Playlist: All Your Favorite 80s Music videos
MTV did not create the music video, but it brought all your favorite 80s music videos into prominence. Before the creation of the music video, people only saw musicians at live shows or when they appeared on one of very few shows that featured musical acts. And even those opportunities were rare for bands or solo artists on the edgier. Some of the best 80s bands and artists simply had no place aside from the radio before music videos...
These are the Best 80s Music Videos
While the debate will go on, the election has been decided and voters have picked the best 80s music videos. In a Billboard poll voters were asked to pick the best videos from the decade that essentially created the format. The vote was taken in honor of MTV’s 30th anniversary and the results included some of the greatest videos ever made. These are the best 80s music videos as voted on by Billboard’s readership. Best 80s...
Around the World in a Day: Your Video World Tour
Sure, we love it here in the United States, but sometimes we, like, get a wanderlust. World travel is totally rad! Come board our Like Totally 80s luxury jet and fly the friendly retro skies . . . Before we leave North America, let’s run for the border and take a dip in the Rio Grande. Duran Duran was (and is) straight-up awesome in every way. I know you recognize their hit “Rio” from their 1982 hit album of the same name: Note:...
Eye Candy Videos of the 80s
With the birth of MTV in 1981, music video production kicked into high gear. Many videos were straight-up concert footage or studio work, but we loved the ones that put a little more effort into the process. Costumes, plots, elaborate stages, puppets, animation… Here’s a look at my favorite visually awesome videos of the 1980s. Michael Jackson’s Thriller was SUCH a big deal when it came out in 1982. MTV gave us a schedule for...
Interview with original MTV VJ, Alan Hunter
June 28, 2011 Alan Hunter, one of the original five VJs on MTV, talks with Like Totally 80s about his time on MTV, favorite interviews, weighs in on the state of today’s MTV and shares what he’s up to now. Sharp-witted with a slightly off-kilter sense of humor, Alan would call it like it saw it, and we love that about him. Thanks so much to Alan Hunter for agreeing to talk with us! You can connect with Alan on Facebook at...
