25 Best Music Videos: 11

11. Money For Nothing
Dire Straits

When MTV premiered on August 1, 1981, the first video shown was The Buggles prophetic "Video Killed The Radio Star." But this isn't about them. This is about the Dire Straits' infamous CGI music video.

One of the first ever presentations of human beings in CGI, animation company Mainframe Studios (who went on to make Reboot) and Mark Knopfler broke animation ground with this video.

As the two blocky men of the video move those refrigerators and color TVs, a live-action music video plays occasionally behind them, comprised of Mark Knopfler playing guitar and singing while rotoscoping his headband to be made of AMAZING NEON COLORS WHOOOOAAAAAAAA!!!! Also, Sting is there singing over and over about how he wants his MTV. Christ, we get it. Just call up your local cable provider, dude.

FUN FACT: This was actually the first video shown on MTV Europe when it premiered on August 1, 1987. This video is the shining achievement of Mark Knopfler's headbanded career.