{"id":1123,"date":"2012-07-20T10:45:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2012-07-20T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:45:17","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-138-academy-days-klytus-im-bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/07\/20\/my-musical-evolution-part-138-academy-days-klytus-im-bored\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 138 Academy Days Klytus, I’m Bored"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Queen<\/a>In 1980, Adam, Carolyn and I took the movie trip bus to Keene, New Hampshire to see Flash Gordon. <\/em> My mom used to go to the Saturday Matinee to see Flash Gordon when she was a kid. I had a history of liking science fiction.\u00a0I had a history of liking Queen. It was awesome. It was hokey cartoon-esque space opera set in front of psychedelic clouds of color with a distinctive musical score by Queen. <\/em>What could be better? I don’t think Carolyn liked it very much.<\/p>\n

So it had some performance quality issues. I wasn’t expecting Academy Award winning anything. It was a frolic! It had strange alien worlds and creatures of different shapes and colors. It also had that somewhat erotic undertone which lent itself well to 15 year old boys like me.<\/p>\n

As I ponder on Flash Gordon, <\/em>it really boils down to the soundtrack by Queen <\/em> and those sweeping acid induced space backgrounds. I’ve mention before how modern conveniences like shuffle<\/em> and mix CDs<\/em> etc have made listening to an entire album a rare event. Flash Gordon <\/em>is an exception to that rule. I almost always listen to the entire thing. I all just flows together and the corny bits of dialogue included make me want to keep it shuffle free.<\/p>\n

Queen did such an excellent job with this soundtrack. The movie is a retro-goofy good time but the soundtrack is even better. I wish that they would release a version with all of the dialogue removed. What would it sound like with just the music? Flash Gordon, <\/em>due to its Fantasy <\/em>genre was another one of those Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> background soundtracks. For some reason, some of these songs take me back to a time when I would pour over the Dungeon Master’s Guide or some adventure module or campaign setting. I can safely say that Flash Gordon <\/em>is my most frequently played Queen album. I can’t help I just like stuff like this. Maybe we can figure out why.<\/p>\n

Flash’s Theme<\/em>
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