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Here is a fun game to play: ask a group of music fans what the greatest song of all time is and watch the arguments unfold. It is a contentious subject, to say the least, but the creative director behind recent indie hit, Mixtape, says he has a definitive answer to the question, and it is the most famous song in Transformers history.

As you can probably tell from the title, music plays a big part in Mixtape. The soundtrack is packed with 80s classics. During a recent interview, creative director Johnny Galvatron and producer Woody Woodward went through each song and explained why it had stood the test of time. That was when the pair made a bold claim about The Touch by Stan Bush, which Transformers fans will remember as being one of the most iconic parts of Transformers: The Movie that doesn’t include one of their favorite characters being suddenly killed off.

“From the 1986 animated Transformers soundtrack,” Galvatron said. “The greatest song ever written. Better than any song by the Beatles. You can quote me on that.”

“What are they gonna do, complain?” Woodward commented.

“Yeah, what, who’s gonna argue with me on that?” Galvatron said, ignoring that this is the internet and someone will argue with anyone over anything.

However, we’ll concede that The Touch by Stan Bush is an iconic track, and there is no question as to why it shows up in Mixtape to allow a character to imagine a world where everyone knows she’s as epic as she knows she is in her own head. It is arguably the most memorable thing in Transformers: The Movie, and considering that film made a generation of young fans witness the violent death of Optimus Prime, that is saying something.

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