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Title |
Godzilla: Final Wars |
International Title |
Godzilla:
Final Wars |
Music By: Keith
Emerson |
Record Label: Victor
Entertainment |
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Running Time: 69:07 |
Discs: 1 |
Release: December
2004 |
CD Number: VICP-62936 |
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Comments |
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Anthony
Romero |
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The soundtrack
for the 50th Anniversary Godzilla film is a slight mixed bag.
The music itself was divided amongst three composers: Keith
Emerson, Daisuke Yano and Nobuhiko Morino. Emerson's work makes
up the majority of this score, but not by a very large margin.
It would be interesting to know what the back story behind
this decision might have been, as Emerson was officially announced
during the movie's production and the addition of the two composers
behind Alive's score weren't known until fairly late
in the process, especially that they would be doing such a
huge part of it.
Regardless, the final
soundtrack is an uneven effort. There are some great
themes here, like "The Beginning of the End" and "The
Arrival", while also some fairly awful ones like
"Back in Action" and the made-for-TV-esque "End
Titles". The disc rounds out its runtime with six additional
tracks (24-29) by Emerson. Most of these didn't appear in the
actual film, while two of them were spliced together to form
the "End Titles" that were used. Emerson also does
an "update" of two Akira
Ifukube themes for this disc, with the first being of the "Monster
Zero March" and the second being of the "Godzilla
Theme".
Overall, it's not a bad CD, but there are enough questionable
cues here to probably turn off a few, while those looking for
a more "traditional" type of Godzilla score akin to Ifukube's
efforts will likely be disappointed.
As a bit of side notation, the soundtrack is far from full
full. On one hand, it's missing the two stock Masaru
Sato themes and the SUM 41 song, although these can be
found on other releases. Beyond that, though, there are a lot of new themes that were also left out, which would debut on the Godzilla Soundtrack Perfect Collection - Box 6.
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Tracks |
- Theme of Godzilla
By: Akira Ifukube
- The King of the Monsters
By: Daisuke
Yano
- The Beginning of the End
By: Nobuhiko Morino
- Manda vs. Gotengo
- Manda vs. Gotengo Part 2
- Training Facility Fight
- EDF Museum
- Infant Island
- Rodan Attacks N.Y.C
- The Arrival
By: Daisuke
Yano
- The Proof
By: Nobuhiko Morino
- Reveal
By: Nobuhiko Morino
- High Battle
- Operation : Final War
By: Nobuhiko Morino
- Area G
By: Nobuhiko Morino
- Return of the King
By: Daisuke
Yano
- Ready for Rumble
By: Daisuke
Yano
- Kazama's Sacrifice
- Back in Action
By: Nobuhiko Morino
- Awaken
By: Daisuke
Yano
- Fight Back
By: Daisuke
Yano
- The Rising
By: Daisuke
Yano
- Ending Title
- Awakening G.
- Respect G.
- First Meeting
- Monster Zero March
- Cruising the Cittro-Stratus
- Godzilla Main Theme
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