The Transformers: The Complete Original SeriesAiring from 1984 87, the original animated series about the shape changing robots that are more than meets the eye finds the Autobots and Decepticons leaving their home planet of Cybertron and crash landing on Earth, where their ancient power struggle continues, with the fate of our world now hanging in the balance. Voiced by Frank Welker, Peter Cullen, Corey Burton, Scatman Crothers, Don Messick, Casey Kasem, and Dick Gautier. 98 episodes on 15

nearly 30 years later

It laid the groundwork for the sound and theme

Paco Munoz - Prometenca / Anem Anant

The score follows a pattern similar to Donizetti's other works in the opera seria genre: sentiments are expressed with a cavatina or a cabaletta and duets taken at breakneck speed contrast with grandiose concertato numbers with melody lines even catchier than in the composer's other works

the Biblical lyrics express Mendelssohn's deeply-felt religiosity

Lloyd Hughes

Dead Kosmonaut are largely based in Stockholm

A word that cannot be transcribed

and those qualities ripple through every song on West's Still Climbing

flute and guitar

This all-Italian quintet (comprising a pair of mandolins

a business proposition from an alluring but enigmatic passenger named Charlotte (Sophie Dalah) proves too good to turn down