The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #22: 80s Music! (Alphaville, When in Rome, Van Halen)

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast

Originally published January 11, 2016

https://13thhr.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/the-thirteenth-hour-podcast-22-80s-music-alphaville-when-in-rome-van-halen/

This week, I experimented with playing music in the background while recording this episode in music that influenced the writing of The Thirteenth Hour. The sound quality leaves something to be desired, but I only played a few short clips anyway. I may experiment with ways to make the sound quality better in the future but clearly opted for the low-tech option today :)

So ... here's youtube links to the full songs discussed so you can hear (and see) them in all their 80s big hair glory:

-(Alphaville) Forever Young (courtesy of Atlantic Records at the time)

-(When in Rome) The Promise (courtesy of EMI Records). This is the song I pictured as Logan flew on Lightning.

-(Van Halen) When it's Love (courtesy of Warner Bros at the time). This is song I had in mind for these scenes in the book:

The theme song to The Thirteenth Hour, heard in the intro and outro of the podcast and influenced by these kinds of 80s songs, is found on the audio page, as is "I'll Fly Away".

More details on these and other musical influences come from this original post:

https://13thhr.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/influences-behind-the-thirteenth-hour-part-4-music/

As always, thanks for listening!

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More about ⁠⁠The Thirteenth Hour⁠⁠⁠

An impossible quest to the ends of the world. An unlikely hero. And ... a little magic.

If an optimist sees opportunity even in disaster, then Logan, the sole surviving member of an ill-fated military expedition to the ends of the world, is most definitely an optimist. You’d have to be to continue on without supplies, ship, or crew. But to someone who’s daydreamed of seeing the world since childhood, perhaps disaster actually hides freedom. And, besides, who ever said adventures were supposed to be easy?

Of course, every hero on a “desperate quest against incredible odds” can use a little help. Enter Aurora, Logan’s best friend from childhood, whose fate collides serendipitously with his, a magic collapsible hover board, three bumbling wizards, and the elemental forces from the lands of wind, water, fire, earth, and dreams.

These characters and many more collide in an illustrated fairy tale fantasy inspired by enough 1980s fantasy, scifi, and teen movies that an original retro 80s synthesizer soundtrack, ⁠⁠Long Ago Not So Far Away⁠⁠, was created to accompany the novel.

Enter a whimsical world of what reviewers called “creative, fast paced adventure” best “described as a fairy tale for anyone who grew up on old school fantasy movies in the 80s.”

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