Groundbreaking pop videos...

[Mala591]

...same as it ever was...

https://youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8

[Stalbansclaret]

This definitely fits the bill ...Peter Gabriel, Sledgehammer from 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q

[Swizzlestick]

The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM

[BabylonClaret]

Difficult to see past this one from '75

https://youtu.be/fJ9rUzIMcZQ

[Devils_Advocate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3UMjN ... rt_radio=1

[Vintage Claret]

This one's a thriller..

https://youtu.be/4V90AmXnguw

[Grimsdale]

Another one where you think of the video whenever you hear the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

[Taffy on the wing]

https://youtu.be/2KcOs70dZAw
This one made me jump off the sofa.

[Middle-agedClaret]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk&vl=en-GB

An unfulfilled talent

[Buxtonclaret]

https://youtu.be/cMOKamtpUA8

Chrissie Hynde

[gawthorpe_view]

https://youtu.be/7UfiCa244XE

Best Queen video ever.

[Clarets4me]

Said to be the forerunner of the " pop video ", from 1957 ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfrC8PAQtlg

[Burnley Ace]

Thriller - they stopped the Music at Angels at everyone watched it in the TV.

[cricketfield73]

'Nice Video, Shame About the Song' from Not the Nine O'Clock News always springs to mind when I think of the 'pop video'.

https://youtu.be/iQamw4xxxHY

[Herts Clarets]

This

https://youtu.be/c-ex_5anvKM

[claretandy]

I want to break free.

Queen.

[ian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xb ... annel=a-ha

At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the video for "Take On Me" won six awards—Best New Artist in a Video, Best Concept Video, Most Experimental Video, Best Direction, Best Special Effects, and Viewer's Choice—and was nominated for two others, Best Group Video and Video of the Year.

[dougcollins]

First 'pop video' I ever saw - and it was a long time before anyone had used the words 'pop video'.

Frank Zappa with 'City of Tiny Lights':

https://youtu.be/8ZRNPUmwAOY

[Goalposts]

Not considered politically correct now, but still iconic

https://youtu.be/XcATvu5f9vE

And the shania twain Homage

https://youtu.be/ZJL4UGSbeFg

[RMutt]

Of course they didn’t break the ground.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LctPleLOgqk

[Quicknick]

Difficult to see past this one from '75

https://youtu.be/fJ9rUzIMcZQ

I only liked their really early stuff.

[Steve1956]

How can we have any type of music thread with no Floyd
https://youtu.be/HrxX9TBj2zY

[1882Clarets1882]

Take on me , aha.

Also the ultravox one where Midge Ure is running and the music and action stops and he says hang on, and takes a breather, the says "ok" and the video continues. Can't remember the song .

[Bosscat]

https://youtu.be/LQiOA7euaYA

[houseboy]

This definitely fits the bill ...Peter Gabriel, Sledgehammer from 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q

Class! There is also a video on you tube for Solsbury Hill. It is a live concert but it is taken from various shows over the last 40 years or more but the sequences are so seamless that it looks like the same concert with just Gabriel flitting between ages. Don’t know how it was done but it is seriously clever.

[HunterST_BFC]

This whole LP had a Vid for every track - released as a film - to avoid touring...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... Ln49Y4WFZK

Read the story then see "Stevo" was behind it. Stevo the label boss was nuts to the point of destruction with all his genius,

[what_no_pies]

I only discovered this a couple of weeks ago having been a fan of the artist for a few years.

The best editing i've ever seen. Full of 80's and 90's movie nostalgia.

Almost certainly the best thing i've discovered on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/3VN93T7m0-U