Transformers: The Score

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Transformers: The Score
Warner Bros.
ProducerSteve Jablonsky[1]
Transformers film soundtrack chronology
Transformers: The Album
(2007) 		Transformers: The Score
(2007) 		Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – The Album
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
iTunes[2]
A short excerpt from Track Seven - "Bumblebee"; this track is stylistically representative of much of the score.

Transformers: The Score is a soundtrack that features the musical score by film composer Steve Jablonsky for the 2007 film Transformers. It was released October 9, 2007, on Jablonsky's 37th birthday and exactly one week before the film's DVD release date. According to the back of the CD cover, 11 of the 20 tracks are arranged differently from what is heard in the actual film, resulting in extended but accurately complete soundtracks.

History

Sony Music Entertainment announced early in July 2007 that, "at this time, there are no immediate plans regarding the release of the Transformers soundtrack score".[3]
This received criticism from some fans of the movie. An unofficial online petition was set up at The Knight Shift to persuade Sony Records to release just Jablonsky's score as a CD soundtrack. (Warner Bros. Records, however, actually owned the rights to the music.) At the end of the opening month for Transformers in July 2007, the petition had over two thousand signatures. At the end of August, when Warner Bros. Records announced that a CD containing the score was going to be released (only two months after the petition had been created), 5,505 signatures had been registered.

CD track listing

# Title Key Scenes/Notes Duration
1 "Autobots" The extended introduction theme accompanying
Optimus Prime's narration explaining the origins of the All Spark Cube as the viewer sees it fall to Earth thousands of years before the events of the film. Portions of this track are also used in the scene where naval ships are deployed at sea during Defense Secretary
John Keller's debriefing. 		2:33
2 "Decepticons" Parts of this track are used throughout the film to emphasize the threat of the
Starscream
mobilizes the other Decepticons; that is an unreleased piece of music). 		3:51
3 "The All Spark"
Sam Witwicky, Mikaela Banes
, and all of the other major human characters are introduced to the giant All Spark Cube hidden inside Hoover Dam. 		3:34
4 "Deciphering the Signal" Defense Secretary John Keller debriefs Congress on the mysteriously fatal attack in Qatar, and reveals a foreign communication signal as their only clue. It is also used in the Chevrolet Autobot Headquarters website. The track includes solos by Martin Tillman. 3:08
5 "Frenzy" The main human characters gather inside a locked room inside Hoover Dam and witness the power of the All Spark Cube to create (and destroy) Cybertronian life. (The character Frenzy actually does not appear until the next scene, after this music has ended. The title of the track may, instead, refer to the crazed and uncontrollable actions of the tiny "newborn" Cybertronian inside the hardened glass box. Hints of the Decepticons theme can be heard but is noticeably changed). 1:56
6 "Optimus" The
Transformers: Movie Prequel
). 		3:15
7 "Bumblebee" Heard primarily when Bumblebee is freed from confinement inside Hoover Dam, and is taken to the All Spark where he shrinks it down. Parts of this track are also played when Bumblebee shatters the windows of the other used cars at Bobby Bolivia's lot, and during his fight against Barricade. The music is reflective of its usage in the film; it builds and builds, culminating in a full-orchestra version of an extension of the melody from "The All Spark". 3:58
8 "SOCCENT Attack" Blackout and Scorponok attack the SOCCENT U.S. military base in Qatar. Also used when Megatron breaks free from his frozen state inside the Hoover Dam and escapes outside the Dam. 2:07
9 "Sam at the Lake" Sam Witwicky goes with his friend Miles and meet up with Mikaela Banes and their classmates. Part of it is also used before this when he first returns home after purchasing his car (actually Bumblebee) and is checking his eBay auctions. 1:59
10 "Scorponok" The showdown between Scorponok and the surviving U.S. soldiers at a small desert village in Qatar. Also used in part when Frenzy breaks into the alien archives through the air ducts inside the Hoover Dam and when the Autobots drive to Mission City. It is also used in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, when NEST enters Egypt and Capt. Lennox pushes Theodore Galloway out. (The title of the track is misspelled "Skorpinok" in the electronic listings inside the CD itself, but appears normally on the CD cover and case booklet). 4:57
11 "Cybertron" Optimus Prime tells Sam Witwicky and Mikaela Banes the history of the planet Cybertron, where the Transformers come from, and how Captain Witwicky found Megatron and went insane afterwards. The beginning portion of the track is played when Mikaela tells Sam about why she was called a "criminal" after unlocking his handcuffs. 2:46
12 "Arrival to Earth" The
Transformers: The Last Knight – Music from the Motion Picture
. 		5:26
13 "Witwicky" Though broken into several sequential parts in the film, it is heard primarily at the beginning of the scene where the Autobots hide in the Witwicky backyard- particularly from when Sam's dad confronts him on the back porch, up to when Sam runs into the house with Mojo.

(The title of the track is misspelled "Whitwicky" in the electronic listings inside the CD itself, but appears normally on the CD cover and case booklet. Ironically, a running gag through the film is various characters mispronouncing the name Witwicky).

1:57
14 "Downtown Battle" The Air Force is preparing to launch for Mission City upon orders from Secretary Keller, and when the Sector 7 vehicles & Autobots arrive there. Also used when Starscream fires upon the group of humans and Autobots. 1:33
15 "Sector 7" The Autobots help Sam Witwicky and Mikaela Banes escape from Sector 7's clutches and run off. (Tracks # 15 and 16 are actually one song which is 4:25 min long that is broken into two separate tracks. Hence, there is no pause between them). 2:05
16 "Bumblebee Captured" Bumblebee is captured after he saves Sam Witwicky and Mikaela Banes, who slipped and fell off Optimus Prime while hiding under a bridge. 2:17
17 "You're a Soldier Now" Megatron arrives and
Bonecrusher
on the highway. 		3:27
18 "Sam on the Roof" Sam Witwicky is cornered by Megatron on the roof of an old abandoned building after Starscream shoots down the
Black Hawk
 helicopter sent to receive the All Spark from him. 		2:02
19 "Optimus vs. Megatron" The final showdown between Optimus Prime and Megatron in the city. Blackout is also destroyed by Captain William Lennox and some F-22s during this scene, and Starscream attacks the Air Force's incoming
Raptors
. 		3:59
20 "No Sacrifice, No Victory" The surviving Autobots collect themselves together at the end of the Mission City battle, paying thanks to the humans, and Secretary Keller announces that Sector 7 is to be disbanded, with the remains of the Decepticons will be sunken at the bottom of the
Laurentian Abyss. Also used in the "I Rise, You Fall" track from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – The Score
, "There is No Plan" track from Transformers: Dark of the Moon – The Score' and "Calling All Autobots" track from "Transformers: The Last Knight - Music from the Motion Picture". 		2:57

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 18, and 20 are marked (*) on the CD cover, case backing, and inner booklet with a subtext of "different version in film". This may refer to the fact that these tracks, though complete on the CD as originally scored, are not heard in their entirety in the film or are broken up.

Other unreleased music

Approximately one month before its release, ten soundtracks were provided free of charge as a downloadable file over the Internet, requiring the use of DirectX software to be heard. However, with the exception of the track that would become Track #19: "Optimus vs. Megatron", they were all altered, shortened, or mixed-together and of what would be released onto the official CD, though indeed containing original score music heard in the film:

  • Aftermath (Track #20: "No Sacrifice, No Victory")
  • Blackout Attacks (Track #8: "SOCCENT Attack")
  • Bumblebee Captured (Track #16: "Bumblebee Captured")
  • Scorponok (Track #10: "Scorponok")
  • The Final Battle (Track #17: "You're a Soldier Now")
  • The Final Battle, Part 2 (Track #19: "Optimus vs. Megatron")

Four tracks included in this file were not included in any way at all in the official CD release:

References

  1. ^ "Hans-Zimmer.com - Transformers". Retrieved February 12, 2016.
  2. ^ iTunes review
  3. ^ "Sony Music: "No immediate plans" to release Jablonsky TRANSFORMERS score". The Knight Shift. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
  4. ^ "Transformers Score Coming Out Soon!". The Knight Shift. Retrieved August 4, 2007.
  5. ^ "Sony Music: "no information on this record, since it is not a Sony BMG release"; Diamond Select: "We are not associated"". Marco van Bergen. Archived from the original on May 20, 2009. Retrieved August 14, 2007.
  6. ^ "Shoot For The Edit". Archived from the original on September 27, 2007.
  7. ^ "TRANSFORMERS score album set for October 9th release!". The Knight Shift. Retrieved August 26, 2007.

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