Because I love the 80s, and because I miss the MTV in the 80s Song of the Day thread, I thought I'd start a new thread where we can discuss anything related to 80s music videos.
I still DVR the show Totally 80s whenever it's on VH1 Classic, and usually a few times a month, I'll flip through the many episodes merely to see what videos they played, and it's interesting because ideally you would think they would play videos that were played a lot in the 80s, which they do in some cases, but in other cases, they ignore certain bands and genres that got played a ton back then.
-Hair metal as a whole isn't played much at all, at least not when you consider how much it was played on MTV in the latter 80s.
-Stryper is NEVER played, even though MTV played the snot out of them in 1987 and 1988.
-Same goes for Europe, who were also played to death from 1986-1989.
-LL Cool J's Going Back to Cali is played all the time, and I don't remember it being played
that much back in the day.
-Talking Heads are rarely played. Burning Down the House was played it seemed like every hour for months back in '83, yet you never see it on Totally 80s.
-Michael Jackson surprisingly isn't played that much, even though he all but owned the 80s.
Anyway, this is the new 80s thread.