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Billboard poll: what was the best music video of the 80s? With the launch of MTV on Aug. 1, 1981, video took on a new role in the music world -- and as the first song played on the cable network ("The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star") declared, video did, indeed, kill the radio star.
These days, music videos are standard practice for artists both big and small, and needless to say, the scale of and technology behind these clips has escalated over the years. But even back in the 1980s -- what some may consider the infant age of the music video -- clips like Michael Jackson's 14-minute, John Landis-directed "Thriller," Madonna's controversy-filled "Like a Prayer," and Peter Gabriel's laborious stop-motion narrative "Sledgehammer" set the bar very high for future decades.
Now, as we celebrate 30 years of music video television, let's revisit -- and vote on -- each decade's best. Billboard.com editors filled out our poll with a handful of our favorites from the 1980s, but use the write-in option below to vote from other clips released from Jan. 1, 1980 to Dec. 31, 1989. The poll will remain open all week, and be sure to come back next week to vote in our '90s music video poll. We'll reveal readers' top picks for each decade after three weeks of polls.
What was the best video of the 80s? Vote now!
http://www.billboard...005270962.story "Every Breath You Take" - The Police
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Polls suck. | |
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I know,but click on that link and vote anyway | |
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True but as if it needs a poll for that lmao | |
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Are you saying we should vote for Prince because the spot for #1 is too obvious and he'll get millions of votes from others anyway...might as well support P?? | |
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a-ha. No contest. | |
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I don't think he's suggesting that at all. | |
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I was kidding | |
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"Bad" shoulda been there | |
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duuuuuhhhhhhhhhh
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This is the best. Nothing more entertaining than watching broken up cement blocks and phone wires. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Besides the obvious RunDMC and Aerosmith would get my vote for number 2 Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint | |
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I love early R.E.M. videos.
If we are talking artistic and cutting edge then Sledgehammer is the clear winner. The Most Important Thing In Life Is Sincerity....Once You Can Fake That, You Can Fake Anything. |
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Thriller and Like a Prayer ? Why do you do this to me?
I had to go with Thriller, but I LOVE LAP and Princey, I was fascinated with the symmetry as a kid, and horrified of Thriller until I was given the viewmaster slides. | |
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Like a Prayer!
Honorable mention: Thriller ExpressYourself Rhythm Nation
2012: The Queen Returns | |
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