Album
The Transformers: The Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the 1986 soundtrack from the motion picture The Transformers: The Movie. It was released in the United States by Scotti Bros. Records on LP and cassette. It was released in Japan by Pony Canyon on CD in 1989. In 1992, Scotti Bros. released the album on CD in the US. By 1999, it was subsequently re-issued by eventual successor company Volcano Entertainment,[3] and was re-released in 2007 with updated cover art and four bonus tracks.
Track listing
Legacy
- Power-metal band N.R.G. has since been reborn as Damn Cheetah, with a first album release titled Primal.[6]
- The Lion cover version of the main Transformers theme was itself covered on the NES by chiptune artist Inverse Phase and renamed to "NESformers".[7]
- "Subsong 2" from the Commodore 64 game Turrican is actually the song "Escape" from The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack.[8]
- Unicron’s theme appears in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
In popular culture
- The song "The Touch" is performed by Mark Wahlberg's character Dirk Diggler in the 1997 film Boogie Nights. His performance appears as a hidden track on the soundtrack album to the film.
- Stan Bush's original version of "The Touch" was used in the 2008 Chuck episode "Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer".[9] The song also appears in the games Shadow Warrior and Saints Row IV, along with an episode of American Dad! and The Goldbergs.
- The "Passiona High" sketch from cult Australian radio show Get This was based around several songs from the Transformers soundtrack, reworked into the storyline of an underdog nerd winning the eponymous school's annual synthesizer solo contest. The album tracks featured are "The Touch", "Autobot/Decepticon Battle", "Escape" and "Dare".[10]
- The "Get Psyched Mix" from Barney Stinson and the "Bro Code" in How I Met Your Mother point "The Transformers Theme" as a "Classic Get Psyched Song".
- The Cybertronic Spree covers much of the album at conventions.
- "Dare" is featured in The Goldbergs Season 4 episode "Fonzie Scheme" during the scene when Barry is attempting to jump a golf cart off of a mound of dirt.
- "Dare" is featured in "Live Studio Audience," the seventh episode for the first season of the Netflix series GLOW, during a wrestling training montage between main characters Ruth and Debbie.
- "Dare" is used during the fight training scene in Goon: Last of the Enforcers.
References
- ^ Fisher, Murrday. "AllMusic review". AllMusic.
- ^ Geriak, Christopher. "Soundtrack (Film) - The Transformers The Movie". Sputnikmusic.
- ^ "Transformers The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition". IGN. Archived from the original on February 16, 2012. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
- ^ Cover of the 1984 original first performed by John Farnham for the Savage Streets soundtrack.
- ^ The Canadian band Kick Axe was credited on the soundtrack album under the pseudonym "Spectre General". The film's producers thought the name "Kick Axe" sounded "too threatening," so they listed them as "Spectre General" instead. The band was not notified about the change.
- ^ "Area 403". Archived from the original on 2008-02-27. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
- ^ "NESformers". Inverse Phase.
- ^ "Facts about Turrican". Archived from the original on 2003-08-18. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
- ^ Phil Klemmer (writer), Norman Buckley (director) (2008-10-27). "Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer". Chuck. Season 2. Episode 5. NBC.
- ^ Passiona High on YouTube. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
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