Favorite Godzilla music

[ElijahSky]

I don't have them ranked, but here's a few...

Sacred Springs, from Mothra Vs Godzilla http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7PzZyr6SjI
Main Title theme from Varan http://youtu.be/pholQl7L8A0
Battle Between Four Giant Monsters from Godzilla Vs Gigan http://youtu.be/TeHCEEw7bQk

[Proofpoochie]

Terror of Mechagodzilla, Godzilla(1954), Godzilla(1984), and Monster Zero are my favorite scores in the series.

[3000]

Favorite Scores:

Godzilla 1984
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
GMK

[TokyoVigilante]

Favorite Scores:

King Kong vs. Godzilla
Son of Godzilla
Destroy All Monsters
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Godzilla 1985
GMK
Godzilla: Tokyo SOS
Godzilla: Final Wars

[Tamura]

Final Wars, dawg. Dat synth is crunk as skreeonk, know what I'm sayin?

[therealmccoy]

Final Wars, dawg. Dat synth is crunk as skreeonk, know what I'm sayin?

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little...
Just kidding.

My favorites, which I posted in my original thread of this nature (not complaining) are as follows:

1)The Return of Godzilla (the strings just make my spine tingle)
2) Mothra vs. Godzilla-in my opinion, the best soundtrack in the Showa series
3) Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
4) Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla '74
5) Son of Godzilla

[Ethan]

Not sure if it counts, but the music in Godzilla 1985 that underscores the submarine scene is great. I hope Chirstopher Young is considered for Legendaryzilla.

[therealmccoy]

If it's in a Godzilla movie, then it should count. I really liked that piece too, and I missed it from the original.

[Space Hunter M]

Riichiro Manabe - Godzilla of Monster Island
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCwWUSPvTDc

[therealmccoy]

^Pretty much anything from that movie I really enjoy. It's much better than his score for Godzilla vs. Hedorah.

[King Caesar]

Ghidrah, The Three Headed Monster
Godzilla vs Gigan
Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1 & 2)
GMK
Godzilla: Final Wars

[kaijukurt]

Godzilla theme
Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II(especially the opening theme!)
Godzilla x Mechagodzilla
GMK
"Beginning of the End"-GFW
the mothra song (especially the S.O.S. one)

[kaiju_wars]

Godzilla's theme also known as Godzilla march
Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla theme
Godzilla Final Wars theme
GMK theme

[Dash 7]

Earth Monsters' Counterattack (Gvs Gigan)
Godzilla vs. Spiga(Son of Godzilla)
Sacred Springs(Godzilla vs. Mothra)
Fateful Confrontation(Godzilla vs. Megaguiras)
Godzilla At The Ocean Floor(G54)
Car Chase(GvsMegalon)
Megalon on Land(GvsMegalon)
Mechagodzilla's Theme(GvsMG93)
Main Title(Space Amoeba)
Main Title(TOMG)

[Space Hunter M]

Masaru Sato - Battle at Iwato Island

Yuji Koseki - Mothra's Song

[TheSecondComing]

Highway Road!

Not sure anybody is old enough to remember how much love their was for this song amongst senior Gojistomp users.

[Ookondru99]

Mechagodzilla 2's theme, i don't like the monster but the theme is EPIC

[Space Hunter M]

Yuji Koseki - Mothra and the Tokyo Tower (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkBB8HO3Uk8)

[mike2write]

To answer this, for me, is to disregard Ifukube's music in its entirety, as it is all nothing short of brilliant. Yes, there are instances of cues somewhat mis-used at times to some. And yes, Ifukube, especially in later years, re-used his themes a great deal - even ascribing one monster's showa theme to a different monster in heisei films. There are even non-monster themes from the past in later kaiju films (Samurai Saga's mournful themes can be heard in G vs. MechaG heisei.) But all cues are distinctly Ifukube, and grand.

That having been said, I'm a huge, and some might say blasphemous, fan of the G vs. Biollante score. I had seen a lovely anime called Sea Prince and the Fire Child in the early 80's (recently released by Discotek) and its score somehow stayed in the back of my mind. When I first saw GvB it bugged the hell out of me - where had I heard this composer before? Bear in mind, this was on a bootleg copy from the just-released Japan VHS, and the internet was still a twinkle in someone's eye. I did make the connection somehow, upon repeated viewings. Koichi Sugiyama scored both, as well as a lost-in-the-US anime called The Ideon - why did any of us get rid of our old bootleg anime? Although his interpretation of a kaiju score is thought of by many as inferior, I disagree (with the possible exception of the disco-style action cue at the beginning.) There is an elegance and subtlety to his score missing in other non-Ifukube efforts, such as Masaru Satoh's scores and Godzilla '84's - although I do quite like parts of that one as well.

Also, having thoroughly enjoyed his work on the heisei Gamera trilogy for Shusuke Kaneko, another favorite of mine is Ko Otani's GMK score. It's a Spielberg/Williams thing - Otani's music just suits Kaneko's style. Otani's music for Kaneko's psi-fi film Crossfire (Pyrokinesis in the US) is also far above genre standards.

I guess the greatest compliment to be paid to these scores is to say that the music stands up well to repeated listening, and is apt to surprise in some little way every time.

That's my two cents.

-Mike

[Rody]

I've recently fallen in love with the score from Godzilla vs. Biollante. The music is wonderfully varied and well written. The Godzilla theme is probably one of the most epic scores in the franchise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPIqqFlsH84