In 1894, sheet music publishers Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern hired electrician George Thomas and various artists to promote sales of their song “The Little Lost Child”. Using a magic lantern, Thomas projected a series of still images on a screen simultaneous to live performances. In 1981, “Video Killed the Radio Star” was the first music video played on MTV.

So, either 117 or 40 years of music videos.

But what’s the cream of the crop – the artistic peak – the perfect melange of sound and vision? Which one do you like most and why? Which is the most beautiful creation?

Whatever you think of the music on this one, the visuals are amaaazing!

I know how we all love clip-heavy threads, with nothing but copy and pasted links to YouTube, but maybe be sparing and select only your finest flicks, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cradled in the finest quality description, lightly posted, and sealed in a succulent, Swiss, quintuple-smooth, treble-adjective envelope, and lovingly frosted with superlatives.

I look forward to watching and appreciating every one!