The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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| Label: | Scotti Bros. Records}} | |||
| Release date: | August 8, 1986 March 10, 1992 (CD)}} | |||
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| Label: | Scotti Bros. Records Volcano Entertainment}} | |||
| Release date: | 1999}} | |||
| Prod. code: | 61422-32015-2}} | |||
| ASIN: | B00000I01C}} | |||
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| Label: | Volcano Entertainment Legacy Recordings}} | |||
| Release date: | May 29, 2007}} | |||
| Prod. code: | 88697-09656-2}} | |||
| ASIN: | B000PHW236}} | |||
The Transformers: The Movie — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the official soundtrack issued in 1986 on the day of the movie's release (August 8), featuring songs used in The Transformers: The Movie.
The album was originally released on Scotti Bros. Records, and sold in both vinyl LP (long-playing) record form and audio cassette. On March 10, 1992, it was released on CD with a scaled-down version of the original artwork, and then again in 1999 with a new cover (there is no new copyright information on either CDs' booklet or outer case to indicate when they were released).
The movie's soundtrack is a mixture of arena rock and "hair metal" songs by an array of obscure artists, mixed with synthesizer instrumental tracks by Vince DiCola. A lone New Wave-style track by genre parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic rounds out the set.
Track listing
[edit]- "The Touch" - Stan Bush
- "Instruments of Destruction" - N.R.G.
- "Death of Optimus Prime" - Vince DiCola
- "Dare" - Stan Bush
- "Nothin's Gonna Stand in Our Way" - Spectre General
- "The Transformers (Theme)" - Lion
- "Escape" - Vince DiCola
- "Hunger" - Spectre General
- "Autobot/Decepticon Battle" - Vince DiCola
- "Dare to Be Stupid" - "Weird Al" Yankovic
3H Edition
[edit]In 1997, the newly-formed 3H Enterprises produced as a BotCon 1997 exclusive a double-CD set called 'Til All Are One: Featuring Stan Bush and Vince DiCola. The second disc contains all of the background score (by Vince DiCola) that was not on the original soundtrack, including several "alternate" pieces for scenes that used songs from the original soundtrack, plus "Legacy", the audition piece that got Vince the job. Other albums released by 3H which include music from the movie are BotCon '97 - The Concert, Vince DiCola Presents: The Protoform Sessions, Artistic Transformations: Themes and Variations, and Lighting Their Darkest Hour: The Complete Music Score for TFTM. All of these 3H albums are long since sold out.
20th Anniversary Edition
[edit]On May 29, 2007, Legacy Recordings re-released the soundtrack in a 20th Anniversary Edition containing the above tracks from the original 1986 release plus these additional tracks:
- 11. "Unicron Medley" - Vince DiCola
- A compilation of "Unicron's Theme", "Witness to a Funeral" and "The Enemy Revealed" from 'Til All Are One
- 12. "Moon Base 2 - Shuttle Launch" - Vince DiCola
- Released as "2005" on 'Til All Are One
- 13. "Megatron Must Be Stopped" (Parts 1 and 2) - Vince DiCola
- Released as "City Under Siege" and "Showdown" on 'Til All Are One
- 14. The Transformers Theme (Alternate) - Stan Bush and Vince DiCola
Notes
[edit]- It's so '80s that it hurts.
- "Escape" was later plagiarized by composer Ramiro Vaca as the title theme for the original Commodore 64 version of the computer game [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Turrican|{{#if:||Turrican}}]].<ref>Turrican - Title Theme (Subsong 2)</ref> "Death of Optimus Prime" was also used as the music for the end sequence upon completion of the game, albeit in a more upbeat rearrangement.<ref>Turrican - Ending Theme</ref> While the plagiarism was never officially acknowledged, longtime Turrican series composer Chris Huelsbeck contacted Vince DiCola in 2013 during a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for the Turrican Sountrack Anthology album series.<ref>Kickstarter - Turrican Soundtrack Anthology by Chris Huelsbeck - "Special surprise guest artist revealed!"</ref> As a result, DiCola and Kenny Meriedeth collaborated on an arranged medley of tracks from the film, which was included as a bonus track on the Anthology's first volume.<ref>Turrican Soundtrack Anthology Vol. 1 - Transformers Medley 2013</ref>
- An Australian radio comedy series called Get This also used four tracks from the soundtrack for a sketch called 'Passiona High', about a nerd who wins a synthesizer competition. The songs used were "The Touch," "Dare", "Escape" and "Autobot/Decepticon Battle"
References
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