[GROUP PICK] "You got the touch... You got the power!!!!... YEAH!...." The year is 1986, the golden age of inspirational movie montage music, and a little television show/toy line for children was about to grow the fuck up. After two seasons and a couple of successful lines of toys, Hasbro and Marvel were ready to take "The Transformers" to the silver screen, and they pulled off quite the project. With "The Transformers: The Movie," they brought in some huge talent, such as Leonard Nemoy, Eric Idle, Casey Kasem, Judd Nelson, and Orson Welles to name a few, and wrote a gritty space opera that was somewhere between "Heavy Metal" and "Star Wars..." ...oh, that, and a badass hair metal/synth wave electronic powerhouse soundtrack! Every track just drips with pure 80s sound, with Stan Bush on the power ballads, NRG (later known as Damn Cheetah) & Spectre General lending some heavy hitting metal tunes, and Lion creating possibly the best recreation of a children's cartoon theme ever. Even the brooding synth score, done by Vince DiCola is dynamic and emotional, and gives the movie more gravitas than you would expect for one based on children's toys. However, even with all that and the inclusion of Weird Al Yankovic's much revered classic "Dare to Be Stupid," "The Transformers: The Movie" was a box office failure, making not even $2 million opening weekend, and caused Hasbro to rethink their involvement in future big screen releases (also, weirdly, it was Orson Welles' last film). It has stood the test of time though, becoming a cult classic for it's gritty approach to storytelling along with it's epic music montages that keep you locked in from start to finish... So grab a bowl of cereal, dust off your VHS player, and join us for the peak of the Saturday Morning Cartoon experience with "The Transformers: The Movie" the Soundtrack... with Brad, Jon, Transformer's expert (as well as Brad's older brother) Scott, and Alex & Griffin, members of local cow punk band, Wood Chickens!
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https://woodchickens.bandcamp.com/
SPOTIFY PLAYLIST NUMBER ONE: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Z67Ka5xedSfYIvWw6YNt4?si=GG5CAvtUQ0CWpr74gRn-_A
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