Vince DiCola
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Sep 26, 2026
Chris MitchellGUEST
yes yeah
Nathan EvansHOST
Love Vince DiCola.
Nathan EvansHOST
And if anybody, I don't know if you agree with me, Sebastian, but if you want to hear another sister album to this, to Transformers, I recommend the soundtrack to Rocky IV.
Chris MitchellGUEST
oh yeah okay
Nathan EvansHOST
But please, if you want to hear a soundtrack that sounds exactly like Transformers, go watch, go listen to Rocky IV.
Chris MitchellGUEST
Right.
Nathan EvansHOST
Like some of the songs, like even the Vince DiCola stuff, he did it, it sounded exactly like Transformers.
Chris MitchellGUEST
Right, and the same notes.
NikkiHOST
a lot of it sounds exactly like ACDC.
NikkiHOST
Composer Vince DiCola provided the film's futuristic, dramatic pulse with his intricate electronic and keyboard arrangements, highlighting crucial moments.
NikkiHOST
And then songwriter Stan Bush anchored the soundtrack with his soaring, iconic rock albums such as The Touch.
NikkiHOST
and Dare, which became a permanently edged in pop culture as the ultimate themes of heroism.
Logan MiddletonHOST
He's great.
Logan MiddletonHOST
You've always been more of a Vince DiCola guy.
Logan MiddletonHOST
totally um but yeah we get what we want we got the fanfare for rocky we've got the mickey theme we've got all these great little piano montages it's britney bitch but we've got the very extended version of take you back which is fucking dope that goes throughout the whole opening scene of the mill the movie
speaker_0UNKNOWN
frank stallone sings take you back do do do do take you back
Mike SeibertHOST
when I make my case for who becomes who.
Mike SeibertHOST
[laughs] But, but then Megatron kind of, uh, slides into frame here, and he is also explicitly not moving as the Vince DiCola score settles into a key that is both whimsical and unsettling.
Mike SeibertHOST
Like, this is, uh, yet another, uh, reprise, reinterpretation of the Unicron theme.
Mike SeibertHOST
But like here, it gets, it gets really twinkly and very weird.
Michael BurgettHOST
And I bought it on CD back when I was a teenager and still own the soundtrack to it.
Michael BurgettHOST
But Vince DiCola's score, I never noticed it as a kid.
Michael BurgettHOST
And I mentioned it before in my Rocky IV episode, how much I love that film.
Michael BurgettHOST
Vince DiCola did the soundtrack to Rocky IV.
Michael BurgettHOST
And, like, listening to hear...
Michael BurgettHOST
it really did kind of stand out a lot more of how there's similarities, and it goes back to it being like an electronic 80s sound, but it is kind of interesting and cool that two of my favorite films both kind of have that same musical vibe to them, and I really kind of noticed it a lot more in this rewatch than I had previously, but...
Mike SeibertHOST
And the thing that we forget is.
Mike SeibertHOST
is that all of these scotty brothers acts that were on the original soundtrack album were themselves completely different like you know um kick-axe was different from lion that was different from nrg which was obviously different from stan bush and even like the stu the two stan bush songs are different from each other because one of them is a Stan Bush song, and the other one is a Vince DiCola song that they hired Stan Bush to sing on.
Mike SeibertHOST
Um...
Mike SeibertHOST
And then you throw in a Weird Al, which was already like an established song that was on an album.
MattHOST
I have listened to The Touch so much.
MattHOST
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.
EricHOST
The score.
EricHOST
Yeah.
MattHOST
... like a 9 out of 10 from me.
EricHOST
[laughs]
MattHOST
'Cause I love Vince DiCola for...
MattHOST
And I, and I heard like, I heard those notes and those themes in this score and I was like, "Yeah, dude, like this is some good ass shit here."
Andy DecadeHOST
It'll be on something.
Andy DecadeHOST
There's also the Till All Are One, a comprehensive documentary looking back at Transformers, the movie, with members of the cast and crew, including Flint Dille, cast members Gregg Berger, Susan Blu, Neil Ross, Dan Gilvezan, songwriter Stan Bush, uh, composer Vince DiCola, and others.
Andy DecadeHOST
[clapping] Uh, there's also He's Got the Touch: Stan Bush Looks Back at the Transformers Movie.
Andy DecadeHOST
Uh, archival featurettes.
James EatockHOST
In fact, it's kind of planet-sized.
James EatockHOST
And then Vince Dicola's music creates a sense of a mighty behemoth.
James EatockHOST
what is this what is this giant giant planet but it's like a it's like a robotic planet heading towards an unknown target yes the giant planet it's awesome wells it's unicron it's transformers the movie
James SmithHOST
So, yeah, Transformers, the movie, we have actually recorded it.
KevinHOST
And on my DVD copy, there's a...
KevinHOST
The only special feature is an interview with Vince DiCola, who was a composer that got his gig from his work on Rocky IV, and is why the Unicron theme is very similar to what was used for Ivan Drago-
JustinHOST
Hmm
KevinHOST
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