Spend an afternoon as a teenager in the 80s with this MTV original broadcast of the best music videos of 1986. A fun combination of vintage MTV content, the best songs of the mid 80s, and retro ads.
Originally aired December 1986.
cool videos to watch with your friends / ambient videos for a vibey home
[00:12] John Cougar Mellencamp – Lonely Ol Night
[04:46] Julian Lennon – Stick Around
[08:56] Back to School movie commercial
[09:10] Twix commercial
[09:41] Nintendo commercial
[10:11] Sun Country commercial
[10:41] The Beatles animated commercial
[11:39] Robert Palmer – I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On
[15:30] The Bear Family commercial
[17:33] Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
[18:05] 80s MTV animation
[18:22] Host segment on video editing trends of 1986
[22:20] INXS – What You Need
[26:02] Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
[30:34] Host segment on major band departures and breakups of 1986
[34:37] Andy Taylor – Take It Easy
[38:41] 80s MTV animation
[38:52] Domincan College commercial
[39:23] TKR Channel 30 commercial
[39:53] The Weather Channel commercial
[40:23] TKR Channel 30 commercial
[40:54] Showtime commercial
[41:08] MTV Best Music Videos of 1986 promo
[43:10] Rutger Hauer Wanted Dead or Alive commercial
[43:41] Energizer commercial
[44:11] Levi’s 501 commercial
[44:41] Playtex commercial
[45:15] Rod Stewart – Love Touch
[50:18] Wrigley’s gum commercial
[50:47] Back to School movie commercial
[51:02] Hanes Sweats commercial
[52:03] New York Giants MTV promo
[52:25] Host segment on music comebacks of 1986
[57:00] Huckleberry’s on the Hudson commercial
[57:33] TKR Channel 30 commercial
[58:04] Spring Valley Optical commercial
[58:32] Drinking and driving PSA
[59:04] Rock Against Drugs PSA
[59:50] Genesis – Invisible Touch
[01:04:50] Heart – These Dreams
[01:08:55] Sting – If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
[01:14:50] Jhimack commercial
[01:15:51] Dire Straits – Money for Nothing
[01:21:25] Vidal Sassoon commercial
[01:21:40] Snickers commercial
[01:22:10] Omni Magazine commercial
[01:22:41] Trendar medicine commercial
[01:22:56] The Kindred movie commercial
[01:23:57] Steve Winwood – Higher Love
[01:28:33] Robert Palmer – Addicted to Love
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One thing to note a lot of you think about it as the best because you were teens. Getting your first car, first love, first job, and that’s pretty normal. Even though I was born 75 and grew up in the 80’s I was in my mid teens when the 90’s rolled around. I missed out on the US for 4 years while my Dad was stationed in Belgium (80-83), then a few life events that I won’t go into here. So my perspective about it being the best decade (the 60’s were probably one of the best too at least if you were a kid), is because I missed out on half of the decade, and then the 90’s were the start of the downturn. Stuff like Grunge, not as many good and/or fun movies., and let’s just say wokeness before it was actually even a term. The beginning of the 90’s were still coasting on 80s fumes, but it was only downhill from there. So my love of the 80’s comes from what I missed but also what I still experienced throughout. Saturday Morning Cartoons, really starting as it’s own thing in the mid-1960’s was still going strong. Sugary Breakfast Cereals, and video games. I also didn’t have money to get a nintendo entertainment system, but I did have a commodore vic20 and c64. So my experience is a bit different. Anyways here’s to the 80’s!
That song was a little too rock? I never had heard that Julian Lennon song. Solid!
WTH?? What were the top 2 vids??
Damn, I miss those days! 😢
Julian Lennon looks like he wants to be in an 80s hair band. And it has added Michael J Fox
Also really like that cardigan the actor from Seinfeld is wearing
‘Cookie crumble’
The four backing girls on the Robert Palmer video were more convincing mimers than Andy Fletcher of DM
Most of my teens were in the 80s (I was 17yrs old in 1989) and even back then around this time in 1986, I kinda felt like I was living in great times. There was so much excitment in those days in America, and our culture was mirrored in our music! I also started to think by early 1989, that was changing. Instead of music being mostly fun and inspiring, it started to get more serious. For example, Madonna and Like a Prayer (she was going after the church). Not that I’m some big religious person. Then you had NWA, who I love…but they were bringing music that was very serious and started to shine a light on some of the shit they saw in LA. Then obviously you had grunge in the early/mid 90s with it’s dreary fucking somber attitude, though I did like it as well. By the late 90s, we were on the decline…then of course 9/11 and the shitty 2000s. For me, it just seems we peaked somewhere from 1984 to 1988.
I was only a baby/small kid in the 80s, but my parents were in their early 20s when I was born and we didn’t live opulently, but we did have cable LOL.
I’m in my 40s now, my own kids are teenagers, and just within the last few weeks I was reminiscing about watching 1980s MTV with my 60something parents. Who often used music videos as background music to help me fall asleep as an infant. By the time I was 3-4 years old and able to retain memories, watching music videos was a part of my life. This was such a fun era for music. I have so, so many fond memories from that time. ❤
2026 update we got to move these air fryers and flat screen tvs
Robert Palmer was the coolest! Julian Lennon song was good.