- #TRANSFORMERS SOUNDTRACK INSTRUMENTS OF DESTRUCTION MOVIE#
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We had already seen our fair share of old favorites bite it, but this was Optimus Prime, after all. If the entire soundtrack were composed of flippant rock/metal songs, then the heavier moments like the death of a childhood icon wouldn’t have resonated as much as they did. Vince DiCola’s contributions to the soundtrack delivered both the necessary heart and weight to the destruction. Another perfect match between on-screen happenings and song. I’ve always heard a distinctive Dave Mustaine quality in the vocals, less outright in the sound but moreso in the delivery, but that could be me. Megatron has never been more dangerous than his appearance during this song. Performed by Stan Bush, “The Touch” strikes the perfect balance of melancholy and anthem.
#TRANSFORMERS SOUNDTRACK INSTRUMENTS OF DESTRUCTION MOVIE#
And the return of this song at the end brings the entire movie full circle and makes those goosebumps pop back up. In a soundtrack full of catchiness, no song has a catchier chorus than this one.
Optimus has never been cooler than when he tossed himself headlong into battle to the sound of this song, crushing Decepticons in his ride to his final battle. The movie starts off with the extermination of a planet, after all, so this wasn’t Saturday morning. I’ve gone on record as saying that cartoons based on properties I loved weren’t always satisfying because they were heavily watchdogged by parent’s groups. Every time I’ve watched this damn movie (and I’ve watched it plenty of times) when the first synth chords of this song open up I get goosebumps.
This is the one you remember even if you don’t remember any of the others. I’ll be taking the songs according to track listing and not by the chronological appearance in the movie, and my copy is the 20th anniversary edition with more songs. Every moment of the movie, every nuance of character or act of destruction was accompanied by music that not only served the moment, but built on it, to the point where song and scene are so entwined it’s impossible to separate. From the opening guitar riff of a radically rewritten and beefed-up version of the Transformers theme song, it just didn’t let up. The Transformers theme song for the movie was performed by the band Lion.Shifting between a synthesizer-heavy score from Vince DiCola and face melting rock songs from mostly unknown artists, Transformers ditched subtlety and went straight for the throat, and did it in the most memorable, catchiest, and just plain adrenalized way possible. The movie also feature other well known songs including “Instruments of Destruction” by NRG, Stan Bush’s song “Dare”, two songs by Spectre General, “Nothin’s Gonna Stand In Our Way”, “Hunger” as well as “Weird Al” Yankovic’s song “Dare to Be Stupid”. Stan Bush’s song “The Touch”, which prominently featured in the film, was originally written for the Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra. Set to a soundtrack of synth-based incidental music and hard-driving metal music, composed by Vince DiCola, the movie has a decidedly darker tone than the television series. It also marked the final roles for both Orson Welles, who died just days after his last voice recording session for the film, and Scatman Crothers, who died months after its release. The film was directed by Nelson Shin, who produced the original Transformers television series, and features the voices of Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Casey Kasem, Robert Stack, Lionel Stander, John Moschitta, Jr., Peter Cullen and Frank Welker.
#TRANSFORMERS SOUNDTRACK INSTRUMENTS OF DESTRUCTION SERIES#
Beyond your wildest imagination.” The 1986 animated feature film The Transformers: The Movie was based on the animated TV series by the same name.
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