TOP 20 MTV MUSIC VIDEOS of 1981!
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Step back into 1981, the year MTV changed music forever. These are the videos that defined the very beginning of the music video era and reshaped pop culture as we know it.
🎵 Songs Featured:
Fashion – David Bowie
Burnin’ for You – Blue Öyster Cult
Brass in Pocket – The Pretenders
A Woman in Love – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Private Eyes – Hall and Oates
Whip It – Devo
The Stroke – Billy Squier
Bette Davis Eyes – Kim Carnes
Video Killed the Radio Star – The Buggles
Rapture – Blondie
In the Air Tonight – Phil Collins
Our Lips Are Sealed – The Go-Go’s
Jessie’s Girl – Rick Springfield
Once in a Lifetime – Talking Heads
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around – Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Hold On Loosely – .38 Special
Keep on Loving You – REO Speedwagon
The Best of Times – Styx
You Better Run – Pat Benatar
You Better You Bet – The Who
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I was 12 and wanted to be a Go-Go❤
In 1981 I was 18 and 19 years old my birthday being in July, HIGH SCHOOL was behind me I just became an apprentice Union Ironworker! Life had just started and changed for me it was a WONDERFUL TIME, going places meeting girls! God they were all so beautiful and always in abundance it seemed driving around at night with a few other friends, living in a City in New Jersey, it was still AMERICA 🇺🇸 in so many ways! I mean you didn’t have 50 million uninvited people who you couldn’t ask hey where are you from without feeling like you insulted someone there was more cohesion Everyone Celebrated the 4th of July and THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS it just never seemed like HOLIDAYS that were only celebrated by some people, I know people will say what does that have to do with this video, it has a lot to do with it because music is from a time a different time GOOD PAYING JOBS were still around and Americans got them and American kids and Adults did them, NO COMPUTERS NO MOBILE PHONES 📵 You talked you went out to a secluded place with 20 friends started a fire put a boom box 🗃️ on listened to music as in this video you drank beers 🍻 laughed, cried, made it with your girlfriend! The sad part is we all had a feeling something was going to change. So many of us knew deep down inside these days this time this lifestyle was going to end and not for the better, some of us were told by our parents that we were the last generation of days that will never seem normal again, you wondered if they had a Chrystal Ball hidden somewhere in their bedroom, I guess they knew what we were thinking a generation before, then came a few dates 1995 the introduction of the first PC then by the millennium the mobile phones and then the big one 9/11 and life made a turn that we knew was the END of the Old Days we lost everything and here we are in 2026! I often wonder where the Hell am I ?? It’s not AMERICA 🇺🇸 in fact it’s not even the World as it was! It’s a very upside down sheltered place! Yea we lost!! We lost more than a lot and this generation and anyone born after 1981 they lost a great world! This isn’t progress this is separation of reality by proxy those born after 9/11/2001 are the saddest most sorry looking generation that probably ever existed, they have no Hope, No Fun, Nothing!! I remember every bit of 1981 almost as if I could jump right back into that place, with no regrets and just keep repeating 1980-1995 constantly and never get tired of it!
MTV BEFORE “TEEN MOMS” AND OTHER WORTHLESS SHOWS IYKYK WWG1WGAWW M.
Bet Davis Eyes? Be better.
After coming out of a cold then singing Karaoke, I like to sing Bettie Davis Eyes because of my raspy voice.
YES
Say Romeo, what about your promise to the he-man woman haters club?
I’m sorry Spanky. I’ve got to live my own life.
That’s REO Speedwagon.
The Pretenders’ Brass In Pocket was released in 1980. Not 81.
Devo is 1980
J Geils, Centerfold