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*"The Touch" has reappeared in numerous non-Transformers productions over the years, including the film ''[[Wikipedia:Boogie Nights|Boogie Nights]]'', the television series ''[[wikia:c:chuck-nbc:Episode 205: Chuck vs. Tom Sawyer|Chuck]]'' and even in ''[[Wikipedia:American Dad!|American Dad!]]''. | *"The Touch" has reappeared in numerous non-Transformers productions over the years, including the film ''[[Wikipedia:Boogie Nights|Boogie Nights]]'', the television series ''[[wikia:c:chuck-nbc:Episode 205: Chuck vs. Tom Sawyer|Chuck]]'' and even in ''[[Wikipedia:American Dad!|American Dad!]]''. | ||
*It is @#$%ing awesome! | *It is @#$%ing awesome! | ||
*If anyone dis's it, they prove they are dorks with no taste in good music. | |||
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"The Touch" is a song by Stan Bush, featured on the 1986 album The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. It is possibly the pinnacle of human achievement. It is fondly remembered by many fans for being featured in two climactic battles in The Transformers: The Movie.
"The Touch" is first featured in The Transformers: The Movie when Optimus Prime, having just arrived to Autobot City, takes on several of the Decepticon forces by himself. It plays again, near the end of the feature, as Hot Rod opens the Matrix. The song was used again during the climactic scene of the cartoon episode "The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2".
Fiction
Generation 1 cartoon
At an undetermined time period following the creation of the Headmasters and Targetmasters and the seeming defeat of Galvatron and Scorponok, Powermaster Optimus Prime spent a good deal of time relating Transformers stories to the human schoolboy Tommy Kennedy.
After a series of stories wherein he described the events of the battle with Unicron, Optimus Prime had to depart to attend an interstellar peace conference in the midst of a barrage of questions from Tommy. As he was blasting off, Prime declared "But until I return, I leave you with 'The Touch'!"
Following this, the music video for "The Touch" began, although how Tommy was able to view it in the barren wasteland where his meetings with Prime typically took place is unknown. Season 5
War for Cybertron
Before the war spread to Earth, and seemingly millions of years before Stan Bush would have even been born, the Decepticons were fighting the Autobots on Cybertron. Shockwave asked Soundwave to transform into his stationary music-playing mode and play a recording of "The Touch." The inspirational anthem emboldened Shockwave in battle, but annoyed Starscream. Shockwave informed Starscream that the Air Commander could select the music when his hit percentage exceeded Shockwave's. GameSpot's commercial for their Shockwave multiplayer exclusive
Lyrics
- You got the touch
- You got the power
- Yeah
After all is said and done
You've never walked, you've never run
You're a winner
You got the moves, you know the street
Break the rules, take the heat
You're nobody's fool
You're at your best when when the going gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough
- You got the touch
- You got the power
- When all hell's breaking loose
- You'll be right in the eye of the storm
- You got the heart
- You got the motion
- You know that when things get too tough
- You got the touch
You never bend, you never break
You seem to know just what it takes
You're a fighter
It's in the blood, it's in the will
It's in the mighty hands of steel
When you're standing your ground
And you never give in when your back's to the wall
Gonna fight to the end and you're taking it all
- You got the touch
- You got the power
- When all hell's breaking loose
- You'll be right in the eye of the storm
- You got the heart
- You got the motion
- You know that when things get too tough
- You got the touch
You're fighting fire with fire
You know you got the touch
You're at your best when when the going gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough
- You got the touch
- You got the power
- Yeah
- You got the touch
- You got the power
- Touch
Single releases
- 7" single
- "The Touch"
- "Dare to Be Stupid"
Release date: August, 1986
Labels: Scotti Bros. Records (US/Canada), Epic Records (UK)
Prod. codes: 7464-06207-7 (US), ZS4-06207 (Canada), A-7318 (UK)
- 12" picture disc
- "The Touch"
- "Dare to Be Stupid"
- "The Transformers (Theme)"
Release date:
Labels: Scotti Bros. Records (Germany), Epic Records (UK)
Prod. codes: Int127.311 (Germany), WA-7318 (UK)
Album releases
- 1986 — The Transformers: The Movie — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Scotti Bros. Records)
- 1987 — Stan Bush: Stan Bush & Barrage (Scotti Bros. Records)
- 1997 — Stan Bush: Call to Action (LA Records/3H Productions) — 1997 Remix version.
- 1998 — BotCon '97: The Concert (3H Productions) — Live with Vince DiCola.
- 2007 — Stan Bush: In This Life (Frontiers Records) — New recording.
- 2007 — The Transformers: The Movie — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: 20th Anniversary Edition (Legacy Recordings)
Merchandise
- 2009 — Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen — Bumblebee Plasma Cannon
- A role-playing toy based on live-action movie Bumblebee's fist, transforming into a plasma cannon. When the Autobot insignia on the side of the cannon is pressed while the blaster is in its "Try Me" setting, the toy plays various sounds, including short clips from "The Touch".
Trivia
- "The Touch" was originally written for the 1986 Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra, but the record company decided to switch it to the Transformers movie instead.<ref>http://totalscifionline.com/interviews/4062-stan-bush-still-got-the-touch</ref>
- In 2007, Bush recorded a new, updated version of "The Touch" together with "Till All Are One (Transformers Theme)" in a bid to get them onto the live-action movie's soundtrack. It didn't work, but Bush released them both as bonus tracks on his own album In This Life.
- In 2008, Bush launched a campaign to have the song included on one of the Guitar Hero or Rock Band games.<ref>http://kotaku.com/5059337/stan-bush-wants-the-touch-in-guitar-hero-rock-band</ref> It wasn't long before he announced the campaign's success, with the 2007 version of "The Touch" hitting Guitar Hero: World Tour as free downloadable content.<ref>http://kotaku.com/5173693/stan-bush-thanks-kotaku-readers-for-their-support</ref>
- As part of the media hype building up to the release of Revenge of the Fallen, Bush released another reworked version of the song, this time with a more contemporary Linkin Park-inspired sound, renamed "The Touch: Sam's Theme". This is notable because, while completely unsanctioned or unrequested by Hasbro or Dreamworks, it is totally hilarious.
- "The Touch" has reappeared in numerous non-Transformers productions over the years, including the film Boogie Nights, the television series Chuck and even in American Dad!.
- It is @#$%ing awesome!
- If anyone dis's it, they prove they are dorks with no taste in good music.
References
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