First Review of Transformers Movie Score CD (with signed copy to be auctioned)

Awesome review.

Looking forward to this.

Thanks for sharing this great review with us Chris! Glad you finally got your CD (and signed by the Big Guy, no less!). Be sure to let us know when the auction goes up, it could make the front page and it's all for a good cause!

Can't wait to get my copy, only three more sleeps! Front paged and credited!

And a release date... ?

Nice review, I can't wait to get mine.

cool review!! I can't wait to get one myself in 3 days!! <3

Liege Evilmus wrote:And a release date... ?

It's been confirmed for an October 9th release, this coming tuesday!

this will be the first score i have EVER bought! i'll be jammin it in my car 24/7!!!

Skowl wrote:It's been confirmed for an October 9th release, this coming tuesday!

Except in Canada, apparently, since neither Future Shop nor Best Buy have a listing for it.

Skowl wrote:

Liege Evilmus wrote:And a release date... ?

It's been confirmed for an October 9th release, this coming tuesday!

Nice, I save all summer for a large flat screen TV. Since I've gotten it I've been waiting for realy nothing more than the DVD release, so I can watch this movie once again in all it's glory.

Being abile to score the score(no pun intended) to listen to it as I drive home with this DVD will be a perfect primer(once again, no pun)

This is all coming together very nicely

Darth Bombshell wrote:

Skowl wrote:It's been confirmed for an October 9th release, this coming tuesday!

Except in Canada, apparently, since neither Future Shop nor Best Buy have a listing for it.

Rememer, Liege ships! Screw corporate border laws.

Liege Evilmus wrote:

Darth Bombshell wrote:

Skowl wrote:It's been confirmed for an October 9th release, this coming tuesday!

Except in Canada, apparently, since neither Future Shop nor Best Buy have a listing for it.

Rememer, Liege ships! Screw corporate border laws.

Amazon.ca has the pre-order page, with the release date for October 9th as well...

EDIT: Nevermind, it's for the import.

I ordered it from Amazon.com, even shipping to Canada is super-fast, and with the Canadian dollar 1:1 with the US dollar right now, it's the time to buy!

Darth Bombshell wrote:

Skowl wrote:It's been confirmed for an October 9th release, this coming tuesday!

Except in Canada, apparently, since neither Future Shop nor Best Buy have a listing for it.

No release listings for for it here either... Going to have to import it.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank, as Chris did, Steve Jablonsky for the wonderful score. Music is a great tool to help people remember, and this score will always make me recollect the many moments during the film where my jaw dropped to the floor!

I'd also want to thank Chris himself, I know he's put alot of work into getting this thing done. I'm glad he got some signed copies and the recognition he has earned as a fan.

Also, for the many fans of Jablonsky work here in the forums, I strongly suggest looking into his work on Michael Bay's other film, The Island, for which he also composed a wonderful and haunting score.

Defintely buying this on Tuesday. I will probably buy the "Autobots Arrival" on iTunes so I can listen to it on my way to the store to buy the album!

Does it have the pimp music that plays when Bumblebee scans the 08 Camero and pulls up to Sam and Mikela? Love that soundbite... this is gonna be a good soundtrack!

One day I hope to be so lucky. Glad to hear such a great review. I can't wait to get it and listen to it.

Buzzkill on the date!

However, Liege knows of many import stores, and stands by the "Liege Ships" statement. On this note I'd like to promote Sound Exchange in Wayne NJ as well as CD world in Totowa and Union NJ as excellent resources for the rarest of the rare as well as All of Bloomfield ave in MontClair.

These places can get you anything, and that's just for walking distance starters

Outside of enjoying the score in threaters though, I'd like to thank Jablonsky for his efforts. He surely will hold a place in my collective with overlooked artists like Chris Young and, none score artists like Kaja Nin, GoodSpeed You Black Emporer, and Buckethead.

i can't wait to listen to the song when they were all falling to earth and scanning alts. sooooo epic

I can hardly wait!!! *happy dance*

Darth Bombshell wrote:

Skowl wrote:It's been confirmed for an October 9th release, this coming tuesday!

Except in Canada, apparently, since neither Future Shop nor Best Buy have a listing for it.

NOOO!!!

I've listened through this all the way through 4 times now. "Epic" is what keeps coming to mind, if I had to describe it in just one word.

How beautiful is this score? Well, earlier tonight I put it on my MP3 player... after encoding the tracks at the highest quality settings possible. Something that I have never done before. It ate up a ton of hardrive space (to say nothing of how much it takes up on the MP3 player itself) but of all the music that I've ever owned, this is the one album that absolutely demanded such special treatment.

As I said in the review though, I would certainly recommend getting the physical CD of the Transformers score over buying a digital download of the album. You definitely want to be able to enjoy this album in the fullest audio quality possible. And in the long run you will very much appreciate that you have something so beautiful in your music collection. I'll be purchasing a copy this coming Tuesday, so that I can have one to go in the rack with the other CDs (the Steve Jablonsky-signed copy is going in a shadowbox along with a copy of the petition and a sign saying "No Sacrifice, No Victory!" )

But please, be very VERY careful if you listen to "Scorponok" while driving. That track is going to be the cause of soooooooo many speeding tickets

"I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony and I'd like to buy everyone a copy of the Steve Jablonsky Transformers score..."

Great review. Pre-ordered the score from Amazon the day I found it there. Anxiously awaiting it's arrival!

One thing I'm still waiting to find out: is Optimus Prime's arrival to fight Megatron included in "You're a Soldier Now"?

Guess I'll find out come Tuesday.

OhioBot wrote:Does it have the pimp music that plays when Bumblebee scans the 08 Camero and pulls up to Sam and Mikela? Love that soundbite... this is gonna be a good soundtrack!

Doesn't have that one. That's from some other movie though, I think. Ocean's Eleven, perhaps?

Rocky87 wrote:One thing I'm still waiting to find out: is Optimus Prime's arrival to fight Megatron included in "You're a Soldier Now"?

Yup! Well it's on there somewhere anyway, was listening to it earlier tonight and recognized that cue

TheKnightShift wrote:

Rocky87 wrote:One thing I'm still waiting to find out: is Optimus Prime's arrival to fight Megatron included in "You're a Soldier Now"?

Yup! Well it's on there somewhere anyway, was listening to it earlier tonight and recognized that cue

Then all's well with the world!

will target or wal-mart have this? only best-buy and amazon have it listed, and i'd rather buy it near-by

Can't wait for it to come out.

I already have my copy. *grins*

hey guys... i see you guys talk about the song that comes out after bumblee changes to the new camaro from the old camaro.. that song is "battle without honor or humanity" by tomoyasu hotel. the song was made REALLY famous in Kill Bill vol.1 when oren-ishi and the crazy 88 are walking down the hallway of the club.. it's the same song..

and chris, thank you for your petition.. i signed it myself and when i briefly worked at paramount, i bugged the upper-heads in charge of soundtracks to release a score cd. they were suprised that people wanted it.. and this was in late july.. (not that i'm saying i had anything to do with it) but, because of your sacrafice.. we're now going to have the most beautiful score since "the rock" in 2 days..

whay about hans zimmer didnt he do it aswell

Maybe Zimmer was busy. He did Pirates of the Caribbean this past summer, along with The Simpsons Movie.

This is turning into quite a neat time for Hans Zimmer, Steve Jablonsky and everyone else at Remote Control Productions. Over the past few years they've done the soundtracks for a lot of the big blockbusters. Don't forget that Zimmer will be collaborating with James Newton Howard again for this coming summer's The Dark Knight (absolutely LOVED their soundtrack for Batman Begins). And hopefully we'll be hearing Jablonsky's work again on Transformers 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and...

So how come Canada gets shafted?

jikae10 wrote:hey guys... i see you guys talk about the song that comes out after bumblee changes to the new camaro from the old camaro.. that song is "battle without honor or humanity" by tomoyasu hotel. the song was made REALLY famous in Kill Bill vol.1 when oren-ishi and the crazy 88 are walking down the hallway of the club.. it's the same song..

Thanks for the info!

I wonder if any of the themes or tracks from that leaked promo could be found in the Official OST.

Awright y'all, it's out there!!! Unfortunately the local Wallyworld doesn't have it yet (Wal-Mart in Reidsville NC can be notoriously slow in getting new music/DVDs out) but I've gotten e-mails from all over the place saying that Transformers: The Score has been spotted on shelves in stores across the country.

So go get it! If you only buy one CD this year, make it Transformers: The Score. If you only buy 6 CDs this year, make them ALL Transformers: The Score!

There's another thread on here with people saying they couldn't find it at stores today. My brother looked earlier and had no luck. I'm going to check in a few hours. I pre-ordered one from Amazon but was hoping to get one sooner since the estimated delivery day is next week.

Transformer World 2005 has a thread up with people saying that the score CD is out there but it's sold out!!

Meaning that many people probably won't be able to get the score today unless they pre-ordered

But if it's selling well then this prolly bodes well for the possibility of a 2-disc set

I read both Chris and Marco's reviews of this CD (thanks for that link on TKS Chris) and I thought they were absolutely wonderful reviews.

My comment....on the Optimus theme, along with expressing the gentleness and true nobility and strength of his character, did anyone else feel the deep sadness that also goes with the Weight Of Command that OP surely must feel. I thought this theme truly spoke volumes as to the deep emotions and truly noble nature of this great leader.

Just my thought....

leday wrote:I read both Chris and Marco's reviews of this CD (thanks for that link on TKS Chris) and I thought they were absolutely wonderful reviews.

Awwww shucks... 'twasn't no problem. Can't thank everyone though for signing the petition and helping get the word put out for this

My comment....on the Optimus theme, along with expressing the gentleness and true nobility and strength of his character, did anyone else feel the deep sadness that also goes with the Weight Of Command that OP surely must feel. I thought this theme truly spoke volumes as to the deep emotions and truly noble nature of this great leader.

Just my thought....

THANK YOU!! Yes, that's it exactly. I felt the same thing, but couldn't articulate it as well as you just did.

Good thoughts bro

TheKnightShift wrote:THANK YOU!! Yes, that's it exactly. I felt the same thing, but couldn't articulate it as well as you just did.

Good thoughts bro

You are very welcome (although my husband would lift his eyebrows and "wonder" at the "bro" comment...LOL).

LOVED this movie AND the Score!!

leday wrote:You are very welcome (although my husband would lift his eyebrows and "wonder" at the "bro" comment...LOL).

TheKnightShift wrote:

leday wrote:You are very welcome (although my husband would lift his eyebrows and "wonder" at the "bro" comment...LOL).

You just gave me my chuckle for the day.

It was so wierd...my dad decided to nab the CD before me today, but he had to go to half a dozen stores before finding it anywhere O_o Very strange. But I'm SOOO glad they made this CD. The music is incredible, and wow...amazing!!

FYI...Transformers: The Score is up to #6 on Itune's top Soundtrack albums already (as of 9:22 ET today).