But I'm really curious about Blake's score. Is it good? It's quite I while I've seem the movie, so I can't remember how many of his score was used...

Anyone got it? What's the track list??

Any info would be nice!

There.
That's my review.
I LIKE THIS MOVIE!

1. The Hero 0:41
2. Opening Scenes/Killer Storm/Plane Crash 7:15
3. Rocket Fight 1:30
4. Arrival/Mongo Greeting/Palace Entry/The Court of Ming 3:59
5. Barin and the Hawkmen 3:14
6. The Princess/Dale's Seduction/Football Fight 2:13
7. Bell and Coffin/Zarkov/Rocket Ship Flight 3:20
8. Flight To Arboria/Harem 2:06
9. Telepathy/Dale's Drug 2:07
10. Arboria 0:51
11. Dale's Fight 1:32
12. Zarkov and Dale Escape 1:25
13. Torture/The Swamp 2:11
14. The City of the Hawkman 1:01
15. Tree-Stump Duel/Beast in the Swamp 6:00
16. Romantic Reunion 0:27
17. Duel on the Sky Platform 7:48
18. Firefight/Finale: Death of Ming and Flash's Victory 2:37

Is this Flash Gordon CD a brand new release?
Is is only the Blake score, or does it contain the Queen music as well?

This is frustrating...

Two songs (Flash's Theme and The Hero)

Some rock-n'-roll style instrumentals, including a wordless vocal peformed by Freddy Mercury, and the Wedding March performed by Brian May on electric guitar. (There is more to love, however.)

Also, a fair deal of dialogue interspersed among the music.

I grew up listening to Queen's LP of "Flash Gordon", so I've come to anticipate Brian Blessed shouting "Dive!" in the middle of the battle theme, or General Kala delivering her famous line, "What do you mean Flash Gordon approaching?" Like I advise--it's helpful to be comfortably familiar with the movie.

The Howard Blake score is, most recently, the "missing piece", which completes the whole listening experience, I feel. Upon seeing the movie, and hearing the Queen album, you *might* wonder what exactly was left out of the CD release, but when you hear Blake's score, you realize that they really left out a lot.

By itself, Blake's score might be interesting, but I feel that alone, (for those who haven't experienced the movie or the Queen album), it may be a weak listen. For those who enjoy both the film and the Queen album, you realize the symbiosis in which the two music works exist.

The "Attack of the Hawkmen" theme appeared on a video game in the early eighties, but I can't remember which one. This was the arcade kind of video game, not the home-video type.

FLASH GORDON's costs went up higher and higher for a variety of reasons -- it's probably the most EXPENSIVELY deliberately cheesy movie of all time. De Laurentiis has never been too chary about his budgets -- Melody Anderson, who played Dale, remembered that she wasn't too interested in doing the movie, but Dino snapped "We double you money!" (her recollection). She caved in. Additionally, they engaged Fellini's production designer, Danilo Donati, to do both the sets AND costumes -- he ratcheted up the budget to a ridiculous degree. (I've noticed this happens rather often with Hollywood-financed productions shot in Italy -- CLEOPATRA and ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN are only the most notorious examples. I will not presently go into why this appears to happen.)

The novelization of FLASH GORDON is quite well-written and even more fetishy than the movie is, if that's possible. Can't remember who did it, but it was a respected SF author ... Arthur Byron Cover, someone like that, I just can't remember for sure.

Oh yes, let's not forget to point to the hysterical script by Lorenzo Semple Jr., who had already done the campy TV version of BATMAN, and the KING KONG remake (underrated, I still insist), as well as two more serious projects, PAPILLON and THE PARALLAX VIEW. He won the Original Screenplay Oscar for PRETTY POISON in 1969.

How do I remember these things? I couldn't even tell you what color my shirt is unless I looked down. (some kind of green)

ORNELLA MUTI...MMMMMM, MMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!

And Max Von Sidow kick ass as the falic symbol, Ming - the bald.

Is so good to be happy!!!!