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

Hasbro Studios Presents 80s TV Classics: Music From The Transformers
Label:	Enjoy The Ride Records
Release date:	March 8, 2018

Hasbro Studios Presents 80s TV Classics: Music From The Transformers is an official LP release of the score and background music of the G1 Transformers 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" decor. Those reprints are still available on the ETRR website as of November 2019.

Edits and Omissions

As this was the first official release of the G1 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 of the LP is, naturally, the G1 theme song - but it is the original studio recording with un-modified human singing voices on the lyrics, before Marvel / Sunbow added the robotic flanging effects over the singers.

• The LP features 39 tracks, out of approximately 140 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.

• At least 20 of the tracks - more than half those included - have been shortened for inclusion on the LP. Depending on the track, anywhere between 2 and 45 seconds of music has been omitted. These edited versions were the ones provided by Hasbro to ETRR.

Track listing

Side A
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

Side B
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

External Links

• Studio website and order page
• alt.toys.transformers thread by Dave Edwards detailing the track omissions and edits