Board Thread:General Discussions/@comment-27637441-20160201004741/@comment-27637441-20160201121647

The King of the Monsters wrote: I'm not saying if one type of music is better than the other. What I am saying is that an orchestral song definitely fits a Godzilla movie better than a rock and roll song. Rock songs are meant to be listened to as standalone experiences, they're not meant to be the primary source of music for movies. Sure, you may hear a song like that briefly in one scene in a movie or in tie-in ads, but rock songs aren't meant to be part of a film's score. Godzilla movies are characterized by their epic scores, just like the Star Wars films are characterized by John Williams' iconic scores.

Just because a certain song may share a tone or have parallels to a movie doesn't mean it should be in the movie. Oftentimes, it would call too much attention to itself and feel forced. For example, the song "We're All to Blame" in Final Wars really sticks out from the rest of the score and feels kind of forced and out of place to me. Thankfully it's only employed for a few seconds and kind of makes sense in the context it's used, but it just goes to show that rock songs are better left out of a movie's score. I don't watch Godzilla movies to hear rock or pop music. I watch them to (aside from the obvious main attraction, the monster battles) hear the work of Akira Ifukube, Michiru Oshima, Kow Otani, and others. If I was watching the original Godzilla and heard a song like "Hells Bells" playing over Godzilla's rampage, it would feel very wrong to me and compromise the tone of the scene. Akira Ifukube's score for the scene though, complements it perfectly.

Toho obviously feels the same way, because aside from the use of "We're All to Blame" in Final Wars, Godzilla movies haven't prominently featured any rock songs in their scores. What about Final Wars' theme song? It has rock in it.