Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-397235-20141203015807

This is Varan's theme from his title movie, which predates Rodan by a couple years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pholQl7L8A0

And of course, most people immediately recognize this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tx54o-xGng

Ifukube eventually started using this just to signify chaos, though one of my favorite scenes from the Showa era is in Destroy All Monsters, as one of the alien agents is walking through Tokyo. Suddenly air raid sirens begin to go off and she busts out this disturbingly huge grin...just as this starts to play.

This is Kong's theme from that movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40z7aeqOQYo

And this is the end titles from Godzilla vs Destroyer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqCESPAqymg

The main theme from Frankenstein Conquers the World was recycled, in part, as the Chairman's theme for Godzilla vs. Gigan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRtk1h7txdg

In fact, a lot of cues from that movie are used for the Chairman and his organization, which makes them a lot more ominous than otherwise they might have managed. "Search the Fog" which plays during the hunt for the title monster following one of Baragon's rampages, is used to underscore the cockroach aliens' infiltration of the main characters' apartment.

The "Forest Search March" on this video is one of the heroic themes from Gigan I rather liked. Sadly it doesn't seem that Toho ever released the soundtrack, or it was very hard to find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_tn1C_oiLc

"Operation L" from War of the Gargantuas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2KXKJZa_s

sounds an awful lot like "The Maser Assault" from Godzilla vs Mothra II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xnLwKcwnI0

This is the Japanese Navy March from Gojira:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiY5j5QvcdQ

This is the Japanese theme from War of the Monsters (the American theme, for Godzilla vs. Monster Zero is instead a low brass version of Rodan's theme, which sounds a lot like what Ifukube did with Godzilla's theme at the beginning of Godzilla vs. Destroyer; in other words, it's terrifying)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzxiTy8YM-c

This is the Godzillasaurus's theme from Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (there's a bit of Mothra's mournful theme from the next movie thrown in, as well as the montage of Godzilla's destruction in Gojira present):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w-xcg6TZUQ

This is Destroyer's theme from Godzilla vs. Destroyer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5wZ_1f4bZs

I find this highly ironic.

This is the JASDF theme from Rodan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJghA5ixzpM

This is the theme for the same organizations' attempts to stop Ghidorah in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzTWpNc7GFQ

He didn't even bother to rename this one much...

There are quite a few more of these out there; these are, in a lot of cases, just the times I noticed it or really liked the particular piece. Godzilla vs. Gigan was the first Godzilla movie I saw and is still one of my favorites, so that's why so much of Frankenstien's score is up here.