Though the obnoxious MTV Movie Awards pre-show tie-in nearly was enough to turn us away, memories of that now-rusty/dusty Optimus Prime figure somewhere in the basement have got us nostalgically anticipating this summer’s CGI spectacle. (Actually, we spent more time with that Autobot that became a boombox, and his little cassette sidekicks that became robo-dudes and/or panthers — and Optimus was a pretty big pussy in his fights with Megatron , wasn’t he). But then came motion-picture-adaptation strike two: the soundtrack tracklist…
01 Linkin Park – “What I’ve Done”
02 Smashing Pumpkins – “Doomsday Clock”
03 Disturbed – “This Moment”
04 Goo Goo Dolls – “Before It’s Too Late (Sam and Mikaela’s Theme)”
05 The Used – “Pretty Handsome Awkward”
06 HIM – “Passion’s Killing Floor”
07 Taking Back Sunday – “What It Feels Like To Be A Ghost”
08 Styles of Beyond – “Second To None”
09 Armor for Sleep – “End Of The World”
10 Idiot Pilot – “Retina And The Sky”
11 Julien-K – “Technical Difficulties”
12 Mutemath – “Transformers Theme”
What, no Strokes?
Mutmath covering the “Transformers Theme”: more or less painfully unforgettable?
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I actually made audible “oof”s as I read through that tracklist.
all that and a strokes tee. fantastic.
Sorry to be pedantic but that “Autobot that became a boombox” was actually a Decepticon. His name was Soundwave and he had a really cool voice.
HIM, lol.
Now someone just has to combine those Zeiteist Corgan pics with this predetermined shitfest, and my summer will be complete before it even begins.
There were both an Autobot (Blaster) and a Decepticon (Soundwave) who turned into boomboxes.
Soundwave was cooler, though, for sure.
not trying to be a hater, but the soundtrack should be called Suckticon
ew.
Between this and the Simpson’s tracklist… seriously?
At least it’s pretty obvious who they’re aiming this at.
From the looks of things, I won’t have to bother picking up that new Smashing Pumpkins album.
Cool. Yeah, I hear the movie opens with the unveiling of a cool new robot whose special power is that he makes it the year 2000 again. The he transforms into a giant bottle of Zima and rolls away to the music.
i thought N.E.R.D. was doing the soundtrack?
If any of these songs are actually “featured” in the movie I’ll be surprised. You are looking at every song that will be in the closing credits and on every 2 second radio broadcast that comes out of Bumblee’s radio when he turns into a car.
The soundtrack for the first movie kicked more ass.
I’m sorry, but if you don’t know Blaster’s name, then you have no fucking right to go around calling Optimus Prime a pussy. (The dude was a scientist originally, so cut him a break.) As much as I love Soundwave, fuck him – Blaster was cooler and so were his tapes.
Also, what the fuck did you expect from a summer blockbuster’s soundtrack?
See, they just couldn’t do Soundwave or Blaster nowadays, whether in Fisher-Price-looking-toy/badly-animated-’toon/bloated-movie-form.
Ah, but go to Target and ye shall find brand new movie tie-in Transformers that change into cellphones, mp3 players and handheld video games.
I bet you Other Matthew is the guy who got that awesome Zune tattoo.
What? They couldn’t get anyone to cover “You’ve Got the Touch”? from the original movie?
WHere’s Nickelback?
I agree with Ts, the original animated movie soundtrack was killer. The best 80s cheese metal ever. Dare, Instruments of Destruction, Nothings Gonna Stand in Our Way and Weird Al’s Dare to be Stupid were all pure gold. But You’ve Got the Touch is its crowning achievement.
Obviously the ‘Gum hasnt seen this masterpiece of 80s movie magic. Otherwise they would have remembered Blaster and wouldn’t have dared to call Optimus a pussy. That fight scene with Megatron is pure gold.
So who cramed the Poo Poo Dolls in between Disturbed and HIM on a soundtrack? I’d like to see the resume of that SCMUCK who was hired as ‘musical supervisor’.
“i thought N.E.R.D. was doing the soundtrack?”
i think pharrell’s supposed to do a voltron soundtrack
So surprised The Strokes aren’t on it, after all that product placement.
Ts – why should they get anyone to cover it? Stan Bush is still alive and cranking out albums! Yet another talented singer that gets no play in the States because he’s not a boy band, white-trash tramp, or one of those sound-alike alterna bands whose fans say “I’m so original because I listen to them.”
Yes, that soundtrack sucks. But the movie looks wicked! You may recall that both the original tv series and the cartoon movie were both plagued by hair metal soundtracks. Remember Lion? Spectre General? So, this is probably 2007′s equivalent to hair metal. Hopefully it ends up being the kind of movie where you don’t even hear the actual songs. Like I never even heard half the songs in Spiderman 3 when I was watching the movie. But knowing Transformers, they’ll kick into action when Linkin Park comes screaming out of the THX soundsystem! ugh.
In case you forgot Michael Bay was directing this movie.
Hey, the Pumpkins track for the George Clooney Batman flick was a pretty good hit, why can’t this one be?
Ummm there was only one autobot who was a boombox and he was blaster. soundwave wasn’t a boombox but a regular tapedeck. there is a difference. how the hell can that guy wear a strokes shirt and have this horrible soundtrack. I was thinking interpol, strokes, the killers, Franz ferdinand, and modest mouse not shit that my 12 year old brothers friends listen to.
there better be Stan Bush’s “THE TOUCH” or there will be HELL TO PAY!!!!!
I don’t think the Transformers movie, good or bad, will have very much in common with either the original Transformers: The Movie, or the old cartoon.
And Spiderman 3 had an awesome soundtrack, but not a single song made it into the actual film. So don’t worry about this lame soundtrack ruining the movie at all.
Stan Bush actually was brought in to cut a new song for this movie. I heard it and it sounds like he called in the little brothers of all the members of Linkin Park to write the music. There’s a robotic voice that chants “TRANSFORMERS!” through the whole song over a horribly generic riff replicating the cartoon’s theme. Then he proceeds to crap all over the franchise with his wannabe raps. “The Touch” is a song that he cannot beat. There is this undescribable quality about 80s movie songs that just cannot be topped. They are the perfect combination of over-the-top instrumentals, terribly cheesy lyrics sung completely sincerely, and they always have to tie in with a montage of some sort.
I enjoyed Boogie Nights also partly because of that Stan Bush classic.
“The End Is the Beginning Is the End” off of the Batman soundtrack was awesome but Billy loeses points for having a song off of “Zeitgeist” on this soundtrack, especially cause this soundtrack is being released a week before “Zeitgeist” is.
I love the idea of fans worrying that a crappy pop-metal soundtrack might ruin a movie based on an 80′s cartoon that was designed to sell toys. The movie is going to suck, and the soundtrack has nothing to do with it.
Also, The Goo Goo Dolls? Really?
“I was thinking interpol, strokes, the killers, Franz ferdinand, and modest mouse…”
wait for it:
“…not shit that my 12 year old brothers friends listen to.”
AHAHAHA! Epic lols! So you wanted the shit your 28-year-old brother’s friends listen to? What, like Optimus Prime now wears black frames and Megatron wears argyle sweaters from Urban Outfitters?
But seriously, I’m with Clanger. No one should care about the music, because Transformers wasn’t ever really about the music. It was about sweet looking robots that shape-shifted, and holy fuck didn’t you want one? And I doubt that much of the “soundtrack” will actually be featured; these days they usually have the film’s “soundtrack” to feature bands and artists used to promote the movie, and the “original score” for the music actually used in the movie.
Let me “nerd” in here…
The autobot boombox was called blaster and he was a little “ghetto” he had 5 tapes that turned into 2 animals and 2 little robots (according to wikipedia). I only remember him because he came out on the down side of the series and was one of the first toys to be totally cheap plastic (therefore making it much less expensive so my folks could afford it). I think I still have it around somewhere. And I’m totally w/ colin and clanger: kcuf the music. You won’t even notice it with the wicked cgi.
Check out what Soundwave is doing now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TYzRanykbQ
what is the song featured when Bumble Bee goes from old-looking car…to cool new car?
Much appreciated
yea what Gabe asked. the name of the song when bumble bee turns into the new camaro.
great song.
well the mute math cover is actually pretty amazing and it is sad that the WB record label made them shack up with all those pitiful bands. (minus the smashing pumpkins only because they made some good songs in the 90′s)
they should have taken all of the humor and product placement out of transformers, and made all the robots have a penis. and instead of that slut of a female star and the guy from holes, they should have had riddick from pitch black join forces with the autobots, and then the whole movie could have been the decepticons destroying the earth and shooting soldiers in the face and then the autobots and riddick destroying the decepticons, all the while having mute math and drum and bass play in the background.
now that is my idea of a freaking movie.
Gabe and joejoe the track your looking for is: “Battle Without Honor or Humanity” – Tomoyasu Hotei. I think you can find it on the Kill Bill soundtrack or try doing an audio search on MetaCrawler for it, to check it’s the right one!
Right guys they screwed up anyway ure right sound wave went into a boom box so did blaster but,
Jazz was the cop car not Barricade and wasnt Bone crusher part of the constructercons i belive there will be a second 1 coz theres only 1 deceptercon that can get to them and thats Tidalwave p.s bumblebee was a vw beetle lol
when bumblebee scans and replicates the looks of the 2009 camaro the music playing is “Battle Without Honor or Humanity” by Tomoyasu Hotei. It can be found on the Kill Bill Vol. 1 soundtrack – track 9
transformers geek moment here: Soundwave was a small almost walkman style cassette player, blaster was a medium sized “boom box”, jazz was a porche, bonecrusher was a constucticon. Any version of barracade was put out after I stopped picking up the toys so i dont know his original shape. As for the music, it does not affect the movie at all. The CG takes center stage as well as the fight seqences.
Not to be a pain – but the decepticon that came out of Barricade and was the boom box and mobile phone is actually called Frenzy: http://www.transformers-movie-buzz.com/news/219/transformers-bio-frenzy-decepticon.php
From Wikipedia….
“Transformers 2007 movie
Transformers character
Frenzy
Affiliation Decepticon
Sub-Group Micro Vehicles
Partner Barricade
Motto “Sow panic and surrender will bloom.”
Alternate Modes Boombox
Mobile phone (head)
Series 2007 Transformers movie
English voice actor Reno Wilson
Frenzy appears in the live-action Transformers movie. He takes on the stealth spy role that was originally Soundwave. The movie’s creators have stated that the character design had evolved too far from being Soundwave.
In the film Frenzy is small, and very thin, standing at around 3 feet tall. His alternate mode is shown as a silver GPX boombox, with round speakers and blue diode-lights. When his head is detached, it can turn into a Mobile phone. His weapons include a small automatic weapon on each hand and CD-like shurikens that fire out of his chest. His character is manic, sometimes comedic, and he is the only Decepticon with blue colored optics, rather than the usual red.
Frenzy is an effective spy due to his size and skinny body. However, he speaks in Cybertronian gibberish at times and is often damaged in battle.”
What is the name of the song when optimus prime comes from space and lands on earth??????