Greatest Music Videos. Seriously.

What was the SECOND video shown on MTV when it began, back in 1981?

(Lotta good videos suggested here, BTW.)

 

"Boys of Summer" by Don Henley

 

You Better Run, Pat Benatar

 

Damn. I'm stumped.

I'll go with some something by Rod Stewart, since that's about all they had in the early days.

 

the second best video IMO is daft punk's "da funk." terrific little story spike jonze told there. which do you choose, the girl next door or the music?

 

Daaaaaaamn. Great video. great, great video. good call. loved that clip in '84.

 

This one has the lego effect, but only some of it was done purely with the blocks. The rest was animated using a block effect by computer animators.

 

whitesnake, here i go again , duh

gotta echo hot for teacher... the waldo stuff, also dave's crazy from the heat videos

i always liked soundgarden's jesus christ pose

faith no more's cover of easy

any spike jonez (weezer videos, i.e. buddy holly, keep fishing, plus it's oh so quiet by bjork, weapon of choice, and southern california by wax --

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fell in love with a girl is also awesome

and, well, one of those, holy shit this is awesome moments for me...
pj harvey, rid of me


also, debonair by the afghan whigs --

and gentleman --

i always thought the smashing pumpkins 1979 had just the exact right feel

along the same lines, drive, r.e.m.

 

thriller.

 

What, two pages in and no PrancingBilly®?!?

Jeebus El Camino...

 

Bless you sir.

No "No More Lonely Nights" either.

 

Pfft. They could have quit after this (15 years earlier):

Unfortunately, because of inter-company squabbling between MTV and EMI/Capitol, who owned the Beatles' songs, I don't believe Beatles videos have appeared on MTV or VH1 (or any of the spinoff channels) except on very rare occasions.

Of course, it's certainly also possible that MTV didn't want to mix in Beatles videos with the shit they were shoveling onto the cable waves in the 1980s and 1990s, assuring us it was the greatest stuff anyone had ever seen, when it would be pretty obvious much, much better stuff had been done 20 years earlier.