Music video by Jeff Wayne performing The Making Of. (C) 2012 The WOW Recording Company Limited under exclusive licence to Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
It's wierd, I feel like I'm the only one who heard the New Generation before the original. I can't say which one is best because that depends on the person you ask. And I like them both in their own rights.The voice acting was better in the original. But the new one has what I feel a more powerful drive to it. It feels more intense and technological.
i heard the original first on vinyl and i have to say they both have their merits. there are certain things i think are better about the original but i think that is my bias from hearing it and loving it first. the main one being the wind up to the ulah shout from the aliens at the end of thunder child gets a bit loud to quickly in the new one instead of slowly ramping up the volume like the old one. however having said that i could happily sit and listen to all of this one and enjoy it so they are both quite good and if releasing it again lets people who never heard of the original find out about it then it is a good thing
Maybe it's just because I'm usually favourable to updated sound quality and production value, but the "New Generation" is a lovely lick of fresh paint imo and just as good if not better. I think it does all come down to which you grew up with!
There's definitely a happy medium between the two versions. I'd love to see an amalgamation of the two some day, maybe with a few new vocal recordings (IE Jason Donovan and Carrie Hope Fletcher over Maverick Sabre and Joss Stone, and a new recording from Ricky Wilson to match the far superior version he did on the 2012 stage tour)
I have both versions on deluxe editions, even my dad has the original version on Record with the pictures, I love this so much & I wish I could see it live, keep up fighting the marshans
I love the war of the worlds I have been listening to the music since I was a foetus both of my parents played it when I was inside my mothers womb and it will always be my favourite musical
Just heard it and enjoyed it. The classic album is in there with the remixed stuff. I have to admit that I still prefer the original (given the number of years I've listened to it) but this was very respectful to the original but different enough to be interesting to long term fans and pull in new listeners as well.
I like HG Wells' stories. I agree with Marti Pellow (O2 Live 2012, Sung thoughts of the Journalist) when interviewed he said the next best story is The Time Machine. I'd love to see/hear Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The Time Machine if he ever wrote the score.
I'm a 22 year old Man and I love Jeff Wayne's Musical version of the war of Worlds . I seen this live in 2012 -2014 tours I'm also a Guitarist hello From South Wales.
I grew up listening to the musical on vinyl (Yes, you heard that right.) We would always play it on long car trips (Then it was cassettes) and it still gives me the shivers on CD. I was ever so careful as a kid handing the vinyl and the included booklet. My love of that productions makes me very nervous about this updated version. I did however enjoy the stage production from some years ago.
wow fantastic. The first album I ever listened to! (Jarre's Oxygene after that). This is the first time I will be buying an album with Gary Barlow on it, but it makes sense as a choice, as a replacement for Essex etc. Futurists should love it, naysayers will show themselves to be the old small minded people they usually and predictably are - It's a Jeff Wayne production after all, the magic is still there! :-)
A hugely strong original cast on vinyl and tape cassette, matched well by the 2012 O2 stage cast on DVD. Was just imagining what a stage version with the best of both 'Worlds' (excuse the pun) would've been like! Burton's had such a strong and recognisable presence/voice worldwide, it must've been so hard to try a full his boots yet Neeson was a good choice. I think in his heyday, Anthony Hopkins would've been a really strong choice.
Pt. 2 Then when I was 11, I had Nostalgia. I started listening to it frequently, and started to get into it. I then learnt how to play it on Keyboard, and, as they say, the rest is history.
What we as fans, really need is a big screen epic cinema version of this classic story, which of course would be a musical with little dialogue and MUST be set in Victorian England. Done Along the lines of the unappreciated EVITA film or the TOMMY rock opera, it's a mistake to set it in modern times, & also weve seen it all done for today's audience before but under other names, time & again, I.E- the v tv series etc, NO none musical film version has ever gotten it right so far OR the BBC television drama With the return of epic cinema - AVENGERS films, LORD OF RINGS, TRANSFORMERS, and now a DUNE remake the timing is perfect. Obviously Jeff Wayne's music could be the ONLY musical score
See, Im 12. I used to HATE 'J.W. The War of the Worlds' when I was between 6-10. It used to scare the hell out of me. My dad used to play it in the car coming to and from Devon (for holidays) and he used to play it in the car and I would look at the artwork inside the CD. Thats why when I think of Devon, I think this.
Uh, interesting. But not very realistic. If the Martians truly were to take on Liam Neeson, they wouldn't last 8 seconds. Did you SEE what he did to the Albanians in Taken? How many Albanians did he kill, you might ask? ... ALL OF THEM.
Pretty much the pinnacle of his work..war of the worlds is up there with pink floyd the wall. Serious music enthusiasts cannot go around war of the worlds
I haven't listened to it yet as I heard of the new production so will seek it out. But based on the clips I heard in this video, the music sounds unbelievably bland and already dated ten years after this video was uploaded.
The original WOTW album strikes a perfect balance between an orchestrated sound and rock band/electronic sound. It was and still is perfect. The New Generation is an audio carbuncle. It goes much too far into the electronic which ruins the whole effect. After all, this story is supposed to be set at the turn of the twentieth century. When people told JW that it wasn't broken so don't fix it, I think he should have listened.
The early performances (2006 or so) were great and faithful, but I saw the DVD of one of the new generation gigs recently. I went from excited to flat-out ridiculing it for the entire duration. What's with the electronic kits? What's with the 90s-era EDM keyboard hits? What's with the wub? All the added dialogue and backstory to the martians? THEY UNDERSTOOD DOORS After this 2012 video, the 2014 version added HG Wells onstage musing on how humans are as bad as martians and other such scintillating balls. Let's just listen to the original, watch the 2006 DVD and ignore all the ass-sunderingly awful CGI that went with it.
"They understood doors" was also originally recorded for the 1978 version as well. The 7-disc collector's edition that came out some years ago had a whole CD with outtakes and alternate recordings, and Richard Burton says the line quite a few times.
