Bumblebee (Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2018 film of the same name directed by Travis Knight, the sixth installment in the Transformers film series. The soundtrack to the film consisted of several popular songs from the 1980s,[1][2] which were released by Republic Records on the same day as the film's release, December 21, 2018. Bumblebee (Motion Picture Score), an album consisting of the film's original score composed by Dario Marianelli, was released by Paramount Music on the same date.[3]
La-La Land Records released the limited edition of the soundtrack pressed to 2,000 copies on May 18,2021.[10]
Track listing
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Cybertron Falls"
1:53
2.
"Bee on the Run"
2:18
3.
"Shutdown"
3:45
4.
"Charlie"
3:07
5.
"Meeting Bumblebee"
4:07
6.
"Dropkick &Shatter Arrive"
1:38
7.
"Chasing Mum"
1:56
8.
"Optimus Prime's Message"
2:05
9.
"Desert Council"
2:08
10.
"Dad's Old Videotapes"
1:09
11.
"Army Meeting"
2:37
12.
"A Diving Volunteer"
1:32
13.
"Pranking Tina"
2:13
14.
"Bee in the Kitchen"
2:33
15.
"Kitchen Chaos"
1:45
16.
"Double Ambush"
2:21
17.
"Charlie Sneaks Out"
0:59
18.
"Death and Resurrection"
2:27
19.
"Bee's Had Enough"
5:15
20.
"Ron's Driving"
1:42
21.
"Marina Tower"
2:55
22.
"Charlie Dives In"
2:38
23.
"Saying Goodbye"
2:26
24.
"Not Quite There"
1:48
Total length:
57:17
Reception
Zanobard Reviews gave 5 out of 10 to the album,saying "the score to Bumblebee is fine. It's not ridiculously great or horrendously awful,it's just…nothing special" and criticised the decision for not featuring Jablonsky's themes.[11] Anton Smit of Soundtrack World commented "This score is a good example of a well-implemented underscore for a movie. It helps with enhancing the emotions that evoked in each scene,but it is just not that interesting to listen to as a stand-alone album- with the exception of the “Charlie”theme. The theme itself is beautiful but is not able to carry the rest of the album."[12]
Filmtracks.com wrote "the score holds its own despite all the song placements,though the acoustic guitar theme for the woman sounds a bit out of tune at times given its broken progressions in comparison to all the tonal songs surrounding its usage. And the absence of a cameo for the Jablonsky theme or the original television show's theme at the reunion scene on the Golden Gate Bridge (Optimus Prime in Freightliner truck mode has never looked so good) is a missed opportunity. But Marianelli's thoughtful entry into this franchise is very well handled and certainly merits his continued involvement."[13] James Southall of Movie Wave wrote "it’s all fine,and shows that Marianelli could do more films like this if he wanted to –he’s demonstrated a side to himself that we didn’t really know was there –but while it’s obviously better than another generic Remote Control score,and while it is proper music,with at times ferociously complex orchestration,it’s not really the most memorable –it’s really in films like Kubo that he can really shine."[14]
Production manager – Frank K. DeWald, Neil S. Bulk
Music supervision – Maggie Rodford
Booth score reader – James T. Sale
Assistant engineer – Jack Mills
Music preparation – Colin Rae, Mark Graham, Victor Pesavento
Executive producer – Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Michael Bay
Liner notes – Daniel Schweiger
Art direction – Dan Goldwasser
Executive in charge of music – Randy Spendlove
Instruments
Bassoon – Kenneth Munday, Patricia Kindel, William May, Rose Corrigan
Cello – Armen Ksajikian, Ben Lash, Cecilia Tsan, Dennis Karmazyn, Eric Byers, Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Evgeny Tonkha, Jacob Braun, Michael Kaufman, Paula Hochhalter, Ross Gasworth, Simone Vitucci, Timothy Loo, Vanessa Freebairn-Smith, Helen Altenbach, Andrew Shulman
Clarinet – Donald Foster, Joshua Ranz, Ralph Williams, Stuart Clark
Contrabass – Brianna Goldberg, David Parmeter, Drew Dembowski, Edward Meares, Geoffrey Osika, Michael Valerio, Stephen Dress, Thomas Harte, Nico Abondolo
Flute – Heather Clark, Jennifer Olson, Geri Rotella
French horn – Amy Rhine, Benjamin Jaber, Dylan Hart, Kaylet Torrez, Laura Brenes, Mark Adams, Mike McCoy, Steven Becknell, David Everson
Harp – Gayle Levant
Oboe – Clair Brazeau-Bratt, Jennifer Cullinan, Lara Wickes, Jessica Pearlman
Percussion – Edward Atkatz, Kenneth McGrath, Wade Culbreath
Trombone – Andrew Martin, William Reichenbach, Phillip Keen, Steven Suminski, Alexander Iles
Trumpet – Mike Stever, Robert Schaer, Thomas Hooten, Jon Lewis
Tuba – Doug Tornquist
Viola – Aaron Oltman, Alma Fernandez, Andrew Duckles, Carolyn Riley, Corinne Sobolewski, David Walther, Erik Rynearson, Zach Dellinger, Jonathan Moerschel, Karoline Menezes-Smith, Laura Pearson, Luke Maurer, Michael Larco, Michael Whitson, Shawn Mann, Victoria Miskolczy, Robert Brophy
Violin – Akiko Tarumoto, Alyssa Park, Amy Hershberger, Ana Landauer, Benjamin Jacobson, Charlie Bisharat, Darius Campo, Dimitrie Leivici, Eun-Mee Ahn, Grace Oh, Heather Powell, Helen Nightengale, Ina Veli, Irina Voloshina, Jacqueline Brand, Jessica Guideri, Joel Pargman, Josefina Vergara, Julie Gigante, Ken Aiso, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Kumar, Lisa Liu, Lorand Lokuszta, Luanne Homzy, Maia Jasper-White, Maya Magub, Natalie Leggett, Nathan Cole, Neil Samples, Phillip Levy, Rafael Rishik, Roberto Cani, Sara Parkins, Sarah Thornblade, Shalini Vijayan, Songa Lee, Tamara Hatwan, Tereza Stanislav, Roger Wilkie
Orchestra
Orchestration – Dario Marianelli, Geoff Alexander
Orchestra conductor – Dario Marianelli
Orchestra contractor – Peter Rotter
Concertmaster – Belinda Broughton
Stage engineer – Erin Rettig
Stage manager – Damon Tedesco, Peter Nelson
Vocals
Alto – Aleta Braxton, Jennifer Haydn-Jones, Jessica Rotter, Jessie Shulman, Kasondra Kazanjian, Laura Smith Roethe, Lesley Leighton, Sara Mann
Bass – Abdiel Gonzalez, Daniel J. O'Brien, David Loucks, Dylan Gentile, Mark Edward Smith, Michael Bannett, Michael Miersma, William Kenneth Goldman
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