Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack

I ordered it used from this seller. It was as if someone just took the plastic off and never played the CD. Perfect condition. Would buy from seller again.

Why are you reading this? GO BUY THE MUSIC! What? You're still reading? Are you afraid to believe that this is really IT, that this is really the music you've been waiting for for ... twenty, thirty years? Well, it IS the music you've been waiting for! By Crom, stop wasting precious time: buy, BUY NOW!Okay, seriously, I'm not sure I can add much to what everyone else has written. Read some of the other reviews, 'cause I'm only going to write about what hasn't yet been mentioned (to my knowledge).First, the remastering is great. We've never heard the music like this, at least not on CD. And--Crom be praised!--the remastering is NOT blown-out and compressed to hell. It's perfect, unlike, say, the remastered "Special Edition" Star Wars soundtracks, which are blown to hell and have lost much of their dynamism. So kudos to the producers. They've lovingly retouched a masterpiece. You'll hear instrument and vocal parts with clarity and presence you've probably never heard before.Second, yes, you will hear outtakes and alternate tracks that aren't in the movie. The alternate/original "Anvil of Crom," for example, is almost identical to the Nic Raine version but quite different from the movie version. At least one track--"Capture"--I don't think is featured even on the Raine re-recording. So again, yes, this collection is as complete as I can imagine (without sitting down and playing the soundtrack CDs and movie DVD side-by-side).Now I will discuss the one and only "con."Although this CD set is likely the crown jewel (or Eye of the Serpent) of my music collection, the recording quality does not compare favorably with the Raine version. I can't fault anyone for that, of course: I can't expect 1982 recording tech to compete with 2010 technology. But the result is, still, slightly disappointing. When I'm in the mood to listen to the "Conan" score, I will therefore likely be playing the Poledouris and Raine recordings together on shuffle or, perhaps, back-to-back. It's like having different but equally beautiful versions of a symphony: one being an old but intensely performed version, while the other is new and better recorded--but not performed as ferociously.Let me be clear, though: whatever the merits of the Raine re-recording (and there are many), the original is incomparable. This soundtrack IS everything we've imagined it might be--and more. Yes, more. And yes, I know: we can all imagine quite a bit. Indeed. But Poledouris's imagination--and the skill of those who've resurrected this masterpiece--surpasses the imagination.Enjoy, my Hyborian brethren. Our wait is over.

This is THE definitive version of the soundtrack for the ORIGINAL and BEST Conan movie. Just as critics said that the movie, while free and easy with the source material, got the spirit of Howard's writing and the titular character bang-on, the sweeping, majestic score from Basil Poledouris perfectly conveyed the swagger, strength, and high adventure of Conan and the brutal, dazzling landscapes of Hyboria. This movie stands as a testament that a good soundtrack can make an otherwise adequate movie great. Without this monumental score, the movie falls flat on its face and joins the ranks of the dime-a-dozen sword and sorcery movies from the 70's and 80's.As for this particular version, it's the one Conan fans have been waiting for. Every single musical note heard in the movie is here, as well as some other treats. Other editions of the soundtrack have come and gone. There was one available as an import, which had more material than the bare-bones soundtrack available here in the US, but it was hard to find, and still incomplete.For those who have been waiting, we finally have the Renaissance piece that played during the infiltration in the tower of Set. So complete is this album, you even have the odd, unsettling chanting going on in the background when Conan first meets Valeria. Also present are some discarded numbers that Poledouris resurrected for the "Conan the Destroyer" soundtrack. So, in essence, this album contains the complete score from both of Arnold's Conan movies. Again, every musical note you hear in Conan the Barbarian is on this album.As an added bonus, there are some outtakes and earlier versions of the score, some with different instrumentations.All this would be only a curiosity if the re-mastering were sub-par or drastically altered from the original. Typically, I find "re-mastered" to be code for "We wanted more money, so we changed the mix to be different from what you remember. It's compressed and inferior. But Hey! It's RE-MASTERED!" Not so here. Those audiophiles who noticed the low-fidelity of the original soundtrack recordings will be thrilled with the quality of this release. The lo-fi noise is gone, but not the richness of the instruments. Indeed, the quality of the sound is superb, and the re-mastering stays very true to the original. So while they have drastically improved the sound quality, they have not monkeyed with the mix just for the sake of change.This is a superb album, and without question the only soundtrack of Conan the Barbarian anyone needs.

An awesome soundtrack. The only thing I noticed is that the orgy track doesn't flow into the battle music like it does in the actual movie, it just ends. But I guess they were composed as separate tracks. The way they flow into each other in the movie was my favourite part. But even so it's still epic music 👍

Quizas uno de los mejores scores de siempre.

A trilha sonora de Conan, O Bárbaro é a síntese de uma obra de arte fleumática que ascende ao perpassar do tempo, e no fenecimento encontra a transcendência de seu jaez, sua estrutura é frugal mas sua visão é Incólume e sine qua non a agrura de sua jornada, apesar de perene no remate se esteia.

Perfecto 👌

Go and have a listen on youtube; then try finding a flac version of it on the internet. Then get annoyed that you find it, downloaded it, but that you pirated one of the best albums ever recorded... just go and buy this CD because owning your music is the right thing to do, and it just sounds better knowing it’s in your hands.