The SJ Video Hall Of Fame

Yea, he had the wreck right after they came off tour for that album (Pyromania).

Women is the first vid where he's one-armed.

 

C'Mon Eileen, Dexy's

Safety Dance, Men Without Hats

Paradise City, GnR

Panama, Van Halen

 

"Freak on a Leash" by Korn

 

"Gypsy" -- Fleetwood Mac

 

"Don't Answer Me", Alan Parsons Project
"I'm on Fire", Bruce Springsteen
"Summer of '69", Bryan Adams
"Don't Come Around Here No More", Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (though I rather prefer Running Down a Dream)
"Blue Jean", David Bowie
"Smuggler's Blues", Glen Frey
"Lucas With The Lid Off", Lucas (it's a one-take video)

 

Oh, and here's

And

which pretty much spelled the end of Def Lep's relevance.

 

Wouldn't mind seeing that one. I'm listening to The Alan Parsons Project as I type this post.

 

U2 -- Two Hearts Beat As One. Great song, great video, first time Edge wore The Hat.

Midnight Star -- Freak-A-Zoid. Very Tron. Didn't put the band in because MTV at the time didn't want to show black faces. Also, I believe a truckload of vocoders were spirited away after a synthesizer-carrying semi crashed on I-75 between Dayton and Cincinnati in 1979, because there were a million bands from the area that used them incessantly in the early 1980s.

For you Minnesotans, a "tribute" to Mpls-St. Paul: Husker Du's "Makes No Sense at All/Love is All Around" double

 

Serious picks:

George Harrison - "Faster"

Radiohead - "Just"

Blur - "Coffee and TV"

Kinks - "Dead End Street"

Yo La Tengo - "Sugarcube"

 

Pearl Jam -- Jeremy, Do The Evolution

 

Hot for Teacher

 

No idea if a link is available, but I'll nominate U2's alternate video for One, the one that was just a buffalo running across the plains in black and white for the whole song.

Hypnotic.

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Also, the G n R series from Use Your Illusion -- Don't Cry, November Rain, Estranged.

Baffling, but breathtaking in scope.

Beastie Boys -- Sabotage

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