Description
Best of Godzilla 1954 - 1975
Double Vinyl LP £26.99
Tracklist:
1-7. Suite from GODZILLA
8. GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN - Main Title
9-12. Suite from KING KONG vs GODZILLA
13. MOTHRA - Mothra''s Song
14-16. Suite from MOTHRA vs GODZILLA
17. GHIDORAH THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER Main Title/Monsters Appear in Yokohama
18. INVASION OF THE ASTRO-MONSTER Monster FX/Monster Battle March
19-21. Suite from SON OF GODZILLA
22-27. Suite from DESTROY ALL MONSTERS
28. Suite from ALL MONSTERS ATTACK
29. GODZILLA vs HEDORAH Godzilla''s Fight
30-32. Suite from GODZILLA vs GIGAN
33-35. Suite from GODZILLA vs MEGALON
36-38. Suite from GODZILLA vs MECHAGODZILLA
39-42. Suite from TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA
43. Theme from GODZILLA
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
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