Track Listing

1. Footsteps FX [From Godzilla 1954]
2. Godzilla Main Title [From Godzilla 1954]
3. Ootojima Temple Festival [From Godzilla 1954]
4. Japanese Army March [From Godzilla 1954]
5. Godzilla Comes Ashore [From Godzilla 1954]
6. Godzilla's Rampage [From Godzilla 1954]
7. Ending [From Godzilla 1954]
8. Main Title [Godzilla Raids Again]
9. Helicopter/Man Screams/Sos FX [From King Kong Vs. Godzilla]
10. Main Title [From King Kong Vs. Godzilla] - Peanuts
11. Kon Kong Roars FX [From King Kong Vs. Godzilla]
12. Planning King Kong's Transport [From King Kong Vs. Godzilla]
13. Mothra's Song
14. Mothra FX [From Mothra Vs. Godzilla]
15. Main Title [From Mothra Vs. Godzilla]
16. Sacred Springs [From Mothra Vs. Godzilla]
17. Main Title/Monsters Appear in Yokohama [Ghidorah the Three Headed Monst
18. UFO Approaches/Monsters Fight FX/Monster Battle March (Main Title) ...
19. Main Title [From Son of Godzilla]
20. Godzilla Vs. Kumonga [From Son of Godzilla]
21. Ending [From Son of Godzilla]
22. Godzilla FX/Toho Mark/Main Title (Destroy All Monsters)
23. Title Credits (Destroy All Monsters)
24. Four Monsters Attack Tokyo (Destroy All Monsters)
25. Destroying the Remote Control (Destroy All Monsters)
26. Showdown on MT. Fuji (Destroy All Monsters)
27. Ending (Destroy All Monsters)
28. Cute Kid Theme/Monster Fight [All Monsters Attack]
29. Godzilla's Fight [Godzilla Vs. Hedorah]
30. Main Title [Godzilla Vs. Gigan]
31. Main Title (Repeat) [Godzilla Vs. Gigan]
32. Godzilla March [Godzilla Vs. Gigan][Version]
33. Jet Jaguar/Megalon FX [From Godzilla Vs. Megalon]
34. Main Title [From Godzilla Vs. Megalon]
35. Godzilla of Monser Island [From Godzilla Vs. Megalon]
36. Mechagodzilla FX [From Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla]
37. Godzilla Vs. Anguiras [From Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla]
38. Miyarabi's Prayer [From Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla]
39. Main Title [Terror of Mechagodzilla]
40. Mechagodzilla II [Terror of Mechagodzilla]
41. Godzilla's Entrance [Terror of Mechagodzilla]
42. Ending [Terror of Mechagodzilla]
43. Theme from Godzilla

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #241674 in Music
• Released on: 1998-02-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack, Import

From Amazon.com
Despite the best--no, make that worst--efforts of a Hollywood studio to destroy his legacy in the '90s, Godzilla lives! Okay, we know, the original Gojira is still just an underpaid and overworked stuntman in a clumsy rubber suit, but that just makes the Big Guy's half-century legacy all the more remarkable. Perhaps the most underrated element of Kaiju Eiga (the Japanese term for the prolific, internationally successful monster genre spawned by the World's Biggest Radioactively Mutated Reptile with an Attitude) is its earnest, nightmarish music. The Toho Studios series' cheese-factor may have waxed and waned (mostly the former) in ensuing years, but its music maintained a remarkably even keel. The dark, often minimalist efforts of original composer Akira Ifukube set the tone, coloring much of the toy-city stomping with ominous, nerve-wracking cues. But as the genre entered the swinging '60s, a deliciously skewed pop sensibility began to take hold, as Tokyo now saw its property insurance rates skyrocket to a soundtrack increasingly informed by warbling chanteuses and twangy guitars. GNP-Crescendo offers up a generous and sampling of the first 20 years of Kaiju Eiga music here, complete with annotation and lavish color artwork that would put many major-label anthologies to shame. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

Monster Movie Essential
This is just fantastic! If you're a big fan of the Great Rubbery One then this is an essential purchase. It covers 15 different Godzilla films from the 1954 original, all the way up to the Terror of Mechagodzilla in 1975. There are 5 different composers featured on the CD, which makes the music featured much more diverse than you might imagine. Naturally Akira Ifukube makes more appearances than anyone else. And his score for the first movie makes a number of different appearances, in various forms, throughout the period covered. However none of his scores sounds repetative. Each one is very unique to the film it accompanied. Then there's the fantastic beat style music used for some of the 1960's movies that stands up better than the films they appeared in. There's loads of Ghidorah roars and weird alien space craft effects included for good measure as well.

As I say, if you're a big fan of the early films then you'll love this CD. Now, where did I put that VHS copy of Destroy All Monsters...?