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** And Phil Collins did a '''Concept Video''' for "Don't You Lose My Number", in which potential directors keep proposing increasingly-trite Concepts for his next video.
** The video for Christine McVie's "Love Will Show Us How" is also about the making of a music video for the song. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* Battlelore's entire videography. It's not hard to imagine that if they had the time and budget, they would just make a [[The Lord of the Rings]] [[Fanfic]] film with their music as the soundtrack.
* Country queen [[Reba McEntire]] is famous for these - her music videos nearly always tell a cohesive story. Her breakthrough hit, "Whoever's in New England," was her first single to get a music video, and she's stuck with the same concept ever since.
* [[Electric Six]] are good at making bizarre but cohesive music videos with a concept. Although not always linear, they match the song enough to usually qualify as a [[Department of Redundancy Department|non-non-sequitor]]. For one of their albums they even decided to try to make a music video for every single song and ''almost'' managed to.
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* Do Not Forsake Me oh My Darling's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbUhmwSObto "Episode 1: Arrival" video] is a shot-for-shot remake of the title sequence to [[The Prisoner]], with drummer\vocalist Sophia Cacciola as the title character and bassist Michael Epstein playing everyone else. The band even uploaded a version that has the actual ''Prisoner'' title sequence [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KcWB4B_nBM playing out in one corner of the screen], so you can see just how much detail was put into the recreation.
* The video for [[Pavement]]'s "Painted Soldiers" combines a little performance footage (actually just Scott Kannberg recording guitar and vocals in a studio) with a plot about the members of the band getting word of being fired, one by one... {{spoiler|At the very end, it turns out they've all been replaced with members of [[Veruca Salt]], who mime to the song in a video-within-a-video. [[What Could Have Been|The original concept]] had them all replaced by [[Weezer]] instead, by the way).}}
* [[Depeche Mode]]'s videos started pretty badly, [[The Nineties|until]] [[Anton Corbijn]] introduced a more concept-driven impetus "([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSKrC7dGcY Enjoy the Silence]" probably the most iconic from his era.)
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f0zHgs0GpI Useless]" looks like anormal just-the-band-playing video, [[Subverted Trope|until you reach the end]].
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K65PQiFfsrU Home]'s vouyeristic alien.
** More recently you've had the horror-thriller ("[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvfcnpJRf0Q&ob Wrong]"), the drama "([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnHLJK_4Q8U&ob Peace]") and the classical witch-hunt ("[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xLvArgSp3k Personal Jesus - Stargate Mix]").
* Several of [[Panic! at
* Stabbing Westward's "Shame" alternates footage of the band playing in a rehearsal space with subtitled scenes of a woman trying to escape her psychotic stalker ex-boyfriend (fitting it's [[Obsession Song]] lyrics). Despite some horrific content, the ending is actually pretty humorous - throughout the rehearsal space scenes, band members keep secretly mouthing things and gesturing to each other, then leaving the room, eventually leaving lead singer Christopher Hall to play the song by himself... {{spoiler|It turns out all the stalker scenes were a [[Show Within a Show|movie-within-a-music-video]], which everyone in the band decided to sneak out of rehearsal to watch in the theater.}}
* [[BTS (band)|BTS]] has a fondness for these.
** The "BU" universe mostly consist on a series of MVs, VCRs and promotional short films that tell the story of a group of school friends whose lives go to hell after an unspecified incident caused the separation of the group. It's understood that the most visually "realistic" ones (like the ''Love Yourself'' Highlight Reels and the MVs for "I Need U", "Run" and "Euphoria") tell the actual events (or at least [[Unreliable Narrator|how the protagonists remembers them]]) while the most surreal ones (like the short films for ''Wings'' and the MVs for "Blood Sweat & Tears", "Fake Love" and "Epiphany") portray their respective mental spaces and psychological hang ups.
** Outside of the BU, there are the comeback trailers for all of their albums since ''O?RUL82!'' (with extra honor for the ones for their ''Map of the Soul'' era), and the official MVs for "N.O.", "Boy in Luv", "Spring Day", "Make it Right" and "ON"
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