Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla Soundtrack 2xLP - Purple w/ White Splatter Vinyl & Blue and Green Cornetto Vinyl (/2000)

Death Waltz / Mondo (2023)

I just rewatched Godzilla vs Space Godzilla for the first time since probably the original US VHS version came out in the lates 90s.  I didn't really like it then and over the years, it seems that popular consensus is that this movie was a stinker.  But I know that opinions change over time and some movies age well, so I wanted to give it a fresh viewing before writing about its soundtrack.  

It's still terrible.  I do not understand how you can go from Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla to this thing.  It's really pretty awful.  The story is silly, the action is suspect and everything about is campy, but not in the way I like my Godzilla movies.  I do think, and have always thought, that the design of Spacegodzilla is excellent.  I just don't know why they couldn't execute a good movie around it.  I also have no idea why he spends a quarter of the movie flying around with Big Rock Candy Mountain strapped to his back.  Bizarre.

For the soundtrack, Akira Ifukube isn't on board after scoring the last few Heisei movies.  Perhaps he wisely passed on it after seeing what it was becoming.  Takayuki Hattori steps in to fill the composer's chair and does a perfectly fine job.  The score is as good a score as you'll find for a pretty bad movie.  There's some interesting percussion and tempo changes mixed in with the usual lush orchestral sounds.  It's cool, but it's also not something I'd listen to very much as it inherently makes me think abotu a movie that isn't much fun to watch.

As usual, Death Waltz and Mondo do a very nice job with the soundtrack.  The art is great, but again is sort of out of place with the others in the series due to a lack of consistency.  As a standalone, it's nice, though I do question why they put Spacegodzilla in Big Rock Candy Mountain mode on the cover.  No matter what, this was going in the collection because the goal is to have the whole series.  Too bad theirs still no vinyl release for the Godzilla vs Biollante soundtrack.

Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla:
https://youtu.be/m6otWwSDw4k?si=dGQAEWfKi1mb1Ryu