The Most Iconic Music Videos of All Time

Official music video for "Take on Me" by A-Ha.

Outtake of the famous opening of Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967).

A music video for Michael Jackson's song 'Billie Jean'.

A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies attacks Michael and his date - only a "Thriller" can save them now.

Peter Gabriel's video for his 1986 Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, a collaboration with Aardman Animations which set new standards for the industry and became one of the most awarded videos in history.

The music video for Weird Al Yankovic's song "Fat."

Official promo video for Janet Jackson's single single from her fourth studio album "Rhythm Nation 1814" (1989). Filmed in black and white, Janet sings inside a factory and dances with a dancers chorus.

Sinéad O'Connor performs in the music video "Nothing Compares 2 U" from the album "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" recorded for Chrysalis Records. The music video features a closeup of Sinéad O'Connor's face as she sings and goes through different stages of emotions in tune with the lyrics.

Madonna pays homage to Hollywood's Golden Age via Harlem's "House Ball" Vogueing.

A music video for Nirvana's song 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'.

Beck performs in the music video "Loser" from the album "Mellow Gold" recorded for Bong Load Custom Records and DGC Records. The video opens with Beck walking through a parking lot in a mask that is fogged out with visual effects. Beck sings as variety of images play including a moving coffin, teenagers exercising in a cemetery, and a grim reaper cleaning a car.

Tool performs in the music video "Prison Sex" from the album "Undertow" recorded for Zoo Entertainment. The music video features stop-motion animation of a white humanoid, robotic-like doll that is trapped in a room with other figures. Later, a large black humanoid torments the doll into catatonia.

Set to the song, Sabotage, the Beastie Boys appear in a condensed parody of a 1970s cop show.

The controversial promotional video for Nine Inch Nails' 1994 single "Closer."

Music video for the song "Buddy Holly" by the American rock band Weezer, written by Rivers Cuomo. It was released as the second single from the band's debut album Weezer (The Blue Album) in 1994.

Music video for the Smashing Pumpkins song "Tonight, Tonight".

Björk sings "It's Oh So Quiet" in a musical number set in and around a tire store.

A promotional video for Jamiroquai's 1996 single "Virtual Insanity."

Cibo Matto performs in the music video "Sugar Water" from the album "Viva. La Woman" recorded for Warner Brothers Records. The music video features a split screen of Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda as they travel from their home and later meet. One screen plays forward while the other plays in reverse.

Spice Girls performs in the music video "Wannabe" from the album "Spice" recorded for Virgin Records and EMI Records. The music video begins with the Spice Girls outside London's St. Pancras Grand Hotel. The video shot in one tale follows the girls as they sing, dance, and disturb patrons of the hotel.

The video shows some rampant adventures on the night London from the first person view. In the full version of the clip, called the Most Controversial Version, there are all kinds of antisocial behaviors, such as drinking hard liquor and drunk driving, taking cocaine, attacking people, violence, vandalism, heroin use, a scene in which Car shoot down a man, a female striptease without censorship, and at the end of the clip the main character is engaged in sex with the same stripper.

The video opens with an old woman walking a dog in a grimy, industrial setting. The dog urinates on an abandoned television lying on the pavement, causing it to sputter unexpectedly into life, and a distorted and warping headshot of Richard D. James chants the lyrics. This unleashes a spirit, accompanied by a gang of small children, all of whom bear James' grinning face and who appear to inhabit the abandoned buildings. The children go around wreaking havoc, trashing an alley and chasing a man into his car. The thin man emerges from the television, screams in the woman's face, then gathers the children around him.

A lounge singer entertains an audience during the time of apartheid in South Africa.

A promotional video for Fiona Apple's 1997 single "Criminal."