![]() Vince DiCola returns with some returning motifs from his Escape, along with that driving bassline that if you’re familiar with the movie, you can probably hear in your sleep. Spectre General returns for another standard rocker featuring a catchy chorus and a grumbly guitar riff that once again matched-up perfectly with the on screen happenings of Kup and Hot Rod against Sharkticons. Lion performed the hell out of this song.Īnother masterful vince DiCola number, this is another mournful song that weaves in the strains of the Transformers theme song along with an extremely catchy and driving motif that returned several times over the course of the movie. Exploding onto the screen after we just saw a planet get eaten, this screaming, screeching, bellowing version of the familiar “robots in disguise, more than meets the eyes” theme that we saw every weekday at 4 pm pretty much told us all what we were in for. Oh yes, this is a cartoon theme song run through a blender made of badass and poured into a glass made of holycrap. Speaking of hair metal, let’s run down a checklist. You can smell the Final Net in it, and there’s spandex all over it. Performed by Spectre General - really a band named “Kick Axe” who was unceremoniously renamed for the Transformers soundtrack by the higher ups - this is not a song that could have been authentically written in any era other than the ’80s. “Dare” and this one are a one-two punch of catchy arena-ready anthems that raise the adrenaline. This was another Stan Bush song, proving that he knew how to manipulate the crowd. If you ended up humming that “Everything is Awesome” song from The Lego Movie for weeks after you saw it, the same thing happened here. Coinciding with newcomer Hot Rod’s carefree ride, this is another insanely catchy song with a chorus that doesn’t let go. What I mean by that is after the mournful track preceding it, we’re immediately popped back into an uplifting beat by what is probably the most positive and cheerful track in the movie. He was just in a coma, kids, and hey, he’s ok! This is a song that should be administered with Xanax, and it fits perfectly with a gloomy, rain-soaked day. It was such a traumatizing thing for the millions of kids across the land that Duke’s death in the animated G.I. 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. 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. 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.
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