The 15 Best Music Videos of the '90s - Pigeons & Planes. The 30 Best Music Videos Ever: Poll Results. Three weeks ago, in anticipation of MTV's 30th birthday today (Aug. 1), we asked our readers to celebrate three decades of music television by voting on the best videos of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, each week in a separate poll.
Now, we are proud to present the top ten of each decade, as voted by you, the Billboard.com readers. With the launch of MTV thirty years ago, video took on a new role in the music world -- and as the first song played on the cable network (The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star") declared, video did, indeed, kill the radio star. At the time of its launch, the cable channel's reach was minimal, initially airing a small collection of music videos in selected New Jersey markets. Within a few years, however, music videos became standard practice for artists both big and small. 100 Greatest Music Videos. Michael Jackson's Thriller. Content[edit] Michael Jackson dancing with the living dead.
Due to Jackson being a Jehovah's witness, the video begins with a disclaimer that reads: "Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult" - Michael Jackson On a night set in the 1950s while driving, a teenaged Michael and his unnamed girlfriend (Ola Ray), runs out of gas in a dark, wooded area. They walk into the forest as they leave the car behind and Michael asks her to be his girlfriend, she accepts, and he gives her a ring. However, he then tells her that he is different than other guys.
The scene then cuts to a movie theater where Michael and his unnamed girlfriend, along with an excitable audience, are actually watching the scene unfold in a fictional Vincent Price horror movie titled "Thriller". The zombies corner the two main characters threateningly, and suddenly, Michael becomes a zombie himself. Credits[edit] Thriller Awards[edit] Grammy Award[edit] Firestarter (song) Firestarter may refer to: In music: In television: In other uses:
Sledgehammer (song) The song's music video has won a number of awards, including a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, and Best British Video at the 1987 Brit Awards.[2][3] Gabriel was also nominated for three Grammy Awards: Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year.[4] As of 2011, "Sledgehammer" is the most played music video in the history of MTV.[2] The song was influenced by 1960s soul music, in particular the music made by the Memphis label Stax.
The distinctive horn track was provided by the Memphis Horns, house musicians at Stax. The song also features a synthesized shakuhachi flute generated with an Emu Emulator II sampler.[5] The lyrics are a mosaic of sexual innuendos, with references to steam trains, bumper cars, Big Dipper (roller coaster) and fruit cage as metaphors for male and female sexual organs and references to pollination, acting like a sledgehammer, fruit and bees as metaphors of sexual acts. Jump up ^ Dean, Maury (2003). What was the first music video ever made.