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Title: Godzilla Legend (Box Set)
CD Label: Bridge Inc. / King Records
CD Number: BRIDGE-175/178 (NKCD-5065/5068)
Music by: Makoto Inoue (with Takeo Yahiro and chorus on Disc 4)
Music Composed by: Akira Ifukube and other composers)
Number of tracks: Disc 1: 13
Disc 2: 14
Disc 3: 19
Disc 4: 16
Running time: Disc 1: 41:21
Disc 2: 45:36
Disc 3: 41:29
Disc 4: 45:01
Number of discs: 4
Year of release/manufacture: October 04, 2014

REVIEW

March 09, 2021

Reissue of the 1991 "GODZILLA LEGEND" 3-CD box set (www.godzillamonstermusic.com/KICA72~4.htm), which itself was a reissue of Makoto Inoue's first three "Godzilla Legend" synthesizer LPs from the 1980s. This updated set omits most of the previous edition's bonus tracks, but adds a 4th disc featuring an abbreviated, reshuffled version of "Godzilla Legend IV", a collaboration between Inoue and Takeo Yahiro of the Bukimisha Weird Secret Society, originally released on CD in 2011. (www.godzillamonstermusic.com/GRF-GL1.htm) Unlike the previous edition's heavy cardboard box and jewel cases, the discs in the reissue are packaged in individual vinyl replica sleeves in a clear plastic slipcase, along with a substantial booklet.

Godzilla Legend (Box Set) [BRIDGE-175/178NKCD-5065/5068]

    Disc 1

    Godzilla Legend I

    Godzilla (1954)

  1. Godzilla's Theme

    2. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

  2. Main Title
  3. King Kong vs. Godzilla
  4. The Plan to Transport King Kong

    5. Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)

  5. Sacred Springs ~ Mothra Sets Off
  6. Godzilla Attacks

    7. Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

  7. The Kurobe Valley Theme
  8. King Ghidorah Appears!

    9. Destroy All Monsters (1968)

  9. Earth Monsters Join Forces
  10. Destroy All Monsters March

    11. Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

  11. Mechagodzilla II's Theme

    12. Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)

  12. Invasion of the Astro Monster March ~ Ending

    13. Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

  13. Ending

    Disc 2

    Godzilla Legend II - Voyage to Dream Quest

    Dogora, The Space Monster (1964)

  1. Visitor from Beyond the Stratosphere

    2. Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon

  2. Prince Wanpaku's Great Serpent Slaying

    3. King Kong Escapes (1967)

  3. Steel Apeman of the Pole

    4. Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965)

  4. U-Boat

    5. The War of the Gargantuas (1966)

  5. Maser Ray Force March
  6. Nocturnal Giant

    7. Atragon (1963)

  7. Song of the Fall of the Sacred Mu Empire
  8. Goten Kenmu Group Strike!

    9. Dogora, The Space Monster (1964)

  9. Great Aerial Science Flight

    10. The Mysterians (1957)

  10. Earth Defense Force

    11. Latitude Zero (1969)

  11. Main Title

    12. Varan (1958)

  12. Grotesque Wild God

    13. Rodan (1956)

  13. Requiem for Great Earth

    14. Battle in Outer Space (1959)

  14. Voyage to Dream Quest

    Disc 3

    Godzilla Legend III: Dialogue of the Infantians

    Mothra (1961)

  1. Nelson's Prologue (Dialogue)
  2. Infant Island
  3. Mothra's Song

    4. Godzilla Showdowns Series

  4. Terror of Mechgodzilla / Godzilla vs. Gigan
  5. Godzilla Raids Again
  6. Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (Main Title)
  7. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

    8. Gorath (1962)

  8. Introduction
  9. Gorath's Great Approach
  10. Earth Shift Project
  11. We Are Space Pilots

    12. Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)

  12. We Escape to the Future! (Dialogue)
  13. Main Title

    14. Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)

  14. Children's Land Collapse

    15. The Greatest Battle on Earth: King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) / Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)

  15. North Tohoku Train Announcement (Dialogue)
  16. Godzilla Advances

    17. Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)

  17. Mahala Mothra

    18. Godzilla (1954)

  18. Prayer for Peace

    19. Godzilla (1984)

  19. 19. Godzilla Revives

    Disc 4

    Godzilla Legend IV

    Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon

  1. Prologue
  2. Main Title
  3. Lullaby of a Motherless Child
  4. Amenouzume's Dance
  5. Open Rock Door

    6. Godzilla (1954)

  6. Eiko-Maru Sinking

    7. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

  7. The Terror of Godzilla
  8. Main Title

    9. Atragon (1963)

  9. The Prayer of the Mu Empire

    10. Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)

  10. Sacred Springs
  11. Mahala Mothra
  12. Baby Mothra vs. Godzilla

    13. Godzilla (1954)

  13. Devastated Tokyo

    14. The Mysterians (1957)

  14. Earth Defense Force

    15. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)

  15. Kimuta an Kamui (Bonus track)

    16. Godzilla (1954)

  16. Godzilla's Theme