The return of Stockholm Syndrone! With a slight Halloween tie-in!
The three year old and I have been hitting the Trolls soundtrack pretty hard in the car lately. If she gets her way, we start with “CAN’T STOP THE FEELING!” (Their caps, not mine. And I’m not linking to it. I can’t risk the YouTube video playing before I can click pause.) If I get my way, we start with “Hair Up,” which is made more bearable by the fact that it incorporates the melody of “In The Hall Of The Mountain King,” the highly recognizable Edvard Grieg composition.
You’ve heard it, I swear. It’s used in all sorts of movies and songs, and I found a dynamite orchestral version on an album called Fright Night: Music that Goes Bump in the Night earlier today, so technically it qualifies as Halloween music?
Here’s my favorite version — the one from the soundtrack for The Social Network. Happy Halloween!
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross — “In the Hall of the Mountain King” [Spotify/iTunes]
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Social Network version is pretty cool. I remember my brothers and I would listen/act out a symphonic version of Mountain King as kids, getting progressively wilder with the crescendo of the music (we did the same with the 1812 Overture when the canons started firing – god we were weird kids). Nice call with the Trolls soundtrack – definitely good kid-communing tunes.