Jeff Wayne The War of the Worlds - Dead London

[atomiczombie101]

my favorite lines : "The chances of anything comming from mars are a million to one they said, the chances of anything comming from mars are a million to one...but still, they come.

"Directly as the invaders arrived our microscopic allies attacked them, from that momment, they were doomed" GOOSEBUMPS

[Dafoodmaster]

@atomiczombie101 YES YES YES!!!

[MrSluggo666]

Chris Speddings guitar is awesome.

[lootwarmeggz]

Comment removed by H1N1 stricken martian

[TheJimbobski]

takes me back

[richardburns1560]

@TheJimbobski me also.isn't it great?

[Patryjota85]

kocham ten kawałek...i jego melancholiczny klimat

[Zebesian43v3r]

I always liked the original vinyl's style instead of the newer ones

[hotelmario510]

I love the ironic use of the "Eve of the War" music, now referring to the bacteria exterminating the Martians, rather than the Martians exterminating humanity.

[sozzzz]

At about 5:32 is when I start near running down the road when I'm listening to this on my iPod, haha

[sripathyakasrip]

I wonder if Jeff will use the "uhhlahh" Martian crys in new version released in June next year. Who's looking forward to it?

[sripathyakasrip]

This track was damn creepy! I remember the first "Uuuuuuuuuuulahhhhhhhh!" cry came without much musical indication. It always gave me a fright! The creepiest "Uhlahs" are on this track.

[hotelmario510]

@sripathyakasrip It's actually spelled "Ulla!"

:)

[michaelsharples]

i think this track has the best melody of the album.

[1Zeroploxx]

4:56

[1Zeroploxx]

4:57

[MrCrazyHaley92]

The entire album is insanely epic but on this piece, at 5:30 when the music starts its mindblowing....i want this bit to play at epic moments in my life :D

[thisiszaphodbeeblebr]

I love WOTW, and have the double vinyl since the day it first came out for sale, but I can't help thinking that if the main theme throughout had been more upbeat as from 6:24 what a different work this would have been.

[Hal9000ize]

It sounds like Marooned from the Division Bell...

[MrMrBilko]

Brilliant!

[DarthVailan]

I love this album! Dead London is definately one of my favorite songs.

Thumbs up if you went to the live performance!

[bingbashbosh1]

The Uuuuulaaaa used to scare the shit out of me when i was younger. Actually, it still does. My grandad used to play it in the car even though i hated it :( . I like the part with thunderchild though, its soo epic!!!

[blue4u1873]

one of best intro s to music ive heard sheer class

[TheTrueHaddock]

UuuuuuUUUuuuuuuuullaaaaaaaahhh­hhh...h...h...

[bluesky1538]

BEAUTIFUL.... I just love the whole Album... Never get tired of it.

[baztheblue100]

1 person jumped at uullllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­a!

[JonteTheMan1]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOLAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUU­UUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!

[enjoymentness]

@JonteTheMan1 Incorrect. Ullaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­a!!!!!! Read teh book next time.

[JonteTheMan1]

@enjoymentness Or maybe I were shouting a fat dudes name who sounds exactly like that.

[MrSluggo666]

Chris spedding makes this track,! great stuff !!

[222ksh]

I bought this as a 8 year old..and still have it on "vynly" and it sounds twice as good!!!!!!!!

[maritimedragon]

you mean "Londinistan"? Ullaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa - Allaho Akbar!

[MegaLewisN]

uuuuuuuuuuulllllllllllllllllla­aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh or the 2005 tripod blair?

[FerrariGood]

I find 'Dead London' one of the most chilling tracks of them all. It just makes me feel so alone and isolated and it gives me chills. I used to listen to this in the dark when I was younger and feel so small. And it scares me to think of how small we all are compared to the universe.

[Kir0l]

Ulllllllllllllllllllllllllllll­llllllllllllllllllllllllaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~.

[mrOvertow]

ulla is a female name in sweden. me and my brothers couldnt stop luaghing at it. where is ULLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?

[Chupacabrathe2nd]

Ain't it obvious? The artillery man gave 'em the cold.

[eragon2121]

Holy fucking shit. This album is so fucking bad ass I'm so glad I found it.

[fcrim]

this is the best epilogue ever

[fraggmonkey]

My favourites have always been the huge anthems like brave new world and thunderchild, only now can i realise how brilliant and haunting this really is. Flawless.

[Mashermat]

7:25 after the journalist stops saying that sentence, I just get the sense of victory from the music, weird, weird but excellent.

[fcrim]

Scared me as a child, still listen to it every year. Incredible.

[russia199999999]

I fucking love the ULAAAAAA !

[b0w5er]

What music is the fast version of this?

[furon4]

HAY GUYS! i have a video just for YOU! you will LOVE IT! type in SCI-FI AND MY THINGS BY FURON4!

[fuzzyargy]

Jeff Wayne is a saint, i havent heard this for 20 years... it chills my spine to this day.

[rjkral]

Was there ever a more perfect marriage of synths, orchestra and guitars....and VOICE, than this production? Jeff Wayne is a genius.

[Cfactr98]

@rjkral no. there never was. nor will there ever BE one.

[milfhunter841]

soounds like>>>>allahhhhhh

[differentdan]

he he Erect and motionless *giggles* sigh im such a child. Great musical :P

[TimothyParadox1]

UULLAAA.. ull urg..ggrrll... *dead*

[l0forward]

ooooooooooooooo LOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[Seanfitz1624]

Imagine coming across something like that in real life....

[JOJOdaley]

This song makes you feel sad for the aliens

[JOJOdaley]

hey these songs are very interesting it gives you a story and an imagination

[LoopyWolf]

I think ULA means "Mars"

[madcat789]

@LoopyWolf

Ulla could also mean help or is a signal for anyone out there,it could,depending on the pitch,determen what its purpose. Pitch and how long it goes.

[azjeff1971]

This is how London is going to be in a few years...you guys can't defend yourselves against the Mudslimes.

[madcat789]

@azjeff1971

Muslims. No need to be racist but then again im a hypocrite because i hate all religon and canada.

[0022acc]

@madcat789 muslims aren't a race, dumbass.

[JarouqueXIII]

This one sounds really sad... :(

[matterofdeath]

@anidude454 It's 'saddening' because it's dying.

[TheRabcnesbit]

taliban fook pigs

[Martianelder]

Humans OWNED, all hope lost, then seemingless bacteria kills the martians and saves the humans asses

[jaedenjoshua]

what order am i ment to play these in? never herd before. cant stop listening.

[MrBradski666]

@jaedenjoshua

eve of war - horsell common - artillery man - forever autumn - thunderchild - red weed 1 & 2 - sprit of man - brave new world - dead london - epilogue

[MrBradski666]

@jaedenjoshua

sorry

red weed 1 - spirit of man - red weed 2

[munckymagic]

you've lost loads of bits mate, bit more attention to detail next time eh ;) thx anyway

by the way the annoying david essex got bumped off by martians after his speech

[wenz222]

Why did't you put the last part of the ending on ??

[TehComs]

One person who watched this video was the last martian to die from common airborne viruses.

His clicking of the "dislike" button was his last defiant cry against us.

[Hooverblox]

@TehComs Second dislike was from the first martian that got owned by the thunder child

[jopeon]

i love the way that wells makes a thanks in the book to god for the bacteria that stops the martians

when all hope is lost the characters turn in desperation to god and he saves them

through the ultimate weapon which is also essential for life.. microscopic bacteria

[schoolgirlsrgreat]

This is an awesome set. So much hard work went into this. All the music sets just the right mood for each chapter. It's great to listen to on a long road trip at night. Fantastic!

[poopskinTheLiar]

Wells takes David and Goliath to it's logical conclusion - Something microscopic beats a vessel larger than anything mankind had built at the time the story is set in.

[gnrrules123454321]

No wonder swine flu came to nothing for us.... the martians caught it.

[TehComs]

@gnrrules123454321 BIG HIGH-FIVE FOR YOU!

[jopeon]

hg wells wrote a prequal to war of the worlds before it called the crystal egg

in which a man possible the clergyman travels to mars through it or something and describes the red weed, the martians, the bipedial lifeforms that serve as there food etc.. havent read it yet but have downloaded it

[Prongshorn]

Ulla!!!



[CandyGraham729]

The distortion of the Martians voice is so creepy at 5:05

[FerrariGood]

The beginning gives me shivers! I'm sitting at home at my laptop and listening to the intro to this song makes me feel alone.

[suggsb2010]

Love the seventie's tone of the guitar on this piece!

[LeseMaxwell]

i love the calibre of sheer poerty and burton is such a mighty beast. i believe that there is no one who could do it as graceful as burton. dead london still gives me the chills

[Shadehunter111]

@johnndicksonn

I have a download link in my profil for the complete album.

[PixelSith64]

@Shadehunter111 I wouldn't bother replying to him. He's just a comment bot trying to get hits for his website.

[Shadehunter111]

@PixelSith64 Argh, you´re right :x don´t know how much I´ve drunken to reply on that.. Thanks for the Information anyway.

[PixelSith64]

@Shadehunter111 Haha. :P

I didn't realize you said that two months ago. I thought it said two days ago. I think we were both drunk at our respective times.

Anyway, nice videos though. I absolutely love this album. I'd five star it, but the new crappy YouTube layout apparently doesn't have star ratings.

[qpwo6]

reminds me of pink floyd or 'return to Oz' by the scissor sisters

[ArkhanTheBlack1]

Most haunting track on the album.

[DominoDisguise]

the beginning of this up to 1.20 always gives me goosebumps!! it's one of those melodies that i just want to play over and over again lol :)

[Chrotisofus]

THE APOCALYPSE WILL BE GROOVY

[venera13studios]

you may be interested to know that in the book the tripods would go ALOOO! not ULAA! just an interesting fact.

[AlbertMondback]

That is very interesting, indeed.

Also, great song.

[CommradeConrad]

i just read the book, and in the original copy the say "ULAA"

[venera13studios]

well yes, but in the chapter "in the storm" the tripods go ALOO!! as this shows

"As it passed it set up an exultant deafening howl that drowned the thunder--"Aloo! Aloo!"--and in another minute it was with its companion,"

[kyon813]

@CommradeConrad They just say Ulla when they're dying.

[IIILeoIII]

@kyon813 I probably shouldn't say it, but.. They're not the only ones that shout 'Ulla' right before they die

[Bricktopher]

@kyon813 Incorrect, it is their "Battle cry" of sorts

[Bigweenie48]

@venera13studios ULLA! ULAA!

[hutton562]

MARS WILL NEVER TRIUMPH OVER EARTH!!!

[kyon813]

HELL YEAH, BROTHER!

[sliverazuria]

can anyone find the guitar tab to this? please?

and, the reason H.G. Wells made it bacterium who "won" the battle was because he was against the imperialism of Great Britain, i think it was just an easy ending - but it's still a good one.

[scorch6200]

Quite ironic that the largest most powerful organisms in the galaxy succumb to the smallest in the universe.

[ChudFapper]

Not really. Biological warfare is pretty common.

[scorch6200]

Yeah, well the humans had no idea they would kill the martians just by sneezing on them.

[odraconiandevil79]

Microcosm versus Macrocosm.

[Carnage1235]

I doubt the Martians were the strongest in the galaxy, I mean, they're so primitive they can't even build spaceships to fly around the universe.

[ArkhanTheBlack1]

@Carnage1235 They build a flying machine in the book. They just die of flu before they get a chance to use it. The journalist sees it lying in huge pit of the main Martian encampment on Primrose Hill.

[Carnage1235]

I knew about the Flying machine, I didn't mention it though because I think the Flying Machine was basically their equivalent of an Aeroplane.

[ArkhanTheBlack1]

@Carnage1235 good point, it was meant to allow them to traverse the globe and not to leave the atmosphere. I suppose the martian cylinders qualify more as projectiles than spacecraft, although they were fairly accurate in their landings. If i remember right the book descibes the launching mechanism on mars as being like a huge gun that fires them out towards earth and creates huge green cloud of smoke. If i recall correctly, the Martians also had no wheel in their advanced technology either.

[ArkhanTheBlack1]

in fairness tho, it was written in a time when feasible space travel was non existent. I suppose Well's imagining of the martian craft was rooted in the available technology of the period. Had it been written 50y later,I think the ships would have been more complex and technological, as there would have been far more advanced tech available to draw inspiration from. The Martians were also in the death throws of their civilisation so maybe their technological glory days were long behind them

[PixelSith64]

@ArkhanTheBlack1 Wells went on what people though at the time, along with his own predictions.

Notice how they seem to have no return craft. The popular notion at the time was that to get people to the moon we'd have to use a giant slingshot of sorts.

Wells was really ahead of his time though in a lot of respects. My favorite science fiction author by far.

[TimothyParadox1]

It's just good old evolution. We were the fittest. Adapted to live with these bacteria, while they were not. Which goes to prove that being the "fittest" doesn't always require having big brains or strong muscles.

[likeorient]

yeah !

[fenrir1701]

the live show was awesome. why isnt there more like war of the worlds?

[gmf65]

live show was brill

[khfanboy666]

Am I the only one who can hear the vooice artist take a breath before the last ULA

[calthecryon]

i can lol

[lemonspoon11]

@khfanboy666 I think he was meant to.

[gmf65]

@khfanboy666 of course he,s gonna fuckin breath he,s a man for fuck sake i mean helloooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooo

[kyon813]

@khfanboy666 No ,I can too.

[MuntucoGer1]

@khfanboy666 No, I got it too! Bit poor considering the overall sound quality of the albulm...maybe it was intentional?

[mrsbalagan]

@khfanboy666 you are supposed to you nugget!!

[TheRabcnesbit]

@khfanboy666  yes coz ur creepy

[gmf65]

@khfanboy666 of course not the guy doing it has to fuckin breath for fuck sake

[Mashermat]

@gmf65

He was just pointing it out.

[BlueRibbonWinner]

Powerful, relevent, the Invaders caught colds

[tojoluna]

No Mother3forDS it was the martians!

[tojoluna]

This is Sparta!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mother3forDS]

and you thought the daleks with exterminate was scary

[mooseman2468]

as much as I love this...ULLAA ...does sound pants?

[musiccritick101]

It's better then the cry from the film where you hade that stupid fog horn.

[khfanboy666]

The fog horn is cool. This is better though ;)

[snoopy4991]

does any body think ULAA!! is extremely creepy

[cherubinn]

Yes. It used to scare the bejesus out of me. Actually, it still does.

[bloodredskies95]

I wet my pants every time!

[khfanboy666]

I do

[BlueBeaner99]

@snoopy4991

Yes. Its a unique sound I've ONLY heard in Jeff Wayne's musical. It's a really creepy sound and i remember the first time i heard it, I had the music up all the way on my speakers. :B

[rezigan]

@snoopy4991 I remember having a real fear of ULAA when I was a kid and just from a couple of pictures i always looked at when listening to the record scared the living shit out of me..I was waiting for a tripod to be out my window.

[BCBaily]

@rezigan U know what is so funny reading your comment I am 39 in April and my parents used to listen to this all the time and it scared the crap out of me tooo but now I just love love itttt funny how it grows on you eh!!!

[KCNirvanaKC]

That's it... I can't take it anymore.

I'm downloading this, and in a couple of months I will buy the album.

[neil73]

I went down to London in 1995. Arrived in Victoria station and then had to get across to Hackney to meet up with my mate. This was in the days before many people had mobile phones. I got to Hackney, but my mate had gone to work. I was wandering around hackney for about 3 hours, alone, and this song was runiing thru my mind. You cant get a deeper feeling of utter lonliness than been lost in a big city in an other part of the country.

[neil73]

Guess what: It happened to me AGAIN!! Stranded at Waterloo station on 2nd May 09, missed the last bus back to Hackney. I was walking around for about 45 mins and thought about walking the 6 or so miles through that 'mighty desert of houses/buildings'! I got a taxi! Bloody £30!

[McLarenMercedes]

yeah, and the damn service on the Jubilee Line in London cost me the first 20 minutes of the show. Had to switch trains 5 times...

[mooseman2468]

yes I agree I would just like a Instrumental version no story no "ULLA" just the music...reminds me of pink floyd!!

[gmf65]

interesting im going on wotw website & put it to them great idea

[mooseman2468]

should you get any joy let me know if so...cheers

[gmf65]

will do waiting for a reply from site

[gmf65]

still no rply from the site so i can only assume its not gonna happen bugger

[mooseman2468]

How typical eh? oh well not to worry one day it will happen!

[Zsumat]

i wish they'd release an instrumental version of this album. so we can enjoy just the music.

I'm a huge fan of this story. i own the book, have a recording of the original radio show, this album twice (once recorded off the radio then the CD) and the UlladubUlla record and concert video.

[pieboy6000]

i play this song in my head imagining the street I live in destroyed. It's a beautiful song.

[sim0b]

me too ! i thought i was the only one

[Cunt03]

beautifull but depressing

[sim0b]

i know thats wat i thought. love it though. the guitar

[freedumb2003]

As I can, I will post thanks for posting this up.

I have some significant history with this piece!

[BlueRibbonWinner]

Directly the invaders arrived, and drank and fed, our mircoscopic allies attacked them, from that moment on, they were doomed!

[KCNirvanaKC]

Beautiful...

[maulowner9]

@BlueRibbonWinner it honestly sounds like something that would happen rofl,human diseases end up killing an entire alien invasion force

[Belemnite]

@maulowner9

Jajajajajajaja!!!!