Skip to main content

80s Music Videos & Mixes

80s

Start here

Videos

Celebrated Summer

Hüsker Dü

Head On

The Jesus and Mary Chain

Love Removal Machine

The Cult

Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely

Hüsker Dü

Gone Daddy Gone

Violent Femmes

Lake of Fire

Meat Puppets

Bad

U2

I Will Dare

The Replacements

About a Girl

Nirvana

Where the Streets Have No Name

U2

Teen Age Riot

Sonic Youth

Being with You

Smokey Robinson

Caught Up in a Rapture

Anita Baker

Between the Sheets

The Isley Brothers

Yellow Moon

The Neville Brothers

I Want Your Sex

George Michael

Pop Life

Prince and The Revolution

P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)

Michael Jackson

Keep On Movin'

Soul II Soul feat. Caron Wheeler

Nasty

Janet Jackson

Manchild

Neneh Cherry

I Would Die 4 U

Prince and The Revolution

Bad

Michael Jackson

That's Entertainment

The Jam

Ashes to Ashes

David Bowie

Just Like Heaven

The Cure

Papa Don't Preach

Madonna

Never Let Me Down Again

Depeche Mode

Just Can't Get Enough

Depeche Mode

Smalltown Boy

Bronski Beat

Two Tribes

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Whip It

Devo

Via con me

Paolo Conte

I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)

Donald Fagen

Talkin' All That Jazz

Stetsasonic

Jockey Full of Bourbon

Tom Waits

Shipbuilding

Robert Wyatt

Everyday I Write the Book

Elvis Costello and The Attractions

Holding Back the Years

Simply Red

Long Hot Summer

The Style Council

Higher Love

Steve Winwood

Nightshift

Commodores

Human Nature

Michael Jackson

Sweet Love

Anita Baker

We Are the World

USA for Africa

I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)

Daryl Hall & John Oates

Geno

Dexys Midnight Runners

When I Think of You

Janet Jackson

Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)

Talking Heads

If I Was Your Girlfriend

Prince

Atomic Dog

George Clinton

Bad to the Bone

George Thorogood & The Destroyers

Triste canción

El Tri

Pass the Dutchie

Musical Youth

Bam Bam

Sister Nancy

Electric Avenue

Eddy Grant

The Tide Is High

Blondie

Red Red Wine

UB40

Here I Come

Barrington Levy

Ring the Alarm

Tenor Saw

Under Me Sleng Teng

Wayne Smith

Master Blaster (Jammin')

Stevie Wonder

Night Nurse

Gregory Isaacs

Girls, Girls, Girls

Mötley Crüe

Breaking the Law

Judas Priest

Seek and Destroy

Metallica

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Metallica

Cult of Personality

Living Colour

Battery

Metallica

Crazy Train

Ozzy Osbourne

Raining Blood

Slayer

Photograph

Def Leppard

One

Metallica

Angel of Death

Slayer

Master of Puppets

Metallica

Welcome to the Jungle

Guns N' Roses

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

Rise Above

Black Flag

A New England

Billy Bragg

Atmosphere

Joy Division

Touch Me I'm Sick

Mudhoney

A Forest

The Cure

Holiday in Cambodia

Dead Kennedys

The Mercy Seat

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Rock the Casbah

The Clash

Radio Free Europe

R.E.M.

Sunday Bloody Sunday

U2

How Soon Is Now?

The Smiths

Take Your Time (Do It Right)

SOS Band

Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But the Rent

Gwen Guthrie

Upside Down

Diana Ross

Ride On Time

Black Box

I'm Coming Out

Diana Ross

Heartbeat

Taana Gardner

Let the Music Play

Shannon

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

Michael Jackson

Another One Bites the Dust

Queen

Sucker MC's

Run-D.M.C.

Eric B. Is President

Eric B. & Rakim

Express Yourself

N.W.A

La-Di-Da-Di

Doug E. Fresh

Hey Ladies

Beastie Boys

That's the Joint

Funky Four Plus One

Follow the Leader

Eric B. & Rakim

The Show

Doug E. Fresh

The Breaks

Kurtis Blow

Push It

Salt 'n' Pepa

Pride and Joy

Stevie Ray Vaughan

The Number of the Beast

Iron Maiden

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

The Smiths

I Can't Live Without My Radio

LL Cool J

White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

Melle Mel

Funky Cold Medina

Tone-Lōc

Wild Thing

Tone-Lōc

Bust a Move

Young M.C.

True Faith

New Order

Don't Believe the Hype

Public Enemy

Fuck tha Police

N.W.A

Paid in Full

Eric B. & Rakim

The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel

Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five

Sexual Healing

Marvin Gaye

It Takes Two

Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock

Me Myself and I

De La Soul

Herbie Hancock - Rockit (Official Video)

Spellbound

Siouxsie and the Banshees

I want to thank you

Alicia Myers

Love Come Down (12" Version)

Evelyn "Champagne" King

Boys Boys Boys

Sabrina

Mezclas 80´s Vinilos Set

Carlos Alcaraz Dj

Original Master Reel

MAX MIX (Mix Version) -1985

In The Heat Of The Night

Sandra

If It Isn't Love

New Edition

Saving All My Love For You

Whitney Houston

I'll Be Loving You

New Kids On The Block

Rock Me Tonight

Freddie Jackson

On My Own ft. MICHAEL MCDONALD

Patti LaBelle

Right and a Wrong Way (2007 Remaster)

Keith Sweat

Nothing Can Come Between Us - Official - 1988

Sade

Don't Look Any Further

Dennis Edwards

Girl I'm Gonna Miss You

Milli Vanilli

If ever your in my arms again

Peabo Bryson

I Just Called To Say I Love You

Stevie Wonder

You're My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration

Teddy Pendergrass

I Like It

DeBarge

Been so Long

Anita Baker

Something in My Heart

Michel'le

Never Too Much

Luther Vandross

Baby Come To Me

Regina Belle

Ready or Not

After 7

All Around the World

Lisa Stansfield

Shout

Tears for Fears

Home Sweet Home

Mötley Crüe

We're Not Gonna Take It

Twisted Sister

Rock You Like a Hurricane

Scorpions

Push It

Salt-N-Pepa

Word Up!

Cameo

I Feel for You

Chaka Khan

Super Freak

Rick James

Where Is My Mind?

Pixies

The Killing Moon

Echo & the Bunnymen

Only You

Yazoo

Relax

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

Dead or Alive

I Melt with You

Modern English

Kids in America

Kim Wilde

Down Under

Men at Work

We Got the Beat

The Go-Go's

Brass in Pocket

The Pretenders

Jane Says

Jane's Addiction

She Sells Sanctuary

The Cult

The Glamorous Life

Sheila E.

New Year's Day

U2

Talk To Me

Anita Baker

One More Try

George Michael

Buffalo Stance

Neneh Cherry

Alphabet St.

Prince

Going Underground

The Jam

Material Girl

Madonna

Looking for the Perfect Beat

Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force

Man in the Mirror

Michael Jackson

What Have You Done for Me Lately

Janet Jackson

Blister in the Sun

Violent Femmes

Rapture

Blondie

Boys Don't Cry

The Cure

The Magnificent Seven

The Clash

The One I Love

R.E.M.

This Charming Man

The Smiths

Fantastic Voyage

Lakeside

Rock Box

Run-D.M.C.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A

(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)

Beastie Boys

Texas Flood

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Run To The Hills

Iron Maiden

I Know You Got Soul

Eric B. & Rakim

The Message

Grandmaster Flash

Bizarre Love Triangle

New Order

Bring the Noise

Public Enemy

Original Master Reel

MAX MIX 2 (Megamix Version) -1985

Can You Stand The Rain

New Edition

You Give Good Love

Whitney Houston

Smooth Operator - Official - 1984

Sade

Just Because

Anita Baker

Alex Chilton

The Replacements

Genius of Love

Tom Tom Club

Controversy

Prince

Pull Up to the Bumper

Grace Jones

Lucky Star

Madonna

Planet Rock

Afrika Bambaataa

Beat It

Michael Jackson

Call Me

Blondie

Should I Stay or Should I Go

The Clash

It's Like That

Run-D.M.C.

Rebel Without a Pause

Public Enemy

Fight the Power

Public Enemy

Candy Girl

New Edition

Your Love Is King - Official - 1984

Sade

Sweet Love

Anita Baker

Bastards of Young

The Replacements

Legs

ZZ Top

Let's Go Crazy

Prince and The Revolution

Purple Rain

Prince and The Revolution

Express Yourself

Madonna

Billie Jean

Michael Jackson

Walk This Way

Run-D.M.C.

The Sweetest Taboo - Official - 1985

Sade

We Care a Lot

Faith No More

Gimme All Your Lovin'

ZZ Top

1999

Prince and The Revolution

Into the Groove

Madonna

Thriller

Michael Jackson

Just Like Honey

The Jesus and Mary Chain

I Want To Be Your Man

Roger

Sign 'O' the Times

Prince

Like a Virgin

Madonna

Drive

The Cars

Little Red Corvette

Prince and The Revolution

Like a Prayer

Madonna

Kiss

Prince and The Revolution

Borderline

Madonna

When Doves Cry

Prince and The Revolution

About 80s

Videojam's 80s hub is anchored by the decade's synth-pop and new-wave crossover crowd: Wham!, Tears for Fears, George Michael, Cyndi Lauper.

Selected and reviewed by Alan More, founder & lead curator · Last reviewed 10 Jul 2026

Where the /90s hub skews soul and adult-contemporary, the 80s hub tilts toward the decade's synth-pop and new-wave crossover crowd: Wham!, Tears for Fears, George Michael, Hall & Oates, Cyndi Lauper. This is the MTV-era cluster that made the music video itself a commercial art form: glossy production, high-concept visuals, budgets that hadn't existed for the format a few years earlier. Whitney Houston, Sade, and Anita Baker also carry real weight here, which means the hub's soul thread runs alongside its synth-pop one rather than instead of it. "You Give Good Love" and "Smooth Operator" sit a few clicks from "One More Try," a fairly accurate snapshot of what 80s radio actually sounded like, not a single-genre reduction of it. If you're here for the neon-synth, big-hair version of the decade specifically, George Michael and Tears for Fears are the cleanest entry points. If the soul side is what you're after, this hub and /90s overlap, so check both.

Articles

Frequently asked questions

What defined 80s music videos?

The 1980s were the MTV era, when the music video became a primary art form, defined by neon synth-pop, big-budget spectacle, and the look that shaped pop on camera for a generation. Videojam curates the decade’s standout clips.