Godzilla: Tokyo SOS Soundtrack LP - White w/ Red Splatter Vinyl & Red Vinyl (/2000)

 

Death Waltz / Mondo

Tokyo SOS is a direct follow-up to 2002's Godzilla x Mechagodzilla, making these two movies the only ones in the millennium series that aren't standalones.  Both benefit from that and I wish there had been more continuity from movie to movie in the 2000s.  Like its predecessor, this film is a high water mark for the millennium series with a great story, excellent monster fighting action and pretty much everything I'm looking for in a Godzilla movie.

The soundtrack is once again turned in by Michiru Oshima and she does her usual serviceable job.  Of the shoundtracks she's done, none of them really soar to the heights of anything Ifukube composed, but when you compare them to some other soundtracks, particularly the dreck that is Giant Monsters All Out Attack, her stuff is looking pretty good.

At this point the critiques and compliments for the vinyl release of this soundtrack are pretty much the same as they are for all of the other Death Waltz / Mondo versions.  Nice artwork that I wish had more in common with the other releases in the series, an obi, an interesting D side screen print and nothing major you can really complain about.  It's always quality work, but when you line everything up next to each other it's all so weirdly disparate that you'd never know they were all part of the same series.  Also, when you compare them to the Showa box set that Waxworks did, they tend to not seem quite as great in comparison.

This is also the last Godzilla movie soundtrack that Mondo released as they have neglected Godzilla: Final Wars the same way they neglected Godzilla vs Biollante.  It's extraordinarily frustrating to have those massive holes in the collection, especially since Mondo thought it was more important to make sure that they got soundtracks out for the three 90s Mothra movies.  That's a choice I'll never understand.  And I bought those ones too, so more on those in future weeks.

Godzilla: Tokyo SOS Soundtrack ("Mothra Suite"):
https://youtu.be/0lg5dHNWUgA?si=YRkYUZKVG5ubB74L