I had this album on my iPod for a long time but for whatever reason I never listened to it. Then one night while I was drunk this same came on random and I was comepletely transfixed. For 9 minutes I couldn't even move, my mind was just too blown. EPIC SONG
@SirxScotland I think I vaugely remember that one... I was around 5, and it scared me witless!!! I was quite dissapointed, since it didn;t have any of the musical.. er... music and tha it was nothing like what I'd heard from the narration. But, yep, from what I remeber, it wasn't a thing like the original.
the overture....i'll never forget hearing this for the first time...how enthralling and chilling it felt back then...the coldness of the mountain air, this music, the fog being outdoors on a cold summer upstate new york mountain night, the story...and burton's voice...
31 people took a heat ray in the knee & there was a bright glare as each was instantly turned to fire.
People clawed their way off the common & I ran too. I felt I was being toyed with, that when I was on the very verge of safety, this mysterious death would leap after my knee & my adventuring days would end. & while my cousin is off fighting Martians, what would I get?
Guard duty.
"OOO LAA"
"You there. I'm going to have to ask you to stop that... shouting. It's making people nervous."
I defy anyone, anywhere in the world to arrive at a more gripping classic opening 55 seconds of the highest selling album on Earth, as a child when I first heard this....It blew me away, 35 years later...............it still does, truly insistence and Amazing album, a storytelling with Love and hope.A total one off.
@ODIN2893 Hells yeah. When I saw the trailer for the Spielberg remake, I got excited cus Morgan Freeman read that part, but the film just don't live up to my expectations at all.
No-one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from a timeless world.
No-one could have dreamed we were being scrutinised as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm & multiply in a drop of water.
Few men even considered the possibility of 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
'Dum! dum! daaaaaaaaaaaah?' demanded a furious string section. The air was thick with D minor. 'Dum! dum! daaaaaaaaaaaaaah?,' they insisted.
'Dum! dum! daaaaaaaaaaaaa?' they asked again, their urgency redoubling, and then, by way of awnsering their own strange and terrible question, came to a grim, resigned conclusion.
'Dum! dum! daaaaaaaaaaaaa.'
There was a moment of stillness, and then there came a disco beat so tight, so in the pocket, that I can still recall it with near perfect vividity.
The muscular exartion of the sixteenth-notes on the hi-hat and the solid four-on-the-floor of the kick drum was absolutely electric.
Any thought of not moving one's body to a tight groove of such intense excitment was swiflty gone.
'Dum! dum! daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?' said the phased horn sound of a Yamaha C.S.80 synthesiser. The rhythm section continued its merciless flight from inertia.
First heard this during class one day in Year 5. Pretty much everyone was like WTF and didn't know how to appreciate good music, but I have loved this track ever since and thank the teacher (forgot her name) who was a substitute only but taught me proper music!
@MrJameswilde This was very scary when I was a very young child, but I still loved it! There will be a new version released in June! I'm looking forward to it!
This record scared me shitless something like 12-15 years ago. I never was one to get scared of ghosts or demons (after all, their existence would mean some sort of biblical good also exists and exorcism and blind faith would actually protect you, even if i wasnt religious)... but this album gave me something 'real' to fear. Sure, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one... but mfw they still come. o_0 23 years old now.
@Myrkman Many shit themselves when the Orson Welles radio broadcast was aired in the 30's in the style of a newscast..............How I love this whole album!
My cousin used to listen to this, when I was about 6 or 7; and it scared the shit outta me! I didn't know it was just a record; I thought it was the radio.
People have commented here that people who don't like are stupid. Now, you can't say that. To really sit & listen to music is an acquired taste hobby. Not everybody can be like us & it doesn't mean they are mentally incompetent. People should use their intelligence to inform & help others, not insult them. We live a world where so many people are different & people views on music are different, you'll never along with many people with this attitude. Enjoy the music. New version out in June!
@maartenschurink Drugs have nothing to do with developing one's taste in music. I'm 25 years old, I've never taken illicit drugs & I know exactly what I want from music.
Well composed, and far ahead of its time. I heard the vinyl when I was kid in the early 90s. My brother had the album, I read the book that came with it and I was Amazed at how caught up I got with it while listening to the music and narrorator. I wish I could get that album back now.
A timeless classic... I'd rather this over the films and books anyday :) Not that the films and books are bad of course, I just prefer this audio orgasm better ;)
I saw the double-cassette record at my local library one evening & I just had to borrow it on that day! I was 9 or 10 years old. To appreciate music like this requires a very open eye in the mind. I must say though, I could only listen to this record at daytime. It was too scary at night when I was very young! A lot of people can hear very atmospheric music like this & not see anything. Some people see music, some people don't.
I don't know how anyone can listen to this and not think it's amazing. I know everyone's entitled to their own taste and opinion, but even if it's not your thing you have to even aknowledge how brilliantly the music and the story tie together.
Heard this for the first time at school around 17 years ago and it's still clear in my mind as if I had heard it yesterday. I must have been 10 years old back then, never to hear this again for years. Yet, listening to this now brings me back right to that moment!
My parents used WOTW as my bedtime music when I was a baby. No poncy lullabies for me! Little me, in 1978, going "UUUU-LAHHHH". Aww, such happy days!
this is so beautiful and yet haunting at the same time. i remember listening to this when i was young and being fascinated by the images that is music creates with in my head! love it so much!
@1959520 Well, you can't call people "dumbos" because they don't like this. They're probably just not into emotion as much as you & me. I used to absolutely love this too! I'm looking forward to the new version out in June 2012!
And slowly, and surely, they drew thier plans against us. Richard Burton in one sentence evokes a chilling vision. Love his voice. your like is hard to replace. a loss to the movie world.
@doombringer117 it was crazy shit man, i saw the song on facebook and was like whos this guy is it funky, ended up monging out to that blurry arse pic :|
i thought the movie with tom cruise was good in its own way. however i do think it should be illegal to go that far from the original story. they should make a mini series out of it one that is exactly like the book.
No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. 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...
This was the first song i ever fell in love with i would sit on a chair with this blurring though headphones from the age of about 5 until i was 8 and now to this day i god damn love it.
when i was about 12 (im 40 now) my father had taken the hole front off the house of and i mean the hole front off to rebuild it and he had dug a trench for the new front, we sat in the trench and had R whites cream soda with ice cream floaters and had war of the worlds playing
@TheTemplar75 i was just going to say that those 30 obviously weren't intending on finding this masterpiece but were looking for something else because anyone with musical taste could not possibly dislike this
I have owned several copies of this over the decades, each one worn out through play. My favourite setting is evening, log fire and candles with the volume at about 80% - playing the work without a break. A truly wonderful classic. The book and first film were great but Jeff Wayne's music is so totally different - it takes the work to a different dimension and H G Wells' literature is enhanced by the music. I can't imaging myself ever becoming tired of this.
I am 13 and i love this. I want to be a writer my self and if anyone wants me to change something about the story I get really angry. If H G wells was still alive he would be angry at spielburg and don't lett him ruïn the story. that is what I think.
@juuk68 If you want to be a writer, be a writer. There is nothing to stop you. Always carry a notebook and keep one at the side of your bed as dreams can be the basis of many a good story. Good luck. Don't be too angry at Mr Spielberg, HG Wells was a visionary, so maybe he would have embraced a new approach to his story!
@MrMusedu1 I agree, but I doubt he would enjoy Spielberg simply using it as one of his generic extraneous circumstances to make a family closer stories.
Although I did like the scene with the military getting pwn't by the tripods, and I've always found that flaming train still making its rounds peculiarly haunting.
remember being in high school in the UK and doing some freaky 'movements' to this in drama class! hahaha and our teacher telling us when people heard this on the radio they rang the station to see when they should do and if they should find an old bomb shelter ....! priceless
if spielberg had of made his version of the story in line with what jeff waynes version was then he,d of had a awesome film,i first listened to this at 8 and loved it,unfortunately i didnt go much on s.spielbergs version where its more of a personal story line,it should have been set in victoria times with the thunderchild battle etc,still i suppose there is a younger audience that may like the new version better.
Jeff Wayne's version is the nearest to Wells original idea although I don't recall the character "Carrie" (?) referred to in the song Forever Autumn. The 1950s version and more recent one sadly followed a pretty typically American script where as Wells vision of aliens landing was highly original: imagine Victorian England coping with highly sophisticated aliens! It's definitely worth a read! "Minds immeasurably superior" could have been referring to Wells himself!
the only way to listen to this is with all the lights turned out i had the lp on vynl as well as cd its just a masterpeice in its own right, plus im a big ELO fan,,, love it, i thought the new film was ok but not brillant
the only way to listen to this is with all the lights turned out i had the lp on vynl as well as cd its just a masterpeice in its own right, plus im a big ELO fan,,, love it, i thought the new film was ok but not brillant
the only way to listen to this is with all the lights turned out i had the lp on vynl as well as cd its just a masterpeice in its own right, plus im a big ELO fan,,, love it, i thought the new film was ok but not brillant
I remember working at Sunterra market as a baker and there was another baker whom told me about Orson Welles' War of the Worlds. He fascinated me with the descriptions of it and also about the soundtrack! At 23, I was soo enthusiastic and he offered to bring me a burned copy of the soundtrack. That summer I spent cheerfully listening to the entire soundtrack and being blown away by the splendid sounds. I especially like the fall song. So many wonderful similies, and metaphors to decribe her.
I had this album on my iPod for a long time but for whatever reason I never listened to it. Then one night while I was drunk this same came on random and I was comepletely transfixed. For 9 minutes I couldn't even move, my mind was just too blown. EPIC SONG
Tuthill99 1 day ago
I cannot stop listening to this!
mrsholloway77 1 day ago
"the chances of any thing coming from mars are a million to one he said...." this rocks. :-)
kingrat14 1 day ago
@Kenmorfdublin ja sorry i kinda regretted saying that (thanks for reminding me to delete it punk)
MEMESTUDIOSTHE 1 day ago
wtf mate?
MEMESTUDIOSTHE 1 day ago
If only there was a way to edit out the reading and stay just with the music...
1KSarah 2 days ago
had this on tape, then CD and it still scares the shit out of me and i LOVE IT, love you jeff wayne
daint9 1 week ago
This music matches the book perfectly... I always find myself humming this when I'm reading it...
TotodileFan2011 1 week ago
@TotodileFan2011 the book is just fricking amazing
vioperluismetal 6 days ago
@vioperluismetal I think they should make a film actually set in the time it was written!
TotodileFan2011 5 days ago
@TotodileFan2011 There is one, but it's almost as old, and it uses flying machines instead of tripods =P
quite shit
SirxScotland 4 days ago
@SirxScotland I think I vaugely remember that one... I was around 5, and it scared me witless!!! I was quite dissapointed, since it didn;t have any of the musical.. er... music and tha it was nothing like what I'd heard from the narration. But, yep, from what I remeber, it wasn't a thing like the original.
TotodileFan2011 3 days ago
@TotodileFan2011 They already have. I haven't seen it myself, but according to some critics, it sucked.
DeathsPictures 3 days ago
this still sends shivers down my spine when it starts playing, truely amaseing music.
BlackCatXxXKuroNeko 1 week ago
the overture....i'll never forget hearing this for the first time...how enthralling and chilling it felt back then...the coldness of the mountain air, this music, the fog being outdoors on a cold summer upstate new york mountain night, the story...and burton's voice...
devilgunner 1 week ago
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MEMESTUDIOSTHE 1 week ago
@MEMESTUDIOSTHE YOU PRIZE TWAT
Kenmorfdublin 1 day ago
makes you think of the new world order !!! scary !!!
TheHerbstr 1 week ago
30 people drew their there plans against us
futuramagav201 1 week ago
Timless great motivation to get your creative juices flowing.
krl640 1 week ago
I was an adventurer like you, then i took a lazer to the face from a alien war machine :)
love this song!
Vengar14 1 week ago
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TRoSaundersHomestead 1 week ago
Classic in 1978 and even more so now. 31 people should be burnt by the heatray or strangled and suffocated by the red weed!!!
falmouth2011 1 week ago 8
Black smoke the humans!
Interplanetary war now!
dccmpbll 1 week ago
31 people took a heat ray in the knee & there was a bright glare as each was instantly turned to fire.
People clawed their way off the common & I ran too. I felt I was being toyed with, that when I was on the very verge of safety, this mysterious death would leap after my knee & my adventuring days would end. & while my cousin is off fighting Martians, what would I get?
Guard duty.
"OOO LAA"
"You there. I'm going to have to ask you to stop that... shouting. It's making people nervous."
OOTurok 2 weeks ago 2
I defy anyone, anywhere in the world to arrive at a more gripping classic opening 55 seconds of the highest selling album on Earth, as a child when I first heard this....It blew me away, 35 years later...............it still does, truly insistence and Amazing album, a storytelling with Love and hope.A total one off.
ODIN2893 2 weeks ago 9
@ODIN2893 Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here comes close, but I do agree, despite being a bit younger, though not much.
Spankabuttux 1 week ago
@ODIN2893 Hells yeah. When I saw the trailer for the Spielberg remake, I got excited cus Morgan Freeman read that part, but the film just don't live up to my expectations at all.
TheBunnyriffic 6 days ago
this is my 692,921 time watching this
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@RANDOM7070 same
i1like1cats 2 weeks ago
A one off, absolutely brilliant album, timeless, fantastic great, great singers and so well put together, I own every version,
ferrocky 2 weeks ago
this song makes me do this: WOOOOOHOOOOOOO XD
BMTstudio123 2 weeks ago
the first time I heard this,I LOVED it!
BudgieFace11 2 weeks ago
Quality piece of Music.
3636colv 2 weeks ago
No-one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from a timeless world.
No-one could have dreamed we were being scrutinised as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm & multiply in a drop of water.
Few men even considered the possibility of 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
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'Dum! dum! daaaaaaaaaaaah?' demanded a furious string section. The air was thick with D minor. 'Dum! dum! daaaaaaaaaaaaaah?,' they insisted.
'Dum! dum! daaaaaaaaaaaaa?' they asked again, their urgency redoubling, and then, by way of awnsering their own strange and terrible question, came to a grim, resigned conclusion.
'Dum! dum! daaaaaaaaaaaaa.'
There was a moment of stillness, and then there came a disco beat so tight, so in the pocket, that I can still recall it with near perfect vividity.
sheepcidus 3 weeks ago
The muscular exartion of the sixteenth-notes on the hi-hat and the solid four-on-the-floor of the kick drum was absolutely electric.
Any thought of not moving one's body to a tight groove of such intense excitment was swiflty gone.
'Dum! dum! daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?' said the phased horn sound of a Yamaha C.S.80 synthesiser. The rhythm section continued its merciless flight from inertia.
'Dum! dum! daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?'
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used to listen to this on every car trip, i consider myself a very cultured child. Used to scare the crap out of my little brother.
agkkga10 3 weeks ago
this used to scare the shit out of me when i was little
SarahHeal 3 weeks ago
Best Song Ever!
Divaelidia 3 weeks ago
class
Badgerfaycee 3 weeks ago
class
Badgerfaycee 3 weeks ago
First heard this during class one day in Year 5. Pretty much everyone was like WTF and didn't know how to appreciate good music, but I have loved this track ever since and thank the teacher (forgot her name) who was a substitute only but taught me proper music!
vknong 3 weeks ago
My dad let me listen to this when I was a little kid, and it scared me then, and it still creeps me out now...that's why it's so awesome!! haha
DeafMetal8647 3 weeks ago
@DeafMetal8647 same hahaha
MrStarvingmarvin 3 weeks ago
6:59 again you were wrong
JosephZist 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
6:06 well he was wrong
JosephZist 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
...but still they come...
seekah1 3 weeks ago
I have this original album, it's fantastic and great artwork too
Mob01971 3 weeks ago
NOOO its not scary, just fantastic music with atmosphere, the good guys win in the end just like most books / films. Enjoy for what it is.
MrJameswilde 3 weeks ago
@MrJameswilde This was very scary when I was a very young child, but I still loved it! There will be a new version released in June! I'm looking forward to it!
sripathyakasrip 3 weeks ago
i fucking love the narrates voice.
devildavin 4 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
@devildavin Narrators***
devildavin 4 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
Man this is genius... o.o
TsubakiRan 4 weeks ago
underful ! I like this song !
aca230864 1 month ago
This record scared me shitless something like 12-15 years ago. I never was one to get scared of ghosts or demons (after all, their existence would mean some sort of biblical good also exists and exorcism and blind faith would actually protect you, even if i wasnt religious)... but this album gave me something 'real' to fear. Sure, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one... but mfw they still come. o_0 23 years old now.
Myrkman 1 month ago
@Myrkman Many shit themselves when the Orson Welles radio broadcast was aired in the 30's in the style of a newscast..............How I love this whole album!
selinkyble 1 month ago 3
awsome sound, brings back memories from the 70's
saintandrews83 1 month ago
it was on the PBS channel once and may i just say ----WOW Moody Blues on stage AWESOME
59keoni 1 month ago
Awesome!!! I first heard this on vinyl in the late seventies when the original Star Wars was all the rage.Used to sit in the dark and listen to it.
psyclechic 1 month ago
My cousin used to listen to this, when I was about 6 or 7; and it scared the shit outta me! I didn't know it was just a record; I thought it was the radio.
joemck74 1 month ago
30 people got abducted by the creatures of Mars. :P
MarcusTheTechKat 1 month ago
that sounds so so so epic!
5evilpackmen 1 month ago
Fantastic music,and way ahead of its time.
cupranod 1 month ago
listen to this first time 1979 love it forevever
TheSora1997 1 month ago
30 people do not have a scooby doo what they are talking about.
housty49 1 month ago
People have commented here that people who don't like are stupid. Now, you can't say that. To really sit & listen to music is an acquired taste hobby. Not everybody can be like us & it doesn't mean they are mentally incompetent. People should use their intelligence to inform & help others, not insult them. We live a world where so many people are different & people views on music are different, you'll never along with many people with this attitude. Enjoy the music. New version out in June!
sripathyakasrip 1 month ago 3
@maartenschurink Drugs have nothing to do with developing one's taste in music. I'm 25 years old, I've never taken illicit drugs & I know exactly what I want from music.
sripathyakasrip 1 month ago 3
@sripathyakasrip yup fkn 'eh
59keoni 1 month ago
Well composed, and far ahead of its time. I heard the vinyl when I was kid in the early 90s. My brother had the album, I read the book that came with it and I was Amazed at how caught up I got with it while listening to the music and narrorator. I wish I could get that album back now.
fairmontxf87 1 month ago
I'm lucky enough to have this on vinyl. It is truely incredible music
GuyobsessedwithAnime 1 month ago
gotta love this
timeless
grimbaz321 1 month ago
A timeless classic... I'd rather this over the films and books anyday :) Not that the films and books are bad of course, I just prefer this audio orgasm better ;)
TheSilencer44 1 month ago
one great cd
jimbowker1000 1 month ago
just discovered the speed button....
all i can say is wow
deathking177 1 month ago
this song is absolutely awsome!
SuperSpeedfreak88 1 month ago
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I saw the double-cassette record at my local library one evening & I just had to borrow it on that day! I was 9 or 10 years old. To appreciate music like this requires a very open eye in the mind. I must say though, I could only listen to this record at daytime. It was too scary at night when I was very young! A lot of people can hear very atmospheric music like this & not see anything. Some people see music, some people don't.
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sripathyakasrip 1 month ago
id love to use this as a backdrop to an edited video detailing the farce of the international fuck up of the century...the british government
calumwantsmusic 1 month ago 10
Principally, it would be fitting, but I refuse to believe the government consists of "minds immeasurably superior to ours". They're all fuckwits.
OmniRecIuse 2 weeks ago 3
@calumwantsmusic This country loves to blame the government. Why dont you make the change, you have a voice use it if you have an idea.
velvetguitar95 2 weeks ago
"Ah yes martians. The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one. We have already dismissed that claim"
chaosandwalls 1 month ago 4
The music is so beautiful :^D
JackSpicerGirl 1 month ago
VIIOOOOO VAOOOO VOUUUUUU!!!!! TRIPODS INCOMING!!!!! RUN! RUUUUUUN!! :DDDDD
Awesome music, and Tripod song! XDDDDDD
Tauren1991 1 month ago
mehmet ali birand
safakgeh 1 month ago
We get asked every year to do displays to this !
TheFireworkShopUk 1 month ago
*Falling asleep from his relaxing voice*
*Music starts* WTF!? I'm awake! Oh.. Oh.. Nice music =D
PaladinPlatinum 1 month ago 3
classic, never out dated as relevant today as when it was released
puddiesful 1 month ago 2
this song when baked...oh my god!
TottenhamMan1 1 month ago
Oh my god, this song is Sexy as fuck.
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I have the vinyl of this and it comes with some amazing artwork in a book. Never fails to give me the shivers!!
CAPALMER64 2 months ago
I have the vinyl of this and it comes with some amazing artwork in a book. Never fails to give me the shivers!!
CAPALMER64 2 months ago
that astronomer must have been pissed when they did come
GPWfiles 2 months ago 3
The 30 dislikes are the martians who gaze upon this song with envious eyes. And slowly and surely, they created the next song.
NinjaGinger95 2 months ago
Richard Burton - one the best acting voices ever.
wenger1972 2 months ago
the record of this scared me more than anything as a child
madeleineellis 2 months ago
30 people regret not taking the bookies up on those odds.
SonOfFurzehatt 2 months ago
@SonOfFurzehatt lol, they sure missed out
MrXBaileyx 1 month ago
R.I.P Phil Lynott & Dicky Burton
Schenkerflyingv 2 months ago
Superluminous. (beyond mere brillliance.) Thankyou. :-)
Astrostevo 2 months ago
THIS FUCKING SUCKS!!!!!!
Now that i have your attention i would like to say that this is possibly the best thing ever. :)
doodleguitarist 2 months ago 2
the 30 dislikes for this video were from the Martians
antidisastablish333 2 months ago
I don't know how anyone can listen to this and not think it's amazing. I know everyone's entitled to their own taste and opinion, but even if it's not your thing you have to even aknowledge how brilliantly the music and the story tie together.
GrammarGal1 2 months ago
@GrammarGal1 Unfortunately, some people wouldn't have the patience to listen to this.
sripathyakasrip 1 month ago
30 people were screwed over by the heat-ray. I simply hid in Mexico.
YoungWolfMaster 2 months ago
29 people where on board the thunderchild.
09themad 2 months ago
Heard this for the first time at school around 17 years ago and it's still clear in my mind as if I had heard it yesterday. I must have been 10 years old back then, never to hear this again for years. Yet, listening to this now brings me back right to that moment!
taboneclayton 2 months ago
My parents used WOTW as my bedtime music when I was a baby. No poncy lullabies for me! Little me, in 1978, going "UUUU-LAHHHH". Aww, such happy days!
Schminkles 2 months ago
If they'd used this music at the start of the Tom Cruise film, i would have enjoyed it more (and overlooked the fact the walkers used shields)
TheGuardianofAzarath 2 months ago
TUUUUUUNNEE!!!
lobin666 2 months ago
i can imagian a war scene to this
BMTstudio123 2 months ago
I still get goosebumps when i listen to this. AWESOME!!!!!!
MultiChristinaD 2 months ago 38
@MultiChristinaD i used to sit my pants to this music when i was like 3-4 xD
retrodutchman 2 months ago
@retrodutchman lol. some ppl proberly still do.
MultiChristinaD 2 months ago
this is one of my all time favourite pieces of music. i have listened to it for years
MrFantastico1988 2 months ago
this is so beautiful and yet haunting at the same time. i remember listening to this when i was young and being fascinated by the images that is music creates with in my head! love it so much!
bettybooable 2 months ago
when the 1st film came out in 1956 ipepole thoght it was real...no shit ..honest
TheOgo1971 2 months ago
@TheOgo1971 I think you're thinking of the radio play. That caused major shitstorm because it was done like a news report.
Snagprophet 2 months ago
@Snagprophet ....yeah your spot on i got myself mixed up a bit there ..my dad told me about that it caused a bit of a panic ha ha :-]
TheOgo1971 2 months ago
@TheOgo1971 lool thats wat my dad said
barryhatch1 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Album > Movie
The movie can be done right, prolly will someday.
Crmsnraider 2 months ago
why wasn´t the movie as dramatic as this? i feel more scared listening to this then i was watching the movie...steven spielberg failed on that one
michflich 2 months ago
i think this track is the best one, and forever autumn
1annoyingorangerocks 2 months ago
The 29 who dislike this are "Dumbos"
1959520 2 months ago
@1959520 Well, you can't call people "dumbos" because they don't like this. They're probably just not into emotion as much as you & me. I used to absolutely love this too! I'm looking forward to the new version out in June 2012!
sripathyakasrip 1 month ago
@sripathyakasrip Well,I regret for the word "dumbos".Thanks for your plus friend.
1959520 1 month ago
A great Imagination, great for Cannabis Sativa.a well done job.I am 52,but still enjoy this whole series.
1959520 2 months ago
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this cannot be remastered
1annoyingorangerocks 2 months ago
Awesome
svenholio 3 months ago
This is a parody of my recent attack on the kitchen. I fucked up sunday dinner but it was worth it
GarethElms 3 months ago
I heard this at school one time. It was interesting
coolunclerob 3 months ago
@coolunclerob cool story bro
DBTFxC 3 months ago
And slowly, and surely, they drew thier plans against us. Richard Burton in one sentence evokes a chilling vision. Love his voice. your like is hard to replace. a loss to the movie world.
bloomersthebear 3 months ago
BRING IT ON YOU OUT OF SPACE BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!
gamesandcod 3 months ago 2
Many thx for takin this in, i hate the remixed shit!
Sturminfantrist 3 months ago
after being down the pub all day, great to play on head phones pissed in bed 3 in morning, Mr. Burton brilliant narative
mike58941 3 months ago
@mike58941 you should try this shit on ecstasy FUCKING MENTAL
harleynog 3 months ago
@harleynog I can totally imagine that
doombringer117 3 months ago
@doombringer117 it was crazy shit man, i saw the song on facebook and was like whos this guy is it funky, ended up monging out to that blurry arse pic :|
harleynog 3 months ago
@harleynog Having a mini freakout, thinking a tripod smashes through your window, we've all been there!
doombringer117 3 months ago
bet this is awesome to listen to stoned... i bet u get really in the moment :P
thatkindofguy234 3 months ago
i thought the movie with tom cruise was good in its own way. however i do think it should be illegal to go that far from the original story. they should make a mini series out of it one that is exactly like the book.
whatsthis1888 3 months ago
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No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. 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...
brameijk 3 months ago
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brameijk 3 months ago
This was the first song i ever fell in love with i would sit on a chair with this blurring though headphones from the age of about 5 until i was 8 and now to this day i god damn love it.
major7933 3 months ago 2
when i was about 12 (im 40 now) my father had taken the hole front off the house of and i mean the hole front off to rebuild it and he had dug a trench for the new front, we sat in the trench and had R whites cream soda with ice cream floaters and had war of the worlds playing
twin40worty 3 months ago
@twin40worty
Shame he didn't bury you in that hole and I mean the hole.
krakenwave 3 months ago
29 people said that the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.
phattdeej 3 months ago 63
@phattdeej and now its 30 people who slowly........and surely........drew their plans against us lol lol
TheTemplar75 1 month ago 42
@TheTemplar75 i was just going to say that those 30 obviously weren't intending on finding this masterpiece but were looking for something else because anyone with musical taste could not possibly dislike this
The79Machine 1 month ago
i can imagian a battle scene to this
BMTstudio123 3 months ago
the movie sucked, the production and soundtrack are amazing, I saw it a few years ago... I still remember the huge alien on the stage .
illuminatedxskies 3 months ago
I have owned several copies of this over the decades, each one worn out through play. My favourite setting is evening, log fire and candles with the volume at about 80% - playing the work without a break. A truly wonderful classic. The book and first film were great but Jeff Wayne's music is so totally different - it takes the work to a different dimension and H G Wells' literature is enhanced by the music. I can't imaging myself ever becoming tired of this.
Dusyanya 3 months ago
I am 13 and i love this. I want to be a writer my self and if anyone wants me to change something about the story I get really angry. If H G wells was still alive he would be angry at spielburg and don't lett him ruïn the story. that is what I think.
juuk68 3 months ago 2
@juuk68 That's really cool, man. I wish you luck. Work hard and focus on your dreams and goals.
wandererlain 3 months ago
@wandererlain your wise words inspire me. always when I write, I listen to this music. it's incredible.
juuk68 3 months ago
@juuk68 If you want to be a writer, be a writer. There is nothing to stop you. Always carry a notebook and keep one at the side of your bed as dreams can be the basis of many a good story. Good luck. Don't be too angry at Mr Spielberg, HG Wells was a visionary, so maybe he would have embraced a new approach to his story!
MrMusedu1 3 months ago
@MrMusedu1 I agree, but I doubt he would enjoy Spielberg simply using it as one of his generic extraneous circumstances to make a family closer stories.
Although I did like the scene with the military getting pwn't by the tripods, and I've always found that flaming train still making its rounds peculiarly haunting.
Kjakings 3 months ago
for sure in this world , we have 29 ALIENS!!! very near!!
vsdmar 3 months ago
remember being in high school in the UK and doing some freaky 'movements' to this in drama class! hahaha and our teacher telling us when people heard this on the radio they rang the station to see when they should do and if they should find an old bomb shelter ....! priceless
janetterehua 3 months ago
I can picture the orchestra drummer, an older guy with big headphones and glasses, shirt and tie thinning grey hair.
jwades77 3 months ago
if spielberg had of made his version of the story in line with what jeff waynes version was then he,d of had a awesome film,i first listened to this at 8 and loved it,unfortunately i didnt go much on s.spielbergs version where its more of a personal story line,it should have been set in victoria times with the thunderchild battle etc,still i suppose there is a younger audience that may like the new version better.
mrmrdean1 3 months ago
Jeff Wayne's version is the nearest to Wells original idea although I don't recall the character "Carrie" (?) referred to in the song Forever Autumn. The 1950s version and more recent one sadly followed a pretty typically American script where as Wells vision of aliens landing was highly original: imagine Victorian England coping with highly sophisticated aliens! It's definitely worth a read! "Minds immeasurably superior" could have been referring to Wells himself!
overner2001 3 months ago
form turkey
sitemkarsiz 3 months ago
Classics never dies!
Nachiro82 4 months ago
To Me, this is my childhood.Just like Meat Loaf,Kiss,and... ... ...ABBA
Slarsehole 4 months ago
Brings back a childhood!
Chikawahboink 4 months ago
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Chikawahboink 4 months ago
My teacher played this in class, at the time me and my classmates were 10/11 and we were all scared of it. haha
SMOTH1289 4 months ago
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the only way to listen to this is with all the lights turned out i had the lp on vynl as well as cd its just a masterpeice in its own right, plus im a big ELO fan,,, love it, i thought the new film was ok but not brillant
stoner7205 4 months ago
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the only way to listen to this is with all the lights turned out i had the lp on vynl as well as cd its just a masterpeice in its own right, plus im a big ELO fan,,, love it, i thought the new film was ok but not brillant
stoner7205 4 months ago
the only way to listen to this is with all the lights turned out i had the lp on vynl as well as cd its just a masterpeice in its own right, plus im a big ELO fan,,, love it, i thought the new film was ok but not brillant
stoner7205 4 months ago
@stoner7205 Totally agree.
Slarsehole 4 months ago
I remember working at Sunterra market as a baker and there was another baker whom told me about Orson Welles' War of the Worlds. He fascinated me with the descriptions of it and also about the soundtrack! At 23, I was soo enthusiastic and he offered to bring me a burned copy of the soundtrack. That summer I spent cheerfully listening to the entire soundtrack and being blown away by the splendid sounds. I especially like the fall song. So many wonderful similies, and metaphors to decribe her.
LaPersonaNonGrata 4 months ago
the film took away from me all that the album means to me
thumbs up if ya feel the same
therobster1975 4 months ago 46
@therobster1975 Fortunatley I saw the movie first so the album erased the monstrosity between Cruise and Spielberg from my brain
rozasupreme 3 months ago