables..."

As far as cool scenery goes, another great video was Van Halen's "Dreams", with the Blue Angels!

In the mood for music videos? Search them on YouTube, they're all there.

All right, gotta love them eighties...

Thriller was the best video EVER!! Take On Me was good too!!

♥♥We Love You Michael!!!!♥♥

Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (Excellent video)

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (Miracle of videomaking at the time)

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing (We would laugh at the computer graphics today but back then....WOW!)