The Best 80s Music Videos (According to Me)
Well, I wouldn't be a proper gray-haired Gen-X music blogger if I didn't post my list of favorite MTV videos. Kids who were raised on YouTube can't possibly understand the impact a plethora of music videos had on young minds in the 1980s, particularly young teen-girl minds. Spellbound is a good word. The arrival of MTV kept us riveted to our TVs for the entirety of our high school years. We would stay up all night watching MTV on the weekends. The cable channel played in the background while we did our homework and at our parties. We watched it when we couldn't sleep at night. We played our favorites over and over, taped down from VHS machines. As a courtesy, we pretended to like what our friends liked and they pretended to like what we liked. It was such a supermarket-surprise in the beginning. And the channel had something for everyone back then, before videos were eventually segregated into overly-curated and boorishly-hosted hour-long "shows" by the 1...