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* Enigma, "Return to Innocence"

* Enigma's "Return To Innocence". Done in a way that fits the theme of the song: At the start of the video, an old man peacefully dies under a pear tree, which is the only scene played forwards. After that, the video shows different moments of his life in reverse order as though his life is flashing before his eyes, ending with his being baptized as a baby.

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Most common for videos for singles released after an artist dies, retires, or (in the case of a band) splits up, this simply consists of compilations of clips from previous music videos in the artist or band's career; sometimes they'll throw in some new footage to better stitch the clips together. This is more or less the music video equivalent of a ReallyDeadMontage in most cases.
* Music/DavidBowie had a rare non-death/retirement example in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Up1s8z7jH8 "Fame '90"]], which consists of Bowie singing and dancing while surrounded by looping clips from his many, ''many'' previous music videos. His ''actual'' posthumous music videos ("I Can't Give Everything Away" and "No Plan"), meanwhile, decidedly avert this variation of the trope.
* {{Music/Devo}}'s second [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCJoe_4eYU4 "Post Post-Modern Man"]] video, where clips from almost all their previous videos are incorporated into new footage spoofing the Home Shopping Network. It was their last music video before a temporary breakup, but they weren't officially breaking up ''yet'', and the reliance on old footage was more a result of poorly-timed ExecutiveMeddling; the label insisted a second video be made for a different mix of the song when the band were already busy promoting the album, so they had to use an outside director, Rocky Schenck, instead of Jerry Casale, and could only appear in person for a couple of brief scenes.
* Music/TheHumanLeague's "Love Is All That Matters" became one largely out of necessity. The single was released two years after its parent album, ''Crash'', in order to promote ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Human League Greatest Hits]]'', and by that point Creator/VirginRecords was rapidly losing faith in the band in the wake of ''Crash''[='s=] critical and fan lambasting for its awkward attempt at a NewSoundAlbum. As a result, the video for "love Is All That Matters" was simply stitched together from previous music videos by the band, intercut with animated stills from key moments in said videos.
* Music/MichaelJackson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG08ukJPtR8 "Love Never Felt So Good"]] combines clips from his classic videos with footage of Music/JustinTimberlake and various extras performing the song and imitating the old videos, complete with one guy trying and failing to replicate the "Smooth Criminal" lean.
* Music/{{Nirvana}}'s posthumous 2002 single [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv96yJYhk3M "You Know You're Right"]] is an odd case, using footage from band performances and interviews rather than their earlier music videos; the footage is stitched together in such a way to give the illusion that Kurt Cobain is still alive and performing with his bandmates.
* Played with in the video for Music/ThePolice's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exXDrlI1B8A&feature=emb_title "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86"]], which is primarily a CGI-heavy SurrealMusicVideo but also heavily incorporates clips and imagery from the videos for "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da", "Wrapped Around Your Finger", and the original version of "Don't Stand So Close to Me", plus snippets of concert footage and various visual paraphernalia from the Police's career and Music/{{Sting}}'s then-nascent solo outing. By the time the video released, the Police had functionally dissolved after years of CreativeDifferences hit a tipping point, and "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" ended up being their last official studio release.
* Similarly to the Human League's case, Music/{{Queen}}'s music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4 "The Show Must Go On"]] had one of these videos partly out of necessity, as by the time the song was released as a single, Music/FreddieMercury's AIDS had progressed to such an extent that he was no longer physically capable of appearing on-camera. Additionally, the release date for ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Greatest Hits II]]'', which covered the band's hit singles since 1981, was rapidly approaching. These two factors motivated the band to make the music video for "The Show Must Go On" a compilation of their other videos from the 1981-1991 period.
* Music/TalkingHeads' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ3XE84bw6k "Lifetime Piling Up"]] (released a year after the band split up) is a mostly vanilla example in its execution, but occasionally blends elements of earlier videos together, such as making David Byrne from the "Road to Nowhere" video run though the surreal landscape in "And She Was".
* While not a traditional music video, one of the montages in the Music/YellowMagicOrchestra video album ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYw23h7ekjA Hi-Tech/Video Crime]]'' (a companion piece to the RemixAlbum ''Hi-Tech/No Crime (Yellow Magic Orchestra Reconstructed)'') incorporates modified clips from the minute amount of music videos that the band made during their lifetime (itself partly the result of the band's US distributors having dropped them before Creator/{{MTV}} really came about), featuring alterations in color grading, framerate, length, and even ChromaKey effects.
* Music/CheapTrick's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URQwFvvSfCk If You Need Me]]" mixes original footage of the band sitting by a television set with clips of the other videos shown on the set.
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* Julian Lennon's "Valotte" and "Too Late for Goodbyes." Not only were they essentially the same video with minor variations, they were released one after the other, and they were both directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah (his final works, [[AuthorExistenceFailure as it turned out]]).

** Had child molestation accusations not derailed it, Music/MichaelJackson would have done a similar video for the sequel ''Addams Family Values'' ("Is It Scary") in which he would be aided by Wednesday and Pugsley in confronting a mob accusing him of being a freak. He later revived the project as ''[[Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts Ghosts]]'' in 1997, but dropped the Addams trappings.

* The Foo Fighters video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=161&v=eBG7P-K-r1Y "Everlong"]] recreates ''Film/TheEvilDead1981''.

* Fittingly: Wang Chung, "Dance Hall Days"

* Music/{{Queen}}'s music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4 "The Show Must Go On"]] had one of these videos partly out of necessity, as by the time the song was released as a single, Music/FreddieMercury's AIDS had progressed to such an extent that he was no longer physically capable of appearing on-camera. Additionally, the release date for ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Greatest Hits II]]'', which covered the band's hit singles since 1981, was rapidly approaching. These two factors motivated the band to make the music video for "The Show Must Go On" a compilation of their other videos from the 1981-1991 period.

* Music/FooFighters, "Big Me", from ''Music/FooFightersAlbum''

* Music/MichaelJackson, "Black or White", a very LighterAndSofter version featuring Creator/MacaulayCulkin

* Self, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXy_wxgIe7A Could You Love Me Now]]

* Music/TheHappyFits did this with the video for [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z75y_UNSGxk “Go Dumb”]]

* Played with in the video for Music/ThePolice's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exXDrlI1B8A&feature=emb_title "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86"]], which is primarily a CGI-heavy SurrealMusicVideo but also heavily incorporates clips and imagery from the videos for "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da", "Wrapped Around Your Finger", and the original version of "Don't Stand So Close to Me", plus various visual paraphernalia from the Police's career and Music/{{Sting}}'s then-nascent solo outing. By the time the video released, the Police had functionally dissolved after years of CreativeDifferences hit a tipping point, and "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" ended up being their last official studio release.

* Alt-J, "Breezeblocks"

* Music/LisaHannigan does much the same thing as Pharcyde for her song "Undertow" (i.e. lip-synching backwards while getting water dumped on her in reverse).

* Since the "Lost In The Woods" sequence from ''Disney/Frozen2'' was styled after music videos to begin with, the video for {{Music/Weezer}}'s cover of it for the soundtrack album mainly replicates it in live action on a set made to look like a forest: Weezer's singer, Rivers Cuomo, plays Kristoff and Creator/KristenBell has a few cameos as Anna.