Theology/Civilization - Conan the Barbarian Theme (Basil Poledouris)

[@skytreker]

This tune makes you dream of ages gone by, of vast unexplored lands filled with wonder , when the world was still young!

[@taklampan650]

Well put!

[@maleexile9053]

The middle ages ;)

[@DidoInFlames]

Sounds magical and ancient

[@Retetop]

@@maleexile9053 Not the middle ages friend, think something closer to the bronze age. The age of heroes.

[@richardim499]

Reminds me how weak the us 💵 is and discontent of it

[@forbidden_knowledge9691]

Probably one of the best soundtracks ever made. I'd say it's in the top 10. My top ten anyway...

[@carriepineau7596]

It's my #1. Best soundtrack ever!

[@Whyistomatoafruit]

Agreed!!

[@yvc9]

Easily

[@keign9470]

It’s my #1 NO doubt

[@carloscamargo4906]

I fully agree! Superb! Powerful songs! It's Basil Poledouris at the top!

[@maxmauer3353]

I don’t leave a lot of comments on things like this, but I feel I have to. I’ve been a classical/church composer for around twenty years: this piece is, without a doubt, one of the greatest works I’ve ever heard. Between the melody, motives, instrument choice, interior counterpoint, tonal conveyance, and overall poetry of sound: this is legitimate high-art that is severely and tragically under-appreciated.

[@RobsOtherChannel]

My honest goal is to someday study music theory so I can completely understand some of the things you admire about this song. And yes, the song is brilliant! :)

[@DustinBarlow8P]

Would love this piece done with an actual Orchestra.

[@QuazarNeptune2012]

I agree with you,. I've bought the laser disc, it is much better than youtube !

[@rogueninja185]

Yes, it s a real beauty. The composer s mind is a wonder, no doubt.

[@lucacolonnesi]

i totally agree with you. in example, i would like to focus the use of some underestimate instruments like triangles and some others instruments like chimes, that impose to this fantastic track a unique taste perfectly balanced between classic and modern.

[@MrTahabk]

The part when Conan is on the tree, and he's his friend running to him in the distance.... now thats a true friend!

[@70sfred1]

Wish I had a friend like that!

[@The_LoneHawk]

@@70sfred1 Don't we all dude... Guess you have to be Leader to get friends like that

[@70sfred1]

@@The_LoneHawk Good point!

[@Needabeer76]

@@The_LoneHawk Quit feeling sorry for yourself dude.

[@The_LoneHawk]

@@Needabeer76 I wasn't! I was merely saying you have to be leader in order to have friends like that.

[@patrickfolan7118]

This movie and soundtrack will always remind me of my Dad, watching it together back in the 80's. The night before he died I sent him a picture of my son and this music and picture playing on the tv.

[@patrickkasmir3914]

Same here brother. My dad took me to see this in the theaters when I was a little kid

[@abcun17]

"Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Crom... so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then the HELL with you!"

[@KieranM-kn3lt]

do you want to live forever?

[@AMortalDefiant]

One the greatest monologues in movie history, IMO.

[@Rhuarc1]

That's when he figured out the Enigma of Steel. Thulsa Doom ALMOST had it right...but it slipped from his fingers as he tightened them for power over others. The answer is that the steel is yourself. You must take the tempering caused by the hammer blows of life...and be ye tempered.

[@MrKajithecat]

That feel when you'll never run across the vast desert with your cool mongol archer buddy.

[@Stallion67]

+Numbersixxx lmao!

[@guileniam]

MrKajithecat Leo DiCaprio looks like Jack Black in your Dp. who knew fat leo=Nacho Libre

[@albiefett]

You Sir, are SPOT ON!

[@Dave_Lock]

Hyrkanian

[@Monteverde81]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Thurzotron]

When people talk about the great composers, no one ever mentions Basil. That is fucking mental, this soundtrack is one of the greatest.

[@RoninAquila]

This melody is so uplifting and heartwarming its easy to forget how sad and bleak that the tragedy of "Conan The Barbarian" is.

[@tweedlebong3933]

It ends in victory won through hardship and loss. And it is, of course, just the beginning of the saga of Conan.

[@ericgrumbles447]

Life is pain. Anyone who tells you something else is selling something.

[@daviddrouant2852]

The best D&D campaign ever

[@xhillydilly]

+David Drouant my game, ps3, got glitched, I'd play unlocking moves and weapons, but an important prompt for a door to open wouldn't appear ending my progress! I tried replaying it twice and same thing? I know I got passed it before, but can't do it now? was fun though, slave girls freed were hot, and well performed.

[@daviddrouant2852]

I would just stare at those slave girls,and not even play the game for a good while

[@silentslayergaming8469]

David Drouant which game?

[@ICEsmokeMirrors9]

I love music like this. Takes me to another time. I miss movies like this.

[@CliffuckingBooth]

He is Conan, Cimmerian. He will not cry. So I cry for him.

[@420haxx]

This might actually be the highpoint of the the best movie soundtrack ever put to celluoid, so much energy, boundless adventure but still clear periods for refelection. A true Masterpiece.

[@hireslehibousacre756]

Today’s, it’s been 10 years since this video has been uploaded on KZbin. Thanks for being an incredible song, and thanks to basil Poledouris!

[@silentslayergaming8469]

this song is art.

[@desertdevil6451]

SilentSlayerGaming No shit

[@dand7763]

Basil was genius ...

[@jaimexhernandez9056]

Some people says “this is epic” but for me is legendary.

[@billsykes2977]

Both, for me!

[@feefifofum6383]

Can't disagree more tbh. It's clearly majestic.

[@sum8601]

@@feefifofum6383 Wrong. its resplendently splendid.

[@arturohernandez20]

Conan: What gods do you pray to? Subotai: I pray to the four winds... and you? Conan: To Crom... but I seldom pray to him, he doesn't listen. Subotai: What good is he then? Ah, it's just as I've always said. Conan: He is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, "What is the riddle of steel?" If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me. That's Crom, strong on his mountain! Subotai: Ah, my god is greater. Conan: Crom laughs at your four winds. He laughs from his mountain. Subotai: My god is stronger. He is the everlasting sky! Your god lives underneath him.

[@Stallion67]

+Arturo Hernandez Lopez Thanks for sharing . I remember this and the look on Conan's face after Subotai's last comment lol. An absolute classic.

[@Apollomasque]

The fucking LOOK that Conan gives Subotai when he rags on Crom with that last linewith that line. "You little shit. Only riddle of steel you're gonna need to answer is how to get my sword out of your gut"

[@MrDibara]

+Arturo Hernandez Lopez "Your god lives *_underneath him."_* The burn on that line is so strong, you can see it reflected on Conan's look! *"Underneath"* can have a lot of meanings. Just saying. XD

[@claudekonqui554]

Tenger, the everlasting blue sky god of ancient Mongols... I spent some time in Mongolia, and though Cimmerians, if I am not mistaken, lived some 22 centuries before the Mongols, there in the steppe I could not help imagining Subotai the Mongol running across the high grass to save Conan the Cimmerian. Nice fantasy, wonderful music raising the imagination.

[@MrTahabk]

Berry It should be a meme lmao

[@yvc9]

Adventure and heroism perfectly represented in musical form

[@seneca1932]

The days of High Adventure

[@Rayyman]

One of the most complete and beautiful soundtracks ever created. You can listen to the whole thing

[@Tuthless84]

damn, 1:25 still makes my heart and face lighten every time. phenomenal song/score

[@andreamichelini7386]

Goosebumps

[@AdamNorse]

Man, this kind of music will endure the test of time with ease. Such monstrous nostalgia! Love it!

[@Eric.1I37]

When I hear this I always picture Conan listening to King Osric wise Northmen advice. King Osric: "There comes a time thief when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses it luster, when the thRoone room becomes a prison! and all that is left is a fathers love for his child" All that you build means nothing if you have no children to carry it on. For who else would you build such works?

[@victorm152]

The epicness of Max Von Sydow

[@oldfrend]

and the underrated beauty of the script. a lot of it is simply magnificent, but it's hard to appreciate because it's delivered by such bad actors XD

[@nimazsheik5152]

I don't know why you call them bad actors, all of the cast involved in this movie acted perfectly. I wouldn't have it any other way :)

[@joew9690]

@@nimazsheik5152 Exactly this movie is a pearl you cant find such well edited movie in modern days. Peace Mates !

[@_Gandalf_The_White]

One of my favourite quotes, genius simply amazing.

[@claudekonqui7294]

My prefered pieces in the whole score. When I went to Mongolia some years back I took this music and Borodin's "In the steppes of Central Asia" with me and I imagined Subotai running across the grassland...;-)

[@leloupdessteppes3228]

Dude I'm so jealous you have no idea..

[@adoringfan1924]

Happy 40th anniversary Conan! My personal favorite track from the movie, although the entire soundtrack is a masterpiece. Thank you Basil Poledouris!

[@pranaytony]

This Theology stands at top in melody wise on the whole scores! Basil Poledouris is the Greatest Gift ever received on this planet!

[@barbaralionello8366]

I agree

[@clinicalpsychologist]

RIP BP

[@strixin79]

One of the most underrated movie ever.

[@Stallion67]

+strixin79 agreed,well said. It is my favorite movie.

[@victorm152]

Definitely one of my favorites

[@Taller2A]

Crom laughs at those underraters from his mountain

[@diegodavide]

@@Taller2A sure..

[@ericgrumbles447]

I don't think so. It's a classic movie with several generations. Now, the musical arrangement I'll agree with you on. It's massively underrated in spite of it's acclaim.

[@CROWOLF87]

Underrated Score for Sure Movies are inseparable from their Music..thanks for sharing

[@Wik3dNuTS4k]

1:23 omg i could cry at how beautifully the music picks up

[@meandmetoo8436]

This music never fails to lift my mood.

[@parapoliticos52]

When i was little kid, and first saw the film, 'Theology' stuck in my head immediately and became my instant favorite from the movie. 30 years later it's replaced by Riders of Doom & Battle of the mounts, but still i love this too.

[@donavantew8278]

This brings back so many memories from my childhood

[@ilkernl387]

Herkesin sağ olduğu, kimseyi özlemediğimiz zamanlar.

[@untamedbuzzkiller6088]

Theology here gave me a surge of nostalgia. Not as in a minor surge of electricity, more like being zapped by heaven itself. There's something about it that vividly gives me the image of vast plains, mountains standing in the back, winds blowing gently, all that generic but tranquil stuff.

[@nolanhasty557]

My favorite movie and soundtrack . A movie filled with wonder and introspection , Arnie didnt have to act , he is Conan

[@WorldView22]

This wonderful movie owes its value to a great extend to the music, an underrated true gem by the late Βασίλης Πολυδούρης who used the largest ensemble ever in the industry to compose and realise this soundtrack. Let it be light and without burden the soil that covers him.

[@ObliviousBurrito]

Subotai:Food.....Food! I have not eaten for days. Conan: And who says that you will? Subotai: Give me food, so I have strength when the wolves come. Let me die not in hunger, but in combat.

[@MustardSkaven]

@@Embrachu Nice necro, fuckwad.

[@meneither3834]

@@MustardSkaven necroing is a tolerated and common practice on KZbin.

[@MustardSkaven]

@@meneither3834 LOL

[@intmartpract]

Conan could relate to that, respect it and that started their friendship.

[@seaningram3285]

Conan: Then what are you doing here?

[@Tarionism]

this song reminds me if you walking into a busy desert civilization with many opportunities ahead

[@theghostofpennsylvania_11]

It reminds of entering a Persian Empire castle full of lust and gold with women finger feeding lucky men.😁

[@claudekonqui554]

my best loved part of the score. A really wonderful piece of music.

[@Garrus1995]

I just watched this film for the first time yesterday. Such an epic adventure covering love, revenge and companionship. And Arnold was most definitely in his prime. I really wish Hollywood would still make movies like this.

[@jonmorgan1987]

Gerry is still in his prime.

[@Flo061972]

The soudtrack is just a Masterpiece. Thanx for sharing

[@akm714]

Epic soundtrack.

[@NeAndresthal]

I'm missing Basil Poledouris so much...

[@ericgrumbles447]

This is arguably the pinnacle of his work.

[@Trollioli]

My ex asked me once what I thought of this song, I said it reminded me of freedom. Shame she wasn't able to go on that journey with me, she was a good one.

[@BoogerNoe]

Best soundtrack ever!

[@TheHonoredMadman]

One of the best of all time right here

[@Fookracists]

best soundtrack ever ❤👌

[@ΜιχΛαζ]

Vangelis and basil a bless to today’s music!!

[@cubastio]

He is strong. If I die I have to go before him, and he will ask me "What is the riddle of steel?" And if I don't know it he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me! That's Crom - strong in his mountain!

[@MrDibara]

Eh, my god is greater.

[@Stallion67]

MrDibara He is the everlasting sky!

[@MrDibara]

+Berry Your god lives underneath him.

[@adoringfan1924]

Favorite track from one of my all time favorites !

[@SonofSkyrim01]

A beautiful melody. So calm. I always associate it with a peaceful tour of cities and game markets.

[@roho741]

Imagine yourself being on horseback on outstretched plains of Mongolia with this tune playing ...that's the life😊

[@snakeplisken6242]

This is what my dog and i listen to come spring time on our walks.

[@nemechris]

best OST ever !!

[@scottbaker7104]

I’m so lucky to have grown up with movies like this and the music is amazing and one of a kind

[@armoredsweatpants3997]

I can close my eyes and visualize man’s progression through the ages, from mammoth hunter to Silicon Valley coder.

[@johnblack8655]

I love this piece of music. That is all.

[@SonofSkyrim01]

This is my favourite theme from Conan.

[@killthegreys6270]

I wish movies these days had soundtracks this good.

[@edwardx4979]

Gone are those years of high adventure! Lol 😆

[@ShebaFr]

Should be played in every tabletop fantasy rpg games. "You are sitting in a inn..."

[@geofflegeoff6795]

Man, original scores were something else back then.

[@chrisbumface2990]

We may never know what the world was truly like before recorded history other than through excavations and study. But to think there once was something like this lost to time and someday we could also be a member of a lost age. This song makes ya think!

[@Brittanicus-y3v]

"Crom will demand of me to answer to the Riddle of Steel, and if I do not know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and then laugh at me."

[@mikireqmetal4757]

Cada vez que escucho esta melodía se me ponen los pelos de punta

[@pepelolo8696]

Y Ami

[@fi_luvs2]

I stumbled upon this and immediately thought of my dad 😭 he loves this soundtrack

[@seneca1932]

What do you believe, Conan? He shrugged his shoulders. “I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom’s realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer’s Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and I am content.” -Conan of Cimmeria, “Queen of the Black Coast”

[@fieldy409]

Found a cool sword, shagged a witch, made a new best friend, saw ancient and wicked civilisation for the first time. Good week for Conan.

[@EthanRusselll]

It's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard 🥲

[@marcotemperini5467]

Everytime I hear this song, my mind goes toward old school classic AD&D stuff and such. Beautiful, immortal, perfect

[@SamLazier]

I just realized this was removed from spotify 😭

[@Alice-fs4ky]

Me too!!!! I was devastated😭😭

[@johnblack8655]

I, too, realised this... most places can not handle its divine beauty. Well done, YT.

[@theghostofpennsylvania_11]

Crom!! This music is beautiful.

[@lisaahua]

This was my skating music when i was younger, I quit skating this year, good memories 😪

[@elcivilista]

Beautiful!!! God bless You Basil!

[@daviddrouant2852]

"Conan is a Samerian he will not cry,so I cry for him"

[@daviddrouant2852]

thank you

[@MrDibara]

+David Drouant Seriously, Subotai was like the biggest bro ever in this movie! They better bring him back in the next Conan movie with Arnold and explain what he's been doing ever since!

[@evandrozzz]

Cimerian

[@francescolaruffa3441]

Cimmerian

[@City-Hunter]

Cimmerian

[@baronofnothing8896]

Something has overcome me. I now have the urge to befriend a Mongol and run through the prairies off to some task. The task? Don't know. Just enjoying running with my buddy.

[@janin5077]

RIP Basil

[@ColonelMarcellus]

Black Lotus, Stygian, the best! This better not be Haga! I would sell haga to a slayer such as you?

[@daniellarraburo4931]

clasicos que no se olvidan como conan,muy buen tema

[@DoroteoVilla]

Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!

[@wilsonwilliams2617]

Favorite tune for my favorite movie….Gosh I’ve watched Conan the Barbarian like a million times😍

[@sonnyace11]

Iconic

[@armoredsweatpants3997]

Basil poldouris is a genius!

[@The21Conrad]

Say what you will about Conan and guys with swords. This score is absolutely beautiful though.

[@DeckyStrikesBack]

If i ever get to the gates of Heaven, id like this to be playing.

[@Stallion67]

+DeckyStrikesBack Ditto:)

[@spencersmith312]

The only way to get there is to receive Jesus as your Savior.

[@autystycznybudda5012]

​@@spencersmith312 God loves you no matter how you look, or how rich you are, regardless of whether you are white or black... The only thing that matters is... WHICH DOGMA YOU ACCEPT.

[@chrissteel7889]

Crom laughs at your god.

[@Shogo5000]

Forget about "heaven", this music is for you only if you go to Valhalla

[@cecy-jess-heavy]

so perfect , me transporta

[@porrickcastlefinn9797]

This is my favorite theme among all scores together with the "Search" theme !

[@pepelolo8696]

Masterpiece!!!!

[@Silly_Illidan]

My headcannon is that hyboria was once real, back when humans were seemingly primitive and not even completely homo sapiens... When the age of gods had not ended and legends were just history

[@robertosheldon9061]

This is beautiful.

[@RYROSmetaldefender]

Conan is the most epic stuff i ever saw ,movie. The soundtrack are the best of epic movies i ever listened.

[@DonaldJumper-c3f]

I have always liked this theme. It makes me think of going off and exploring the country.

[@Stallion67]

Man I love this. For some reason I get hyped listening to this right before I go school these young dudes in basketball or right before my flag football games lol

[@christopherwilson3085]

I come back to this song time and time again, drawn to the unknown, following some sense of adventure. and then my mind runs to belonging.

[@victorm152]

does it always smell like this? How does the wind ever get in here?

[@Stallion67]

Victor M Lol Classic!

[@AlexM-uh7sq]

Beautiful

[@Don_Beto_ptr]

It's hard for me to think in some other track as beautiful as this one.

[@CalebePriester]

Great composition! Haha, it's so good it makes me happy!

[@Reach1335]

"Does it always smell like this? How does the wind ever get in here?"

[@findooz95]

I love this song...

[@riduwangraner]

Song from heaven❤

[@felixalexisortizlagos6904]

Subotai is the most badass charachter on Conan, he literally said to conan than his god was greater than his god and survived

[@DrZlu]

One of my favourite movie tracks. The only downside is that it's only three minutes long.