© 2006 Lawrence Tuczynski

Title: Godzilla 4
CD Label: Toho Music Corporation
CD Number: GX-4
Music by: Various
Number of tracks: Disc 1 - 14
Disc 2 - 12
Running time: Disc 1 - 56:15
Disc 2 - 57:36
Number of discs: 2
Year of release/manufacture: October 20, 2006

REVIEW

October 27, 2006

Disc 1 starts off with a very familiar track we've heard on several other CD's, the always fun, very upbeat "Godzilla & Jet Jaguar: Punch! Punch! Punch!". Several of the other tracks have also been heard before but here also have rare alternate versions. Exclusive to this CD is the almost five minute "Get (50 monsters roaring)" track. It's a strange track with monster roars, sound effects, dialogue and bits of music. It sounds as if it was scripted to include all this stuff, possibly for release as a children's record at some point. I didn't count but seriously doubt there were 50 monsters roaring on that track. The music sounded very 70's. The longest track, track 14 "Tale (from GODZILLA VS HEDORAH)", seems to be a 14:14 excerpt from the movie complete with dialogue and sound effects.

Disc 2 starts off with 3 long episodes of something called "Crack Monster Unit" containing very little music but lots of dialogue and sound effects. Not understanding Japanese and having no visuals, these tracks don't do much for me. The rest of the tracks are from "Zone Fighter" and are mainly pleasant mid tempo male vocals. They do get a bit repetitious since many of the tracks are just slightly different versions of the same song.

Overall this is a nice 2 CD bonus set.

GODZILLA 4 (GX-4)
Track listing courtesy of Sci-Fi Japan

    BONUS A - KING OF MONSTERS: GODZILLA + EXTRAS
    (A collection of singles and B-sides — some vocals, some marches — most originally released between 1971 and 1973)

    DISC 1

  1. Godzilla & Jet Jaguar: Punch! Punch! Punch! -02:28
  2. Attack Gigan -03:21
  3. Rock Rock Godzilla -03:36
  4. Attack Megalon -02:49
  5. Bride of Godzilla -02:41
  6. Go! Go! Godzilla -03:04
  7. Godzilla March (choral cut version)-03:24
  8. Tale (from GODZILLA VS HEDORAH)-14:12
  9. Get (50 monsters roaring)-04:48 (exclusive CD bonus track)
  10. Rock Rock Godzilla (alternate version)-03:14
  11. Bride of Godzilla (alternate version)-02:57
  12. Godzilla March (with words, no sound effects)-03:08
  13. Attack Gigan (choral cut version)-03:21
  14. Attack Megalon (without dialogue)-02:44

    DISC 2

  1. Crack Monster Unit: T (TADASHI)-14:28 (children’s record)
  2. Crack Monster Unit: Underwater Monster BULLWARA -13:11
  3. Crack Monster Unit: Galaxy Monster KIRASUTA -13:24

    4. ZONE FIGHTER (Ryuseii Ningen Zon, 1973) Theme Songs and Singles Collection

  4. Zone Fighter (TV size)-01:12
  5. Zone Fighter Spirits March (Kadoma Children’s Choir)-01:16
  6. Meteor Victory (one chorus, version 1)-01:07
  7. Meteor Victory (one chorus, version 2)-01:07
  8. Meteor Victory (one chorus, version 3)-01:07
  9. Zone Fighter Spirits March (Kazuya Aoyama version, one chorus)-01:10
  10. Zone Fighter (TV size, karaoke version)-01:12
  11. I am Garoga (karaoke version)-03:49
  12. Zone Fighter Spirits March (karaoke version)-04:09