The Best 80s Music Videos Ever!

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Music Videos from the '80s are a species all of their own...

Fellow children of the '80s, prepare to relive your past!

This page is for the best music videos from the 1980's. To begin with it will be my own personal favourites, but not for long! Suggest your own favourite below!

I hope you enjoy these videos as much as I do!

A good '80s music video should contain one or more of the following: 

  • Big hair, with bonus points given for mullets and perms. Preferably both in the same hairdo.
  • Clothes that you could only get away with in the '80s. I don't think there was a single music video made in the '80s that didn't have bad fashion in it, but extra points will be given for leg warmers, fluro, silly hats and tucked in shirts.
  • Enthusiastic or emotional dancing is a must. In the '80s people were either ecstatically happy and leapt about frantically, or they were extremely sad and emotional in a way that could only be expressed through interpretive dance. (Usually with a group of people all in formation...)
  • Eye contact, either between people in the video having some kind of intense 'moment', or between the person in the video and the audience. If you didn't stare down the barrel of the camera while you were dancing, you could always include a still shot of your face at the end of the video while the music faded out...
  • Windows or mirrors. All the cool kids had videos where someone was either gazing out of a window, or dancing in front of a mirror. I'm sure it's all very symbolic and deep. Though of what exactly I am yet to determine...

Michael Jackson - Thriller 

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A Ha - Take on me 

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Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 

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Madonna - Like a Prayer 

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What have I missed? 

Add the 80's music videos from YouTube that you think need to be on this page, and vote for your favourites!

Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time

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Please feel free to add anything you think should be here.

Random '80s music selection from YouTube 

I love a YouTube 'lucky dip'. There are so many great videos hiding away on there!

In The 80's - Music Video
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How about a pair of leg warmers?

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