Rocktrospectiva: The Largely Forgotten Album "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" Turns 35

Released on 16 March 1990 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, was the soundtrack to the 1990 New Line Cinema film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Soundtrack spawned two singles "Spin That Wheel" and "Turtle Power".

 

It was released by SBK Records and contained a collection made up mostly of hip-hop and new jack swing styled tracks who were pretty hip at the late 80's early 90's with several film score cues at the end. 

 

A largely forgotten album from the first motion picture related to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles who made their worldwide debut in the late 80's and early 90's, came in a time when these were the fifth selling toy item and this motion picture was designed to further imprint the accessible, memorable characters, even though the movie effects now it seems like something pretty much primitive compared the latest one, but pretty much in depth that was the magic of this first movie of the franchise, a particulary odd one, but that was the way early in the 90s.

 

The soundtrack were formidable, containing tracks that basically catch up the sound that dominated pop radio in the late 80's and early 90's a collection full of good rap/hip hop, new jack swing, and some R&B tracks. Partners in Kryme's hit single "Turtle Power" was awesome,  as is John Du Perez's martial arts movie theme, other tracks deliver the swinging, punchy sound's of early nineties R&B just like "Spunkadelic's "9.95" and Johnny Kemp's "Let The Walls Come Down", and of course rap/hip hop tunes such as M.C. Hammer's "This Is What We Do" released during the time when Hammer was the hip hop king, and of course some dance rap tunes pretty much in the sound of Technotronic's Hi Tek 3 in collaboration with Ya Kid K in "Spin That Wheel". 

 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Track List: 

 

1. This Is What We Do

2. Spin That Wheel

3. Family

4. 9.95

5. Turtle Power

6. Let The Walls Come Down

7. Every Heart Needs A Home

8. Ninja Thieves

9. Splinter's Tale I & Splinter's Tale II

10. Turtle Rhapsody