Jeff Wayne The War of the Worlds - Brave New World

[lukie636]

i hate how the last 2 min of this are missing

[KongJabber84]

Some of this track always reminded me of The Who.

[T42please]

6:10-7:00, simply AMAZING !!!!!

[LordsSky]

Some say the French people over reacted to losing the Olympics.

[sripathyakasrip]

This part was really peaceful for me as a child, away from those scary Martians! I hope the music in the new version released in June next year will be just as thought provoking. I do hope Jeff Wayne releases another version of this outstanding musical from my early childhood next year that is truly timeless for the music world, yet again!

[samanthap434]

TABS plz.

[Gearsparker]

wait a minute... His plan sounds a lot like Gurren Lagaan! ROW ROW FIGHT THA POWAH

[MrCrazyHaley92]

When i have a good idea sod all happens....when this guy has a good idea epic music starts playing.....i want that :(

[neil73]

@MrCrazyHaley92 Buy a trumpet! (sorry!)

[MrCrazyHaley92]

@neil73 Why a trumpet??

[neil73]

@MrCrazyHaley92 So you can announce your good ideas with a fanfare

[MrCrazyHaley92]

@neil73 oh yeah sorry i wasn't really thinking when i said that....i get ya now :)

[neil73]

@MrCrazyHaley92 No worries!

[zauzari]

Only great!

[knobrock]

In 2006 I managed a CD shop and got a delivery of 20 copies of this album. Only the diehard metalheads who worked with me, or staff over 35 knew what it was, but all were puzzled at how we would sell 20 copies. So, much to the annoyance of the staff, I played it in the shop for ONE afternoon and all 20 copies were sold that day. :)

It's timeless and brilliant. They don't make music like this anymore. :D

[425599167]

We'll learn to make our own tripods.

Ours will have wheels.

[MrMrBilko]

Is this David Essex singing this?

[closedcircle1]

@MrMrBilko Yes.

[Naraten]

Ive sung this soooo many times when alone in the kitchen :P

[juuk68]

This is my favourite song. I don't know why. It just sound so fucking epic. Sometimes the world won't be as you want it to. This LP is a really well example for that. think about it.

[Shelley1413]

David Essex ROCKS!!!

[TheGingerHairedCriti]

"I'VE GOT A PLAN!!!!!"

Me: "okay, i'm just gonna run away and leave you to it ... "

[Grovajl]

All is rubbish except SCIENCE! I am so GLaD :D

[Truth118]

He's got a plan.

[benny4liverpool]

i quite enjoyed it when i saw this at the london o2 last december when it was Jason Donnavon :)

[LegolessVideos]

I don't like the singer's accent.

[sybyly]

@LegolessVideos

oi, wadja fuggin onna bahht, ya dahn liegit?

dahn fugga bahhht, sorrrrdid ahhhhhhhhhtt!

ya raciscahhhnttttttttt

[terrylingwood]

@LegolessVideos Er,it's called an ENGLISH ACCENT,it was written by an ENGLISHMAN and set in ENGLAND so obviously the singer is ENGLISH! Just enjoy one of the best musicals you're ever likely to hear and ignore minute things like accents :-D

[LegolessVideos]

@terrylingwood his specific accent is especially aggravating

[andeeest205]

@terrylingwood haha your right,,,this is england,,somtimes we forget that let forighners fuck off ...good on ya

[alienisuntverus]

I have a feeling that this song is a reference to Aldous Huxley's book. It would be interesting if it's true because Aldous is Thomas Henry Huxley's (Darwin's bulldog) grandson. The interesting part comes from the fact that T.H. Huxley was H.G. Wells tutor during collage.

[Mrbordershock]

after 9 minutes of waiting for the man to stop singing about living underground the group search, not for weapons to kill the marshans cos they cant win, now theyre looking for a straight jacket to put on to the man who wants to live like a mole

[Zynyster]

I love his part!

[litehawk1]

try to think hard of the last time you heard anything like this written. You won't most music these days is bull.

[Dezwiger]

tall/whitehuman - Music brings people together so with it we have a better chance of our chidren surviving

Ms SJA Animantions. No Forever Autumn is sung by the "journalist" the role of Richard Burton, the artillery man is played by David Essex

The whole album (the orginal not the remix) is brilliant

[TallWhiteHuman]

Remember what the Artillery man says, it will help you during " NWO ", we can own the universe , but only if we work together, so wake up !!!! stop your pop music and mcdonalds bullsh*t and put your fcuking heads together !!!! or our children will never survive !!!!

[MissSJAnimations]

So is this the character who sung forever autumn?

[222ksh]

@MissSJAnimations  Justin Heyward!!!

[222ksh]

Respond to this video...  Justin Hayward

[MissSJAnimations]

@222ksh Ah! Thanks

[markpayne75]

see David Essex in Eastenders just had to play some lol he still sounds the same brilliant album

[furon4]

But it's a musical!!!!!!

[furon4]

I don't think the artillery man from the book wold brake into a song!!!!!!!!!

[papoj1PVR]

[references War of the Servers] You can't build underground; it's a map, you idiot.

[alienisuntverus]

So while this guy was singing, not a single martian came over or even heard him.

[Thyunda]

@alienisuntverus They were scared of his plan and his WOOSH noises. They thought he'd already gotten a heatray.

[thtweb2008]

Heb laatst de Musical gezien in de HMA. Geweldig

[KrazyShrink]

Hehe my left speaker is broken, and the narrator's voice comes through the left speaker, so it just sounds like the artilleryman is talking to himself. Still epic though.

[spymeee1]

And then.... WALLOP!

[megawalkthrough1999]

epic

[mathghamain]

Just a handful of men? I think I see a flaw in your plan.

[bantaar]

@mathghamain Well, historically it isn't completely unheard of for a fleetling minority to quench a much larger number. The Heroic Epics of western society itself, actually, starts with some upstart Greeks defying the Persians and obliterating them by catching them in the small strait of Bosperus where they could only sail in one by one, and thus being easy to slay, one by one.

[2349DF]

Saw the live version of this with Jason Donovan. I was speechless by the end of the show.

VIVA LA JEFF WAYNE!!

[fencingbros]

yey science in schools not any English and art rubbish!!

[papoj1PVR]

@fencingbros

yes, it are good for usses!

me can draw a stickman :D ...ART!

[PvtRichardCranium]

This song is very Pink Floyd...

[DalekHunter1994]

I'VE GOT A PLAN!

*music*

I want that to play whenever I'm about to explain a plan I have.

[Dafoodmaster]

@DalekHunter1994 YES!

[wildheartmuse]

Martian invaders......fill in the blanks.......great fun though.....worth revising for the kiddies!

[invalidtorture]

banks prisons and schools! xD all we need!

[madcat789]

At the end of the video game version of this,what he says is exacatly what they do if you play as the martians and win.

[meowjar]

Throw Rocks At The Bastards! Resistance... :P

[Ingestedbanjo]

HAHAHA and I thought all along he was saying "Crazy suckers show"

[wandererlain]

Wasn't this the dodgy guy living in a bunker in the Spielberg film? Bad idea, if you ask me. All we want to do is survive!

[madcat789]

Atleast the guy can sing.

[clockworkcorvid]

In the RTS game Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds, if you win as Martians, during the credits, the voice of a martian scout is played, discovering an underground tunnel complex, full of people, an entire city. They're re-arming themselves, and before the scout can report back, he's destroyed.

Sounds like the Artillery man wasn't so crazy after all.

[RodmasterStudios]

@hope11ification Humans are too intelligent for their own good. Thats why we require so-called 'slavery' government as a form of order. Without it, the resulting unchecked chaos of human nature would probably kill everything on the planet eventually. Certainly all other humans. Anyway, i'd rather be under an underground human government than wait out my life in a basement until my blood is harvested by a martian.

[zangief]

One of the best songs ever.

[ashengrail]

@hope11ification : That's...the point. :)

[DWUman13]

It sounds like he's thinking more along the lines of Metro 2033

[AlexMiedema]

I always imagine the 'dramatic chipmunk' after the 'Ive got a plan!'

[chickenlampbrent]

@AlexMiedema oh, thanks alot, now it will never be the same! Bastard chipmunk!

[codandmash99]

i <3 war of the worlds

[banmen0w]

Artilleryman is my favourite character in WotW. I think I'd go loco like him in this situation, so I guess I "get him" despite the naysayers. Guys like the Artilleryman are needed for ideas, then you need blokes like the narrator to be the realists

[devey28]

Well, atleast he doesn't sound as crazy When you imagine that cocaine Was still legal at that time.

[MrRowney1]

yahooooo im going ta see the show its coming to belfast ireland , its da first musical ive watched ,errr kinda live i mean

[wwIIgamer1]

The person who rated this down was incenerated by the fighting machines.

[smalezyboi2k8]

@wwIIgamer1 Incinerated.

[turboduck14]

I have listened to this CD on Halloween night for the last 15 years. It is truly timeless and surreal... DOCDON

[Electricfox]

This is a map! You can't build underground you idiot!

[GU13NA]

@Electricfox lol

[RelwarctheMighty]

@Electricfox Someone's never heard of the London underground.

[wandererlain]

@RelwarctheMighty My grandparents were down there in the Blitz and I thought of that when I first read H.G. Wells' book, although that was written before WWII.

[FinalFantasyLov3r124]

"I've go a plan!"

*cue epic music*

[quakewarsrocks]

lmao i love it how he says "with a handfull of men we`ll start again"..

hmmmm...

[TehComs]

@quakewarsrocks lol

"By that, Mr. Artilleryman, I'd assume you meant that gender-neutrally. You do have some women in your lot...right?"

Also, imagine what would happen to the Artilleryman's optimism if the Martians just dropped some black smoke down some manholes and called it a day.

No doubt he's a cool character, he's just too drunk to be taken seriously IMO.

[ohmss069]

@TehComs

Agreed. We should live in blimps instead. too high for the heat ray. xD

[RelwarctheMighty]

@ohmss069 Yeah. Only too bad the Martians were starting to building flying machines near the end.

[ohmss069]

@RelwarctheMighty But in a few years the Wright brothers will have paper planes to throw at them! :D

[Joiner113]

Man, this song is so awesome :D Jeff Wayne was a genius truly.

[Drogmir]

"I've got a plan!"

I was all like oh no! Not that!

[TehComs]

@Drogmir *Dramatic fill*

DEAR GOD, THE ARTILLERYMAN SEEKS WORLD DOMINATION!

[russianempier]

$8 says CABAL and his cyborg army can wipe out martains

[IIILeoIII]

I liked the part where he told us we'd be starting all over again.

[ratopal]

we'll send scouting parties to collect books and stuff

[GmodPlusWoW]

Just imagine the Artillery Man dancing as he sings.

[maruda38]

This makes me want to grab a shovel and start building BRAVE NEW WORLD

[BINLASH123]

the man who wrote the original story was into eugenics.. (HG Wells) i think i learned other day thats why.. but yes its good album.

[SadeofDarkness]

@BINLASH123

HG Wells was a socialist, hence the running theme in his novels, where did you hear he was into eugenics.

[BINLASH123]

@SadeofDarkness i heard on the alex jones show, cross referenced it briefly and was convinced that its true, just googled HG wells eugenics and found old article from The Sunday Times Newspaper,

"He seemed to embrace at one time or another every crazed utopian project around and he certainly did support eugenics — the compulsory sterilisation of the “unfit” to stop them polluting the gene pool — but so did Bertrand Russell, Winston Churchill, Shaw of course, and many others.

[SadeofDarkness]

@BINLASH123

I'd never hered that before, seemes odd. I can understand people like churchill supporting the idea but HG wells was all very big on the ideas of society and helping your fellow man, hence the spirit of man in the war of the worlds. Learn something every day... I'll check up on it. :)

[SadeofDarkness]

@BINLASH123

Ahhh no, I've seen where I've misunderstood you.

You mean eugenics as in the belife that the human race must continue to evolve if it is not to die out. I thought you ment the kind of eugenics practiced in NAZI germany, which did seem very out of place. :)

[BINLASH123]

@SadeofDarkness soz for taking while to reply back, wanting to be able to give respectful response, its a delicate issue. I am not totally clued up on eugenics but have been aware of it for long time. More or less I mean on the lines of survival of the fittest principal combined with Darwinian evolution, like preventing people from being able to reproduce who are deemed to have undesirable genes and/or inherited diseases/disorders in order to protect what is deemed as the "good stock"

[TimothyParadox1]

@SadeofDarkness Nazi eugenics were based on flawed science. It assumed the existence of an "Arian" race. Eugenics itself is neither evil nor false. Though I like the idea, I like transhumanism more. Seeing as how I cannot profit from eugenics myself.

[HAGANENO132]

Do someone know the guitar tabs from this song? it would be really helpful =)

[eggplantTVC]

i love this musical

wish i had it on DVD

ahh well

[multipassed]

david essex rules

[JaySchraubMusic]

i wasnt aware this was put out on CD...i still have it on vinyl from the 70's...looks like i will be looking for it on cd just to have. David Essex is awesome in this whole thing!

[jrjupton]

but maybe from that madness something beautiful will grow, in a brave new world, with just a handful of slaves, well start all over again, well build shops & hospitals & barracks right under their noses right under zhier feet everything we need banks.. prisons.. unt schools. neh?

[Kirkeh08]

I love this guys optimism :), especially in contrast to the nut case who the narrator met before. There is still hope for humanity!

[ChuckSoda934]

I think the artillery man got hit pretty hard over the head to be singing and thinking like that...

[wwIIgamer1]

Lol just imagine the main guy like face palming while the artliery man is singing

[xaositectz]

@wwIIgamer1 hehehe exactly my thoughts

[Chayraz2]

@wwIIgamer1 he disliked the video.

[ScriptTakeSe7en]

i wish there was an instrumental version of the song :)

[savagemessiah82]

@ScriptTakeSe7en

Play the strategy game based in this album, there are some remixes, one of them is this song intro without lyrics

[SR71ABCD]

This is not from the CD it's from the real thing on Live listen to the man's Echo voice.

[0saintclark0]

@SR71ABCD It was like that on the original CD, I always imagined him in a small cave that he'd already dug because of it.

[MrJune610]

Can't forget this stuff. It's just like we were in the other world when we first heard this kinda sound. It's hard to imagine how Jeff Wayne put this pieces together. It's a real Masterpiece of his.

[tiagofigueiro]

That speech in the beginning, is that from a movie?

[VIZTEK35]

@tiagofigueiro its from the album mate, the same album the song is off.

[quarlo59]

@tiagofigueiro That, and (I believe) all of Richard Burton's other speeches are quotes from the original book of War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Cheers.

[kyon813]

Boy, can you imagine falling asleep during this and dreaming that you where in the story. MAN, that would be scary!

[devey28]

@kyon813 i first heard this album when i was 9, i borrowed the cd from the local library and it was all i listened to.

I must admit, the story did invade my dreams,

and it was quite scary seeming i was only 9 years old.

:L

[mjhulshorst]

I have original album too. :)

[koolgroover]

If you like audio musical stuff check out Thing Fish by the late great Fank Zappa.

[666767]

this album was made in 1978 for the noddy wankers that dont no this

[LordHewing]

I think Youtube would be better if you got caught up in some machinery,

[koolgroover]

This is the first and best version of the book. Fantastic cast/musicians. I have this on double vinyl. David Essex on this part. Phil Lynnotts parts is great. The whole story is great is good to listen to in the dark with just your imagination to fill in the visuals. Miles better than the recent film.

[666767]

for fuck sake mate of course it is you twat the record

[kyon813]

I'll say!

[SAZ84WPG]

what song does phil lynott sing on ?

[PixelSith64]

Phil Lynott sings on The Spirit of Man. I assume he does at least and that the man lip synchs, because he died in 86.

[Javsco]

Which man lipsynchs?

[PixelSith64]

In the musical, not just the soundtrack, I assume the man who plays The Parson, as there have been several people who have played him, but Phil Lynott sang The Spirit of Man originally and he died in 1986.

[Javsco]

h, right.

No, none of them lipsynch. They sing it themselves.

[PixelSith64]

Yeah, I actually realized that the other day when I was listening to the musical itself and not the soundtrack and could hear the differences in the voices, especially this song.

[Javsco]

*Oh, right.

[666767]

no mate this album was made in 1978 get the facts right cunt

[PixelSith64]

@666767 Just because I got my facts wrong I'm a cunt? I'm glad I'm talking to someone who doesn't have 666 in their name, thinking that it's still cool. Like having xXPANDEMICXx or something.

I admit I had my research wrong, but at least I thought before posting.

[PixelSith64]

I mean the man who plays The Parson in the musical, not Phil Lynott himself.

[TakeBackTheWorld]

This is my favorite part on both CD's

[Javsco]

Both CD's?

[TakeBackTheWorld]

The CD story package is split into two parts.

[Javsco]

I know.

I thought it was meant that there were several versions.

[namesareinmyeyes]

when i was a kid i always use to think at 6:13 the artillery man jumpin and stopin in mid air yellin YEA!with a walker in the backround and the main guy with his hands over his face :3

[Javsco]

Rofl! XD

[qpwo6]

what happened to the artillary man in the end? it doesn't seem to mention it in the songs, in the next one, the narrators on his own again.

[Javsco]

The Journalist leaves him. It is likely the Artillaryman survived, seeing as this part and the bit with the Martian's death are very close together. Literally, adjoining scenes. XD

[qpwo6]

@Javsco thanks for that :)

[Javsco]

No problemo, matey.

[atomicbreaker]

Well give it up for the artillery man!

He's just envisioned the channel tunnel!

[spaticus09]

@atomicbreaker Nice one \m/

[Sindri44]

@atomicbreaker the channel tunnel LOL ........he was talking about living underground

[atomicbreaker]

@Sindri44

Yes, but listen carefully to what he jabbers on about near the end of the song.

[jmm1233]

Vault-Tec The Accommodation of the Future :)

[ZAKDAMN]

Artillery man = The overseer

[Gunkguy]

@ZAKDAMN

:) Hmm, I don't remember that being on the G.O.A.T. ...

[Tikimonster360]

can someone tab this for me please? give a link or something please

[kanfor]

Is the same voice that the elfs of Oblivion IV

[snips42]

jason donavon is the all new artillery man in the live show woot

[KevServo]

They decided to start all over a-GAAAAAIN.

[N01fb0y]

Definentely lol

[kyon813]

Oh, yeah I love that part.

[mrdadelus]

His optimisim while born of desperation and insanity still offers hope in such an incredibly bleak world. I disagree that his (and by extension Wells) suggestion about focusing education primarily on math and science would really work. We need poets and poetry and stoytellers in any brave new world.

[Inimbrium]

Indeed. Social improvements that will allow for a society that is understanding and tolerant will help mould a people with fewer social problems, better integration and acceptance of foreigners, disabled, disadvantaged, that would hopefully result in early detection of any phisical or psychological problems and thus dealing with them accordingly. Hopefully eliminating problems at all social levels. From bulying at school to martial problems to responsible child care to respect of the elderly.

[IIILeoIII]

@mrdadelus A handleful of people living in drains with no medical knowledge, ability to get food and provide sanitation, the sudden removal of all comforts, machinery and in fact everything that humanity has become dependent on? I can see why he makes the point about science being far more helpful in that particular situation ; )

[LAGERL0UT]

i think you only have to look at what is right in front of your face to gain inspiration from some of the lyrics in this musical.its brill.

[camathonicus]

I have loved this musical since I first heard it when I was 7 (11 years ago) I remember asking my mum to buy me the CD for my 8th birthday. I love some of the language used and love the story as a whole. This is one of my favourite songs~x

[bodybag22]

Just too bad you need sunlight to function, your bones and teeth slowly turn to chalk, rickets.

The artillerymen was a desperate fool.

[McLarenMercedes]

Although the artillery man is insanely optimistic I like his kind. We need more artillerymen in our world. People who just can see a new beginning in all the chaos.

As a matter of fact H.G.Wells own thoughts about science being taught in schools instead of religion and poems, is reflected in the personality of the artillery man.

I must admit I agree with the artilleryman. Maybe from all the madness something beautiful will rise. We are getting there people...

Love this musical.

[odraconiandevil79]

I believe that H.G. Wells somehow predicted World War II. Or that could be our interpretation of his story in the modern age, although it is BLOODY CLOSE! I'm just now beginning to read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, oddly enough. Must be the Aquarian in me...

[Darthvader1551]

Terminator kinda stole the Artilleryman's idea

Great song, love the album 5/5