What do you think is the best music video of the 80s?

is a-ha take on me, the one that they go into the comic strip?? if so, i really liked that one the most of any in the 80's. i also really like cyndi lauper's girls just want to have fun!

Take on Me by a-ha is my all-time favorite music video. It's just so good, Steve Barron had a great idea with the video and I like Steve Barron. He also directed "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson and "Don't You Want Me" by the Human League.

This was really hard to separate the video from the song. It was difficult choice between "Cry" and "Sledgehammer", but I went for "Sledgehammer"!!

Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It

I thought of Sledgehammer before I read the choices.

I like quite a few on the list, but my favorite has to be A-Ha's Take Me on (Take on Me). Looks like someone was watching VH-1's top 80 of the 80's over the Labor Day weekend.

That's the one alright!

You're correct, I did watch it, and that's how I got the idea for this survey. It was incorrect though, Take on Me is definitely the best 80s video, not Billie Jean like they said.

You are so cool!

I like both Billie Jean and Take on Me, but there is just something about the beat of Take on Me that appeals to me more.

"Beat It," Michael Jackson. I'm not hearing arguments on this one.

Very surprised that so many people have so far picked the gross aha video.

Thriller was the best. I don't even care for Michael Jackson but that video was great!!

I'm glad there were options, because there are far too many for me to call up from memory. Of the ones on the list, I picked the Robert Palmer. I can't remember the title of the song, but I assume this is the one that has been lampooned so many times. Some Canadian C&W singer did a good spoof of it recently.

I've seen them all, love them all. The eighties were interesting for their saturation of tackiness and glitter. It is so incredibly hard for me to pick one. Oh! I remember one that should be on your list-- "Wake me up before you go-go", WHAM! (I so LOVE the shorts!)
Okay. The best ones are "Jack and Diane", "White Wedding" (I crack up whenever I see that coffin) and "Material Girl".

I made a comment on this survey - where's it gone???

I let my mum answer this one for me cos I cant remember most of these!

I don't know

I like Janet Jackson and Madonna, but I have to go with anything Whitney Houston did.

Oh, video! In that case, I really don't know. I haven't seen many 80s music videos.

This survey sucks. Weezer's song <http://www.weezer.com/news>'Buddy Holly' is from 1994.

I haven't seen any of these, maybe passing the TV and it was on, but I know that supposedly Micheal Jackson's video "Thriller" is arguably the best music video ever, and to top it off, the song was considered on of the greatest as well, so I'll pick that one.

I thought been caught stealing by hmmm who did that? I thought that was the best I am pretty sure it was in the 80's

"Been Caught Stealing" was by Jane's Addiction, and it was from 1990.

You must be kidding. You know who did that song.

I could not remember who did it at the time I wrote that.

Well I was closer to the 80's than you were according to Maartens comment above

Before I saw the options, Sledgehammer came to mind, but thinking about it, the ultimate "event" video that summed up the 80's for me is "Thriller". I remember being allowed to stay up late and watch the premiere (A premiere of a music video?!?! - the very idea ) of it on the TV.

Faith No More "Epic" from The Real Thing came out in the 80's and it would be one of my choices.

That's weird.. you actually had the one I was thinking.. Take on Me.

I was surprised it was 1990. I would have guessed 1987 or 1988. You sure are cute when you don't remember things.

LOVE YOU BABY

Thriller...hands down.....
not the greatest song on the list...but the fukkin' coolest vid

Weezer was in the 80's?

Nope it was in 90

This should have been multiple pick, because I liked a lot of these. I loved INXS and Paula Abdul in the eighties.

Cher, Turn Back Time. I've always wondered what a woman would look like if she put her G-string on backwards.

Adding the Weezer song was a complete accident cause I was looking through a list of great music videos and I was typing so fast I didn't realize I had added Weezer in my list. I knew it was a 90s song, I just was going too fast.

I LOVE YOU MORE. SMOOOOOCH!!!!!

I chose Buddy Holly, but it is really a tie between that, Video Killed The Radio Star and White Wedding, with Fight For Your Right To Party and We're Not Gonna Take It at a close second.

no way I love you more

That would be impossible.

better call Guiness

I think maybe it was meant to be that cheesy Buddy Holly song that came out in the 80s. It wasn't by Weezer. Some tacky one that went:
"But I feel like Buddy Holly cause it's raining in my heart
All the sad songs take me back to you now that we are apart
Well I know how Paul McCartney felt when he got up to say
I wish it was Yesterday...."... Alvin Stardust apparently.

Take on Me. Simply the best video ever and no arguing that. I remember when it came out back in 1985, I was 11 years old and I saw it on MTV after getting home from school and thought it was incredible. Great video.

Gosh this was a tough one I like all Van Halen music videos & I also liked David Lee Roths "California Girls" but, Tom Pettys video depicting the Alice in Wonderland video is the coolest,I can't remember if it was the "Last Dance with Mary Jane" song.Somebody help me out please.

The video with Alice in Wonderland is "Don't Come Around Here No More." That video is on my list of choices.

Then that's the one I like.Thanks JoeSchmoe2003.
That was my favorite video.I love Tom Petty!!!

Tom Petty RULES!!!!!!

BTW COOL SURVEY!! Besides food surveys,music surveys are the next best.

Maybe I'll do a food survey next.

Yay!!Yay!! Yay!! **Jumping up & down & clapping hands erratically** Your my hero!!

I know I'll probably get beat up for this, but I like Michael Jackson. I have a soft spot for the underdogs . (Well, sometimes.)

Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love- so simple yet so, um, interesting to my then-teenage brain.

I like most of these songs, a LOT. But the best video has to be "Thriller."

gotta go with a-ha.

~Like a virgin~ how amusing. I would have voted for Thriller - great video - but I hate Michael Jackson!

Too long of a list, but i'd have to say Metallica-One.

"Close My Eyes Forever" by Lita Ford and Ozzy Osborne!!!!!

Thank You

J'ai êtê au bal (I went to the dance) - The Cajun & Zydeco Music of Louisiana (84-min. documentary with music, Arhoolie BF-103)

Money For Nothing by Dire Straits

Weezer? That's from the 90s!

Frankie goes to Hollywood - Relax

Chewbacca says hello.

You are too obscene.

I vote for Save a prayer - Duran Duran