1990: "Cradle of Love", Billy Idol

If you need an explanation of why this is one of the all time greatest music videos, you're probably too jaded by veritable reams of online fisting videos (yes, pus intended) to get the point.

"Cradle of Love" was released on both Idol's fourth studio album, Charmed Life, and also the soundtrack to the heavily promoted bomb, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. It was also by far Idol's last major hit, a sort of sex kitten video oasis in a desert of indifference that stretched back to Idol's prior outing, the frankly underrated Whiplash Smile, an oasis that would turn immediately back to endless sand on his next single... a dubious cover of "L.A. Woman".

Billy would go on to stake his claim to retro hipster credentials with a notable cameo in Adam Sandler's 1998 box office hit The Wedding Singer and, years later, an anarchic appearance on MTV's Viva La Bam, but otherwise even a reunion with guitarist Steve Stevens in 2005 generated little interest outside the nostalgia circuit.