"Roll Tide" is a dramatic, militaristic piece of orchestral music composed by Hans Zimmer for the 1995 Disney film Crimson Tide.
The piece of music is widely regarded as one of Hans Zimmer's finest compositions, and its powerful, epic and Wagnerian style has often been emulated in many subsequent film scores. "Roll Tide" is also notable for its many appearances in movie trailers, including the trailers for The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Independence Day, The Saint, Armageddon, and many others.
Also known for its use by the late Eduardo Martinez.
The name of the song is copied from the rallying cry of the University of Alabama, whose athletics teams are known as the Crimson Tide.
The Symphonic metal band Nightwish has covered this song (fight song).
Also a term (or greeting) used to express excitement for the University of Alabama.
The phrase "Roll Tide" can be used as a greeting, in thanks, in congratulations, and even to answer to a marriage proposal, as featured in the ESPN 2011 National Championship game commercial, which explains the wide acceptability of the phrase.
Famous quotes containing the words roll and/or tide:
“There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)