"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits, "One" by Metallica, and "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake are among the best rock music videos of the 1980s.

From Genesis' innovative "Land of Confusion" to Alice Cooper's seedy "Poison," these five videos offer a snapshot of rock 'n' ...

Grab your Walkman and dust off that Members Only jacket '€” it's time to take a trip back to the most iconic decade in pop ...

When MTV debuted in 1981, it ushered in a golden era of music videos. The network’s launch was groundbreaking for artists everywhere. Suddenly, music was no longer a purely audible medium. Visuals ...

In our previous ’50s, ’60s and ’70s examinations of Feel-Bad Hits of the Summer, a song had only to depress, distress and oppress listeners on its own merits, be it regrettable lyrics, ill-chosen ...

When Music Television still aired music videos, you ran into the same issue one has with the radio: overplayed songs. MTV broadcast certain videos endlessly, but you couldn’t just flip to another ...

MTV came into existence in the 80s and thoroughly changed the music landscape for decades by popularizing music videos in a hip, cool, new way. Some music videos from that early era of the network are ...

MTV has announced a return to its original music video format, first debuted in 1981, ahead of the 2025 VMAs. For one week, the network will play exclusively music videos, but there's a catch. Here ...

Here are 10 hair metal music videos that defined 1980s (and very, very early 1990s) pop culture. Big hair. Bigger hooks. Even bigger budgets for fog machines and neon lighting. If there’s one thing ...

If there was ever a decade that defined the musical guilty pleasure, it was the ‘80s. The advent of new technologies unlocked sonic possibilities like never before. Blessed with a broad array of ...

Madonna, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie – just a few of the stars who soundtracked the '80s. It was the decade of electronic dance music with influences of disco and punk rock. The hair was bigger ...