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Title |
| Godzilla 2000: Millennium |
| International Title |
| Godzilla
2000: Millennium |
| Music
By: Takayuki
Hattori |
| Record
Label: GNP Crescendo |
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| Running Time: 58:56 |
Discs: 1 |
| Release: August
2000 |
CD Number: GNPD-8065 | |
| Comments |
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Anthony
Romero |  |
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This
CD contains the score for the first Millennium film
in the Godzilla series by composer Takayuki
Hattori, his second effort in the franchise after
his Godzilla
vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) soundtrack. The score
has a couple of nice themes, but as a whole is a little
on the forgettable side. The musical pacing is, generally,
just a little too slow to be a good fit for the title
character, and lacks the menace or sense of power
and mass that it should convey.
Now, on a non-comparison basis, this is a good soundtrack
release from GNP Crescendo that contains the most
important elements from the Japanese version of the
1999 Godzilla film while also including the standard
array of sound effects. Compared to the Nippon Columbia
and the Toho Music releases, though, this one is slightly
inferior. The reasons for this are GNP's habit of
inter-splicing sound effects between tracks, instead
of leaving them all for the end, and because some
of these tracks, case in point the "Giant UFO
Approaching", have been bridged with other cues.
These changes account for the difference in the number
of tracks and the few seconds discrepancy between
the run times, which is due to some moments of silence
between tracks now being gone. Godzilla's Theme, as
done by Akira
Ifukube originally for Godzilla
vs. Destoroyah (1995), has also been moved
to the very end of the disc instead of appearing chronologically.
The "Organizer" track has also, for whatever
reason, been removed from this release. Of course,
are these differences worth locating the more expensive
import versions? Probably not unless one is a diehard
collector, although just the same this is easily the
lesser release of the three.
Rating:  |
| | Tracks |
- Godzilla Roars/Godzilla's Theme: 2000 Millennium
- Godzilla 2000: Millennium Main Title
- The Giant Tail
- Face to Face with Terror
- Inches from Disaster
- Godzilla Appears in Nemuro
- Deep at Sea
- Sixty Million Year Slumber
- The Object from Outer Space - Bizarre Happening
#1
- The Self Defense Force Swings into Action
- Launching the Full Metal Missile
- The Object from Outer Space - Flight
- Godzilla Sound Effects
- Godzilla Comes Ashore
- The Encounter with the Mysterious Object
- Eerie Silence
- The Wonder Of G Revealed
- The Object from Space: Bizarre Happening #2
- UFO Effects
- Giant UFO Approaching
- Off to Shinjuku
- Earth Invasion
- Before the Explosion
- Millennium
- Thinking of My Dad
- 21:10
- The Millennium Kingdom
- Miraculous Survival
- Extraterrestrial Life: The Birth
- Tensions on the Rise/The Metamorphosis
- Astonishing Resurrection
- G's Decision
- Orga: Irony of Fate
- End Title: Godzilla - Dreaded God
- Godzilla and Orga Sound Effects
- Godzilla's Theme
Composer: Akira Ifukube
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