Eve of the War

[mickeytipp]

I bought this on 7" vinyl at the time (circa November 1989) and remember thinking it was great at the time. The charts were full of remakes and remixes of older hits in the late 80's / turn of the 90's. Thanks for jogging some good memories - makes me want to dig out my vinyl copy now and play it! :)

[nu15ance]

Spent ages looking for this,

epic... great memories :)

[IsisBlack]

This is what got me into the album, I was 12 when this was in the charts and it got me hooked for life :-)

[pete2784]

One of the remixes that made lasting impression on me!

[skatersteve24]

Not heard this before,love the jeff Wayne version but this is not bad either

[madcat789]

Those guys at the end were funny.

[gallafey]

@madcat789 did you know those guys at the end are Waldorf & Statler from The Muppet Show?

[madcat789]

@gallafey Nope. Dont even know what the Muppet show is.

[Ingestedbanjo]

Boy those martians sure know how to party with the lights and the lasers and the burning

[121sandstorm]

This tune puts me back 20 year and the film is GREAT!!!!!! :)

[WorthyFail]

I think this is bad, shame.

[anime4ever2996]

@WorthyFail it was better before the remix. now it frikken sucks!

[axeofgod72]

hey shaks74, he's not destroying the perfection of the original... he's adding his own twist to it... the 1978 original was a bit "disco"ish... why not tech it out some? it's still one of the coolest stories ever told... i appreciate all artists who keep this tale alive... (except for stephen spielberg, who clearly raped it for cash)...

[shaks74]

Why destroy something that was perfect..The original is clearly unbeatable

[britbomb]

I remember getting this off the radio onto a tape and thinking it was the best thing since slided bread! It actually scared me!!And I'm not embarassed to say, I still think it's friggin' brilliant!

[bovb902]

WOW! i love this remix

[iAmRichiesLovebird]

i love this :D but i think that the space ships are shit scary 0 well they were to me first time i watch it when i was little XD

[bovb902]

? wut ur meaning?

[UliJones]

The War of the Worlds remix by Jive Bunny!

[Fredbot26]

if this is from a movie,post prts of it on 2 utube!millions of views!

[germanxguerra]

..i..

[MegaCoolgirl100]

love it

but i'm scerd now ahhhhh

[gokarej]

UFO

[karensheraton]

great mind et sent you a vid out it to this x

[simonjohnpalmer]

brilliant remix. I used to hear this at raves and it used to blow ugly little head right off. I love Richard Burton's voice, you only get a voice like that from years of drinking copious amounts of alcohol, smoking endless cirgarettes and endlessly banging a very young Elizabeth Taylor and growing up in Welsh valleys full of coal dust....

[simonjohnpalmer]

uh oh spot the deliberate mistake, they didn't use Richard Burton's voice on this, they have a soundalike. Probably couldn't afford to use the original copy, not surprising really as it would have cost them more that they would make on single. Still, no excuses I'm still a prick for not noticing.

[MFAtlas]

Actually it is him just his voice is deepened in pitch

[Jonno71]

The voice over IS Richard Burton, taken from the original audio recording. Its just been pitched down.

[nww02]

Thanks for putting this online, been wondering if this'd ever surface again. Heard it on the radio years ago. Superb mix.

[Aeroxbest]

do you have the origibnal song?

[tombonjovi2008]

I have this song and the whole of the original album if u want any of these just message me plz and I'll gladly help u out

[Jonno71]

95% of this video is taken from the promo video that was released in early 1978, before the Jeff Wayne album came out. As annimation goes, this was good - for 1978

[Cheploscam]

yes true

[Oblikue]

...Can someone transcribe the voice that to sound initially of the song?

I not to understand very much the English language and to my to like to know that to say exactly this text...

Thank you and good video

[Oblikue]

...I already to find:

""No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, That human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space.

No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water..."

[Tobycek]

"...Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes. And slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us."

[...]

"Abruptly, the sound ceased."

[FalconKPD]

Was this video on TV at one time or something?

[Jonno71]

Yes. It appeared very briefly on BBC's TOP OF THE POPS in 1989.

[bedfordboy1974]

I have this on CD ..super rare!

[antster1983]

"Abruptly, the sound ceased. Suddenly the desolation, the solitude, became unbearable. While that voice sounded, London had still seemed alive. Now suddenly there was a change, the passing of something, and all that remained was this gaunt quiet..."

The full text of that wee snippet from the end. You can't argue with the tightness of Doreen Wayne's script; Jeff Wayne's score or the lyrics from Gary Osborne and Paul Vigrass :o)

[isieweer]

Ben Liebrand rules

[Problembeing]

Yeah, but this was made in 1989! on no budget. That's how it was back then.

[OzYBoYOnE]

Really lovin your version Peace DJ OzYBoY

[t4rivet]

Anybody got the full original version of this video? it was on Youtube a couple of months ago, but seems to have disappeared.

[ice8pig]

is this the cartoon one

[ice8pig]

is this the cartoon one

[elwoodbluesx]

Thanks alot for posting this-still has the 7" of this and have wanted to see the video again for years! It still holds up really well i think.

[dcanmore]

HA! I still have the original 12" record of this, I was looking for ages on the net for it because I had only seen the vid once on tv. Thanks!!

[Problembeing]

This is still the best remix of Eve of the war (except the Hybrid mix).

I used to have this on cassette single!

I remember the B side was also something based on War of the Worlds, but ws an original track. Cant remember what it was called... I think it was called Man Fights Back.

Blast from my past. Thanks for posting!

[Betalgeuse]

The track on the 'B' side was called "Man Kind Fights Back", I have it on vinyl but nothing to play it on. :-(

[Problembeing]

Yey, I was nearly right. I thought it was 'Man Fights Back', but yeah, it was 'ManKIND'. That was a pretty good track in its own right.

[discocaine]

wtf, why does inner city - big fun come in at the beginning?! xx

[mattmitch]

It's called "sampling" - this kind of thing was very much in vogue in the late 80s - just 2 years earlier MARRS had a number 1 record "Pump up the Volume" which consisted of nothing more than cut ups of other records

[Problembeing]

Or 'Good Life'...?

[bononline]

This track is a remix of a track from Jeff Waynes' Musical Version of War of the Worlds. The original album is still on Sony's lists. The track here is a remix of the first track from the first disc, entitled "Eve of the War". This mix is by Ben Liebrand, and was released in the UK in 1989.

[FalconKPD]

I kinda liked the original version of the song, but nice video any way.

[stover75]

Could you tell me the name of the CD with this Song on it, Stabme400.

I would like to find a copy

Thanks

[stabme400]

er...i dont think you can buy it anymore but the name is The War Of The Worlds Musical Version. try buying on Ebay cause u cant get in shops anymore

[rutopia]

i love the song no nathanial no, but theres nowhere that i can find that song on the web

[SprattyD]

that song is called spirit of man :D

[stabme400]

no its not i hav frickin DVD of live AND CD i should know.this is eve of the war remix

[stabme400]

ive got tha CD with this on

[stover75]

Hello could you telll me the name of the CD, which has this remix on it.

Much obliged

Stover75

[apacheeeforlife]

I hate this song to play

[haim001]

damn i love the part "the chances of anything..."

but its not here...

amazing music i have the cd.. but i didnt saw the movie..

[madhobbit]

god, you can find anything on youtube!!! LOL

[tulani]

its longer?

[tulani]

there needs to be a war of the worlds movie set at the time of the book

[ChrisOakley]

There is by "Pendragon Studios", but it's a bit lame.

[stabme400]

yeh i agree

[paranormalhandy]

I got the CD single for free from a work colleague when I left a job about 4 years ago. He knew I was a fan, so ... :-) But, I was wondering, how much of this footage is taken from original promo stock from 1978? I know Wayne made a mini-movie (?) for the original album promotion, and I'm sure at least some of this vid (Carrie's photo floating about, etc) is from that.

[scismgenie]

Several years ago I did a readers' digest version of the double album, even at 20 minutes it is powerful.

[Jonno71]

That is the full length 1989 music video for the Ben Liebrand remix. The actual track is longer, but it was edited just for this video.

[fanofheadroom]

great video although im sure the video was longer and continued after the sound ceased

[mutley26]

A classic. One of the most valuable CD singles I own...Almost wet myself when I found it for 50pence a few yrs back.

[alexsplat]

lol

[jet236]

I loved it , hadn't seen since '89 watched it twice on the trot, if waldorf n statler didn't enjoy it  , tough

[ullaandy]

AWSOME!!! ALTHOUGHI REMEMBER THE TRACKBEING ALOT LONGER...