![]() THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO MERCEDES UPDATE.tvīeyond your wildest imagination." The 1986 animated feature film The Transformers: The Movie was based on the animated TV series by the same name. 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. 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. 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. Stan Bush's song "The Touch", which prominently featured in the film, was originally written for the Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra. The Transformers theme song for the movie was performed by the band Lion.Rather than just re-use themes from the television series (as was later done with G.I.Joe: The Movie), Sunbow contacted Scotti Brothers Records about adding a heavy metal edge to the The movie also features 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". Rocky IV composer Vince DiCola was also hired to write #Instruments of destruction n.r.g. The synthesized techno-rock score, which would tie in well with the heavy metal songs. Stan Bush's upbeat rock music gives the movie it's inspirational motive, N.R.G.'s "Instruments of Destruction" sets the tone for the movie's villains, Lion's rendition of the theme song redefines the sound of the series, and Canadian metal band Kick Axe (aka " Spectre General" on the Scotti Brothers U.S. ![]() Label) contributes to the soundtrack with two driving metal songs. Perhaps one of the first influential electronic musicians in the field of film scoring, Vince DiCola received his first success in Hollywood co-writing eight songs for the hit film Staying Alive, including the Frank Stallone His work on that film led to even greater success Song "Far From Over", which features Vince on keyboards. When he wrote the memorable score to Rocky IV, and later TF:TM. He is a regular attendee at Transformers conventions and has continued to compose new Transformer-themed works. The song "The Touch", written by Stan Bush and Lenny Macaluso, was used in the 1997 film Boogie Nights, The Rhino DVD of TF:TM features an insightful interview with DiCola. Performed (in an intentionally horrible manner) by "Marky" Mark Wahlberg's character. The following CD's all have music from the movie or relate to the movie in some way: Of the song is on the soundtrack as one of the "hidden tracks". The motion picture soundtrack was distributed by Scotti Bros. It was originally released on vinyl record and cassette, and has been released in the U.S. on CD by Scotti Brothers Records and later was re-released by a company called Volcano. Since the CD insert does not contain lyrics, here they are: Movie Soundtrack Lyrics Hunger - performed by Kick Axe (aka Spectre General)Īutobot/Decepticon Battle - performed by Vince DiColaĭare to Be Stupid - performed by "Wierd Al" Yankovic The Transformers (Theme) - performed by Lion Nothin's Gonna Stand In Our Way - performed by Kick Axe (aka Spectre General) Instruments of Destruction - performed by N.R.G.ĭeath of Optimus Prime - performed by Vince DiCola While the original soundtrack is very cool, and makes great driving music, it is unfortunate that so much of Vince DiCola's instrumental score has been omitted from it. The soundtrack was released in Japan around the same time as the film was released there on Laserdisc. Some time around 1989.) Since I do not have a copy of this version I cannot confirm it.
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