History Main / AlternateMusicVideo

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95SWMqzM_Sg original music video]] for Music/PeterGabriel's song "[[Music/{{Melt}} Games Without Frontiers]]" featured children sitting at a banquet table as if in an international conference. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZmlUV8muY subsequent versions]], the footage of that got replaced with artistic footage involving people walking in various patterns and often overlapping

* Natasha Bedingfield:

* British fans searching for the music video for Music/DefLeppard's ''Pour Some Sugar On Me'' can become baffled to be directed to what looks like an anonymous and unimaginative compilation of live concert footage. What they think of as the ''proper'' video for the song, the one used for ''Series/TopOfThePops'' and broadcast in the UK [[note]]Showing the band playing the song inside a house which is being demolished all around them as they play[[/note]] is still out there: it's just that, for whatever reason, the concert footage one is the official video as released in the USA.

* Music/SwingOutSister's "Breakout" has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIOJdMdS56k a black-and-white]] version and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzqm4XVkMJ4 a color version]] of the same music video of her and her bandmates as {{fashion designer}}s.

* "Got My Mind Set on You" by Music/GeorgeHarrison has two clips. The first one features a guy deciding to draw a girl's attention by trying to WinHerAPrize. The second is the better known "dancing furniture" clip.

* Music/{{Nirvana}}: When the non-album single "Sliver" first released, no music video was formally shot for it. As a result, its first TV appearance on ''The Chart Show'' featured a crude "video" consisting of just a picture of the cover art with the audio playing over it. A proper music video was shot for the song two years later to promote the compilation album ''Music/{{Incesticide}}'', featuring the band performing in Music/KurtCobain's garage.

LyricVideo can be in relation to this. Compare {{Fanvid}} and StupidStatementDanceMix, where fans compile alternate music videos using other content, sometimes in sync with the music.

* Music/{{Queen}}:

Sometimes you search the song on Wikipedia, you find out it had another music video. The chances of finding it can vary, with the video on the offical channel at best, at low-quality resolution at an unofficial channel at second best, or in [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition a rare edition]] of [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes a long-discontinued physical format]] at not the most optimal.

* For choreography purposes, such as several KPop artists; one is the official music video where some acting and a storyline are usually involved along with the main parts of the choreography, while the other is only for the full choreography.[[/note]];

* For choreography purposes[[note]]Several KPop artists do this where they upload two music videos: one is the official music video where some acting and a storyline are usually involved along with the main parts of the choreography, while the other is only for the full choreography.[[/note]];
* [[VideoFullOfFilmClips Promotion for a movie]] (provided people [[BreakawayPopHit remember OR know]] it came from that movie), or

* For choreography purposes[[note]]Several KPop artists do this where they upload two music videos: one is the official music video where some acting and a storyline are usually involved along with the main parts of the choreography, while the other is only for the full choreography.[[note]];

* For choreography purposes;

Several KPop artists do this where they upload two music videos: one is the official music video where some acting and a storyline are usually involved along with the main parts of the choreography, while the other is only for the full choreography.

There are a plethora of reasons on why there's another music video. Factors can include international marketing, censorship (perhaps corollary with the international marketing if some scenes might be too violent or too sexy for the aimed region), time limitations if shown in broadcasts, [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition exclusivity on bonus packs and collector's editions]], for choreography purposes, [[VideoFullOfFilmClips promotion for a movie]] (provided people [[BreakawayPopHit remember OR know]] it came from that movie) or the first attempt was just [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible horrible]] that they had to make a [[ImprovedSecondAttempt second one]].

There are a plethora of reasons on why there's another music video. Factors can include international marketing, censorship (perhaps corollary with the international marketing if some scenes might be too violent or too sexy for the aimed region), time limitations if shown in broadcasts, [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition exclusivity on bonus packs and collector's editions]], for choreography purposes, [[VideoFullOfFilmClips promotion for a movie]] (provided people [[BreakawayPopHit remember OR know]] it came from that movie) or the first attempt was just [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible horrible]].

** In addition to the official music video for "Physical", an alternate 1980s-inspired workout-themed video was released, similar to that of Music/OliviaNewtonJohn's "[[NamesTheSame Physical]]".

* The first single for Music/PaulaAbdul was actually "The Way That You Love Me". She created a "bare-bones" music video where a group of dancers (and herself) are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5llY1gc9xPc performing in front of the camera]]. The song stalled at #88. After the success of "Straight Up", her first song was re-edited, released as a special single, and a newer more famous video ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqg82l8WniQ featuring very expensive items]]) was shown on MTV. This version went to #1.

** There are 2 music videos for "ON": a pure PerformanceVideo titled "'ON' Kinetic Manifesto Film : Come Prima", and the simply titled "'ON' Official MV", which features a full cinematic story set AfterTheEnd.

** There are two different videos for "Tunnel Of Love". The first features only the three bands members who played on Making Movies (singer/guitarist Mark Knopfler, bassist John Illsley and drummer Pick Withers) and was clearly filmed at the same time they made the videos for "Romeo & Juliet" and "Skateaway". The second features the five-piece touring lineup (the three plus keyboardist Alan Clark and second guitarist Hal Lindes), with the first verse taking place at an amusement park, and the remainder in a canal where the boy and girl are being chased by soldiers.
** The band also made two videos for "Walk of Life", one featuring a busker in the London Underground and one showing sports bloopers. Both are intercut with (different) live footage of the band playing the song.

** "Smooth Criminal" had three different cuts, all of which aired on TV in some form:

** The original David Fincher-directed video for "Who Is It" wasn't aired in the US during its initial release, and was instead replaced by a compilation of footage from Jackson's previous music videos.
** "They Don't Care About Us" has three different versions, all filmed by Creator/SpikeLee: The well-known version that was filmed in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, and a version set inside a prison that was rarely shown on television, but was later included on the compilation ''Michael Jackson's Vision''. The prison version was the first time in Jackson's career that he had filmed two music videos for the same song. In the summer of 2020, in light of the Black Lives Matter protests happening around the world, Lee released a supercut combining both versions of the video, with new footage of the BLM protests that were happening.

** There are two different official music videos for "Bohemian Rhapsody," the original version from 1975 and the ''Film/WaynesWorld'' version from 1992 that splices the original footage together with scenes from the film and other clips from the band's career.
** Two different videos of "Killer Queen" exist. The first, assembled for the ''Queen's Greatest Flix'' home video collection in 1981, plays the song over a photo montage of the band members. The second, which uses footage of the band performing the song on ''Series/TopOfThePops'', was used on later home video collections and is also the version featured on the band's official [=YouTube=] channel.
** At least three different videos of "Under Pressure" have aired at different times. None of the performers appear in the original video, which combines footage of large crowds, riots, and explosions with clips from 1920s silent films. ''Series/TopOfThePops'' later aired a second, censored version of this video in the UK that removed footage of explosions in Northern Ireland. A third version, made for the 1999 "Rah Mix" remix, digitally splices together footage of Freddie Mercury performing the song at Wembley Stadium in 1986 and David Bowie performing it at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992.

* Music/TearsForFears: "Mothers Talk" received three different videos:

* Music/{{Blur}} has two videos for the song "There's No Other Way"; the original features a family (including the band) having dinner, with Albarn occasionally looking towards the camera to sing. The other, the US promo video, features [[PerformanceVideo the band performing the song in an ornate room]], sometimes cutting to band members underwater.

* Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten" consists of two versions. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7k0a5hYnSI North American version]] has her standing in the elevator and observes on several people and during the chorus, she stops over different floors leading to outdoor spaces like a park or children dancing. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFFBSSntZgs International version]] has herself contained inside a book as the book itself climbs up the library ceiling.