Every so often I hear a song that would be perfect for a trailer in a hypothetical movie that I made up in my mind… Thus, today I share with you some of my favorite tunes I feel have that iconic property suited for a movie trailer. I don’t mean those terrible trailers with that guy doing the voice over saying cheesy shit. I mean the ones that only have music and maybe some dialouge from the movie mixed in. Some of those kick ass roman wreaths from indie fesitivals don’t hurt either. Below are the tracks and the imagery/themes of the non-existent films that go with it. However, feel free to make up your own version. Concordia Discors
The Replacements – Bastards of Young
The generation X anthem, looking back at an awkward time, present day men in gray suits and wives behind white picket fences
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Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through the Grapevine
70’s king of the poolhall story, cigar smoke and slow dancing, downfall
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The Clash – Police and Thieves
Hooligans, an updated Secret Agent by Conrad, town square explosion, chase, underground london scene
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Handsome Furs – Dead + Rural
Various aged drug addicts in a small town, exploring boredom as the heart of the american drug problem, an abandoned jukebox
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Deerhunter – Game of Diamonds
informants, private safe deposit boxes, paranoia amongst the ranks
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VHS or Beta – Alive
Mid-twenties breakdown, airplanes, crowds at nightclubs, opiates & recovery
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The Ramones – Danny Says
The story of CBGB’s, New York City in the wintertime, music defining moments
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Sigur Ros – Hoppipolla
Ballroom dancing, war, bottles thrown, loss, A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
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Sunny Levin – Daylight
Stranger amongst friends, gun in tow on the floor, dancing in an empty apartment, lonely women
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Ricky Nelson – Lonesome Town
Kurosawa’s Rashomon in Texas, empty bars, a female singer, David Lynch
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Duuuuuuude, this is amazing! I always hear songs that I think would be good in some made up movie trailer….but this is beyond anything I could come up with…
seriously!? this is such a great mix of songs and well paired with the cinematic fantasy
ps… nice hieronymus bosch…. geez.
Snow Patrol – Make This Go On Forever
dark rainy night, difficult choices, in the final moment of the trailer someone looks over his shoulder and then the screen fades to black
I think quinten tarentino would be proud!
The song my Sigur Ros is seriously beautiful. I love it!!!
I love this post and your trailer ideas! Here’s mine.
Sunny Levin-Daylight
Set back in the mid 80’s…Middle aged Yuppie driving off in his spotlessly clean volvo little smile on his face, shirt unbuttoned, breeze bllowing in his face… financially set he drives off into the sunset to relocate and follow the love of his life, who accepts him…of course!