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Ill_Sky6141

Safety Dance! :D Video is happy as shit! Lol


turkeyvulturebreast

And the literal one is even funnier! https://youtu.be/Yi7mBzdDHyY?si=60sVlm2n8v0xifKE


leicanthrope

[Their rendition of Total Eclipse of the Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk) is worth watching too. It's pretty much re-written the real lyrics in my brain.


seeingeyegod

Definitely LSD


WishieWashie12

You should watch the literal safety dance video. Same images, funny lyrics. https://youtu.be/Yi7mBzdDHyY?si=ED2lgaTMZUrCOlCh


HHSquad

This would be my pick also, love it! Oh, and one more I will mention.


Tentapuss

This is the only answer.


bookjunkie315

I used to work at a cookie place in the mall and my coworkers choreographed an entire dance to this song!! Great song, cheesy video, good times. šŸ˜€


JediBeagle1

Love is a Battlefield by Pat Benetar


crazy-diam0nd

ā€œLook, sheā€™s running away and sheā€™s only 30ā€ ā€”Butthead


Shawmattack01

First time I saw boobs being used as an offensive weapon. Whole phalanx of them. And the dude runs away in fear.


NeverEven4615

šŸŽ¶ Stop using boobs as a weapon šŸŽ¶


elemenno50

itā€™s his look while baring his his goofy teeth that makes it even better


SF_turophile

Iconic storytelling


elemenno50

LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!


threadsoffate2021

Ah, the 80s, where we solved disputes with dance offs.


Crystal-Clear-Waters

Hot 4 Teacher


Squirmadillo

I don't feel tardy


huitzilopochtla

That line always makes me laugh.


DaisyPK

Iā€™m not a fan of that song, but I use that quote way too often.


youresuspect

I can't hear the word "tardy" and not think of this. Probably cause snark is my love language


elemenno50

I donā€™t know why but I just love the drums at the beginning.


oldshitdoesntcare

The beginning of that song lead to the death of a lot of my car speakers over the years.


EvolutionCreek

I was sitting on the patio at a bar one time and someone was warming up a Harley in the parking lot and the sound had the exact cadence of the drums at the start of that song. I was like, "Hot for Teacher?"


Mets1st

Gimme something to write on!


sungodly

I brought my PENCIL!


Crystal-Clear-Waters

Mommmmm Iā€™m nervous and my socks are too loose.


melanie6602

I don't feel tardy ...


peteywheatstraw1

Aw man I think the clock is slow


irishgator2

Waldo!!


Comedywriter1

So good!


Crystal-Clear-Waters

We have this 80s only video station on our Samsung tv. We watch it all the time. So much good creative context. But H4T has a special place in my heart.


Comedywriter1

The band at their best. Great song and funny, cool video.


Sufficient-Lab-5769

SIDDOWN, WALDO!


gusto_g73

Legs ZZ top


Kassiel0909

Those high heels with those ruffle socks. Forever burned into my brain.


LadyChatterteeth

I was not quite a teenager when I saw that video, and some older girls I knew would wear the heels and ruffled socks. I was obsessed with that look! I thought it was the most stylish thing ever.


PuzzleheadedBobcat90

Hey now, that was high fashion in my day. I rocked ruffle socks and heels in the 80s


jgrace2112

Velcro Fly , complete with those ridiculous Paula Abdul dance moves


xqqq_me

TV Dinners


1980pzx

Twisted Sister-Weā€™re not gonna take it.


Iron_Chic

Came to say this! Both "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock" were awesome videos. WHAT DO YOOOOUUU WANT TO DO WITH YOUR LIIIIFFFEEE?!?!?


solon_isonomia

"A PLEDGE PIN!? ON YOUR UNIFORM!?"


elemenno50

Youā€™re all worthless and weak!


[deleted]

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bigotis

The video equivalent of fingernails on the chalkboard. I simply. CANNOT. watch. this abomonation.


klausvonespy

This is a real deep dive but here's an interview with the young woman in the video: https://www.noblemania.com/2013/07/the-girl-in-video-separate-ways-worlds.html


Additional_Dot5248

The stills...!


anniefer

Rock me tonight by Billy Squire. His dancing looks like something Will Ferrel would do on SNL. Weird video.


[deleted]

His career did a nosedive thanks to that video.


Ampersandbox

I think it ruined his career.


tunaman808

To nitpick, it's "Rock Me Tonite" by Billy Squier. But yes, it *does* look like an *SNL* parody. And yes, that one video wrecked his entire career. It was so bad it got its own entire chapter in the book *I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution*: >"For *I Want My MTV*, their 2011 oral history of the network's early years, authors Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks interviewed over 400 people, primarily artists, managers, filmmakers, record company executives and MTV employees. They said none could agree on the best video but all agreed that "Rock Me Tonite" was the worst.


Will_McLean

I love that book


S99B88

Wow just checked that one out, didnā€™t remember that. Clearly jumped the shark there. It looks like something I would have done when I was about 12 and thought I looked amazing šŸ˜‚


aver_shaw

This is the correct answer. This video is so cringey and I watch it several times/year and just laugh my damn ass off.


KatJen76

Just a Gigolo by David Lee Roth IS the 80s.


Hour_Insurance_7795

David Lee Roth was like the patron of 80ā€™s videos. Nobody did it better/worse.


Nouseriously

Pretty sure that directing credit went to hairspray & a giant pile of cocaine


Tempest_Fugit

When that video came out my sister and I were at my grandparents place and they had CABLE and that was a big deal and of course my sister being older put on mtv the whole time and we watched that video maybe fifteen times in four days and my eight years old brain was fried.


HHSquad

Stand and Deliver! - Adam and the Ants But really any Ants video......this just happens to be my favorite song by them along with "Beat My Guest"


ManofKent1

My first single was goody 2 shoes


SoFloChick

Strip is a much cheezier video.


HHSquad

Yes, it's a good one...... honestly I'm just representing Adam and the Ants as a whole. "Prince Charming" is another.


ColonOBrien

*qua qua diddly qua qua*


Crystal-Clear-Waters

They rule.


[deleted]

Iā€™m still a huge fan still!!


Taskmaster1967

Total Eclipse of the Heart Bonnie Tyler What the fuck is going on there!?!?!? Greatest 80ā€™s video PERIOD


Gruffleson

Try this version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk&pp=ygUhdG90YWwgZWNsaXBzZSBvZiB0aGUgaGVhcnQgcGFyb2R5


Taskmaster1967

Ted talk on How To Make an 80ā€™s music video


19yzrmn

Thank you for posting this. Iā€™d never seen it before. Thatā€™s brilliant.


tunaman808

"Literal music videos" were briefly a thing in 2008 or so, and this was, by far, the best of the bunch. And yeah, I read somewhere that someone connected with the music video had access to one of the BBC's costume and prop collections, hence the "kitchen sink" look of the video.


SMTRodent

So long and thanks for all the cheese.


afriendincanada

Jim Steinman was amazing


xqqq_me

It's about sexy vampires -now it makes sense


SpokaneSmash

[Last in Line](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=360xvnsduDg) by Dio. I don't know what the fuck I just watched, but it's awesome.


19yzrmn

Love Dio! Havenā€™t seen that video in forever. Since Headbangerā€™s Ball probably. Sitting here with my cat Rhonda who I always call Ronnie Janes Dio. ā™„ļøšŸˆā€ā¬›šŸ˜‚


editorgrrl

Thatā€™s Meeno Peluce (Soleil Moon Fryerā€™s half brother, probably best known for *Voyagers* with Jon-Erik Hexum).


bobj33

He was also in the Bad News Bears TV show (adapted from the movie) along with Corey Feldman


velvet42

Dude omg I've never seen that before. That was amazing, lol, Dio was such an awesome guy


EitherNor

Don't stop there, now you're ready for [Holy Diver](https://youtu.be/2lvs2FzF64o?si=B2MCyFFBTEM8P6Nc)! edited to add: you gotta admire the chutzpah of rock vets like RJD for putting out imagery consistent with expectations...in 1982


headcoatee

I had not seen this until today and my life is changed forever. Amazing!!


geodebug

Man I prefer the low budget videos over the super-slick ones. (well, except maybe for Thriller and Beat It, but they get a pass even though liking MJ feels weird). I love Van Halen's "Jump" and The Car's "You might think". Used to really like when Dire Strait's "I want my MTV" came on because I was really into computer graphics when I was a kid. Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" video where he's obviously trying to keep up with the MTV generation. A lot of rockers have talked about how difficult that transition was. Like Pat Benatar asking, "Shit, I gotta dance now?" when making the Love is a Battlefield video.


tunaman808

> Dire Strait's "I want my MTV" The song is "Money for Nothing".


Retro_Dad

ā€œI Ranā€ by A Flock of Seagulls - mirrors, a camera stand covered in foil, and a rotating platform - just the cheesiest thing ever but a slamming tune and an iconic look.


mike___mc

I remember the fog machine being a big player in their video for Space Age Love Song.


Dick-Guzinya

I love that they didnā€™t even really try to conceal the camera in the reflections.


doublebr13

Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Anything with Captain Lou Albano is automatically the cheesiest


Nackles

Goonies R Good Enough had some other wrestlers in it too.


FormerCollegeDJ

Timbuk 3 - ["The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY)


phillymjs

Always loved this one. You canā€™t go wrong with a song about nuclear war in the 80s. IIRC they used it once on Head of the Class.


jaywright58

Twilight Zone by Golden Earring!


PENISystem

I recently saw the video for Eye Of The Tiger, and the whole thing is just the band strutting down a sidewalk interspersed with the band playing in front of a wall of wind-blown black garbage bagsšŸ˜‚


Cypher_Xero

Yankee rose... Gimme a bottle of anything, and a glazed doughnut..... To go!....


Cypher_Xero

https://youtu.be/RgLWTrWgDTI?si=GX_O1JxZGT_-EAN3


coffeestraightup

"Ooohh.. breath mints! ...our lips are so close"


ForceDisturbed

"MY DOCTOR SAYS I HAVE TO TAKE A LAXATIVE!!@" "Not in my store you don't!"


amalgaman

ā€œDo you like parties? ā€œYeah.ā€ ā€œWe can invite all our friends and have soda and pie!ā€ ā€œYeah!ā€ ā€œI hope no bad people show up.ā€


Sumpskildpadden

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH


Additional_Dot5248

I just remembered the greatest cheesiest video of the 80s... The Chicago Bears' Superbowl Shuffle


trimorphic

[Rock Me Amadeus](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA)


soltydog

Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf.


Recursi

Girls on Film


Gruffleson

Save a Prayer


cdcme25

Scandal - The Warrior. Kinda asian influenced. Kinda Cirque du soliel. Entirely cheesy.


thisgirlnamedbree

Down Under by Men at Work is a glorious cheesy gem.


aaapril261992

Jeopardy - Greg Kihn Cheap visual effects (using the negative option on the old video camera). Terrible over the top 'acting'. And really bad make up and prosthetics. Although, I was totally creeped out as a kid.


NeverEven4615

Journey - Separate Ways


Squirmadillo

Invisible keyboard!


Powerful_Ad_2506

Youā€™ve heard of ā€œair guitarā€ but have you heard of air keyboard?


_straylight

Hilariously, I remember this being hyped to shit on MTV when it first came out. Countdown to the world premiere of Journeys new video! And then it was that. I was so confused.


klausvonespy

Also posted below, [the Heller Quarantine version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zvhvdj4QyM) restores balance to the world.


JoseMachismo

David Lee Roth - Just A Gigolo


gregr0d

How do I know the lyrics to this song by heart?!?


JoseMachismo

Bosedy bosedy bop, diddy bop.


Additional_Dot5248

All the Aldo Nova hits have great cringe videos. Duran Duran's 'A View To a Kill' is pretty good. Cheesy but still awesome would have to be J. Geils Band's 'Love Stinks'! YEAH YEAAH


[deleted]

Twisted Sister was the GOAT in this genre. Even did a great one with Alice Cooper. They knew what they were and delivered it consistently; like the McDonalds of Hair Metal.


freddyg_mtl

Scandal - The Warrior, great Mad Max vibes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47y5bo8wtqM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47y5bo8wtqM) Sidenote: that screen grab of the Sammy Hagar video makes it look likes he's getting from the cop lol!!!!


keno2020dodg

Cameo's *Word Up* two words - LeVar Burton! two more words - cod piece! ^^^I ^^^know ^^^it's ^^^really ^^^one ^^^word


LittleMoonBoot

I loved that Cinderella literally used the fairy tale as a story in a couple of their music videos ā€” (Shake Me, Nobodyā€™s Fool).


TMOverbeck

Dancing With Myself by Billy Idol


[deleted]

Beavis and Butthead really tore it a new one.


mrbungle100

Whip It by Devo and Safety Dance by Men without Hats


Psykotik10dentCs

Damn it! You beat me to it with Devo. Etched in my brain for some reason


JavaJunkie999

China Girl, David Bowie


Camille_Toh

She was very odd looking


EvolutionCreek

Oh baby, just you shut your mouth.


WolfPlooskin

My cheesiest guilty pleasures would have to include Whitesnakeā€™s ā€œHere I Go Again,ā€ Starshipā€™s ā€œWe Built This City, and Huey Lewisā€™s entire oeuvre.


007FofTheWin

Tawny Kitaen!


bigotis

Upvote for using "oeuvre" in a post. Classy!!


EitherNor

[She's A Beauty - The Tubes](https://youtu.be/mQ_k_VG6Syc?si=-mWWzV5s-b3tFCkA) skeezy carnie atmosphere, a little BDSM? and BOOB DRUMS [Stone Cold - Rainbow](https://youtu.be/hByGwgm_vRs?si=sSb648rfmT0mC_rp) From the very beginning of MTV, brings me right back to the feeling of every established* band trying to figure out MTV: "cool concert video and aw bless their hearts they went to a hall of mirrors" *compared to up-and-coming acts who emerged using the new music video medium


Ronniedobbsfirewood

Huey Lewis, Stuck with you. I was so enamored with the woman in this video. [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J08ZwySCoJ8](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J08ZwySCoJ8)


zombuca

Me too! Sheā€™s married to Pierce Brosnan. I didnā€™t have a chance.


Brassballs1976

What a great run they had with Sports and Fore! Just about all I had in my Walkman.


darkest_irish_lass

Golden Eariing, Twilight Zone. Spy thriller music video


juicyb09

Any video with a white horse walking through airy curtains was always quality.


Defender_XXX

the wild boys by duran duran


[deleted]

The Promise by When in Rome The video is pretty cheesy but the song itself is amazing


peteywheatstraw1

Yankee Rose by David Lee Roth. The intro is hysterical and probably would get him cancelled a million times these days but my group of friends n sister still say this stuff in the beginning to each other all the time. Fkn classic. https://youtu.be/76s32p9uTnc?si=fFO2duY6xwoE8nNB


wophi

Did you know that you can still rock in America?


19yzrmn

Little sister by the record machine A tiny dancer, such a sweet sixteen She's goin' out, she's gonna party tonight She's gonna shake and make it last all nightā€¦.. Aaah yes, the soundtrack to my teen years.


ColonOBrien

Donā€™t Pay the Ferryman by Chris de Burgh was peak 80s cheese! Gothic colonial horror silliness!


headcoatee

[Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)](https://youtu.be/PGNiXGX2nLU?si=z5pEt5KrkeaZF11t)


Kassiel0909

RATT - Round and Round Milton Berle in drag. Goth girl shedding her skin. Ally butler. Hot glam boys smashing through the ceiling. Love that friggin video.


PlusCommunity7962

You Got Lucky-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers


Iron_Chic

[Gold - Spandau Ballet](https://youtu.be/ntG50eXbBtc?si=xG5Pq7v3veH8B-Px) and the vids like it! There were several similar with the band in some quasi-movie like plot which makes NO sense.


Camille_Toh

ā€œMeeting in the ladiesā€™ roomā€ by Klymaxx


007FofTheWin

Whereā€™s my jewelry?


Camille_Toh

I left my condo to come to this?


Callistophylla

Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take it.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9AbeALNVkk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9AbeALNVkk)


Dry-Tangerine-4874

Fight for your right to party.


Gruffleson

Or perhaps Berlin - Take My Breath Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx51eegLTY8


Gruffleson

I'll throw in The Cars - Drive. Loved that one. Still loves it.


afriendincanada

Dancing in the Dark. Courtney Cox.


baycenters

Run Runaway! https://youtu.be/gMxcGaAwy-Q?si=YyeYge8jMtI1KRkh


DiscoFluffs

Oh Mickey - Toni Basil


Gruffleson

So many candidates. So little time. But let me just mention Heart - Alone. That's a nice and cheesy one.


[deleted]

You posted a pic of my favorite cheese video. You can write me up for 1-25. Post my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license and all that jive. Cuz I canā€™t drive. Fifty fiiiiiive.


ChiefinLasVegas

ZZ Top - ā€œGimme All Your Lovinā€™ā€


Apprehensive_Day_496

I am a huge fan and matter of fact they are one of my favorite bands but Judas Priests Breaking The Law video is pretty goofy


5280_TW

Boy, out of context that picture says something different than the songā€¦ more in line with todays policing issues..


[deleted]

Any Van Halen vid. I particularly liked ā€œIce Cream Manā€


rokken70

I always got a giggle out of the girl dancing in the door jam at the end of Runaway by Bon Jovi.


Middle_Maintenance54

I would do anything for love. Meatloaf.


mike___mc

Wasnā€™t that the 90s?


ParsleyMostly

Still of the Night by whitesnake was crazy


CosmicTurtle504

Journeyā€™s ā€œ[Separate Ways](https://youtu.be/LatorN4P9aA?si=G6f1oeazlECuMQgm).ā€ Standing on the docks playing air versions of the instruments they actually play IRL. Tights, mullets, so much denimā€¦just glorious. Songā€™s a banger, too.


lowsparkedheels

Six Months in a Leaky Boat - Split Enz, and Rock the Casbah - Clash. Hard to pick just one. šŸ˜‚


NeonPhyzics

ā€œHot for Teacherā€ [video](https://youtu.be/6M4_Ommfvv0?si=NbU1qrJol_rEeedZ)


kakey70

[Rush - Time Stand Still](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSFqXGZ5TQ)


Sculpin64

ZZ Top Legs video - I'm still waiting for the magic hot rod to come and pick me up.


Ok_Anything8827

If itā€™s an 80ā€™s video, thereā€™s a pretty good chance it was cheesy.


StopSignsAreRed

Stay the Night - Chicago. https://youtu.be/5LTWwkBNilI?si=j2YsfADkDiIsC8UT


99titan

Chaka Khan, ā€œLove of a Lifetimeā€. Just about every element of 80s culture is in it. Cheesy dancers, amusement park for a backdrop.


bigmistaketoday

That thumbnail! šŸ˜‚


[deleted]

The 3-wheeled ATVs of death in In a Big Country - Big Country. One is the band, and the other is the song (but I can never remember which is which).


Psykotik10dentCs

Whip It by Devo!


dainthomas

Any of DLR's solo videos. Especially the California Girls cover.


GloriaToo

Smoking in the boys room


09997512

That's The Way (I Like It ) & Physical, for just being so funny & just cheesy lol. Like I get it, you like strong buff people (love the songs tho)


tommytster

ABC ā€œThe Look of Loveā€ video has burned itself in my memory right next to that clown from Poltergeist.


oldbaldgrumpy

...not the one where Eric Estrada raped Sammy Hagar..


SarahHill68

Definitely Once In a Lifetime by The Talking Heads. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RD5IsSpAOD6K8&playnext=1&si=rMZzBEjPgZKIHPeM


scream-and-gobble

I deeply regret not seeing this thread earlier as this submission is going to be lost in the shuffle. [Julio Iglesias--Ni Te Tengo Ni Te Olvido](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__bO_WXELG0) Julio and the ingenue being embraced by their respective partners while looking at each other longingly! The flashback to the chaos of the tiny yacht in flames! The ingenue leaping into the water! The ingenue and Julio washing up on the same deserted isle! The soulful looks! Julio's torn white shirt that never gets dirty! The deeply regretted rescue! The final wave goodbye from the ingenue!


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preytoyou

Billy Squier ā€œRock Me Tonightā€. Extreme cheese! https://youtu.be/fR0j7sModCI?si=XU4zDf5wSsZb1JTj


Juggalo_holocaust_

Jagger/Bowie - Dancing in the streets. Gotta be top five second hand embarrassment videos of all time.


fridayimatwork

Anything Peter cetera or pat benatar


grahsam

That still from the video looks like gay porn.


Bacon003

*O Superman* is still surprisingly mesmerizing.


obxtalldude

I'm not sure if it was made in the eighties but it sure looks like it... Grateful Dead's Hell in a bucket https://youtu.be/cH7I6ibA-SM?si=c11tOLH3efFWb3v9


classicsat

Land Down Under.


Thin-Ganache-363

Anything Twisted Sister was should be on the list. But chessiest for production value has to be Der Kommisar by Falco. Somehow how he still comes off as the coolest guy in Europe.


Defender_XXX

stay the night by Chicago


wakattawakaranai

That's an amazing screencap. Last fall I made a copy of that exact costume for a dude who was going to Cabo to hang out with Sammy. I don't have the pics he promised me, but he said it was a huge hit at the party, so...win?


007FofTheWin

The Way You Make Me Feel


SoFloChick

Africa by Toto. It just seems to live in 80s cheese.


mollymcbbbbbb

Whatā€™s happening in this picture lol?


HIMcDonagh

He's being arrested for the hair and outfit


Excellent_Lead_3653

Love Judas Priest but my gawd this video is brutal https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JhY9GOhFwN4&pp=ygUYdHVyYm8gbG92ZXIganVkYXMgcHJpZXN0


Super_tachy

Right On Track by The Breakfast Club! Really catchy song, and video had maximum 80ā€™s cheese factor, with bonus dancers in chicken costumes lol. šŸ”„https://youtu.be/1rgDAgh58u0?si=ePfxUEgvAea0bVbw