Why did this win a MTV video music award? The video is hard to comprehend.

Come on Rockwell. Nobody is watching you and why would they? It is always the one hit wonders that have crappy videos.

Why could't they just go to her house instead of bothering the telephone man?

The Zorro scene had nothing to do with the song. The video would have been great if they left that one out.

I liked this video until I found out it was shot at Jones Beach, NY. This band is too good to shoot a video at that "welfare" beach.

Why are most of his videos have to be garbage? He is very talanted. This video has him and the crew dancing in one place and the camera is turned so it looks like he is really standing on the ceiling.

These B Boy doo-woopers think they are cool because their video was shot on a Staten Island ferry. It was a good song, but the video can be better.

The background is not even a real house. Is it?

This video use to frighten me when I was a child. Right now I can see why. What is up with the flinging goo eye balls and the poor "Thriller" wannabe concepts? No wonder why the family superstars, Michael and Jermaine sat out for this one. Painful memories of 84.

TECHNICALLY,.. IT WASN'T TEARS FOR FEARS ANYMORE, IT WAS JUST ROLAND ORZABAL CAUSE CURT LEFT THE BAND. BUT IT WAS STILL TEARS FOR FEARS. AND THE VIDEO CLIP WAS QUIRKY BUT HEAPS COOL.

I DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND THIS CLIP BUT ROLIE AND CURT LOOK MIGHTY FINE THOUGH

ANOTHER GREAT SONG AND CLIP

ANOTHER CLASSIC CLIP, NEED I SAY MORE...... ROLAND LOOKS HOT WEARING GLASSES AND READING NEWSPAPER!!!!

THIS SONG GETS STUCK IN MY HEAD EVERY TIME I LISTEN TO IT. THE VIDEO CLIP IS GREAT, ROLAND MUST HAVE BEEN STALKED BY OBSESSED TFF FANS IN DISGUISE.

LOVE ROLAND'S DANCE, I TRIED TO DANCE LIKE THAT BUT I'LL NEVER BE AS GOOD AS HIM.

THE BEST DRIVING SONG!! WHY DIDN'T ROLAND DRIVE AROUND! I LIKE CURT TOO BUT I THINK THAT ROLAND SHOULD'VE DRIVED AS WELL

THE MOST KNOWN SONG AND THE VIDEO CLIP ROCKS. I WISH I WAS STANDING RIGHT BEHIND ROLAND AT THE NEAR END OF THE CLIP!

ANOTHER FAVOURITE OF MINE. I THINK ROLAND SHOULD DO A FEW MOVIES PLUS SOME TV SHOWS, HE'S BRILLIENT IN THIS CLIP!! WISH I WAS THE LIBRARIAN!!

THE BEST SONG, AND SEEING ROLAND WITH NO SHIRT ON MAKES ANY GIRL WANNA SCREAM!

A novelty song with a cheesy, but fun video. (1983)

Not really a Christmas song, but the video has a holiday vibe to it. (1992)

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Actually from Bing Crosby's final holiday special in 1977, but wasn't released as single until 1982. Classic clip though. (1977, though the clip ran on MTV & VH1 until they stopped airing videos)

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A great video for a good cause. Put together by Bob Geldolph (Boomtown Rats) and sung by popular artists of the time like Sting, Boy George, Bananarama, George Michael, Phil Collins, etc. (1984)

THE YEAR WAS 1982 I WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD WHEN I SAW THIS VIDEO.I STUDIED THIS VIDEO JUST TO LEARN HIS DANCE STEPS.

DAVID BYRNE DANCING EXPLAINS IT ALL.

THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN MY NUMBER ONE.BUT EVERYBODY GOT THIS VIDEO ON THERE LIST.THIS IS THE GREATEST VIDEO OF ALL TIME EVER.

THIS VIDEO WAS DARK AND ERIE.

THIS VIDEO WAS BANNED ON MTV IN 1982 BECAUSE OF THE SEXUAL SUGGESTIVNESS.IF THIS VIDEO CAME OUT NOW IT WOULD GET HEAVY RORTATION ON MTV NOW.

AT FIRST I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THIS VIDEO WHEN I FIRST SAW IT.BUT THEN AS I KEPT SEEING THE VIDEO THIS WAS A GOOD VIDEO.

THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS VIDEO IT WAS ON FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEO.THIS VIDEO WAS HISTORIC BECAUSE IT COMBINED ROCK AND RAP TOGETHER.

I'm not into the message-less imagery thing, but if you are, no one does it better. Guess what....scenes of northern towns. At least it keeps the pretence to an understandable level. These band members have some of the nicest (and I suspect cleanest) hair seen between 1980 and 1985. You know, the video goes very well with a glass of Talisker.

Before I ever saw the video, I imagined the thoughts behind the sing to be...like the video. Thomas Dolby (who looks for all the world like my colleague, Dr. Bishop here in Ottawa) is wheeled into a rest home for mad scientists in the English countryside, to find himself enamoured by a mysterious Oriental librarian who somehow resembles a cello. All the while, he is psychoanalysed by one of my McGill profs and is surrounded by other scientists with rocket-charged backpacks, bizarre telescopes and some smoking shoe thing that would get Thomas Ridge all concerned. This is a scream.

This is pretty much the peak of New Wave earnestness and pre-Madonna vogueing. I always liked the group and am probably the only person with their greatest hits on both cassette and CD (yeah, I?m a loser, I know). The four members are dressed in finely tailored grey one piece jumpsuits adorned with a variety of straight lines (is that electrical tape?). There is scene after scene of serious and pained looks, full face, at 45 degrees, in profile. The three together, their earnest faces in different directions. Well, they tried real hard on this one. I would suggest, though, that extreme closeups of an eye should be preceded by Visine (man, is that bloodshot).

This is a pleasantly silly song with the video showing a bunch of pleasantly silly guys having a damn good time playing the song. They seem to be having a lot of fun. The girls being boiled by cannibals don?t seem too upset. Ca marche bien.

Man, wasn?t Dale Bozzio unique? A three foot shock of white and pink hair on a five foot woman who wears chips of broken mirror as makeup and wears a transparent plastic bra. I?m not sure what the message of the video is, except that, indeed, life is strange. As is the video, appropriately enough. Speaking of strange, the three men (and I use that term loosely) are a scream....long formal jackets and just lovely mascara and blush with big (and I mean really large) hair. If I went to work like that, they would take me away.

The ultimate video when I was a young, testosterone-fuelled guy in 1982. Now....still a great video when I?m an older and somewhat testosterone-challenged 41 year old. A dorky lead singer reminisces about that one teen classmate and the video accommodates by parading out the epitome of early eighties female imagery. They wear teddies, long sweaters, cheerleader outfits...and with class! This is funny, kind of sweet, and pretty damn innocent. It is better than I remembered.

Although the girl in the purple-pink top in ?Sharp Dressed Man? is pretty much the ultimate ZZ Top character, this video takes the award for depth, nuance, lest I say cache? As if. I think the furry guitars and the unabashed carnal nature push this to my top ten.

About ten guys from the band parodying family roles to the beat of this piano-charged new wave classic. I always laugh. A great video for a great song.

The ultimate in Cold War chic. Debbie Harry dressed in yellow and black, goosestepping in place and doing a spastic spot dance with some guy in a jumpsuit and a motorcycle helmet, surrounded by mutants and folks wearing wires and big springs. Her voice is terrific and ohhhh does she look nice.

How can you not love a video in which an extremely cute fifteen year old Burmese girl sporting a mohawk prances around a beach singing a song rife with double-entendres? Works for me.

Ditto. A truly cool song with a ten dollar video that looks like a grade seven theatre production.

As above. An archetypal New Wave song but can't the video show anything but people dancing? Funny how making a big "S" with our arms never really caught on. A little imagination, here, people.

A nice enough song, but there is this...thing....in there, a short guy dressed like Darth Vader but his face is covered with something that looks like an alternator from a Chevy Impala. Bizarre. I hate it when good songs have retarded videos.

The ugliest band on earth. No, really. You gotta be one desperate groupie to even consider....Awe forget it. Anyway, the emaciated lead singer berates a bunch of bank tellers for no particular reason while his bandmates menacingly point their guitars like rifles. Teen angst gets dangerous. Lock up your daughters. Or at least the Clearasil.

Lots of pained and earnest looks of angst while driving around the English countryside on ATVs. I?ll have to listen to that song again.

First, they ruined Norman Greenbaum?s really good song. Then there is the stupid makeup on the lead singer, and his climbing a building. I really thought he was doing it! As if. Introduce that boy to Toni Basil. They could start a line of powdery makeup for those moist areas.

I don't miss day-glo.

There isn?t a Dire Straits song I don?t like. But this video....yecch. Shots of athletes dropping footballs and baseballs.....I don?t get it. And then there is guy in the concert scene....some guitarist, not Mark Knopfler, thankfully, dancing like a tit with a gross white suit, no shoes, and a six foot pink bandana draped around his forehead. Now that?s embarrassing. Does he awake late at night screaming?

This is a terrific song. Iron Curtain new wave rap. No one raps English and German better. But running on one spot with police flashers behind you for three minutes? Aww, Falco, you screwed up on this one.

Oh.....my.....god. The video ruined the song for me. Toni Basil looks like a tree toad with pancake makeup. At my worst I could conjure up a dozen better ways to present this. I almost want to google her to see what she really looks like....but I?m afraid.

With the pictures of the late guitarist Randy Rhoads, you couldn't ask for more from Ozzy...

Controversial song, great video!

Hilarious right 'till the end!

Some call it stupid, I think it's funny and done wonderfully!

Just a great video. Makes me laugh sometimes...

Awesomely funny!

The first video by Maiden, also a huge rocker one!

Great song, great video. Very impressive and unique.

Hilariuous! Nothing much else to say...

A great video that shows all of Maiden's highs and lows up 'till 1986. Also has cameo parts from Steve Harris' daughter, Lauren.

"Like a drifter I was born to walk alone..." Oh, the emotion.

Aren't we cool because we like strip clubs?

Gauzy silk, vacant-eyed blonde, weasely, creepy singer, all on a white sound stage. Yep...just, yep.

Stripey guitars, big hair, ugly singer, fake rock arena. Had it all...

Dude...just strange.

Gave every hair band their focus for videos for years to come.

I almost think they did this on purpose. VERY cheesy bank-robbery video, band-as-bank-robbers, breaking down vault doors with loud guitars. Eeesh.

Another focus on meaningless visuals and empty style.

Total emphasis on stylish visuals with no meaning. Guys jumping up and down behind a fence? What the hell does that have to do with anything?

Come on...midgets, a ren faire, and men WITH hats. CHEESE.

Really cool! The US mix of this song is used, but who cares? It's all good! The video somewhat ends with a cliffhanger and a question of "is that really an appropriate bomb shelter?"

I really liked both the song and the video!

Okay, Okay, it's a 1990 music video, but I love both! Whenever I listen to this song, I always get a playback of the video in my head!

Dreadful! The song is the most dreadful though...

Another good one! It's mostly them dancing, but it shows what a simple budget can do!

Another great one from The Cure! It got to no.46 on the top 80 of the 80's list from vh1! I liked the part when Robert dances with his now-wife Mary on the cliff! They married a year after the video and are still married today!

This comes from the "Great song, Bad video" file. It just consists of Sandra moving in front of a microphone and lipsynching while her band plays in the back! Great Song, though!

I downloaded this one too because I liked the song! I like Falco, but I cannot imagine him in a messy, muti-coloured wig! But the best part were the biker guys, they sure put a different side to the video!

I have also downloaded this one 3 times from different music stations and I love them all! I first watched it on pop-up video on MuchMoreMusic and then I downloaded it waaaay after that when I got a new computer! Even though the director seems to have put hot women in the video, I always thought that Peter was the main hottie in the video!!

I finally found this one and downloaded it after a long search! I watched it and I love this video as much as I love the song! There is one shot of him lipsynching someone's high pitched singing and I cracked up laughing! But I love the whole video!

The Beastie Boys always had great sense of humor and great videos. This was probably one of their best along with 1994's "Sabotage." "We could invite all our friends over for soda and pie." "Yeah!" "I hope no bad people show up." lol.

ZZ Top showed the way for what a rock video really needs to be great. Screw high concept, just get in as many cars and babes as you can. Aweosme.

Directed by Julien Temple who'd also worked with the Sex Pistols. Cool story and got the Stones in some trouble (along with the Undercover video) but its innocent fun now. For a real bad cheesy Stones video watch "Too Much Blood" from the same year.

Looks like it was shot on a 25 cent budget. Not much of concept. Black Flag act out the lyrics to the song. They sit around a TV and get drunk, the TV breaks so they throw it around some and trash the place.

Early use of computer animation and nice attack on how MTV more or less destroyed music by turning everything into image and packaging. The overall message is: Who needs talent when you look good and music is just like product on the shelf at a department store. That's the MTV way.

Never much liked the song but the comic book artwork is well done, the girl is very attractive and Ken Russell supervised the closing segement where the guy keeps throwing himself into walls to stop from turning into a comic book charcter. This borrows from Ken's movie Altered States.

Brilliant blend of different animation styles. Peter Gabriel got a lot of praise for this video and its style became his music video hallmark. "Big Time" from the same year is also classic. "Digging in the Dirt" is well done too. By "Steam" the formula got a little old. Best part: the dancing chickens. Another great video is the nightmarish "I Don't Remember" from 1983 when Peter's on the couch with a hot model when suddenly he gets sucked into the couch.

Pretty much a random assortment of images. African tribal dancers, freaks parading around, a nurse randomly gassing people, a car salesman putting turtle wax in his hair and oh yes, Ronald Regan in an electric chair.

One of the only times album cover artist Storm Thorgson (Pink Floyd, Audioslave ect.) went into video directing. He should have done more. This video has two parts, in the first half it's just a standard performance video. Suddenly lead singer Jon Anderson says "Maybe there's another where to do this." Things get pretty crazy after that. All the Yes guys morph into animals. Owner starts up again and we watch a deranged psyhcopath being chased by two government agents. Every now and then we see some of the pyscho's halluciations. Creepy stuff. The pyscho loses the agents but then he has to fight a janitor (?), psycho guy fends him off and escapes to the roof. Yes are wating for him and close in on him. With brilliant trick photogrophy Strom made it look like Psycho guy jumps off the roof and turns into a bird. I have no clue what any of this has to do with Owner of a Lonely Heart but its a very cool video.

Probably one of the best, most groundbreaking videos of the early 80s. It looks badly dated now but its miles ahead of most videos made in 1980. Love the imaginative sets and odd costumes. Great song too.