Artist: Various
Type: Album
Release date: 1986
Run time: 37:48
My Rating: 6
- Stan Bush, The Touch (3:55)
- N.R.G., Instruments of Destruction (3:22)
- Vince DiCola, Death of Optimus Prime (2:57)
- Stan Bush, Dare (4:02)
- Spectre General, Nothin's Gonna Stand in Our Way (3:39)
- Lion, The Transformers (3:34)
- Vince DiCola, Escape (4:46)
- Spectre General, Hunger (3:46)
- Vince DiCola, Autobot/Decepticon Battle (4:17)
- "Weird Al" Yankovic, Dare to be Stupid (3:25)
Comments
Ah, nostalgia. Back in the 80s, I saw Transformers: the Movie at least a dozen times, so it was only natural that I bought this album in the early 90s, seeing as DVDs weren't invented yet. Most of the soundtrack is stirring 80s Hair Rock from obscure bands - the obvious exceptions being a track from "Weird" Al Yankovic, and three synthesizer pieces from Vince DiCola, who scored most of the movie. For this reason, the album has a dubiously small market: Transformers fans who really liked the movie. People like me, for whom "Nothin's Gonna Stand In Our Way" evokes Hot Rod's struggle with a giant robot squid, and can picture a big red truck driving over a bridge when "The Touch" plays.
Or can quote great swathes of the script from memory.
Ahem, anyway, the highlight for me is DiCola's work, so I think it's a shame so little of his work on the movie was included.