We've had the golden, the brave, the educational and the fallen. Now this.

Let's start with some class.

5. Nick Cave- Bring it On

Ok a soft entry to begin with. Not so much NSFW as innapropriate. Featuring Chris Bailey from the Saints, though that's not what I'm talking about.  I'll let Nick explain (from the BBC):

Where did the idea for the video for 'Bring It On' come from?

I actually had the idea for that video, in the sense that the video maker Johnny Hillcoat said, "What do you want to make a video about?" and I asked him, "What do videos looks like on MTV these days?" and he said, "They look like a lot of black girls wiggling their arses at the camera," so this is basically what we ended up doing, really.

 
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - 'Bring it On'


4. Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler

So I guess this is supposed to be a metaphor for the "industry" and all but really it just makes me not want to eat spaghetti for a while.




3. Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

A barely clad Chris Isaak and a topless Helena Christensen roll around on black sand amongst backward smoke provided by David Lynch. What an amazing sentence.




2. Eric Prydz - 'Call On Me'

A faux workout video barely disguised as soft porn. In a way, the flimsy premise of the video matches the track so artfully it's actually genius.




1. Duran Duran - Girls On Film

We were going to go with Tim & Eric's 'Dancefloor Dale' here. But...I just ate.. Plus, how can we deny Le Bon?

The amazing thing about this clip, despite it's extended intro, naked models, fluffy band members and the writhing black dude being a horse, is just how much it means to everyone. There's little doubt that everyone involved at the time felt it was high art. What other video so vehemently sums up the campiness, overt seriousness and excess of the 80s?

(PS: I'm well aware that at the start of this particular YouTube clip that there's a grown man wearing fingerpaint waving at the camera behind hebrew lettering. Embrace it.)


Duran Duran - 'Girls on Film'