History Main / PerformanceVideo

* Music/SystemOfADown - "War?", "Chop Suey!", "Hypnotize". Although "War?" and "Hypnotize" were shot during actual concert performances, "Chop Suey!" had a crowd just for the music video but I think they did put on show for the gathering of fans afterwords.

* Music/SetItOff: The music video for "The Haunting" is mostly the band performing on a stage, including scenes of the audience members singing parts of the song.

* The Strokes - "Last Nite"

* Music/Alestorm has some of these, including [[DressRehearsalVideo studio videos]] for ''F*cked With An Anchor'' and ''Pirate Metal Drinking Crew'', and footage of concerts (with bonus footage of travel and doing things) for their cover of Music/TheVillagePeople's ''In The Navy''.

Videos consisting largely of the band performing their song, either in front of an audience [[DressRehearsalVideo or not]]. The band may be miming playing their instruments and lip syncing, as the music is typically recorded and edited in a studio. The exception is live concert videos (e.g. Woodstock performances). Sometimes overlaps with the VideoFullOfFilmClips. The non-playing parts of the video may illustrate some of the narrative from the song using actors.

Band performance videos was the way most music videos were done until Music/{{Duran Duran}} and Music/MichaelJackson hit the scene, and videos transformed into short films.

** "Electric Flower" is an AnimatedMusicVideo where the band and the audience are depicted as kitschy toys and trinkets, and the venue is a giant living room. As a nod to Buzz's trademark WildHair, the whole band are basically troll dolls.

* Glassjaw - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcK900dGiHM "Stars,"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAt4ArQ8Y3U&feature=related "Jesus Glue,"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de1yuDkNMj4&feature=related "All Good Junkies Go To Heaven"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IHPp0HsQSI "You Think You're (John Fucking Lennon)."]] All of them filmed in a one-take [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95 Dogme 95]] style.

* Glassjaw - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcK900dGiHM "Stars,"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAt4ArQ8Y3U&feature=related "Jesus Glue"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de1yuDkNMj4&feature=related "All Good Junkies Go To Heaven"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IHPp0HsQSI "You Think You're (John Fucking Lennon)."]] All of them filmed in a one-take [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95 Dogme 95]] style.

Videos consisting largely of the band performing their song, either in front of an audience [[DressRehearsalVideo or not]]. Can sometimes overlap with the VideoFullOfFilmClips.

This was the way most music videos were done until Music/{{Duran Duran}} and Music/MichaelJackson hit the scene.

* {{Music/Placebo}}'s "Every You Every Me" uses live performance footage, but does some interesting things with split screen effects at certain points - for instance ,at the very start of the video, identical shots of Stefan Olsdal playing guitar are synchronized to switch back and forth between being a still image and being in motion, giving the impression of two Stefans each playing half of the main riff.

* {{Music/Placebo}}'s "Every You Every Me" uses live performance footage, but does some interesting things with split screen effects- for instance at the very start of the video, two identical shots of Stefan Olsdal are synchronized so that it appears that the two copies of Stefan are each playing half of the main guitar riff.

* The vast majority of Music/{{Journey}}'s videos were this. They tried to do stylized choreographed videos for the songs "Separate Ways" and "Chain Reaction", but those [[SoBadItsGood didn't work out so well]].

* Most Hall & Oates videos from the 80's; notable examples include "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)", "Private Eyes" and "You Make My Dreams".

* Sleater-Kinney's "You're No Rock And Roll Fun" is a pretty straight version: The majority of the video is the band playing in a white room, with some variations such as cutting to footage of band members on their own over different backgrounds. There's a couple of bits that deliberately reveal that they're on a soundstage - during Carrie Brownstein's solo the camera rotates around her, at one point clearly showing the crew looking on in front of her, and at the end of the video it's revealed that a crew member was kneeling beside her and rotating a platform she was standing on to help achieve that same effect.

* The Knack's "My Sharona".

* Music/CocteauTwins' "Carolyn's Fingers" is mainly shots of Elizabeth Fraser singing, Robin Guthrie playing guitar, and Simon Raymonde playing bass, usually filmed separately. Occasionally, a reel-to-reel tape player is shown - the band largely used looped drum machines rather than a conventional drummer, so the video was basically depicting the machine as a fourth member of the band.

* {{Music/Placebo}}'s "Every You Every Me" uses live performances footage, but does some interesting things with split screen effects- for instance at the very start of the video, two identical shots of Stefan Olsdal are synchronized so that it appears that the two copies of Stefan are each playing half of the main guitar riff.

* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'' had a video like this for "Ever Lovely", Lovelin's ImageSong.

** [[TooSoon Because of its (supposed) similarities to 9/11]], "Prayer" was considered for this by the label instead of the expensive video they shot. The band insisted the video's content was required to convey the song's message, and it was ultimately released unedited on the album as a DVD-Audio CD.