So, I was chatting with a friend of mine here and she asked me what my favorite film score was…..and I mentioned that I have many faves, but one of the all-time best was Basil Poledouris’ score for Conan the Barbarian. I told her that score elevated a fairly low-budget B-movie into the gold standard for sword-and-sorcery flicks until Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
For me at least, Poledouris’ score is one of the finest film scores I’ve ever heard.