The Unremembered '80s.

Music videos from the 1980s are a delight.  A reeeeeal treat.  The form was still being developed and people were trying to figure out what the fuck to do.  Many felt that you should just use the video as a tool to showcase the artist(s)...

This idea began morphing into the (usually horrible) idea of interpreting the lyrics of a song visually in a very literal way...

Embedding disabled, but for the love of everything click through.  

Finally, some genius decided that you could combine elements of the two and tell a whole new story visually with a song...

I don't know why Hall & Oates where embeddable and nothing else is, but, oh well.

-Dash