The Touch

I'm absolutely pumped up now.

You've just played The Touch.

Yeah, it's a quality song.

Really pumped.

it's time to find out what's new in the world of ACNG.

You got the touch.

You got the power.

That's right, fans.

I reached out to this gentleman and he graciously, immediately, expeditiously, mind you, responded back and said that he would definitely want to come on the show.

And it is none other than the iconic Transformers.

Rockstar himself, Stan Bush, the man behind You Got the Touch and Dare, which is one of the two major songs on the Transformers, the movie, the film and the soundtrack, of course.

I can't tell you how huge it is.

again people are

singing yeah I heard a lot of people singing when the touch starts I don't think there's any way not to start singing at least a little bit

You can.

It's the perfect karaoke song.

No.

And I think all of that is on the screen with Transformers, the movie.

And, you know, we can quiggle about continuity errors and whatever, but there's no denying that the touchstones in the movie are iconic.

And I think, I would say, like, resilient.

I thought and especially with that open like that fucking when that music kicked in and then it was like it was like banger after banger.

And then it was like they played You've Got the Touch by Stan Bush, which is like the other big Transformers song.

And then all the Unicron shit with like the strobing and laughing at Orson Welles' fucking voice.

I was like, this is going to be

Use all 12 tracks in the movie.

And by the way, one of them you were going to have to use several times.

And that's The Touch by Stan Bush.

You'll play that at least three times.

It was good, but it's an absolute banger of a soundtrack.

And Stan Bush gets a couple of, you know, he's got You Got the Touch, Dare as well.

They play them a couple of times.

Instruments of Destruction, is that him? No, I think that's NRG, I think, Instruments of Destruction.

That's all you got.

Stallone is absolutely one of those guys who thought born in the USA was a patriotic song.

Yeah.

I was just going to say that, that that's also kind of a, like, wait a second rage against the machine are liberal.

Knight Slasher, because it's like they know who you want to think it is, but they can't call him the Knight Stalker.

Yeah.

So Stan Bush's song, The Touch from Transformers, the movie was actually originally written for this film.

If you've seen Transformers the movie recently, it's the one that Dirk Diggler sings in Boogie Nights as well.

No. Optimus Prime was the one hero I really looked up to when I was growing up in remembering how much of an effect he had on so many people in generations.

Could you play the recent reformatted edition of the touch by Stan Bush? Thanks for all you guys do love the robo though.

JK grammar.

Oh,

They have zero colons.

Zero colons.

Anyway, this is The Touch.

Here are all those people I just mentioned.

Um, this...

So, so I know before watching this, I know like one shall stand, one shall fall, like that fight scene a- with The Touch playing by Stan Bush.

Mm-hmm.

Dude, I've listened-

You've got the touch

...

I have listened to The Touch so much.

And the other thing about this so- soundtrack that slaps, Vince Di, DiCola or whatever, he is the like guy who has like all the undertones in a lot of the music, who did a lot of the music for this soundtrack.

Now, let's dive headfirst into the glorious synth-fueled animated masterpiece that is The Transformers: The Movie from 1986.

The movie that gave us Orson Welles as a planet-eating giant, Stan Bush single, uh, singing about having the touch, and a body count that requires a group therapy session for an entire generation that has led to the 2026 Apology Tour.

Whether you're here for Hot Rod's questionable decision-making, the hair metal soundtrack, or just to mourn Optimus Prime all over again, we've got you covered.

So grab your Energon cubes and open your matrix of leadership, and let's roll out.

Basically.

So we kind of touched a little bit about the soundtrack.

We all kind of know the song The Touch.

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