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Conan the Barbarian soundtrack - Ultimate Version
Type:
Audio > Music
Files:
29
Size:
221.1 MB

Quality:
+6 / -0 (+6)

Uploaded:
Feb 14, 2008
By:
sndtrk1982



I believe that this torrent contains the longest, best-quality version of Basil Poledouris' CONAN THE BARBARIAN soundtrack ever created.

This legendary film score was originally released in 1982 in an inexcusably truncated form. Ten years later, the soundtrack angels over at Varese Sarabande produced a wonderfully remastered and expanded CD which contained over twenty minutes of additional music (VSD 5390). But this release was still missing a great amount of music from the film: the drums that play under Mako's opening and closing dialogue, the Gladiator pit sequence, the extended Temple of Set music, the battle in Thulsa Doom's palace following the orgy sequence, the music accompanying Subotai and Mako fighting at the mounds, the decapitation of Thulsa Doom, and many more smaller bits throughout the film. So much music, all of it lost, seemingly forever.

Several years after the Varese Cd, however, a bootlegger put out something called CONAN THE BARBARIAN/THE DESTROYER/LIVE. This was a rare two-disc set that contained  the legitimately released soundtracks to both CONAN THE BARBARIAN and CONAN THE DESTROYER, plus a few bootlegged tracks from the Conan stage show that ran for years at Universal Studios, PLUS lots of additional CONAN THE BARBARIAN tracks which together covered all of the additional music that had never been released. To us lovers of the original film, this was a veritable gift from heaven -- with one BIG problem: all of the new "missing music" tracks had been taken off of a mono laserdisc, and to make matters worse, the bootlegger used what is now ancient computer technology to try to isolate the music from the dialogue and sound effects. The result was very poor quality on the new tracks -- REAL BAD, like listening through a bad AM radio in a toilet bowl. But for the last ten years, it's been better than nothing. 

Now, with the release a few years ago of the CONAN THE BARBARIAN COLLECTOR EDITION DVD, the time has come to try for better. This new DVD is in 5.1 Surround sound, allowing the determined bootlegger to capture, isolate, and enhance each track in FULL STEREO, and with far more success at eliminating the dialogue and sound effects than before. 

After a lot of work,tinkering, mixing, sweetening, and experimentation, I believe I have created something special. A truly complete soundtrack of the film, with all the new tracks at such a high quality that most compare favorably with the official CD release. Sound effects and dialogue have been reduced to near-nothing, mere whispers in parts of certain tracks. It's a spectacular listening experience, the closest we are liable to come to having a perfect and complete soundtrack for this film.

The original 1982 release had 12 tracks (47 minutes), while the Varese version had 16 (67 minutes). This new Ultimate Version has an incredible 29 tracks (107 minutes), and some of the Varese 16 have been buttressed with more music. Here is the new track list, to give you an idea of how the score has expanded:

01 - Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare (widescreen version) - Alfred Newman.mp3
02 - An Age Undreamed Of [not on original CD] - Anvil of Crom.mp3
03 - Riddle Of Steel - Riders Of Doom.mp3
04 - Gift Of Fury.mp3
05 - Wheel Of Pain.mp3
06 - Gladiator [not on original CD].mp3
07 - The Discipline of Steel - What Is Best In Life [not on original CD].mp3
08 - Atlantean Sword.mp3
09 - The Witch [not on original CD].mp3
10 - Theology - Civilization.mp3
11 - I Am Evil! - Hitting the Camel [not on original CD].mp3
12 - Meeting Valeria - Stealing the Eye of the Serpent [not on original CD].mp3
13 - Escape from the Tower of Set - Valeria's Gift [not on original CD].mp3
14 - Wifeing (Theme of Love).mp3
15 - Wealth Can Be Wonderful - King Osric [not on original CD].mp3
16 - The Leaving - The Search.mp3
17 - Mountain Of Power Procession.mp3
18 - Children of Doom [not on original CD].mp3
19 - The Tree Of Woe.mp3
20 - Recovery.mp3
21 - The Kitchen - The Orgy - Stealing the Princess - You! [not on original CD].mp3
22 - Funeral Pyre.mp3
23 - The Battle of the Mounds - Resourceful Warriors [not on original CD].mp3
24 - The Death Of Rexor - Conan the Assassin.mp3
25 - The End of Thulsa Doom [not on original CD].mp3
26 - Orphans Of Doom - The Awakening.mp3
27 - Conan the King - End Titles [not on original CD].mp3
Alternate Track - 02 - An Age Undreamed Of (with Mako dialogue) [not on original CD] - Anvil of Crom.mp3
Alternate Track - 27 - Conan the King - End Titles (with Mako dialogue) [not on original CD].mp3

The two "alternate tracks" are the same as tracks #2 and #27, except that in addition to the music they also have Mako's famous barbaric soliloquies overlaying the drums. So if you want to hear Mako, just replace #2 and #27 with the alternates, and you're set.

I dearly hope that someday the powers that be get around to releasing a truly complete score of CONAN THE BARBARIAN. The day they do, they'll have my money in their pocket. Until then, devoted fans of the film and of the late, great composer Basil Poledouris must content themselves with this, the next closest thing. I've had a blast listening to this high-quality version of one of the all-time greatest film scores, and I hope you guys dig it, too.

Comments

Well i have downloaded this and its only 16 tracks and sounds very much like just a rip of the OST cd.
delvi47: Look up top -- there are TWENTY-NINE files in this torrent. If you only got sixteen tracks, then you obviously downloaded the wrong torrent.
Ahh i must apologise.Once i had downloaded it (and i am using Azureus) i chose to open file from within the program and it decides to open a previously downloaded one i have within the same folder.I have had this problem before and forgot.
I can confirm that this is an excellent version of the soundtrack and well worth the download.
Thank you VERY much
Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!

I have the old cd with something like 12-13 songs on it. Later i downloaded the se version with several extra songs. And now there seems to be even more stuff on this download.

I just can't understand why these extra songs were not on my copy. This stuff is extremely good!
Man, I didn't even started the download, but just by reading your piece on it I can feel you did a pro job!
This score from Poledouris is fantastic!
Congrats on the torrent!
Awesome soundtrack. I watched the movie again last night, after a hatius of many years, and remembered the things I liked about it. One of them was the music. And boy was I surprised to find a Soundtrack here in this fine site- an quite full soundtrack at that! Thanks a ton, sndtrk1982!
You are a true Legend and pay homage to the best story/movie ever made!
Someone please up the Destroyer Soundtrack! Please!

Please!

And if you do not listen... den da hell wit you!
Thx man.Great upload
excellent !
CROM will be pleased!
I will contemplate your work on the "Tree of Woe"

Thanks
OMG this is amazing!
great soundstrack. Thanks for sharing :)
Do you happen to know any link to close encounters of the third kind soundtrack? Please post at one of my torrents so i will know the answer.

Cheers.
i love this a lot..i just fount your torrent last night and i really appreciate this...i had damaged tracks on my Conan files and i looked for replacements..and lo and behold, i found your torrent...i was like...Crom!!!!!....i like the Meeting Valaria - stealing of the serpent eye track...this is awesome
anyone else who says they didnt get all the downloads..they may have been using stupid bit comet like i used to until i discovered uTorrent.

i know when i had bitcomet.(or bit vommit..ha ha) i had that trouble downloading stuff with more than 10 tracks
Man Amazing, I've had this Soundtrack forever and its awesome can't wait to hear the additional tracks. Now if only they will release the original theatrical version of the movie, cuz all I got is the extended.
THX. this is great soundtrack forever...
Thank You! This is exactly what I hoped for.
I had the original audio tape of this back in '83 when I was a kid. I was just looking for the title theme and come across this. Bravo.
Outdated. Check on eBay for 'CONAN THE BARBARIAN 2CD complete score Basil Poledouris'
EliDirkx98,

The 2CD version you mention is a bootleg. If it's the same one that was released in the late 1990s, it has horrible sound quality, much worse than this torrent.
Thanks a lot! Great job!!!!
Mega appreciation!
Woww! Felicitaciones! Esta es la mejor recopilacion de todos los temas del soundtrack de la pelicula, yo tengo el cd con las 16 canciones, pero el que tu has subido es lo maximo! Gracias por haberlo subido! Yo soy un fan de esta pelicula y tambien de la banda sonora y jamas pense que hubiera un cd con todos los temas como este! Gracias!
dtrk1982
Looks like a big work you did here.
I am downloading to hear how it is.

Don't you think you should also release this in some higher quality or lossless? I think this deserves it.
Thank you.
Mezmerizing clarity sndtrk1982!

Thanks for the wellspring, from which it flows.
my son..
..my son...
.....my so______
Thanks very much. This is a masterpiece.
Thank you. Thank you very much.