What follows is a list of all the music that appeared in Robotech: The Movie. Bold text denotes that this is the first appearance of that piece of music.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: The obvious pieces of new music used in Robotech: The Movie are the six new songs made specifically for this movie (five of which were sadly left off of the Robotech 30th Anniversary Soundtrack). But there are quite a few more hidden gems in here.
For starters the music from the songs "Saved by Science" and "Only a Fool" are both also used as instrumental background music. For the first use of "Underground," it includes the vocals for the verses but then goes to instrumental for the chorus to accentuate the movie dialogue, and then uses just the chorus by itself later in the movie. There was a 12" single mix of "Underground" released back in 1986 that does include an instrumental chorus at one point, so it's arguable that portion of the music has been released even if it was edited differently-- but it's certainly never been released on a Robotech soundtrack.
We've also got a slew of other pieces, about half of which are more unreleased Sentinels music, and the other half are from Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years. Two of the Sentinels pieces are included on the soundtrack, "The Sentinels" and "Into the Unknown." "Into the Unknown" and the unreleased "Sentinels Sales Pitch" were also used in the Sentinels Sales Reel, but you can decide for yourself which of these two appearances counts as its first "official" usage. The piece that I've referred to here as "Reckless Cycle Driving" is a more high-energy, almost comedic version of the theme used in "The Sentinels" and "A Penny for Your Thoughts," and was also the second piece that Michael Bradley briefly streamed on MySpace back in 2008.
Now I'm not saying there's enough new material here to justify the expense and work of adding a fourth CD to the soundtrack, but all the tracks exclusive to RtM, including both the regular versions, instrumental versions, and the 12" single version of "Underground," plus the unreleased background music comes up to a total running time of 46:34. And that's basing it on the usage they got in the movie, presumably some of the tracks might run longer (assuming they even still exist). Disc 2 of the Robotech 30th Anniversary Soundtrack, by comparison, runs 45:18. It's also worth noting that just the 6 RtM songs themselves (including "Only a Fool" which was used in Robotech: Love Live Alive and thus included on Disc 3) runs a total of 25:58, and Disc 2 has 34 minutes worth of unused space. You do the math.
As with The Sentinels, all titles used for the unreleased tracks were completely made up by me. For some of the more prominent Harlock tracks I took a page from the Robotech soundtracks and started naming them after Harlock episode titles.
Robotech Theme (Enhanced Version)
Black Magic
The Raid
Boobytrap
Call On Me
Special Bulletin music - unreleased
The Point of No Return
Special Bulletin music - unreleased
Mark's TV BackGround Music - unreleased
Intrigue
The 15th Squadron
Cliffhangers (b)
In My Heart
Suspense
Reckless Cycle Driving - unreleased (aka Michael Bradley's "Sentinels 1")
Underground - (includes unreleased portion where the chorus vocals were removed and played as instrumental background music to accentuate the movie dialogue)
Roy Fokker's Theme
Alien Attack
Escalations (f1)
Private Time Theme (b)
The Robotech Masters
Earth Government Debriefing
Earth Government at Work (a)
(Alien Attack) Resolve
Mission Accomplished
Expeditionary Debriefing
Saved by Science (instrumental) - unreleased
The Future is Now
Only a Fool
Invid Theme (Flower of Life Instrumental)
The 15th Squadron
Black Magic
Call On Me
EVE Explains - unreleased (Harlock music?)
Across the Universe
Showdown
(Alien Attack) Resolve
Desolation
BD Andrews Counter-Explains - unreleased
Escalations (a)
Underground (chorus vocals)
Only a Fool (Instrumental) - unreleased
In My Heart
Memory Matrix Upload Update - unreleased
Into the Unknown - [Previously only used in the Sentinels Sales Reel]
Broken Heart
Black Magic
Rocket Science
Private Time Theme (b)
Saved By Science
The Point of No Return
Zeb's Escape Attempt - unreleased, used twice in The Sentinels.
Catastrophe
Private Time Theme (a1)
Black Magic
Cliffhangers (b)
Reconstruction Blues
Hellcats
Escalations (f2)
Showdown
Biomechanical
Reconstruction Blues
Black Magic
Sentinels Sales Pitch - unreleased - [Previously only used in the Sentinels Sales Reel]
Cat and Mouse [Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years] - unreleased
The Sentinels
Saved by Science (Instrumental) - unreleased
Attack on the Airport - unreleased [Harlock? It sounds very Gogaesque.]
Battlestations
The Raid
The SDF-1
Roy Fokker's Theme
Incoming
To Catch a Captain [Harlock] - unreleased
Crisis
The Future Is Now
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