TL;DR
I gave up making a Shenmue video, help me pick better music than this.
I certainly won't take offence if you hated it. At the very least you get to see Shenmue in HD!
I was making space on my hard drive when I remembered that I had over 100GB of Shenmue footage lying around, I meant to get around to making a Shenmue AMV (GMV I guess?) sometime ago but had gotten side-tracked fairly early on.
I decided to delete the footage for now and render the short amount of video that I edited but ultimately never wanted to complete. I've always found it hard to enjoy Shenmue music videos fully because the accompanied music isn't very suitable or relevent to the game. There have been some good efforts in the past certainly but it's not like there's many albums out there inspired by the stuff in Shenmue.
I put that aside and spent some time watching AMV, two of my favourites (this and this) featured the same song. I decided to use the same track when I started editing but in the end found that what I was producing was just too similar to the source material. It's like I was sort of trapped into doing something the same way or something.
Anyway, I completed more of it but this render features the first 30 seconds that I was reasonably happy with, if you check out the song and have some imagination you'll probably be able to match up what scenes I was going to use in what order - there's a bit in the track with laughing which just screamed out to have a shot of Yuan!
Although all my captured footage is now deleted I will return to this project at some point, in the meantime I'd appreciate suggestions on any music that you've heard that somehow makes you think about Shenmue.