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.
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! :)
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.
"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!"
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.
+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.
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.
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"
+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
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.
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.
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?
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...;-)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
+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!
@@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.
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
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
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”
