Transformers: The Movie (1984)

[Chedney Honks]

The hair metal version of the TF theme is kind of blandified though, it's reduced to straight 4/4. By far the most interesting part of the original theme is when it does the cartoon "autobots wage their battles to" descending bit with the odd time changes and then the key change and the brief "more than meets the eye" melody.

While I really like the hair metal version, godder derdamn the original is one hell of a tune. Zero fat, total mother fucker.

https://youtu.be/Y1ujpoDlgRU

Those pulsing stabs, then that weeping guitar line which becomes increasingly difficult to pick harmonically, but who gives one, you suddenly got the TRANSFORMERS... MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE...You think it's gonna repeat. Nope. Straight into the weird descending Autobots hook, which is a monster, but OK, now it's time to let the chords breathe a bit, let the down beat catch u-TRANSFORMERS... no way. Keep the refrained looping, add in more robotic voices, finish just as you get a handle on the melody and chords.

That's how all theme tunes should be. Zero overstay ever.

[popcorn]

It's a fantastically demented composition.

I really like the second series version of it too, very funky syncopated intro.

[monkfromhavana]

Got this on VHS for Christmas whenever it was released but haven't watched it in years. Pretty sure I'd still love it though. Megatron's voice is amazing.

No...wait, I have been confused. I have never seen this, I was thinking of the original mini-series that was edited together. The one which starts on Cybertron, but then they go to Earth and crashland etc etc. Racing around trying to fill Energon Cubes.

To this day, I still think my idea of a spin-off set on Cybertron, film noir-style, where Prime is a trenchcoated Philip Marlowe-esque gumshoe solving crimes on the wrong side of the tracks is a fantastic idea

"Transformers!! Robots SOLVING CRIMES"

[ImmaculateClump]

You just made me remember Dick Spanner, P.I. Thank you :D

I bet that holds up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_quwZXkwiE