Haha, doubt they'll use an NIN track in a trailer again. It'd kinda have to be early NIN timeline wise if this is all pre-99, and that shiz be
daaaaark and not a whole lot of "yay, new Marvel movie!" fun. "We're In This Together Now" from Avengers is one of the few promo-friendly Trent tracks, and that post-dates the setting here by a little bit anyway.
Had totally forgotten they used "Love Is Not Enough" from 2005 in the Guardians trailer though.
Coolness.
Silver, grunge was pretty big everywhere between like '91 and '94 until Cobain pulled his little daughter-abandoning trick. From what I know you guys really, really digged your Pearl Jam, and had all that Silverchair shiz everywhere a couple years after grunge was already beginning to die out. Nirvana headlined your first giant modern music festival thing too from memory.
Not that NIN's exactly "grunge", but still. Same era, and all the depressing music of the time got lumped into together among the parental types.
I was thinking the other day, Smashing Pumpkins maybe? Sort of '93-'98 in their prime, same wheelhouse as someone who'd listen to both G'N'R & Nine Inch Nails.
"Bullet With Butterfly Wings" is way too obvious & overexposed, used in everything (from memory wasn't there some alternate version of it in the Rampage trailer recently?), but I could really get on board with something off of Gish or Siamese Dream here. "Rhinocerous" from Gish for something softer/more introspective & relaxing & mellow maybe, Carol in some downtime or taking a walk clearing her head on base or whatever:
Or "Siva" or "I Am One" off the same album for something more of a wall-of-guitar rockin' out thing:
Eeee, that bass tone too. Darcy was one rad female bass player. 3:15 in, yeaahhhh!
Siamese Dream's probably the other big iconic cultural one, before they got a little darker & depressing with the following albums. "Soma" would be another cool option for something softer & dreamlike/flying, would be pretty trippy hearing something like this in her first flying-out-into-space-all-alone-not-even-in-a-damn-spaceship sequence.
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream - Soma
"Geek U.S.A." would be pretty great, bright & fun & upbeat type of thing. Those crazy drums from Jimmy, and Billy's weird unique nasal voice.
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream - Geek U.S.A.
"Rocket" could also be really, really sweet
The Smashing Pumpkins - Rocket
Plenty of great options with the Pumpkins, they just scream "90s rock" to me maybe more than any other. Miss this type of stuff, and Butch Vig as producer, that "big" guitar sound just isn't around anymre.