Whose City Is It Anyway?

Most people know by now that the nifty songs they play during movie trailers very often turn out to not be on the soundtrack, let alone in the movie. We all remember the cool piece in the Two Towers trailer right? (it was the Requiem for a Dream music). As much as I hate this, I hate it even more when a special piece is created for a trailer and not obtainable anywhere. Case in point, the trailer song from Sin City. You'll find it nowhere in the movie and not in the soundtrack at all. And yet, if you know anything about Sin City, you know that that music is a strong identifier of the movie. They even play it on the menu screen of the DVD. Of course, the song was recorded independently of Sin City. It's a song called "Cells" and perfomed by a group called The Servant. Problem is, the song is not as it appeared in the trailer...there are lyrics...lyrics that have nothing to do with Sin City. Apparently, somebody commissioned an instrumental-only version for the Sin City theme song and decided to not make it available publically. As if this wasn't bad enough, it gets worse. Take a visit to the theater and see Transporter 2. Towards the end of the movie, out of nowhere, they start playing the song. My heart nearly arrested - here was the instrumental Sin City theme song in another movie! This is unacceptable. There should be a law against re-using unique songs in other movies (i.e., Van Wilder also fades to credits with "Orange County" which was originally the fade out song from the movie, yes, Orange County). Still, I thought there'd be an upside and that this would mean you could get the song from the Transporter 2 soundtrack. Well, you can't. Like some kind of sick joke, the soundtrack has the song, but in its original form (with lyrics) even though this form is NEVER played in ANY movie. Somebody needs to pay for this. Anonymous tips welcomed. In the meantime, if you want the song, the version with lyrics is still pretty good. You'll have to fish on the web for it though - the Transporter 2 soundtrack doesn't exist in the US (try looking up "Le Transporteur 2" in iTunes). Don't even get me started on this though. If I keep digging I may just have to be institutionalized.