37. Dana's Story Music Guide

What follows is a list of all the music that appeared in the standard version of Robotech episode 37: "Dana's Story." Bold text denotes that this is the first appearance of that piece of music.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:This episode once again has a voice yelling "Red alert!" as the "Red Alert" music starts.

I strongly debated whether or not I should include Dana's attempt to sing to cheer Bowie up as unreleased music, but decided to leave it as dialogue since she's just throwing together a bunch of random words instead of singing an established song.

This episode may also hold the record for using the Robotech Theme as background music the most times. (Three, not including the usual opening, closing, next episode preview and eycatch.)

Robotech Theme
Robotech Theme
Earth Government at Work (a)
We Will Win
Private Time Theme (a2)
Boobytrap
Intruder
The SDF-1
Alien Attack
Red Alert
Robotech Theme
The 15th Squadron
Eyecatch
The 15th Squadron
Robotech Theme
Escalations (a)
Khyron's Theme
Confrontation
Shocked (b)
(Alien Attack) Resolve
Broken Heart
Victory
Red Alert
The Robotech Masters
Suspense
Red Alert
Alien Attack
Robotech Theme (next episode preview)
Robotech End Title

36. To the Stars Music Guide

What follows is a list of all the music that appeared in the standard version of Robotech episode 36: "To the Stars." Bold text denotes that this is the first appearance of that piece of music.

Robotech Theme
Private Time Theme (b)
Robotech Love Theme II
Khyron's Theme
Showdown
The Cosmic Harp (c2)
Cliffhangers (c)
Earth Government Debriefing
Broken Heart
A New Dawn
Khyron's Theme
Robotech Love Theme I
A New Dawn
Red Alert
Eyecatch
Red Alert
The 15th Squadron
Battlestations
Alien Attack
Roy Fokker's Theme
Robotech Theme
Zentraedi Theme
Red Alert
Catastrophe
Desolation
Love Triangle (To Be in Love Instrumental Version)
To Be in Love
Robotech Theme (next episode preview)
Robotech End Title

35. Season's Greetings Music Guide

What follows is a list of all the music that appeared in the standard version of Robotech episode 35: "Season's Greetings." Bold text denotes that this is the first appearance of that piece of music.

ADDITIONAL NOTES: A couple of unreleased tracks this time, and it's actually a good thing that they're unreleased because otherwise it would mess up that Macross Saga/Robotech Masters overlap flow I was talking about yesterday.

The first is one of the most heartbreaking scenes in Robotech, where a despondent, oblivious Lisa drunkenly sings "My Time to Be a Star" to herself while the bar she's in plays the instrumental version of "Lifeline" in the background. This is arguably a piece of dialogue.

The second is when the citizens rally together and start singing "Silent Night" after Khyron's attack... also arguably a piece of dialogue. But if we do count both of these as music, then that would make this the 100th piece of new music used!

Robotech Theme
Khyron's Theme
Khyron's Theme
Private Time Theme (a2)
Imbeciles
Robotech Love Theme I
Cliffhangers (b)
Minmei's Theme
Escalations (f2)
Escalations (b)
Cliffhangers (a)
Reflections
Lifeline (Instrumental) (with a sad, drunk Lisa singing This Is My Time to Be a Star-unreleased)
The Cosmic Harp (c2)
Minmei's Theme
Cliffhangers (c)
Intrigue
Catastrophe
Red Alert
Alien Attack
Battlestations
Zentraedi Theme
Intruder
Desolation
Silent Night - unreleased
Reconstruction Blues
A New Dawn
It's You (Piano Version)
Robotech Theme (next episode preview)
Robotech End Title

34. Private Time Music Guide

What follows is a list of all the music that appeared in the standard version of Robotech episode 34: "Private Time." Bold text denotes that this is the first appearance of that piece of music.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:  A lot of new music this time, although it's almost all things I associated with the later generations. "Hard Times" (in addition to being named after a New Generation episode) makes me think of traveling scenes with Cyclones or Hovertanks. And Rick & Minmei's restaurant outing features a piano player, so we get to hear the piano versions of both "The Way to Love" and "It's You," two tracks I always associate with Bowie Grant.

In fact a lot of the music in this episode seems to have a second generation lean to it, as "The Cosmic Harp (c2)" is also used again. The story itself even takes place in Monument City, which is the main setting for the Army of the Southern Cross in Robotech Masters. With only three episodes of The Macross Saga left, it seems this episode was setting the tone up for what was to come not just by using story references but musically as well, making the transition work on multiple levels.

And in that sense, listening through these tracks in "Perfect Memory" order still works fine. Even though they were first used in Macross Saga, they were introduced after the last Minmei song but before Masters' definitive piece "Flower of Life." So they'll still fall into the proper sequence for the overall Perfect Memory listing.

But the biggest surprise for me in this episode was the use of "The Way to Love (Instrumental Version)," which is still unreleased on any soundtrack!

Robotech Theme
Broken Heart
Private Time Theme (a1)
The Way to Love (Instrumental) - unreleased
Minmei's Theme
The Way to Love (Piano Version)
(Red Alert) Resolve
The Way to Love (Piano Version) (continued)
It's You (Piano Version)
Across the Universe
It's You (Piano Version)
(Alien Attack) Resolve
It's you (Piano Version) (continued)
Cliffhangers (a)
Reflections
(Red Alert) Resolve
Escalations (c)
The Point of No Return
Confrontation
Eyecatch
Hard Times
Showdown
Red Alert
The Cosmic Harp (c2)
Battlestations
Zentraedi Theme
Roy Fokker's Theme
Robotech Theme
Robotech Love Theme I
Rick Hunter's Theme
Private Time Theme (a1)
A New Dawn
Miss Macross (My Time to Be a Star Instrumental)
Escalations (c) (Slowed down)
Minmei's Theme
A New Dawn
Robotech Theme (next episode preview)
Robotech End Title

33. A Rainy Night Music Guide

What follows is a list of all the music that appeared in the standard version of Robotech episode 33: "A Rainy Night." Bold text denotes that this is the first appearance of that piece of music.

ADDITIONAL NOTES: There are so few remaining pieces of unused (non-generation specific) background music left on the Robotech 30th Anniversary Soundtrack that I've been seriously wondering if these remaining cuts were ever actually used in Robotech at all, and are actually bonus tracks discovered in the Harmony Gold vaults. But today's episode revealed that at least one of them isn't! "Escalations" (part C) gets used for the first time in this episode!

Robotech Theme
(Red Alert) Resolve
Robotech Love Theme I
Private Time Theme (a1)
Escalations (c)
Robotech Love Theme I
Private Time Theme (a1)
Reflections
Imbeciles
Red Alert
Eyecatch
Private Time Theme (a1)
Escalations (b)
Lifeline (Instrumental)
Private Time Theme (a2)
Red Alert
Broken Heart
Stepping Out
Minmei's Theme
Robotech Love Theme I
Broken Heart
Victory
Escalations (a)
Robotech Love Theme I
Robotech Theme (next episode preview)
Robotech End Title

32. Broken Heart Music Guide

What follows is a list of all the music that appeared in the standard version of Robotech episode 32: "Broken Heart." Bold text denotes that this is the first appearance of that piece of music.

ADDITIONAL NOTES: This is another case where a piece of background music was given an episode name that describes the mood of the piece very well, yet wasn't actually used in that episode. (Personally, I always think of the "Broken Heart" music as Marlene's Theme.) This also happened previously with "Sweet Sixteen" and "Showdown."

Robotech Theme
Red Alert
Intirgue
Khyron's Theme
It's You
Catastrophe
Khyron's Theme
(Alien Attack) Resolve
Escalations (b) (slowed down)
Suspense
To Be in Love (a capella)
Suspense
Battlestations
Reflections
Eyecatch
Khyron's Theme
Shocked (b)
Musica's Theme
Zentraedi Theme
Zentraedi Theme (continues after a brief pause)
Intruder
Red Alert
Rick Hunter's Theme
Love Triangle
Alien Attack
Robotech Love Theme I
Robotech Theme (next episode preview)
Robotech End Title

31. Khyron's Revenge Music Guide

What follows is a list of all the music that appeared in the standard version of Robotech episode 31: "Khyron's Revenge." Bold text denotes that this is the first appearance of that piece of music.

Robotech Theme
Private Time Theme (b)
Earth Government at Work (a) ("Reprise" portion after break only)
Zentraedi Theme
Intrigue
The Robotech Masters
Battlestations
Red Alert
Intrigue
Boobytrap
Musica's Theme
The Point of No Return
Eyecatch
Musica's Theme
(Alien Attack) Resolve
Catastrophe
Earth Government Debriefing
Showdown
Catastrophe
Private Time Theme (b)
Battlestations
Reconstruction Blues
Escalations (a)
Khyron's Theme
Broken Heart
Showdown
Robotech Theme (next episode preview)
Robotech End Title