MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future.

​Earlier today, we counted down the best music videos directed by people who took home (or, more likely, left at the podium) the Razzies' "Golden Raspberry" award for worst director. Now we're counting down the best music videos by those directors' raised-brow, Oscar-winning counterparts. Let's get right to it.

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Try and guess the DJ's name. Pics by Rob, more below.

​Tom Tom Club/Matthew Dear
Irving Plaza
Wednesday, January 12

Better than: A Heads reunion.

Tina Weymouth: "A lot of you are too young to know this show, but it feels like Romper Room. "Chris Frantz: "This song is about all the cute little girls down at CBGBs." Hey, you show up for a 30th-anniversary celebration, you deal with a little nostalgia.

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​Tom Tom Club is back: the new-wave dance band extraordinaire, featuring ex-Talking Heads rhythm section/actual married couple Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, is doing two shows in NYC to support their new Genius of Live LP, featuring of course their endlessly sampled mega-hit "Genius of Love." They're at Santos Party House tonight and Brooklyn Bowl Saturday night; we've got two tickets to the latter.

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