伊福部昭专辑介绍：Year Movie Released in Japan: 1992 Year Movie Released in U.S.: 1998 This has always been one of my favorite Godzilla soundtracks and expanding this to a 2 CD set makes it even better. I have always had a soft spot for the movies with Mothra in them ever since the original in 1964 sometimes known as Godzilla vs. The Thing (TYCY-5348). Thats the movie that introduced me to the wonderful singing talents of The Peanuts. There are many discs by them on this site on the Peanuts page. In this newer 1992 film we have a newer Mothra plus Battra as well as Godzilla and new fairies called The Cosmos here and played by Keiko Imamura and Sayaka Osawa. These two ladies appear again as The Cosmos in the 1994 "Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla" and in smaller roles in the 1993 "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla " and 1995 "Godzilla vs. Destroyer ". Neither woman appears to have done much film work other than these Godzilla movies. These new songs by the female duo sound just as beautiful as those by The Peanuts in the original. Disc 1 contains 53 tracks which is a big expansion of the 30 tracks found on 1993 Futureland release TYCY-5363, the 1992 42 track picture disc TYCY-5269 or the 1992 2 CD set TYCY-5267. This disc is a wonderful soundtrack by the Godzilla master Akira Ifukube. He gives us some great marches, some interesting reworkings of older tunes and great music for The Cosmos to sing. The music here is just beautiful, thats the only way I can describe it. Disc 2 of this set is a great bonus disc to accompany the 1st disc. The "Godzilla Love Theme" tracks are sung in Englsh and sound lovely. I really like track 9 on this 2nd disc. Its a well done medley complete with sound effects and background sounds. This second disc contains many vocal tracks by The Cosmos (Keiko Imamura and Sayaka Osawa) that I really enjoyed as they have wonderful voices reminescient of The Peanuts (Emi Ito and her twin sister Yumi Ito). Also one really cool track is the last track, #17, on this disc which is a hard rock Japanese version of Blue Oyster Cults classic "Godzilla" song.