The crisis? Ending the trailer on a happy note. The solution?

July 21, 2005 5:15 PM

What's the jaunty song in this trailer that kicks in right around when Bob says "I've been shot down, bloodied, accused, threatened, disgraced, betrayed"?
posted by Bezbozhnik to media & arts (16 comments total)

I don't know, but looking at the soundtrack listing of the movie on IMDB, the first three songs appear to be songs that could qualify. Just a guess...hopefully someone else can help.
posted by apple scruff at 5:31 PM on July 21, 2005

Yeah, you can listen to the whole soundtrack here, but unfortunately the song in question is not on it (nor does it appear in the movie).
posted by Bezbozhnik at 5:43 PM on July 21, 2005

Preview-music often has nothing to do with the actual movie, so I doubt you'd have much luck with that route anyway...

This sounds really familiar for some reason, but I can't put my finger on it...
posted by hototogisu at 5:54 PM on July 21, 2005

I believe it's Billy Preston's Outta Space.
posted by rodz at 6:09 PM on July 21, 2005

The place I usually go for trailer music, SoundtrackNet, is coming up with zilch.
Just a warning: you may be chasing after music that was created exclusively for the trailer. Still, it sounds a bit like a remix/cover a Moby song...
posted by blueneurosis at 6:19 PM on July 21, 2005

By the way, that movie rocked.
posted by cyphill at 6:22 PM on July 21, 2005

The book resurrected the man and reconstructed the myth: "I've been shot down, bloodied, trampled, accused, disgraced, threatened, betrayed, scandalized, maligned," he wrote toward its exhausted conclusion. "Tough? Sure, but I ain't complainin'! Nothin' comes easy...Imperfect? Very! Do I like myself? Finally! Do my detractors bother me? Hell no! It's their problem, I ain't gonna change. Resolve: Fuck 'em, fuck 'em all."

I think it's entirely possible that these were incorporated into a song after the fact (and it sounds familiar to me as well), but I'm pretty sure that he wrote them for his book originally.
posted by psmealey at 6:24 PM on July 21, 2005

psmealey, I don't think anyone thinks that those words were part of the song; I assume they are just a sound clip from the movie played over the background music.
posted by apple scruff at 7:08 PM on July 21, 2005

I'm sure that's not Outa-Space at the end there. I think that hototogisu is probably right and it's stock music that the trailer editor just used in the ad.
posted by britain at 8:31 PM on July 21, 2005

The stock-music thing makes me kind of sad...I keep hearing Dead Can Dance's "Host of Seraphim" of late, a song I love--the only problem is that it usually means the movie is a bag of shit. :-/
posted by hototogisu at 9:12 PM on July 21, 2005

Yeah, I was kinda worried that it was stock music as well, though I've never heard it before or since. Sigh.
posted by Bezbozhnik at 9:16 PM on July 21, 2005

Gotcha. Totally misunderstood the question then, my bad.
posted by psmealey at 10:05 PM on July 21, 2005

I think it's the instrumental track for U2's 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".

Really - listen for the Edge's distinctive rhythm guitar riff.
posted by DandyRandy at 10:05 PM on July 21, 2005

it's not u2 ... but it's a recording arranged to sound very similar to that song ... my guess it would have been done like that for the trailer
posted by pyramid termite at 10:49 PM on July 21, 2005

My first thought was "In The Name of Love."
posted by sourwookie at 5:10 AM on July 22, 2005

I gotta get my hearing checked because, to me, it sounded like Tom Petty's "The Waiting is the Hardest Part". The instrumental part.
posted by ColdChef at 7:57 AM on July 22, 2005