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Music CD - Jeff Wayne: Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds
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Music CD: Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds
Artist: Jeff Wayne
List Price: $24.98
Our Price: $19.27
Your Save: $ 5.71 ( 23% )
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. The Eve Of War
2. Horsell Common And The Heat Ray
3. The Artilleryman And The Fighting Machine
4. Forever Autumn
5. Thunder Child
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0827969443460
Format: Hybrid SACD
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2005-07-05
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: This is the best CD you'll ever buy
Comment: I was a small boy when my father put this on in his International Scout (it was an 8 track player by the way) and we were on a road trip to the mountains and even better it was at night... and this is the absolute best time to listen to this CD. I recently bought this CD and am still amazed at the way the story is told through music and narration. I don't own a better album.
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Summary: War of the Worlds
Comment: I had this musical version back in the 70's on cassette tape and would drive around listening to it in my car. It sure brought back memories of those days, only now it is digitally remastered for an even more realistic sound effect. I highly recommend it, even with todays technology this musical is still with the times, that just tells you how far ahead of its time it was. With Richard Burtons great narration, and Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues on alot of the songs you can't loose.
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Summary: The perfect "Third Choice" for Rick Wakeman and Alan Parsons fans... Theatrical/Progressive Rock Masterpiece!
Comment: If, like me, you became a Prog/Symphonic Rock fan after listening to "Tales Of Mystery And Imagination-Edgar Allan Poe" by the Alan Parsons Project, and "Journey To The Centre Of The Earth" by Rick Wakeman, you certainly got crazy for getting Jeff Wayne's musical version of "The War Of The Worlds" when it was issued as a double-LP album back in 1978.
(Hey, if you haven't noticed it, all three above albums have been inspired on the most "raw" science-fiction literary works published in the 19th century, all of them were certainly "best sellers". But... Their musical versions recorded by Parsons, Wakeman and Wayne, certainly rival the literary heights reached by E. Allan Poe ["Tales..."], Jules Verne ["Journey To..."] and H.G. Wells' "The War Of The Worlds".)
This album, is worth to remember, was also released in the middle of the "Space Fever" caused by STAR WARS the movie (so I think it's not a matter of coincidence, that some chords in this album at not doubt, will make you remind immediately on the wonderful musical score produced by John Williams for "Star Wars"). I find that this fever was even more weird, than the other 'fear fever' caused by Orson Welles and his infamous radio broadcast, of a supposed ferocious Martian invasion to the territory of the United States back in the 1930s...
Jeff Wayne produced this now almost classic album of Symphonic/Prog Rock, with the help of the latest technology available for sound effects. He also got the support of talented musicians and selected voices: no one less than Sir Richard Burton himself as the storyteller, plus Justin Hayward (leader of The Moody Blues), the late Phil Lynnot (vocal master of Thin Lizzy), David Essex and even Julie Covington (who played Eva Peron in the first recorded edition of the super-famous Rock Opera "Evita").
There's not much more to say about this superb musical production. If you haven't heard it yet, DO IT RIGHT NOW! The SACD Hybrid remastered version sounds really wonderful! Of course, if you haven't read previously the wonderful story told by H.G. Wells in the original book, it is worth to do it just before you listen to this album! You can also get the book in Amazon.com at a really cheap, cheap price!
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Summary: Fantastic
Comment: Excellent DVD. Quick delivery and great packaging.
Hope to purchase from this seller again.
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Summary: Great 70's stuff
Comment: Of course the narration and dialog was written before we knew very much about the impossibility of any kind of martian living on Mars. But if you can listen to the story with a pre- space race mind, this is great stuff. The music is top shelf, particularly the contributions of Justin Hayward. The whole thing has a kind of a "Moody Blues" or "Yes" feel to it.
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Editorial Reviews:
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In hindsight, it seems almost incredible: 27 years ago, a young musician named Jeff Wayne (who at the time primarily wrote music for commercials) fell in love with H.G. Wells' much-loved book The War of the Worlds, and decided to make a musical version of it. Star Wars had just put people's minds into outer space, musical theatre was hugely successful, and long, anthemic orchestral prog-rock was all the rage. Wayne was inspired by all these elements and decided to gather together his peers and make a musical-mixed-with-spoken-word album, with the script taken directly from the famous book. This was by no means a soundtrack to a movie; in fact, all of the visuals were to come straight from the listener's minds (hard to imagine in today's video-oriented world.) The two-LP set featured Sir Richard Burton as frontman, along with some of the leaders of the progressive rock world who joined in on the fun. Moody Blues' Justin Hayward, "Rock On" vocalist David Essex and Thin Lizzy lead Philip Lynott each did more than sing on the record, they took a part in the musical play, performing key roles alongside the aforementioned dramatist Burton. Amazingly, the eccentric project was a massive success, selling over 13 million copies and staying on the U.K. charts for over 260 weeks straight. DJs and bands--including the Orbital and Todd Terry--still use WOTW samples to inspire their own works. Unquestionably, the genesis of electronica can (in part) be mapped back to the War of the Worlds' use of sound experimentation and synthesized grooves. The re-released double CD got a revamping both on an auditory and visual front: on the sonic side, the collection is now a remastered disc, mixed both in stereo and 5.1 surround sound. On the cosmetic side, the collection is now a six-panel digipack, with 48 pages of lyrics, biographies, and a handful of paintings from the original artwork. The music comes as a pair of Super Audio CDs (SACDs), a technology that will play both in standard and SACD players, the latter receiving up to four more times the sonic information for superior sound quality. --Denise Sheppard
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