{"id":641,"date":"2007-06-13T22:49:34","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T02:49:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-14T08:43:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T08:43:35","slug":"the-song-that-makes-the-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-song-that-makes-the-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Song That Makes The Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know songs that become almost intractably linked with their use in cinema: \u201cLayla\u201d in <i>GoodFellas<\/i>, \u201cSister Christian\u201d in <i>Boogie Nights<\/i>. Like that.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also been fascinated by songs that seemingly become <em>de rigueur<\/em> in trailers. I have trouble hearing The Jackson 5\u2019s \u201cI Want You Back\u201d or <strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cLet My Love Open the Door\u201d without thinking, <i>\u201cTouchstone Pictures proudly presents! Julia Roberts\/Drew Barrymore\/Kate Hudson!\u201d<\/i> (The A.V. Club also recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/node\/62733\/3\">commented<\/a> on this trend.)<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not what I want to talk about today. Lately, I\u2019ve been obsessed with the song <b>\u201cTrouble with Dreams\u201d by Eels<\/b>. I became acquainted with this song through the trailer to one of my favorite films of late, Harold Ramis\u2019 <i>The Ice Harvest<\/i>. Watch it below; the Eels song begins at the 1:36 mark.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3c79x6Et87E?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Note that this song does not appear in the film <i>The Ice Harvest<\/i>. (It is, however, on the soundtrack CD.) Nevertheless, one of the key appeals this song holds for me is that captures the film so well, with its holiday-spirited fatalism. In a weird plot twist, the full song might even capture the film better than the trailer, which emphasizes the wacky caper aspects.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, this isn\u2019t the first time the trailer-song has found itself elevated somehow. The trailer for <i>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/i> featured \u201cMr. Blue Sky\u201d and probably went some way towards recent re-appreciation of <strong>Jeff Lynne<\/strong> (to Epluribus\u2019 delight, no doubt). And again, that song appeared in the trailer and the soundtrack but not the actual film. But many people &#8212; certainly many of us who are part of the RTH universe &#8212; were already well-acquainted with &#8220;Mr. Blue Sky&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This Eels song is a bit more obscure. I realize it may not appeal to everyone, certainly not if you have an aversion to the <strong>Jon Brion School of Pop Production<\/strong>. But it\u2019s too late for me. As far as I\u2019m concerned, <i>The Ice Harvest<\/i> begat \u201cTrouble with Dreams\u201d; the two are forever linked and I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0lzk-U2gxII?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know songs that become almost intractably linked with their use in cinema: \u201cLayla\u201d in GoodFellas, \u201cSister Christian\u201d in Boogie Nights. Like that. I\u2019m also been fascinated by songs that seemingly become de rigueur in trailers. I have trouble hearing The Jackson 5\u2019s \u201cI Want You Back\u201d or Pete Townshend\u2019s \u201cLet My Love Open <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-song-that-makes-the-trailer\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}