Recently, Kurt Andersen looked back at MTV’s Golden Age with Craig Marks, author of I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution.
We asked for your favorite videos from that late, lamented pre-Jersey Shore era.
  
  
  
  
The clear front-runner seemed to be Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer,” with its intricate stop-action animation by the Quay Brothers.

  
Another favorite was A-ha’s “Take On Me.” “I didn’t even care about the song,” wrote Rebecca from New York. “The video sold it.”

  
Willfree from Montana wrote, “I grew up on the very mild sexiness of network television.” But when The Eurythmics released the video for “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” “the image of Annie Lennox in suit and tie, black gloves, and short orange hair was ever after my iconic MTV. I loved a thousand other videos but ‘Sweet Dreams’ was always special.”