Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the licened soundtrack to the 1990 New Line Cinema film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It was released by SBK Records on March 16, 1990.

Album Info

This collection is made up mostly of hip-hop and New Jack Swing styled tracks, with several film score cues at the end. The album is notable for "This Is What We Do", an early MC Hammer track, and the iconic "Turtle Power" by Partnerz in Kryme.

Track List

1. "This Is What We Do" - M.C. Hammer
2. "Spin That Wheel" - Hi Tek 3
3. "Family" - Riff
4. "9.95" - Spunkadelic
5. "Turtle Power" - Partners In Kryme
6. "Let The Walls Come Down" - Johnny Kemp
7. "Every Heart Needs A Home" - St. Paul
8. "Shredder's Suite" - John Du Prez
9. "Splinter's Tale I & Splinter's Tale II" - Orchestra On The Half Shell
10. "Turtle Rhapsody" - Orchestra On The Half Shell

Notes

• A lyric in Turtle Power misstates Raphael as the leader.
• Turtle Power would get re-released on the third Ninja Turtles soundtrack.
• Both parts of Splinter's Tale differ from that which was heard in the film.
  • Part I Splinter pauses after after he says "...she persuaded Yoshi to flee with me to America" and picks up with "But Saki vowed vengeance...".
  • Part II features more dialog from the newly mutated infant turtles with a different voice actor.
• Turtle Rhapsody does not feature any of Raphael dialog from the film.
• When the soundtrack was released on cassette, the cassette was available in red, blue, orange, and purple - the four mask colors of the Turtles. Subsequent releases were in black.
• The soundtrack came with a sticker with art by Peter Laird of the turtles on a rooftop preparing to fight the Foot Soldiers that have them completely surrounded. This was eventually used at the cover art for the Game Boy game Fall of the Foot Clan.