Where is this? Does it exist at all?

         

didn't realise he'd done a version. I know he shot (or half shot) a Richard Ashcroft video which was canned after Richard walked off set on the second day of the shoot (or so I was told).

Actually, not a bad thread to start. Canned videos, anyone?

         

Does video canning happen a lot then? I don't think i've ever heard of potentially exciting ones getting called off

         

I guess the canned Ashcroft video is "Money to Burn" subsequently done by Robert Hales.

         

sophie muller had a blur vid canned- a really expensive one too...so did john hardwick for blur's "crazy beat"....and ringan ledwidge had a Travis vid canned for "Re-Offender", that was re-shot by Anton Corbin...

         

This happens quite a bit, no? At least in the 90's. 30f probably knows of a few. I never knew where Alex at mvdbase got that Cosmic Girl listing.

I can remember Kelis "Milkshake" v1 from Paul Hunter was never aired. Mvdbase has a good amount of 'em.

         

That mvdbase list has lots of them I have never knew about. For example I never heard of Paul shooting a version of "Milkshake" but I do know that Lil X shot a version of "Trick Me" - her single after "Milkshake" - that never really went anywhere. It is on X's site and I think it is pretty good but I don't believe it was "canned."

That is a good question - what qualifies as canned or unreleased since sometimes clips just end up getting zero support and (these days) they eventually kind of leak out on the net. Are those videos "canned" or simply "neglected"? The cause is often something NOT related to the clip at all like if radio sours on the song or the label changes their strategy or whatever. Dave Meyers did a Janet video a few years back that was crazy expensive and got shelved when the label did not like the early reviews the track was getting. This is the clip for "Just a Little While" here.

Some clips, however, are clearly "canned" like the first version of the Pharrell video I wrote about before.

I am not a very good "exhaustive list" person but one clip that I remember seeing get killed was LaChapelle's video for Enrique Iglesias's "Sad Eyes". The cut I saw was an Avid output (back when those were a much lower quality) and it was crazy with crying fans, tons of sweaty skin, a bordello vibe and Enrique laying on his back so that an enormous brass pole emerging from his sheet covered crotch like a enormous cock. Then, sliding into frame is a stripper, coming down the crotch/pole onto Enrique's Vaseline covered body. A bad kind of sexy all around. It made everyone who saw it laugh. The label tried to position it that the clip was "too hot for American TV" but I believe that was a smokescreen to hide their embarrassment over how cringe-worthy (and canned) the clip was. The fact that I could not find it on-line makes me think NOBODY wants it seen.

         

that sounds really odd 30f, because Little X's orange kelis video was huge in europe, at least in germany.

also im pretty sure ive caught the janet jackson video on tv as well.

         

I guess that is the point, but I was forgetting about markets outside the US. Something that we never see here in the states might have a huge life overseas. One nation's "canned" or "forgotten" clip is another nation's hit. Did you guys ever get that wacky Enrique video?

         

Vem's video for Daniel Powter's "Jimmy Gets High" didn't get much or any airplay. Saw it on youtube once and that was it. I might be wrong, but didn't they have Marc Webb shoot a different version? (I think after Marc did "Bad Day" video)

         

never seen the iglesias one here. germany is big on that kind of stuff, but there still are boundaries.

         

yeah the little x directed "trick me" was only released in europe because she's huge there....in north america, her albums dont sell too well. i really liked that video...the vibrant oranges, th choreography and the arrows which pointed every way...

X does have videos that never seen the light. He did one for tweet "smoking cigarettes" as well one for kardinal offishall "bellydancer"

         

i would love to see Glazer's version of Cosmic girl. i think im the biggest jamiroquai fan ever.

         

Liam Lynch did a version of Foo Fighters "Times Like These" that was canned as Dave hated it.

         

lots of videos get canned at offline and some of them are really pretty good - check out alex and lianne's take on bloc party's banquet on their myspazz...

         

Radiohead "Let down" Dir: Simon Hilton - that song was many people's favorite on OK Computer and I was always curious to see what the video was. I imagined it was cliched 90s crap but who knows.