Flash Gordon (Soundtrack)
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Free Music Notes for Flash Gordon (Soundtrack)
Free Music Review: Flashing Synthesizers Throughout the Mix
Hit: 3 Stars
With two numbers geared to FM radio play - Flash's Theme and its reprise, The Hero - the remaining 16 numbers on this February 1981 release were synthesizer-laden instrumentals with snippets of movie dialogue in the mix.
The single - Flash, which is titled Flash's Theme on the album - stalled at #42 on the Billboard single's chart, with the soundtrack achieving a tepid gold sales status while peaking at #23 on the album chart.
A platform for a superstar band that could afford to step outside the realm of heavy rotation on the radio and the familiar terrain of its classic sound, the soundtrack is interesting, but hardly an essential piece of Queen's amazing discography.
Free Music Review: Who wants to live forever?
Hit: 3 Stars
What can you say about the Flash Gordon soundtrack? It certainly is an oddity in the Queen catalogue. It consists of a lot of synth heavy instrumentals, with only two actual songs with lyrics. The album also has a lot of dialogue snippets from the movie inserted at various points. While this is not one of the more important Queen albums, it is campy fun. A useless remix of "Flash's Theme" has been added to the CD as a bonus track. It would have been better if the single version of "Flash's Theme aka Flash" had been included as a bonus track, instead.Free Music Review: Good Tuneage, but more like a radio listen of the movie.....
Hit: 3 Stars
I have mixed feelings about this CD. I love Queen's music, and I loved the movie, even if it was a little hokey in places. So I really, really wanted to love this CD. Well, the music is still great, but it was as if they simply ripped the music while it was playing in key sequences of the movie, and kept the spoken lines from whatever character was speaking at the time. If they could have removed the spoken lines, it would have been much better. However, if you did like the music and the movie, it is worth a purchase. Shame they don't redo it though, this time sans the spoken lines.Free Music Review: it is so bad you gotta love it...
Hit: 3 Stars
It is Queen album (no matter what) and it's so cheesy you're gonna love it again. Sometimes movies give you that same feeling (i.e Ali G) But listening through the really bad acting parts you can hear some excellent music and also some expirementing with an 80's synth. O why did they ever start with synthesizers, they were so proud to be without them. Anyway, a need to have for a Queen fan.Free Music Review: Interesting...
Hit: 3 Stars
This isn't really the type of album I would put on to listen to attentively -- it's more like something I'd put on while I work or do something else. The album follows the movie and most of the tracks contain dialog from it. If you're a huge Queen fan, get it, but if you're a new fan or a casual fan, I'd skip this one, at least until you've gotten some of their other albums.