Best All-Time Performance in a Music Video

Can you choose one performance in a music video as being the best of all-time?

Please define "best performance" for yourself. It's a subjective matter that each person must determine individually.

I still remember watching Billy Idol's "Cradle Of Love" music video as a teenager, and thinking, "This is the greatest music video that will ever exist." It's decades later, and I still think Betsy Lynn George's performance in the video is the best of all-time.


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a reply to: Profusion

Too vague sir! Best dance performance? Best lip synch performance (lol)! Best Strip tease?

a reply to: JinMI

I think he wants the 'hottest girl' segment of the videos

Like Bobbi Brown in Warrent kr a great white video.
Or
tony kattan in a whitesnake video

a reply to: Profusion

You might like this Video

It's from 2014, and its in French. But it's like a good 80's video

Mika made videos great again....


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a reply to: thinline

Ah! Well I can oblige....:

I've got to go with Michael Jackson and Thriller. Until then, there was nothing like it. The storytelling. The production values. The choreography. It broke new ground in all aspects. The King of Pop got his crown by being king of MTV.

a reply to: jtrenthacker

Would that be a crown of flames?




What? Too soon?

originally posted by: jtrenthacker
I've got to go with Michael Jackson and Thriller. Until then, there was nothing like it. The storytelling. The production values. The choreography. It broke new ground in all aspects. The King of Pop got his crown by being king of MTV.

Second that.

MTV made a lot of artists, Not so big a deal today, back then this was painstaking stop motion work, done on real film cameras, not CGI.

This one has almost a billion views, needs no intro...

Eddie Vedder & Pearl Jam, performing live on MTV unplugged.
Especially;
Jeremy
Black
& Porch

The whole gig (only 36m) is amazing.

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originally posted by: jtrenthacker
I've got to go with Michael Jackson and Thriller. Until then, there was nothing like it. The storytelling. The production values. The choreography. It broke new ground in all aspects. The King of Pop got his crown by being king of MTV.

I love all of MJ's videos. The one with the panther is good, not sure what song that is.

Nobody beats him!

a reply to: Profusion

Just a prolific video in all aspects.
Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike

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a reply to: Profusion

My contribution.

You can't beat this performance:

a reply to: Profusion

There's so many and I have posted a lot of videos on here lately, but here are 2 of my favorite:

best one ever


these two are good ro.




well three or maybe four


well top 5



better stop, i always get carried away when posting tunes.



i had to put this one in

a reply to: Profusion

Best All Time Performance you say , Queen , Live Aid 1985.
25 minutes of pure awesome.