HOLST - Mars from "The Planets Suite"

[dawood708]

kind of like john williams trilligy and star wars

[RIGHTFUL2011]

when i listened to like a this song , i recgnized always huge world included planet! good song!

[celticsBASKETBA11]

its funny how at the end he doesent know when to stop

[aTF2player]

@celticsBASKETBA11 it was on purpose that Gustov did that.

[MrSquigglies]

This sounds a lot like John Williams, you think?



[CorazonDeLeon92]

@MrSquigglies other way around

[MrSquigglies]

@CorazonDeLeon92 I meant that Williams was influenced by Holst...

[dbringen1]

Holst was best known for his vocal music. How weird that the "Planet" became his signature piece.

[TheLaLaCity]

holst was the head of music at my school (his first teaching job) we played this in a concert to honour him in our school hall called the 'holst hall'... this is my favourite movement i have ever played in an orchestra

[tmz714zmt]

One-triplet, two, three, four and five

♪ Thumbs up if y'all music people know what I mean ♪

[cma3585]

Don't know if this was commented earlier or not but this particular song inspired Geezer Butler to write Sabbath's first track, "Black Sabbath".

[LunaticLexie]

i think this one is probably my favourite :D

[brandonbowerstx]

Nice, now I know where Hans Zimmer got his inspiration for the Gladiator soundtrack listen to "The Battle" or "Barbarian Horde" (Tracks 03 / 13) and it will jump right out at you.

[shaudee67]

Wow! This is very descriptive music. Astonishing.

[doggy10101]

this is an awsome peice but it is played way...too...often by orchestras n bands

[davidevgen]

the grandfather  music of star wars and star trek

[hiigaranhomey]

Now I know what all epic Star Trek music was based off.

[apatheist89]

An excellent piece of music. Although, I always thought that Mars and Venus should switch. It would suit the nature of the planets, but Holst based his works on the Roman Gods and we had limited knowledge of the planets in the early 20th century.

[josseh666]

5 People got scared when they heard this... Clicked the disliked button and ran away.

[Imagineerkyle]

@josseh666 Now 6. The young people now and days :P

[grayhunter41]

nice man

[Frink5000]

Target Phobos! OPEN FIRE, ALL WEAPONS!

[puresweetness19]

I love The Planet Suite by Gustav Holst, especially Mars The bringer of War. The man was sheer genius. Great video you have with it. . Added to favourites. xx

[asdking123]

Diamond head

[kidmerkury]

at 3:00 , those of you who played Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator will recognize this EXACT a minor chord used as the opening (and at the end of the opening pitched down to Ab)

[yalecheerleder]

i see a movie with this theme like- MARS WARS.......

[Mojoflojo101]

@yalecheerleder also Gladiator...1:20 to 1:30

[LaxBros7311]

guys, shut the fuck up and enjoy the music

[slyscafe]

This song is amazing. If you ever drive a massive car, this is the song to play while driving it.

[khasab]

@slyscafe it isn't a song,

[slyscafe]

@khasab Oh, excuse me for my colloquialism then.

Thank you so much for taking the time to correct me on my mistake. I hope you make many more friends by disagreeing with them, and correcting them on minor things. I knew a guy who would argue over many minor details, and he was the coolest guy I've ever met.

Just let someone appreciate a piece of music, god dammit, and if they're not talking technically, let the terminology be damned. Seriously.

[khasab]

@slyscafe I can see how it might seem piddling to you but I HAVE let this go a lot. This usage is all over YouTube (look through the other comments) and after a while it gets to me so I finally commented on it. By chance it was you. Anyway, it's hardly "technical" terminology to call a piece of music ' a piece' rather than a song is it? I mean we all clearly know what a song is. Holst called this 7 pieces for a large orchestra not 7 songs. You're right about one thing: I'm pretty cool:) Ciao

[slyscafe]

@khasab Honestly, I don't think anyone cares enough to make an effort to change their terminology.

On an MP3 player, when I add music to it, what I added will show up under songs. It shows up there because that's all the layman really cares about. They don't care about the difference of definitions between a 'song' and a 'piece.' If it's musical, the layman will call it a song.

The definitions in this situation don't matter. In a technical paper, they would; this is youtube, where laymen roam.

[khasab]

@slyscafe Well I do understand but again I have to take issue with your idea that this is somehow a 'technical' point. There's nothing remotely technical about it, and there is no more 'effort' involved in using the correct word than the incorrect one!

It's a very simple non.technical point. Things have names so why not use them? You'd expect me to refer to an apple as a fruit and not a vegetable wouldn't you? or indeed as an apple and not a cabbage? or shall we just banana Durham cathedral?

[slyscafe]

@khasab My point is I don't know why you bothered to go out of your way to correct someone when YOU KNEW what they meant.

It seriously doesn't make a damned bit of difference, other than that you're going to come off as a pretentious, know-it-all jackass who has nothing better to do than correct people on their terminologies when it comes to music.

Seriously, the ONLY place I could a use for this correction is when a teacher is reviewing a paper, and ONLY THEN.

[khasab]

@slyscafe well well well I thought i was talking to someone who was a little intelligent but apparently not by your last 2 comments, especially the "slippery slope" drivel. I studied philosophy so don't talk drivel to me about fallacious arguments.Clearly you didn't understand and I'm not repeating it for you. I do however, have a new found sympathy for your long suffering flatmate if that was the quality of drivel he had to tolerate. You are an idiot, We have nothing more to say to each other.

[worthlessdollar1]

@khasab You studied philosophy, yet you are wasting your life engaging in petty squabbles on Youtube. I believe the term is "epic fail".

[khasab]

@worthlessdollar1 this might come as a surprise to you but i find i can do rather a lot of other things in between amusing myself with morons on youtube.

[khasab]

@slyscafe please don't bother replying.Let's put an end to this now.

[slyscafe]

@khasab Also, you're argumentation is fallacious in your second paragraph, as you start to use a slippery-slope and false analogies.

If I were talking with someone about my diet, I would say "I eat my share of fruit," because that covers all and everyone would know what I am saying. I wouldn't go into specifics because it honestly isn't necessary, and likewise, it isn't necessary to correct someone when they say "song" instead of "piece" or "movement."

FEW PEOPLE CARE WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS

[slyscafe]

@khasab I had a housemate who would correct me on the smallest things for over a year. He would go out of his way to correct someone or argue about something. It was literally the point where you couldn't carry on a conversation with him, or have a policy debate. If you gave him a hypothetical example, if you picked an arbitrary number, he'd argue it as if that number was a fact and important.

I'm kind of tired of things like this. Hopefully you can understand where I'm coming from.

[umb25]

@slyscafe a car?

This song fits so much better if you have a giant Zeppelin

[slyscafe]

@umb25 Any massive mode of transport, really. But it has to be massive and slow-moving. I have driven a '78 T-Bird to this, and it was great.

[1994newnew]

that's better than the band version.

[sharkboy85]

Metal before there was Metal.

[BIGLIZARDSMASHHITS]

@sharkboy85

classical >>>>>> metal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> classical/metal fusion

all day errday

[samusmex]

4:05

-Big Slime: CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!!!!

-Steve: FUCKING SLIMES, THEYRE EVERYWHERE!

[singlespies]

cool animation!

[quagdingo45]

this is a song that inspired black sabbath to create the greatest song in the world.... thank you geezer... 4:02...

[HeuristicALgorithm]

@hatsunemiku444

Totally unnecessary to mention that.

[cmc5818]

Did you ever watch a documentary called 'Journey to the Planets and Beyond' hosted by Isaac Asimov?

[Beatnikzombie]

How fucking cool is this shit?!?

[foxmcloud555]

The airship theme from SMB3 has tones of the opening from this, I think Kondo was taking notes from Holst. Excellent piece.

[Virtimera]

And what program used here? Celestia?

[slugworth99]

Prepare to be DESTROYED! (by Holst!)

[TheMrFarkle]

Fine graphics work. With the music, the fantastic variety of moons and planets in the absolute hostility of space comes through. What a wonderful technological age we have entered.

[IASOU2005]

Mars, the future of earth

[Metallideth1993]

AM I EVILLLLLLLL!

[nolongerwinter]

For my freshman marching band season, we did Mars bringer of War, venus bringer of Peace, and Jupiter bringer of joy. :) this makes me miss it.

[falenjo5]

Oh my god. I hear the tuba in this. Instant favorite.

[AmazingAmanda09]

@falenjo5 It is a vary brass heavy piece but one of my favorites. 1:43 - 2:04 is a nightmarish to play though.

[dragmio]

That's no moon. It's a potato!

[Chanataas]

This is for listening on the first row with eyes closed xDD

Holst is the real deal!!

[LunaMilkyWay29]

Um, If I were sitting before that orchestra, I don't think I would be able to sit through the whole thing, I'd feel like I have to run from some dangerous monster. I love this :)

[Conservative4]

Feels like... space nazies...

[bleefinson]

perfect soundtrack for an alien invasion.

(no wonder hollywood always puts martians on mars.) :P

[terentii]

@bleefinson Imagine a period version of "War of the Worlds," set in Victorian Britain, with Martian fighting machines like the ones in the Classics Illustrated comic, and "The Planets" as the basis for the music score. This would be the main theme, when the Martians are observing Earth through their gunsight-telescopes and targeting the planet for invasion.... What an absolutely bitchin' movie that would be!!!

[AsliDesiMunda]

5/8 bars

[HypersonicPrincess]

My favorite is the 6-4<3



[Kzar5678]

easily the most epic Planet song. =D

[skeeterman85]

I played this in Texas symphony competition at Baylor University. We won :)

[IntrepidPotato]

This song is so cool :D

[xerxes52]

@IntrepidPotato not a song

[ztormar]

inspired  Black Sabbath to write the song "Black Sabbath", according to Terry Butler

[dnbjedi]

what a feat ofimagination the music of this composition was a thousand movies will play through our minds before the spirit of this man's music and melodies are ever forgotten

[zumosoren]

sounds like its played a little too fast.... but thats symphony music, no conduction is ever the same :)

[Personaforever]

...Underground cemetery...

[thatonenerd22]

4:05. Kick-butt orchestra

[Maeglin16]

That animation is really crappy. :(

[blue1234515]

I did this one year for Marching Band when I was in high school.

[AkimboJoe]

Anyone else think that one song in Mad Max sounds suspiciously like this one?

[craig260691]

@AkimboJoe yeah it does, sounds a lot like the soundtrack from Mad Max 2.

[lawnsausages]

@AkimboJoe Not sure about Max, but I bet John Williams is a big Holst fan. He should give him a thank you on the Star Wars soundtrack album cover.

[MattyFree919]

Not a single Super Mario 3 Air Ship reference in any of the comments. What gives?

[spitfire413]

AWESOME

[chiarasany]

Interesante video y bellísima música Holst es muy descriptivo. Chiarasany.-

[J4RR3N0603]

Tic-Ca-Ta-TA-TA-TIT-TA-TA.

[Vraya]

My monitor started shaking and I knew this orchestra was epic.

[randomfilmguy]

i listened to this to do my homework

[SquirellsandTW]

@randomfilmguy me too...Do you go to Seaford Head? :)

[randomfilmguy]

@SquirellsandTW naa, sos

[admirallordk]

megalomania, that is wat this suits quite well.

[MrBoyracer99]

any tips on how to remember this? Got it for my music exam tomorrowD:

[bridget117]

Epic.

[MrTeejaysingh]

magnificent, .... too much to say about this epic piece, holst was a genius and made audible, all the feelings and thoughts of the act of war...just perfect!

i can actually smell, steel & blood!!!

[Ingestedbanjo]

4:11 is my fav bit.

[youngmasterpete]

4:05 This is my alarm tone. I wake up to this

[TheNoobsauce1337]

No kidding the "Bringer of War"; Holst conveyed the feeling of war, suspense and conflict very well, in my opinion.

[collabi]

At 2:00 it looked like Phobos might crash into Mars at any moment... I was so relieved when it didn't!

[ensimon]

@collabi Astronomers say that someday this crash will happen in real! Phobos will crash on his father-planet or become a ring around him.

[Vildasnaga]

@ensimon Well thats half right, Fobos is a captured asteroid so it wasnt created alongside Mars, also its so small that it would behave like an asteroid, crashing into Mars and leaving a massive crater but no debris ring around it

[mudkipman1]

this one compared to the us air force bands... this arr. is a lot faster and better instruments. same key sig. but i like usaf better because of the speed. the slower one lets you absorb the greatness of this peice a lot better

[stratocaster539]

London symphony orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Seargent Is the definitive recording of the planets - ace of clubs collection.To me no one has surpassed it to date.

[Kustar10]

im doing a report with a display board on England and im gonna have this playing :D

[ThomasRiver69]

the beginning reminds me of the background music of the military levels at the end of super mario bros. 3

[aerozden]

Thank you ensimon for this nice work. I have just watched "Mythodea" by Vangelis on the YouTube and the rhythm in Movs. I&X reminded me of this work. As CFHughespoet writes, it is brutal, so is war, in which killing is legal. Some weird legislation... Not, maybe, as brutal and wild as Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Holst could have composed something even more brutal, but then the unity of the whole collection could be lost, probably. Anyhow, thanks again for this lovely video and the music.

[sbdude101]

I wonder where John Williams got a few of his ideas! Amazing powerful piece.

[oklahomma]

@sbdude101 Yeah star wars wouldnt have been as cool if John Williams hadn't asked Lucas if he could take a stab at it, instead of use the Planets.

[SkullOfPain]

This song makes me want to rage.

[xerxes52]

@SkullOfPain it isn't a song

[CFHughespoet]

I love this song! It sounds like it wants to cut your throat and murder your family... Brutal and magnificant!

[xerxes52]

@CFHughespoet it isn't a song

[mudkipman1]

@xerxes52 your right! it's... better.. it's a masterpeice

[joebob998]

i think you spelt it wrong. its "the planets, SWEET!"

[neyquarous]

Thats shit

[Robinomicon]

Yay for 5/4 time :-D

[StopTheMoti0n]

dude ensimon!! the ending of the song with the ending of the video clip is so amazing!!! it gave me chills!

[platinum243125]

This would sound awesome with a goo subwoofer!

[xxxLibertinexxx]

I love this tune, but it always makes me think of Hitler in those old films.

[SilentWingsOfFreedom]

I know what you mean. The mood of the music reminds me of the German Luftwaffe dropping bombs on enemy cities and throw in some footage of the atom bomb going off over Hiroshima. But it's probably my favorite track from Holst' "The Planets" suite. Very aggressive and warlike. Plus this music has probably been used in about a dozen SciFi movies over the years.

[TeufelFaust]

anyone know what key this is in?

[ToastyMer]

4:05

"oshi"

[lolinternetslol]

I just keep thinking of the venture bros whenever i hear this now...

[Airoceisis9]

lol, i was at this astronomy camp, and we were doing this mars rock climbing thing, and our counselor started blasting this music thought the speakers.

[1texaseagle]

@Airoceisis9 Your counselor is amazing lol

[CoreGamer44]

@Airoceisis9

That is EPIC! :D

[StopTheMoti0n]

it's so reminicant of John William's work! he must draw his inspiration from holst

[TheCGIMaster]

god this is from a film but i dont know what!?

[MisterZimbabwe]

Star wars?

[pedroamaralcouto]

@TheCGIMaster: «god this is from a film but i dont know what!?»

There's a game with that music: "Return Fire". It seems the movies "Gladiator" and "Star Wars" have musics with resemblances to "Mars, the Bringer of War", although they're not the same.

[zog11]

For some reason the dissonance is more biting in this recording than in most. I like it!

[ensimon]

It is because of the majesty of the sound of the London Symphony Orchestra, which was especially stressed in those recording-series of the Hallmark Classics-Innovative Music Products.

[JimmieHeaven]

XOXO

[ElsaMarie]

playing this in band!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

[iwanabana]

1:09 the trumpets.