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Music Videos—The 1980s Edition

Insane concepts, crazy special effects, hilarious choreography, costumes galore—the music videos of the ’80s had it all! See how many you remember with this trip through the golden age of MTV.

  1. These space vixens were featured in the first video to be aired on MTV. What’s the video?

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    • “Video Killed the Radio Star”
    • “And I Ran”
    • “Cars”
    • “Whip It”
  2. What heavy metal band torments this dad in their 1984 video?

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    • AC/DC
    • Twisted Sister
    • Poison
    • Ratt
  3. What girl group had Khadaffi walking like an Egyptian?

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    • The Go-Gos
    • Bananarama
    • Mary Jane Girls
    • The Bangles
  4. “We can dance, we can dance. Everybody look at your hands.” What dance are they doing?

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    • She-bop
    • Safety Dance
    • Running Man
    • Cabbage Patch
  5. Waldo’s got it bad. What’s the video?

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    • “Round and Round”
    • “Smokin’ in the Boy’s Room”
    • “Hot for Teacher”
    • “Welcome to the Jungle”
  6. What rocker plays the Mad Hatter in his 1985 video, featuring a bizarre take on Alice in Wonderland?

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    • Tom Petty
    • Alice Cooper
    • David Johanssen
    • Will Smith
  7. This Duran Duran video has the boys chasing after models covered in paint. What’s the video?

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    • “Hungry Like the Wolf”
    • “Girls on Film”
    • “Rio”
    • “Save a Prayer”
  8. These two computer-generated workers complain about rockers “banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee” in what video?

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    • “I Want My MTV”
    • “Ant Music”
    • “Party All the Time”
    • “Money for Nothing”
  9. What video has this mom yelling, “You’re only sixteen, you don’t have a rep yet!”?

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    • “Parents Just Don’t Understand”
    • “You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet”
    • “School Daze”
    • “Girls Ain’t Nothing But Trouble”
  10. Pat Benatar as a dancing prostitute, fighting off her pimp with a shimmy. What’s the video?

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    • “Heartache to Heartache”
    • “We Belong”
    • “Love is a Battlefield”
    • “Hell is for Children”
  11. This video holds the record for the most MTV Music Video Awards for a single video (7), and has been dubbed the number 1 animated video of all time. What is it?

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    • “Sledgehammer”
    • “Big Time”
    • “Road to Nowhere”
    • “And She Was”
  12. A typical music-video love story: Girls meets boy in a comic book. Girl loses boy in a comic book. Boy breaks out of the comic book. What’s the video?

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    • “Since You’ve Been Gone”
    • “Another World”
    • “Inside Out”
    • “Take on Me”
  13. What Go-Gos video had the girls pulling duty as a retro water-skiing act?

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    • “Beatnik Beach”
    • “Vacation”
    • “Our Lips Are Sealed”
    • “Get Up and Go”
  14. Pretty fancy special effects for such an early music video—but when the song only has two lines, you’ve got to jazz it up somehow. Who’s the super new-wave singer here?

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    • Adam Ant
    • Gary Numan
    • Thomas Dolby
    • Howard Jones
  15. Ric Ocasek, lead singer of The Cars, shows up in this video as lipstick, the creature from the black lagoon, a jackhammer operator, and a fly. What’s the video?

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    • “Hello Again”
    • “Drive”
    • “Magic”
    • “You Might Think”
  16. Milton Berle’s nephew was the manager for this glam metal band, which explains his appearance (in drag, no less) in this 1984 video. What is it?

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    • “Round and Round”
    • “Talk Dirty to Me”
    • “Hell on Wheels”
    • “The Final Countdown”
  17. A collection of videos of the ’80s would be nothing without a nod to “Weird Al” Yankovic. What iconic video is he parodying here?

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    • “Like a Virgin”
    • “Money for Nothing”
    • “Achy Breaky Heart”
    • “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”