Track Listing

1. Autobots
2. Decepticons
3. The All Spark
4. Deciphering The Signal
5. Frenzy
6. Optimus
7. Bumblebee
8. Soccent Attack
9. Sam At The Lake
10. Skorpinok
11. Cybertron
12. Arrival To Earth
13. Whitwicky
14. Downtown Battle
15. Sector 7
16. Bumblebee Captured
17. You're A Soldier Now
18. Sam On The Roof
19. Optimus Vs. Megatron
20. No Sacrifice, No Victory

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3749 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

Amazon.com
Ask, and ye shall receive: When Michael Bay's Transformers came out in the summer of 2007, a soundtrack was issued that gathered a collection of pop and rock songs. But fans clamored for the score so arduously that it was released a few months later. Was it worth it? Steve Jablonsky comes from Hans Zimmer's stable of composers, and anybody with half an ear could have guessed it. Jablonsky's other main influence is pretty much the last 15 years of summer action movies: There's nothing here you haven't heard before, but it's pretty nifty blaring out of a multichannel set-up--though an iPod may do the trick as well. The CD opens with the two main themes ("Autobots" and "Decepticons"), which will be alluded to throughout, particularly in "Sam on the Roof;" the bad guys fare better as "Decepticons" delivers a bigger bang, while the good Autobots get the usual elegiac choir. But forget about subtlety: The best tracks are the full-on aggro ones and are easy to spot: They have titles such as "Frenzy," "Scorponok," "Downtown Battle." Note that half the tracks sport an asterisk indicating a "different version in film," which seems odd, since the album was prompted in large part by fan demand--wouldn't sticking to what's in the film have been be a better way to indulge those who really wanted to hear these cues again? --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Album Description
After the release of this summer's movie blockbuster Transformers and Transformers The Album, fans clamored to hear the orchestral score. An online petition received thousands of signatures; the fans have spoken! The result is Transformers The Score, composed and produced by Steve Jablonsky. A blockbuster franchise has been born and apparently a rabid fan base has taken the music on-screen to heart.

Customer Reviews

Like Gladiator but on a multi-lane highway
Play this in your car when you're trying to get somewhere in a hurry. Very dramatic, serious music that sounds like Gladiator.

Absolutely nothing new
In terms of originality, this score receives two stars from me...perhaps one. This is a Media Ventures/Remote Control Productions score through and through, without any attempts to break the mold. Now, this type of scoring hasn't proliferated without reason; it certainly has a visceral hold--a strangling hold at times--on the listener. If you can ignore or simply have never heard the dozens of scores that came before it with extremely similar melodies, chord progressions, and styles of orchestration, I see little reason not to enjoy this score. I mean, in the brief moments when the power of the music overwhelms my memories of its kin, I do indeed enjoy it a lot. But it never lasts. I've heard enough of these to be barely impressed by another rehash of fun material that's been written for other films. More power to you if you can enjoy it. That's great! =D But I can't help finding it sadly amusing how little this type of score attempts to say anything that hasn't been said through music already, and I'm probably doomed to only truly enjoy the first few MV/RCP scores I ever heard.

Great music to blow stuff up to
A huge, epic sweeping score with explosive themes and incredible textures. If you like action movie music, it doesn't get much better.