Hasbro Studios Presents 80s TV Classics: Music From The Transformers

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Hasbro Studios Presents 80s TV Classics: Music From The Transformers is an official LP release of the score and background music of the Generation 1 cartoon, as composed by Robert J. Walsh, Johnny Douglas, Anne Bryant, and Ford Kinder.

The album was released in March 2018 by Enjoy The Ride Records. For initial release, the records were pressed in either Optimus Prime red or Megatron grey, with Bumblebee yellow available as a store exclusive. With a limited run of only 2,000 pieces, these first versions quickly sold out, so in July 2018 subsequent printings were made available in Optimus Prime, Megatron, or Starscream themed "split" deco; those reprints lasted longer, finally selling out in late 2021.

Edits and omissions

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As this was the first official release of the Generation 1 cartoon soundtrack, it attracted considerable fan interest — though since those same fans had been cataloguing that soundtrack for nearly 35 years, it wasn't long before they noticed some unusual recording artifacts and time-saving decisions that Hasbro had made with the release.

  • The first track is, naturally, the original theme song — but it's not a broadcast version. The singers' voices (presumably Ford Kinder and Anne Bryant) are more distinct, lacking almost all "robotic" flanging effects except for a single "robots in disguise". It also lacks the "transformation noise", which in broadcast played after most instances of the lyrics "the Transformers" and may have been created as a part of the song rather than a sound effect per se (see Transformation#The noise).<ref>The Hasbro Studios Presents 80s TV Classics: Music From The Transformers LP on YouTube</ref>
  • The LP features 40 tracks, out of approximately 185 unique musical elements that the series had actually used. A full 25 of those are from season 1 of the cartoon. Only 6 represent season 2, and the remaining 11 are from season 3.

Track listing

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  1. Opening Theme Song
  2. Life
  3. Cybertron Sorrow
  4. The Bridge to Iacon
  5. Unwelcoming Committee
  6. Prepare
  7. Attack! Attack!
  8. Decepticon Drama
  9. Explore! Repair!
  10. Facing Disaster
  11. Ominous Discovery
  12. Elements of Danger
  13. Something’s Wrong
  14. Overcoming the Unstoppable
  15. No More Worries
  16. Unyielding
  17. Heavy Mettle
  18. Man and Machine
  19. Matters and Antimatters
  20. Battle Fearlessly
  21. Ancient Legends
  22. The March of War
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  1. Opening Theme Song
  2. Life
  3. Cybertron Sorrow
  4. The Bridge to Iacon
  5. Unwelcoming Committee
  6. Prepare
  7. Attack! Attack!
  8. Decepticon Drama
  9. Explore! Repair!
  10. Facing Disaster
  11. Ominous Discovery
  12. Elements of Danger
  13. Something’s Wrong
  14. Overcoming the Unstoppable
  15. No More Worries
  16. Unyielding
  17. Heavy Mettle
  18. Man and Machine
  19. Matters and Antimatters
  20. Battle Fearlessly
  21. Ancient Legends
  22. The March of War

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Side B {{ #if: {{#ifexpr:

  1. Roll For Home
  2. The Glimmer of Hope
  3. Earth to Cybertron
  4. Into the Jaws of Death
  5. Doomed Together
  6. The Wrong Readings Mean the Right Doom
  7. Transformers Medley
  8. Mad Planet
  9. Conflict on Cassette
  10. Pastoral Tranquility
  11. From the Secret Files of Teletraan II
  12. Separation Anxiety
  13. Synthesized Magic
  14. Sinister
  15. Uneasy Advances
  16. Epic Struggles
  17. Mysterious Airs
  18. Waking Nightmare
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  1. Roll For Home
  2. The Glimmer of Hope
  3. Earth to Cybertron
  4. Into the Jaws of Death
  5. Doomed Together
  6. The Wrong Readings Mean the Right Doom
  7. Transformers Medley
  8. Mad Planet
  9. Conflict on Cassette
  10. Pastoral Tranquility
  11. From the Secret Files of Teletraan II
  12. Separation Anxiety
  13. Synthesized Magic
  14. Sinister
  15. Uneasy Advances
  16. Epic Struggles
  17. Mysterious Airs
  18. Waking Nightmare

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Notes

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  • The cover artwork is a hodgepodge cobbled together from several sources:
  • The vast majority of it is based on an old Japanese piece of artwork that was featured on the interior flaps of the dustjacket of Transformers Generations, among other places. However, it's not a simple reuse - presumably in part because no high resolution version of the original artwork was available (the only known versions that could be found on the internet for years were merely about 600x600 pixels in size), the artwork was either digitally "restored", or redrawn entirely… "redrawn" in the sense that it was traced from the original art, with several changes made. Notably, Soundwave's right arm and concussion blaster are drawn from a completely different angle, with the front end of the blaster now in front of Jazz's photon rifle rather than behind it; said photon rifle has a slightly thicker barrel; Jazz's fairly basic face has numerous "shading" lines added to it that end up looking rather odd due to their line thickness; Megatron is missing some detail lines on his pelvis; Ultra Magnus is added behind Jazz; Hound's original artwork is replaced by an entirely different piece of art; the Autobots Brawn and Huffer are omitted entirely and replaced by Ironhide and Bumblebee, respectively; and Reflector is replaced by something that doesn't resemble any known character.
  • The artwork of Ultra Magnus is based on a screencap from the Generation 1 cartoon episode "Call of the Primitives". Like the aforementioned Japanese artwork, Ultra Magnus was presumably also traced from the original image.
  • The aforementioned new artwork of Hound is based on a screencap from the first episode of Transformers: Armada that featured numerous cameos of generics resembling Generation 1 characters, including Hound. Like the rest, Hound was presumably also traced from the original image.
  • The artwork of Bumblebee is based on an image (artist currently unknown) that appears on the inside covers of all four issues of IDW's Bumblebee limited series, as well as on the cover of volume 39 Hachette's Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection, among other places.
  • The artwork of Ironhide is based on a screencap from the Generation 1 cartoon episode "Divide and Conquer".
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