If you watch now it's hard to imagine, but over 20 years when the channel was founded MTV actually played music videos...

..A few years later VH1 started and that looked like a refuge, a place where they would play nothing but music videos, but now even that is gone.

Don't get me wrong, they are still there. If you hang around long enough you might see the new Pearl Jam video, but these days it's an on-demand world and we want to see what we want to see when we want to see it(!)

With the evolution of websites and the way we connect to view them, a place like YouTube has become the 21st Century version of MTV.

..And with the help of this website or this website (bookmark them), which has an index and links to where all the 80's video's can be found.

Below are 10 randomly chosen video recommended for your viewing:

• Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2
• New Order - Blue Monday
• New Musik - Living By Numbers
• Belouis Some - Imagination
• Paul Hardcastle - 19
• Queen - It's A Kind Of Magic
• Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
• The Church - Under The Milky Way
• The Jam - That's Entertainment
• Kirsty MacColl - A New England