Transformers: The Score

This article is about the album of orchestrated music actually in the movie.. For the album of contemporary hard rock songs, see Transformers: The Album.

Jam that transmission!

Transformers: The Score is an album featuring the original instrumental music composed by Steve Jablonsky for the live-action Transformers film. There was some doubt that such an album would be issued at all; however, after much clamoring by fans of the film, it was released on October 9, 2007 on Warner Brothers Records, some three months after the film's debut.

...In very, very, VERY limited quantities. Dammit.

Tracks

1. Autobots* - The opening narration.
2. Decepticons* - Frenzy infiltrates Air Force One.
3. The All Spark* - The All Spark is revealed to visitors to the Hoover Dam.
4. Deciphering The Signal* - John Keller wishes "good luck" to the hackers.
5. Frenzy* - Oddly, nothing to do with Frenzy, but during the scene with the newborn (and soon to be dead) crazed little Nokia abomination.
6. Optimus* - Optimus Prime announces he will sacrifice himself for the humans by absorbing the All Spark.
7. Bumblebee* - Bumblebee causes the All Spark to downsize.
8. SOCCENT Attack - Blackout attacks SOCCENT Forward Operations Base.
9. Sam At The Lake - Sam and Miles have a run-in with a local jock/jerk.
10. Scorponok* - Scorponok attacks the village in Qatar. Appears again as Secretary Keller and company face off against Frenzy inside Hoover Dam.
11. Cybertron - Optimus' narrates how Cybertron was destroyed and Archibald Witwicky's discovery of Megatron.
12. Arrival To Earth* - Optimus, Ratchet, Jazz and Ironhide make their debut.
13. Witwicky - The Autobots cause mayhem at the Witwicky home as Sam searches for his grandfather's glasses.
14. Downtown Battle - The human-Autobot convoy arrives in Mission City and are shot at by Starscream.
15. Sector 7 - Sector 7 chases Optimus Prime through the city and under a bridge.
16. Bumblebee Captured - Sector 7 captures Bumblebee in a huge drainage ditch.
17. You're A Soldier Now - Ironhide, Jazz and Ratchet fight Devastator, Megatron kills Jazz, Sam Witwicky starts taking the All Spark to a rendevouz point, and Optimus arrives.
18. Sam On The Roof* - Starscream blows up the helicopter and Megatron smashes the building Sam is on.
19. Optimus Vs. Megatron - From Optimus explaining Sam must kill him, to when Sam choses to kill Megatron instead.
20. No Sacrifice, No Victory* - The part of the ending that did not involve Linkin Park.

* "different version in film"

Trivia

• Like many movie score albums, this one is not in chronologically sequential order. Some tracks were used more than once; for example, "Scorponok" replays when the humans at Hoover Dam are fighting off Frenzy.
• MP3 rips of a longer and more complete version of the score, released to media outlets as a promotional item, have found their way online.
• The tracks "Optimus Vs. Megatron" and "No Sacrifice, No Victory" were used during various New England Patriots promos for Super Bowl XLII, and later used by networks such as NBC and Network Seven during coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
• The track "Scorponok" has been reused for at least one promotional spot for Revenge of the Fallen. The heroic chorus of this track was remixed for Revenge's second theatrical trailer.
• The track "Arrival to Earth" has been reused for Revenge of the Fallen during the search for a Seeker at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the track's climax remixed into the sequence.

External links

• Scoring session images and information at Scoring Sessions.com