- Recipients
{{Unreferenced|date=December 2009}}The MTV Video Music Award for Most Experimental Video was first awarded in 1984. The last of this award was given out in 1987, after which it was replaced with Breakthrough Video the following year. Recipients| Year | Winner | Other nominees | | 1984}} | Herbie Hancock — "Rockit"- The Cars — "You Might Think"
- Thomas Dolby — "Hyperactive!"
- The Alan Parsons Project — "Don't Answer Me"
- Neil Young — "Wonderin'"
| | 1985}} | Art of Noise — "Close (to the Edit)"- Lindsey Buckingham — "Go Insane"
- Lindsey Buckingham — "Slow Dancing"
- Chris Isaak — "Dancin'"
- Lone Justice — "Ways to Be Wicked"
| | 1986}} | a-ha — "Take On Me"- Pat Benatar — "Sex as a Weapon"
- Dire Straits — "Money for Nothing"
- X — "Burning House of Love"
- ZZ Top — "Rough Boy"
| | 1987}} | Peter Gabriel — "Sledgehammer"- Eurythmics — "Missionary Man"
- Genesis — "Land of Confusion"
- Huey Lewis and the News — "Hip to Be Square"
- Paul Simon — "The Boy in the Bubble"
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