Basil Poledouris - In Memoriam

[AnAmericanPatriot77]

Fantastic composer! I only wish his film scores were longer overall, but he made up in quality, not quantity.

[lionssong2525]

Basil Poledouris also composed the soundtrack for "Farewell to the King" starring Nick Nolte.

It was one of the best scores ever. Very dramatic. Fits the movie very well.

[leylandcarsloverslea]

The Hunt For Red October theme is the best to me. It's s gloomy sounding at the beginning and becomes an awesome march type of music at the end.

[thesynthmaster92]

I love (t)his music.

[AlxMiNeR]

poledouris was the best movie music maker for me

[junotfranco]

This guy was amazing...

[heitorfranzon]

Poledouris é sem dúvida alguma o mais brilhante compositor desde mozart

[PoseidonGRE]

bye bye Great Greek!Hellas salutes you!

[valeriosedici]

he was a genius.

Robocop score was awesome too.

[0manoscar]

@valeriosedici Not many people are familiar with it, but I consider the theme he wrote for the film Quigley, Down Under to be his opus. He also wrote the theme for The Hunt For Red October.

[soulmusicmad]

@valeriosedici  ..Hi,i totally agree,Quigley Down Under is the best.Although he Composed some Great Movie scores,this is my Favourite.

[tretrioeciii]

The best score of all time is the score for Conan the Barbarian.

The story of his daughter playing a counter melody to his orgy scene piece while he was writing it and him suddenly realizing that it worked perfectly and giving her credit for it is so sweet and beautiful, and then for her to hear the finished piece and say he got it wrong, always makes me smile. When I heard he had died, that story was the first thing that came to my mind.

[vladbis]

Red October favorite! U r reconstruct what i fill Basil

[macky111222]

basil earned his way into heaven long before his death god rest him, conans anvil of crom was the mutts nuts!

[GraeCat]

This is it! The greatest composer of my lifetime, and of any ones life? he gets a thank you. Every time I hear him now, I cry. I cry, I cry, He will be missed!

[KrautGoesWild]

I remember how shocked I was, when I looked up Basil Poledouris at Wikipedia and had to read that he has moved on.

Well, at least we now can be sure that there´ll be a good melody played in heaven, once we get there.

R.I.P. Basil

[cloudidogz]

Basil is one of the least recognized soundtrack composers...the Academy failed to recognize him (and barely recognized Ennio Morricone)...sad! But if I get my 100 best soundtracks done...he certain has Conan among the very top!

[380800]

Basil Poledouris you are my HERO!!!!!

[seriousshards]

Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. The Conan the barbarian soundtrack is the most moving music I have ever heard! This is what should have been shown the year he died during the academy awards.

[WerdnaFaz]

CONAN!

[tomrayder]

i love the score of "red dawn' brilliant..and the funeral score in Starship troopers

[Wingdoss]

Conan's my favourite soundtrack of all time. Many other composer's use a core theme tune to their soundtracks that runs more or less through the whole of a movie. Basil was easily one of the best.

[markoj34]

I'm quite sure that, without the work of Poledouris, most of these films featured would have suffered greatly.

"Once again, the score saves the film."

[PontifexPotens]

Wow..Robocop too? I loved that theme, didn't know until now that it was Basil's work. Red October has to be by far his most epic theme, in my opinion: the scope is simply grand.

[Bob65001]

I agree 110%

[keysersozeh]

Yea,, robocop and conan the barbarian.. my favorite alltime scores.

[gorn9146]

I don't know all of his works but, IMO, Flight of the Intruder was his best. But as I said, I don't know all of his works.

[zigsauer]

Ave

[GSZproject2007]

Basil Poledouris was... sorry..

IS a great musican ...

[lovestar2525]

wheres free willy

[roccofucko]

Poledouris gave somewhat mediocre films epic proportions with his brilliant scores. I'm not sure if I would have Starship Troopers and the Blue Lagoon as some of my favorite movies if it wasn't for Poledouris. And not to forget Conan the Barbarian, which has the best score in all of Arnold Schwarzenegger's films! :)

[MaxxUS08]

Thanks for introducing this vastly underrated composer! Automatic "Subscribe"!!!

[porthosmahony]

I can't believe that you left out the music to Big Wednesday! An all time great.

[12valvepower1]

CCCP

[coketerrace75]

Beautiful tribute to a great composer...thanks for posting. Made me think of his "Lonesome Dove" score, and how his music brought that great miniseries to life. Can't think of Gus and Call without thinking of Basil.

[will4ward]

One of the greats!

thematically as strong as Williams or Goldsmith.

RIP

[georgekoul]

ANOTHER GREAT GREEK COMPOSER!!!

[GothicKnight2]

Greek-American, actually

[stingr4y]

Could you also upload only the LES MISERABLES theme?

[archiveall]

There should be "KLENDATHU DROP" track of Starship Troopers, ranking to the best "hero" music ever...

[SideSwipeGTA]

Hells yeah, that was a power piece of music.

[signus501]

Este hombre era casi un genio.

[Danifuken]

Este hombre ES un genio. No quieras matarlo tan pronto. Jajaja.

Un saludo hermano.

[Danifuken]

Me he colado, pensaba que estabas hablando de John Williams. Joder, pobre Basil, sí, realmente era un genio.

[signus501]

Si tenia buena musica verdad?

[shortyg53]

Love the LES MISERABES one! That's a very powerful score!

[petamacek]

I love Starship Troopers music... marvelous!

[fixer74]

My bad, you obviously know your film score composers.

[fixer74]

he also did the score for First Blood, the first Rambo film.

[benydebney]

Sorry,that is incorrect. Jerry Goldsmith did the score to First Blood.

[alfiesmom109]

When I was little I wanted to be just jike Robocop.

[dafmurray]

A very talented composer and sadly missed.

[1701TheOriginal]

If it were not for Hunt for Red October, I never would have discovered his other pieces. Great composer.

[CPhillips92]

Loved both Starship Troopers and Robocop. Both infused with a real sense of pomp, grit and determination.

[sheepje1]

love the music from red october

[lavendergirl63]

The music from Blue Lagoon is amazing. The soundtrack fits the movie to a tee!

I never grow tired of hearing that music.

I'm so sorry we lost this talented man.

Blessings to those that loved him.

[webeffect]

how could you not include Free Willy?

[swash77]

He died of cancer :(

[Zaarin2007]

you missed the free willy score - one of his best! nice tribute though.

[supermargo19]

where Can I listen the soundtrack of Mogwli - the jungle book???? is the best movie theme of basil!!!

[dingorex]

I don't know, but if you find it could you tell me? The love theme is great.

[norbertthemage]

Nicely done, thanks!