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09-04-2012, 01:36 AM | #1 | |||
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09-04-2012, 01:39 AM | #2 | |||
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I love War Of The Worlds. Richard Burton does a great job of narration and it has some great music (if we are talking the musical version which I think we are).
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09-04-2012, 01:43 AM | #3 | ||
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Talk about a blast from the past!
I remember reading the book when I was a kid! |
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09-04-2012, 01:57 AM | #4 | |||
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My best friend used to play this a lot. It's excellent. I want to read the book, I liked the 2005 film.
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09-04-2012, 03:00 PM | #5 | |||
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I never watched the 2005 film, I've seen the original, that was pretty good and the book was also good.
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09-04-2012, 03:02 PM | #6 | |||
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Used to play this to death in my grungy gothy days as a teen *sigh*
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10-04-2012, 05:31 PM | #7 | |||
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The Planet Suite
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10-04-2012, 06:09 PM | #8 | |||
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I have the complete album on a two CD set
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10-04-2012, 06:20 PM | #9 | |||
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I got the 30th anniversary edition.
I would love to go and see "War of The Worlds - Alive on Stage!" in December. I'm thinking of getting tickets. Last edited by Mrluvaluva; 10-04-2012 at 06:28 PM. |
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10-04-2012, 07:19 PM | #10 | |||
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On the subject, someone may find this of interest, or not :
Orson Welles - War Of The Worlds - Original Full Radio Broadcast from 1938 "The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds. The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated "news bulletins", which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a 'sustaining show' (it ran without commercial breaks), thus adding to the program's quality of realism. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated. In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage. The program's news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast, but the episode secured Orson Welles' fame." Last edited by Mrluvaluva; 10-04-2012 at 07:31 PM. |
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03-02-2014, 08:41 PM | #12 | |||
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Yeh I have both the old version and the newer one with Liam Neeson replacing Richard Burton. I love it it's brilliant.
In fact I made a thread about it a few months back in the music section and didn't get a single comment. |
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10-04-2014, 12:03 AM | #13 | |||
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Listening to this now.
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10-04-2014, 12:18 AM | #14 | |||
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I listened to it on Spotify quite recently, thought it was very good. Richard Burton's narration is excellent.
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10-04-2014, 12:22 AM | #15 | |||
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His voice is perfect for it. I didn't realise Spotify had it, found they had it tonight. Amazing.
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When i was a kid i remember me, my sister and my parents all sitting down and listening to the whole of the original version of War of the Worlds. Absolutely loved it!!!!
Some great music and a great cast too! Phil Lynott was amazing as the Parson in it too. |
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10-04-2014, 10:45 PM | #17 | |||
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Aww that sounds like a great way to have listened to it. So glad I listened to this when I was a kid too, such a masterpiece.
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10-04-2014, 11:10 PM | #18 | |||
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I saw Mars, very clearly in the night sky (south-east in the evening), when I was out earlier. Made me think of this.
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10-04-2014, 11:13 PM | #19 | |||
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Did you start humming the songs in your head?
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10-04-2014, 11:20 PM | #20 | |||
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It actually creeped me out a bit seeing the red planet after I'd been listening to it. hehe
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10-04-2014, 11:24 PM | #21 | |||
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Lol, one day that vision will come true.
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10-04-2014, 11:50 PM | #22 | |||
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The chances of anything coming from that remote, forbidding planet are... a million to one...
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10-04-2014, 11:54 PM | #23 | |||
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but they still come!
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11-04-2014, 01:52 AM | #24 | |||
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JOURNALIST: No one would have believed, in the last years of the
nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. 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. (I totally love re-listening to this)
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11-04-2014, 01:53 AM | #25 | |||
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In fact I'm gonna quote that in my sig
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