GNP Crescendo's Best of Godzilla albums on vinyl LPs exclusively at FYE

[mikelcho]

I was buying my brother Brian's birthday present at my local FYE and found something very interesting: the 1990s GNP Crescendo soundtrack albums The Best of Godzilla: 1954-1975 and The Best of Godzilla: 1984-1995 as vinyl LPs exclusive to their stores!

I'm hoping for exclusive CD versions, though. That would be really great, especially if they corrected the liner notes text error that was on the first page of the second album's front cover/booklet when they were both on CD the first time around.

Who knows? Maybe vinyl LP re-releases of the GNP Crescendo releases of the soundtracks of Godzilla 2000: Millennium and Godzilla vs. Megaguirus? Or (dare we hope) the La-La Land Records releases of the soundtracks of Godzilla: 50th Anniversary Edition and King Kong vs. Godzilla? Or even (wait for it) the Media Blasters/Tokyo Shock release of the soundtrack of Destroy All Monsters (and maybe we'll finally get the Media Blasters/Tokyo Shock release of the soundtrack of Godzilla vs. Megalon that we were promised before, but never got)? Hey, if you're going to dream, dream big here! No...make that gigantic! Or should I say: Gigan-tic?

Again, I'm hoping for exclusive CD versions for all of these.

[mikelcho]

I made a mistake; this is in the wrong section. Could someone please switch it over to Toho Media for me?

[mikelcho]

Is anyone going to reply to this news?

C'mon, someone-say something! Please?

[UltramanGoji]

I don't have a record player, but I'd love to snag these. Glad FYE's doing a lot of new Godzilla merch to support the new movie.

[Great Hierophant]

I have those original CDs still, and they are great until you get to the part where the Japanese music ends and the guy who put the packages together begins.

[omgitsgodzilla]

I had enough left over this paycheck to order these. God I love having a proper job

[mikelcho]

Thanks a lot, guys and gals! This feedback is great!

And by the way, thanks a lot to whoever put this subforum in the right section this time!

[Rody]

I grabbed both of these at my local FYE last week. They go for about $30 each, which seems good to me for a double record set. I'm no expert on records, but they both sound pretty good to me, and it's really cool to have Godzilla accessible on vinyl!



https://imgur.com/gallery/YVDI1vX

[godzilla98rules]

Well...... I guess I'll be begging for a trip to Hot Springs later. I want these so badly!!!

[Servanov]

This is very, very cool. Additionally, at my FYE at least, they also had Godzilla hats and a blanket with the poster for Return of Godzilla. I saw these for about $35 at my local FYE. I would have bought them if it weren't for the fact that these are most likely just pressings of the original CDs of the album.

[omgitsgodzilla]

I never had these compilations on CD, so I went ahead and picked these up. They sound pretty good, and I like the use of sound effects between tracks. I have my issues with some of the selections (and omissions -- a whole side of Spacegodzilla cues and no "Echoes of Love"?), but this is probably the cheapest you'll ever find such a range of Godzilla music on vinyl, so I can't really complain.

[Pkmatrix]

GAH! I didn't see this thread until now! Gonna check out my FYE next chance I get to see if they have them.

[mikelcho]

I looked at my FYE recently and they've got two copies of each album.

[Pkmatrix]

Unfortunately, my FYE did not.

[Ultra_Henshin_Fan]

I hope this is in the right spot, I looked around but didn't see them mentioned
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They should be here tomorrow, very excited to see and hear them!


the Showa collection is a 2 record set that's printed on a translucent pastel green vinyl (sort of a similar color to the Glow in the Dark toys you see)

Tracklist
A1 –Akira Ifukube Footsteps Fx 0:38
A2 –Akira Ifukube Godzilla Main Title 1:31
A3 –Akira Ifukube Godzilla Temple Festival 1:19
A4 –Akira Ifukube Japanese Army March 0:38
A5 –Akira Ifukube Godzilla Comes Ashore 1:51
A6 –Akira Ifukube Godzillas Rampage 2:24
A7 –Akira Ifukube Godzilla Ending 1:42
A8 –Masaru Satoh* Godzilla Raids Again Main Title 1:23
A9 –Akira Ifukube Helicopter / Man Screams / SOS FX 0:22
A10 –Akira Ifukube King Kong Vs. Godzilla Main Title 1:58
A11 –Akira Ifukube King Kong Roars Fx 0:12
A12 –Akira Ifukube Planning King Kong's Transport 2:13
A13 –Yuji Koseki Mothra's Song 2:23
A14 –Akira Ifukube Mothra Fx 0:09
A15 –Akira Ifukube Mothra Vs. Godzilla Main Title 1:52
A16 –Akira Ifukube Sacred Springs 3:49
B1 –Akira Ifukube Main Title / Monsters Appear In Yokohama / Invasion Of The Astro-Monster 2:33
B2 –Akira Ifukube Ufo Approaches / Monsters Fight Fx / Monster Battle March (Main Title) 2:56
B3 –Masaru Satoh* Son Of Godzilla Main Title 2:06
B4 –Masaru Satoh* Godzilla Vs. Kumonga 2:15
B5 –Masaru Satoh* Son Of Godzilla Ending 2:46
B6 –Akira Ifukube Godzilla Fx / Toho Mark / Main Title 1:35
B7 –Akira Ifukube Destroy All Monsters Title Credits 1:23
B8 –Akira Ifukube Four Monsters Attack Tokyo 1:46
B9 –Akira Ifukube Destroying The Remote Control 0:40
B10 –Akira Ifukube Showdown On Mt. Fuji 2:47
B11 –Akira Ifukube Destroy All Monsters Ending 1:26
C1 –Kunio Miyauchi Cute Kid Theme / Monster Fight 2:42
C2 –Riichiroh Manabe* Godzilla's Fight 1:09
C0 –Akira Ifukube Godzilla Vs. Gigan Main Title 2:11
C4 –Akira Ifukube Godzilla Vs. Gigan Main Title Repeat 1:26
C5 –Akira Ifukube Godzilla March - Record Version 3:09
C6 –Riichiroh Manabe* Jet Jaguar / Megalon Fx 0:15
C7 –Riichiroh Manabe* Godzilla Vs. Megalon Main Title 1:27
C8 –Riichiroh Manabe* Godzilla Of Monster Island 2:13
D1 –Akira Ifukube Mechagodzilla Fx 0:29
D2 –Akira Ifukube Godzilla Vs. Anguiras 2:28
D3 –Akira Ifukube Miyarabi's Prayer 4:03
D4 –Akira Ifukube Terror Of Mechagodzilla Main Title 4:30
D5 –Akira Ifukube Mechagodzilla II 1:45
D6 –Akira Ifukube Godzilla's Entrance 1:13
D7 –Akira Ifukube Terror Of Mechagodzilla Ending 1:15
D8 –Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra Theme From Godzilla 2:02



the Heisei collection is a 2 record set, one record is green like the Showa era set and the other is a translucent purple.


Tracklist

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
1 Godzilla's Theme 3:20
The Return Of Godzilla
2 Main Title 1:49
3 Take Shelter/Godzilla Vs. Super-X 2:15
4 Japanese Army March 0:47
5 Godzilla's Exit 1:51
6 Ending 1:47
Godzilla Vs. Biollante
7 Scramble March 4:27
8 Bio Wars 4:36
9 Ending 5:00
Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah
10 Main Title/UFO Invasion 2:56
11 King Ghidorah Attacks Fukuoka 0:37
12 Get King Ghidorah 1:41
Godzilla Vs. Mothra
13 Main Title 1:25
14 Mahara Mothra 0:55
15 Mesa March 1:55
16 Rolling Title Ending 3:40
17 Mothra's Song
Lyrics By – Ishirou Honda, Shinichi Sekizawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka (2)
Performer – Cosmos (26)
3:46
Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla II
18 Main Title 1:35
19 G-Force March #1 2:50
Godzilla Vs. Spacegodzilla
20 Prologue/Main Title 2:35
21 Bass Island 1:21
22 Mogera Vs. Spacegodzilla #2 1:28
23 Mogera Vs. Spacegodzilla #3 2:41
24 Crystal
Arranged By – Takayuki Hattori
5:33
Godzilla Vs. Destroyah
25 Main Title/Hong Kong's Destruction 3:09
26 Attack Of Super X III 3:00
27 Mesa Tank Super Freeze Attack 1:55
28 Requiem 3:48
29 Ending Title 2:48
Bonus Track
30 Monster Zero March


Both collections are available online (Amazon has them), I didn't want to post any links to them because I'm not sure if Amazon links are allowed.

I did find a very short review on YouTube that shows the color of the vinyls,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqt6MUzjEsY


Not sure if anyone else here cares much about vinyl records but I love them and was pretty excited to find these, and both being double albums and cool colors really won me over.

I hope this post helps anyone else out here into vinyl and Godzilla who maybe (like me) didn't know these came out recently.

Added in 7 minutes 22 seconds:
I also found the same Showa and Heisei soundtrack collections available to stream and listen to on YouTube:

Showa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3FnS6lx-Ds

Heisei:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWKyg3d1QRg

[UltramanGoji]

There's already a thread for this:

https://www.tohokingdom.com/forum/viewt ... =6&t=28626

They're not new albums, they're just vinyl versions of old CDs from the late 90's.

Both collections are available online (Amazon has them), I didn't want to post any links to them because I'm not sure if Amazon links are allowed.

...why would Amazon links not be allowed...? When has that ever been the case for this forum?

[Ultra_Henshin_Fan]

It is the case on some forums not to post Amazon links so I erred on the side of caution.

And I was posting about them specifically because they're records and I collect records and these just came out, and they are very cool records at that. (never seen a pastel green one like the Showa set has.)

I don't believe in, "Just vinyl versions",.. Vinyl is awesome.


But I didn't see the thread you posted so thanks for that.

[Ultra_Henshin_Fan]

They're available on Amazon, I ordered them both and expect them to arrive tomorrow. Pretty excited about them.

Also the Showa set are two pastel green records (sort of like glow in the dark plastic), and the Heisei set is one translucent purple and one pastel green (like the Showa set.)

Would've been color if they were both translucent purple in the Heisei set but I'm not really complaining.

[mikelcho]

It is the case on some forums not to post Amazon links so I erred on the side of caution.

And I was posting about them specifically because they're records and I collect records and these just came out, and they are very cool records at that. (never seen a pastel green one like the Showa set has.)

I don't believe in, "Just vinyl versions",.. Vinyl is awesome.


But I didn't see the thread you posted so thanks for that.

Yes, there is a post for these. I started it.

It's in Toho Media and right now it's on page 1. Hope that helps.

[Ultra_Henshin_Fan]

Yes the link posted that went to it helped.

Sorry for posting in the wrong spot.