Song's that when you hear you immediately think of the video

Twisted Sister’s We’re Not Gonna Take It. Still can’t stop seeing Dee Snyder...

 

A Flock of Seagulls - "I Ran". When I hear the drum break I instantly think of Ali Score (while proceeding to air drum).

 

Dokken's "In My Dreams". Absolutely love this video.

 

Wang Chung - very creative how they went about this. As crazy as it is to watch, I love the effect.

Also the juxtaposition of singing "everybody have fun tonight" while having the straightest face.

 

"Rock Me Tonight" by Billy Squire

 

Leave It - Yes
Open Your Heart - Madonna

Really anything by Madonna, her and MJ were the video gods and my brain immediately goes to the videos when I hear most of their songs.

 

This: California Girls - David Lee Roth

...And, pretty much any Van Halen, Pat Benatar, Duran Duran + Huey Lewis And The News songs ~
They had the most clever, entertaining music videos of the 80s definitely & probably all-time! If an alien ever came down & wanted a synopsis of U.S. life in the 80s,
hand 'em any of the above artists' music videos! (But, w/some less attractive people mixed in...for "reality!")

 

"Ordinary World" - Duran Duran.

 

For me, this one is easy: Cindy Lauper's cover version of the Robert Hazard song, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun".

 

Rio, Duran Duran
Buddy Holly, Weezer
In Bloom, Nirvana

 

Popped into my head right away.

 

Anything through Rio by Duran Duran

 

Radiohead
- Reckoner
- Daydreaming

Nirvana - smells like teen spirit

Michael Jackson - Thriller, Beat it

 

Cars - Drive

Police - Syn II