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Music Trivia: Songs with multiple music videos?

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Normally I'd google something like this, but it doesn't seem to be a subject I can track down much discussion about. So now I'm taking it to GAF.

Recently I had a discussion with a buddy about music videos, which ones we liked and disliked. I'm not much into music these days, but way back in the distant past (the 80's and 90's) I would consume a ton of music videos. One point we touched on was songs that had multiple videos, and that got me to thinking long after the conversation.

Anybody know if there were singles that had multiple music videos? Not covers or live versions, and no fan videos (those are whole other threads); one version of the song with more than one distinct music video.

The only one I can remember - I am so dating myself here - is Bodyrock by Moby; which had three different music videos:

Auditions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hfQ5uIKrlw

UK Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe_PbWFAzZQ

Sunglasses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwG49y-RMe4

I'm guessing there's a song out there that can beat three music videos. But I'm bad at music and don't know.
 
The one that comes to mind is Rihanna's Work. It's NSFW.

Second half has the second video, and it has nipples. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
 
Definitely dating myself here, but I remember Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood having 3 videos. The one that was banned, one with laser beams and another with them in concert.
 
Appreciate the replies everyone, it'll give me something to research when I'm stuck at work one day.

So far it looks like the magic number is three.

XANDER CAGE said:
Kanye West's Flashing Lights has... three, I think? All of them are pretty good in their own way, too.
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Wikipedia said:
Following the releases, West clarified on his blog he did not release the two videos. He had produced more than one version of the same video as is common practice and only selected the one he was the happiest with; the rest were leaked.
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Interesting - one official, two leaked.

DrForester said:
One of the most famous music videos was actually v 2.0.
Original Take On Me video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keOvm0wl1qI
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Yeah, can't say I'm a fan of that version.
 
U2 had 2 videos for "One", the buffalo one, and the more popular one, with the band in makeup on a couch.

I'm pretty sure there were 2 videos for Temple of the Dog's Hunger Strike. The first one had scenes of maggots mixed in, but they recut the video, and re-released it after Pearl Jam hit it big.

There was a different video for Wicked Game, with clips from Wild At Heart, before they released the one with Helena Christiansen, and all the sand
 
umop_3pisdn said:
Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights had two videos, English and American. I think I prefer the latter.
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No way, it's gotta be the earlier one where she does her Rennaisance Faire balet thing among smoke in a dark room. If you're going to go Bush, go full Bush. Especially after Jim has been slipping in similar clips of her into The Jimquisition to foil ContentId.

Can't search for the links now, but I immediately thought of "Take On Me" by a-ha. We all know the famous comic book rotoscoped version. But there's an earlier super cheap version for an earlier version of the same song.

Oh, and also One by U2 has two videos. One is a closeup of Bono singing in, I believe, a pub. The other is a loop of a black and white clip of an animal running (a buffalo??)

Edit: damnit, beaten on both! You all are too quick.

Second Edit: no one mentioned Runaway Train by Soul Asylum. You have the famous one with the PSA for missing kids, and another version with only the band. Similar situation for Jeremy by Pearl Jam too.
 
Nirvana.

They have two cuts of Heart-Shaped Box. Right now I'm trying to think if there was a third cut that simply was never officially put out or not. Doesn't matter though. Two legit cuts are out there.

In Bloom had at least 3 different cuts. One was for the single release pre-Nevermind with Chad Channing still on drums. Then the next versions were post Nevermind with the band doing their impression of a 50s on TV performance. The two versions I want to say are once where the band stays in character the whole time and the other one has cuts with Nirvana doing Nirvana things (aka smashing shit up).

The little details are escaping me but if you look into it you'll find it all.

EDIT: zerotol explained it well with the In Bloom videos
 
Weezer has two videos for Island In The Sun after Mikey no-showed during the first shoot. The second one has their current bassist.

On mobile so I can't post them at the moment.
 
ElectricBlanketFire said:
Weezer has two videos for Island In The Sun after Mikey no-showed during the first shoot. The second one has their current bassist.

On mobile so I can't post them at the moment.
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Is it not the other way around? The video where they are playing at a latin wedding is with the bass player who would eventually leave during Green tour? And the one with the animals was done to replace that video since he was no longer in the band?
 
Frankie Goes to Hollywood had 3 for Relax.
Gay Club which got banned, alternate to replace the banned one, one that was a "Live" type performance where women would rush on stage and get escorted off, . And another one from Body Double.

T'Pau had two for Heart & Soul, the second had them in front of the first video

Johnny Hates Jazz had two videos for Shattered Dreams, one UK, one US
 
JinjoUnchained said:
No way, it's gotta be the earlier one where she does her Rennaisance Faire balet thing among smoke in a dark room. If you're going to go Bush, go full Bush. Especially after Jim has been slipping in similar clips of her into The Jimquisition to foil ContentId.
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You're right! I don't know what I was thinking, I think I hadn't seen the English one in a while.
 
I think green day had two different videos for when I come around. They had the normal video and the other one was Woodstock 1994 video.
 
Nine Inch Nails has the released performance version of the March of the Pigs video. There's also an unreleased version, parts of which can be seen on the bootleg Closure DVD, of the band performing in the belly of... something, with a midget running around.

Faith No More's From Out of Nowhere also has 2 different versions. The less common version features more shots of Mike Patton strutting around frenetically.
 
Here's one I completely forgot despite being one of my favorite songs.

Thunderdome by Messiah. They were a 90s "rave" group that used a lot of samples and had something of a cyberpunk theme

The first video, which I had seen before, is fairly normal and seemingly features supposedly computer generated women singing the chorus.


The second one (Very much NSFW!), which in retrospect is probably the original, is similar but very different. It starts off as something of an underground broadcast, a video some someone physically doing something to a satellite dish. It has a similar cyberspace them, but the women are generated for cybersex. While they aren't naked, there are clips from some Japanese hentail and some western porn, so it's very much X-rated. It then ends with the two people messing with the satellite dish getting killed by police and then finally a weird sample from a philosopher (or crazy person).
 
Beck's "The Information" deluxe edition came with a DVD that had videos for each song; these are kind of goofy homemade artsy things; some of the songs later got "real" music videos.
 
The Cardigans - Lovefool had 2 different ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI6aOFI7hms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8dXPfM16vw


And their music video for My Favorite Game had 5 different endings if that counts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Favourite_Game#Music_video

There are five different outcomes of the car crash at the end of the uncensored video. In ending one, Persson's body goes flying into the air and over the van roof where she is then depicted as being dead on the road. In ending two, she also flies over the van roof, except she tries to pick herself off the ground but is knocked out by the rock that was used to keep the car pedal down, cartoonishly. In ending three, she also flies over the van roof except she manages to pick herself up from the ground and walks away from the accident, and wipes the blood away from her face (this version is censored). In ending four, Persson is depicted being decapitated by the top of her car windscreen and a mannequin head is seen in the next shot, rolling along the road. In ending five, it is censored all out, along with the car crashes, and Nina still is in the car, bloodless, driving and nodding along to the radio.
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Aerosmith - What it Takes

Chris Isaak - Wicked Games

Whitesnake had different versions of their videos for their toned down soft rock version radio edits.

Wasn't uncommon in the 80s to redo a video if the band was going to get big.
 
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