Found this list of MTV's Top 100 videos from 1988.


Any opinion, videos/songs you agree or disagree on...

While #1 is an  OK song (they had better), the video's average.

Def Leppard "Pour Some Sugar On Me"  spent 68 days at #1 in "Dial MTV" (heard on some tv special a few years ago), which was the most for that show.  A great song, though the video's just another typical concert clip.


"Smooth Criminal" should've been on the Top 10, which is personally my favorite video from MJ.

Bon Jovi "Bad Medicine" is also a good clip with a cameo from Sam Kinison and also footage filmed by the fans. "Rag Doll" from Aerosmith is another classic, which was filmed in New Orleans.



1. Guns N Roses- Sweet Child O’ Mine
2. Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
3. INXS - Need You Tonight/Mediate
4. Aerosmith - Rag Doll
5. Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
6. Escape Club - Wild Wild West
7. Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
8. George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You
9. Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
10. George Michael - Father Figure
11. Steve Winwood - Roll With It
12. Whitney Houston - So Emotional
13. U2 - Desire
14. Brice Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
15. Cheap Trick - The Flame
16. Def Leppard - Love Bites
17. INXS- New Sensation
18. Van Halen - When It’s Love
19. Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana
20. Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
21. Guns N Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
22. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Parents Just Don’t Understand
23. UB40 - Red Red Wine
24. Billy Ocean - Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My Car
25. Elton John - I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That
26. Aerosmith - Angel
27. Rod Stewart - Lost In You
28. Joan Jett - I Hate Myself For Loving You
29. George Michael - One More Try
30. Def Leppard - Hysteria
31. Foreigner - Say You Will
32. Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter
33. Cinderella - Don’t Know What You Got Til It’s Gone
34. Cheap Trick - Don’t Be Cruel
35. INXS- Devil Inside
36. Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel
37. Richard Marx - Hold On To The Nights
38. Poison - Nothing But A Good Time
39. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
40. Hall & Oates - Everything Your Heart Desires
41. David Lee Roth - Just Like Paradise
42. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
43. Information Society - Pure Energy (What’s On Your Mind)
44. Terence Trent D’Arby - Wishing Well
45. Phil Collins - A Groovy Kind Of Love
46. Eddie Money - Walk On Water
47. Robert Plant - Tall Cool One
48. George Michael - Faith
49. Duran Duran - I Don’t Want Your Love
50. Sting - Be Still My Beating Heart
51. Bobby McFerrin - Don’t Worry Be Happy
52. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
53. Chicago - Look Away
54. Whitesnake - Gimme All Your Love Tonight
55. Bruce Springsteen - One Step Up
56. Poison - Fallen Angel
57. Bobby Brown - My Prerogative
58. Paul Carrack - Don’t Shed A Tear
59. Huey Lewis & The News - Perfect World
60. Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
61. Heart - There’s The Girl
62. John Cougar Mel encamp - Check It Out
63. George Michael - Monkey
64. Belinda Carlisle - I Get Weak
65. Europe - Superstitious
66. Richard Marx - Endless Summer Nights
67. Prince - Alphabet Street
68. Rod Stewart - Forever Young
69. Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
70. Debbie Gibson - Out Of The Blue
71. Terence Trent D’Arby- Sign Your Name
72. Kenny Loggins - Nobody’s Fool
73. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
74. Steve Winwood - Don’t You Know What The Night Can Do
75. Jody Watley - Some Kind Of Lover
76. Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams
77. Foreigner - I Don’t Wanna Live Without You
78. Pat Benatar - All Fired Up
79. OMD - Dreaming
80. Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go
81. Van Halen - Finish What Ya Started
82. Icehouse - Electric Blue
83. Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This
84. Belinda Carlisle - Circle In The Sand
85. The Fat Boys with Chubby Checker - The Twist
86. Henry Lee Summer - I Wish I Had A Girl
87. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-Motion
88. Michael Bolton - Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay
89. Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care
90. Natalie Cole - Pink Cadillac
91. Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes
92. Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
93. Cher - I Found Someone
94. Michael Jackson - Another Part Of Me
95. Bangles - In Your Room
96. Glen Frey - True Love
97. Rick Astley - Together Forever
98. Vixen - Edge Of A Broken Heart
99. Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon
100. Keith Richards - Take It So Hard

at least 90 of the songs on the list deserves to be number 1!  and number 1 shouldnt be on the list!  jmho..

I cannot find Enya's Orinoco Flow in the list.

i'm shocked chicago was no.53 on the MTV list and also MTV don't do top 100 no more

i'm shocked chicago was no.53 on the MTV list and also MTV don't do top 100 no more
 


  mtv dont do top anything anymore! ::)

MTV doesn't do music videos any more - they could do a "Top 100 lamest reality shows that we subjected the poor unsuspecting fools to"

But, to stay on topic - Guns n Roses? #1? Puh - leeze!!!

Who the hell comes up with these lists?

I like most of those songs on the list. Especially the Billy Ocean and the Terrence Trent D'Arby jams! LOL!.

I noticed MJ's "Man in the Mirror" is on the list. Do you know which version of the video it is? There's two, The original version that looks like a Sally Struthers ad with starving kids and scenes from Chernobyl and warfare and stuff, or is it the one with concert footage spliced  in from Moonwalker? (I prefer the Moonwalker version more because it's not depressing.  :-\\ )

I always find these lists interesting as it seems that in later years it was more about the song than video content.  I agree that "Smooth Criminal" should have made the top 10.  Good to see "I've Got My Mind Set On You" come in at #8.

Does anybody have the MTV year end countdown  lists for 1986, 1987,  1989, and 1991...

For me it was "I Found Someone" by Cher.