10 Best Music Videos Of The 1980s

7. U2 - With Or Without You

Taking a page out of The Police's book with a dusky monochrome vision of moodiness, With or Without You provides a near-perfect example of a music video only serving to enhance the strength of the song it is paired with, helping to lift this atmospheric anthem to the stratosphere, both on-and-off the record.

Intercut with flashes of apparent lightning crackling over the band's visage as they play, semi-cloaked in shadow, on what feels like an abandoned stage erupting out of the darkness, it's almost as spine-tingling as the track itself, a number that helped catapult the band to further international superstardom.

 
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