Transformers The Movie (1986 animated version) Isolated score

Transformers The Movie (1986 animated version) Isolated score

Like in some DVDs, isolated scores are usually just the isolated music from the DVD/movie as it is played in the order on the film. The best thing about isolated scores is that it gives people insight how important music is to a film and how it brings out an emotional connection with what is on screen.

I’ve always felt people never give enough credit to movie and TV scores.

Anyway, here is the isolated score for Transformers The Movie, which pg2nd has masterfully accumulated.

The beginning with the amazingly powerful Unicron Theme

Death of Optimus Prime

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

The rest of it is here.

One of the things that really stood out about the Transformers the movie was the interesting score, which was an almost a complete departure from the TV show. (Minus the Lion version of the TV show theme song.)

The movie score relied heavily on hair-band rock music and synthetic keyboard music. Vince DiCola wrote most of the actual score with a few 80’s rock songs thrown in for good measure. As stated in the video notes, DiCola wrote a great deal of the music to storyboards, and from storyboard to screen was change considerably. Late in the game, producers used Alt-versions of tracks or completely removed them, replacing some with those 80s songs.

The third season of Transformers started to incorporate a similar style to the movie score using more synthetic tones and techno music. (Like the techno/hip-hop third and fourth seasons intros)