Flash Gordon

Label
Hollywood Records
Release date
13 Sep 2011
Running length
24 tracks
Running time
46:57

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Flash's Theme 2:29 51,077
2 In The Space Capsule (The Love Theme) 2:43 21,575
3 Ming's Theme (In The Court Of Ming The Merciless) 2:41 17,460
4 The Ring (Hypnotic Seduction Of Dale) 0:57 19,123
5 Football Fight 1:29 30,159
6 In The Death Cell (Love Theme Reprise) 2:25 15,023
7 Execution Of Flash 1:05 28,227
8 The Kiss (Aura Resurrects Flash) 1:45 16,190
9 Arboria (Planet Of The Tree Men) 1:42 15,587
10 Escape From The Swamp 1:43 28,636
11 Flash To The Rescue 2:43 25,756
12 Vultan's Theme (Attack Of The Hawk Men) 1:12 18,581
13 Battle Theme 2:18 27,784
14 The Wedding March 0:56 27,577
15 Marriage Of Dale And Ming (And Flash Approaching) 2:04 15,923
16 Crash Dive On Mingo City 1:00 19,501
17 Flash's Theme Reprise (Victory Celebrations) 1:24 17,413
18 The Hero 3:31 38,083
1 Flash 2:48 272,330
2 The Hero (October 1980...Revisited) 2:56 31
3 The Kiss (Early Version, March 1980) 1:11 535
4 Football Fight (Early Version, No Synths! - February 1980) 1:55 558
5 Flash (Live In Montreal, November 1981) 2:12 437
6 The Hero (Live In Montreal, November 1981) 1:48 437

About this album

Flash Gordon is a 1980 album by English rock band Queen. It is the soundtrack album to the science fiction movie Flash Gordon. The track “Flash’s Theme” was the only single to be released from the album, under the title “Flash”. It reached number 10 in the UK charts and number 42 in the United States.

There are two versions of the opening track. The album version (“Flash’s Theme”) is in fact the start to the movie, with all the dialog from the first scene. The single version (“Flash”) however features parts of the dialog taken from various parts of the movie. This version was also included on the Greatest Hits compilation from 1981. The single reached number one in Austria. The track is noted for its pounding, repetitive bassline and the camp humour of the snippets of dialogue from the movie that it contains.

All but two of the tracks on the album (“Flash’s Theme” and “The Hero”) are instrumentals. The album makes extensive use of synthesizers, which Queen had employed for the first time on their previous album, The Game. The last track, “The Hero”, while an individual song, reprises the main motif from “Battle Theme”.

The tracks featured in the album contain dialogue from the film. A “music only” version, free of the dialogue snippets, has been rumored for years.
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