Music selction on Orienteering videos

[T5]

With all the O videos currently being produced, does anyone select the tracks based on lyrics? A couple of examples:

Snow Patrol - Set the Fire to the Third Bar:
I find the map and draw a straight line, Over rivers farms and state lines,
The distance from here to where you'd be, It's only finger-lengths that I see....

Keane - Somewhere only we know:
I came across a fallen tree, I felt the branches of it looking at me,
Is this the place we used to love?, Is this the place that I've been dreaming of? (Excellent reference to terrain visualisation!)

Try editing your clips to that!

[Becks]

Edit a clip to Keane? I would rather cut off my own hands.

I liked Rocky's choice of Cake personally, but it'a perhaps a bit easy.

[Nailest]

Perhaps slightly off topic, but I recall one night in the beer tent at the last Scottish a few of us thought it would be a great idea to plan a course where the control descriptions followed the chorus of Nik Kershaw's "The Riddle":

1) Near a tree
2) By a river
3) A hole in the ground

We came slightly unstuck when no-one knew the IOF symbol for "an old man of Arran, going round and around".

Some drink may have been consumed.

[EriOL]

Wire's "Map Ref. 41°N 93°W" is probably the best song ever written about cartography:

An unseen ruler
Defines with geometry
An unrulable
Expanse of geography
An aerial photographer
Over-exposed
To the cartologist's 2D
Images knows
The areas where the water flowed
So petrified the landscape grows

Straining eyes try to understand
The works
Incessantly in hand
The carving and the paring of the land
The quarter-square the graph divides
Beneath the rule a country hides

Chorus, interrupting my train of thought
Lines
Of longitude and latitude
Define, refine
My altitude

The curtain's undrawn
Harness fitted, no escape
Common and peaceful, duck, flat, lowland
Landscape, canal, canard, water coloured

Crystal palaces
For floral kings
A well-known waving
Span of wings
Witness, the sinking of the sun
A deep breath of submission has begun

Interrupting my train of thought
Lines
Of longitude and latitude
Define, refine
My altitude

[Wattok]

Chicken or egg question really...Do you make the video and then pick a tune or do you pick a tune to determine the video?

[rosalind]

Nothing can compete with "move your body round the map" for me.
Quality.

[Wattok]

"move your body round the map"

my personal favourite

[PeterG]

Chicken or egg question really...Do you make the video and then pick a tune or do you pick a tune to determine the video?

You should really be editing the video around the tune so it fits and the scene changes happen in time with the music. However, picking the tune based on the footage you have and the message you want to convey is a good idea.

[Carnage Head]

Morrissey, as always, provides one possibility:

Found found found
Found found found
Someone who's worth it
In this murkiness

(Found found found - Morrissey)