Jeff Wayne - The Artilleryman and the Fighting Machine (Official Audio)

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Lyrics
The hammering from the pit and the pounding of guns grew louder. My fear rose at the sound of someone creeping into the house. Then I saw it was a young artilleryman, weary, streaked with blood and dirt...
Anyone here?
Come in. Here, drink this
Thank you!
What's happened?
They wiped us out. Hundreds dead, maybe thousands
The Heat Ray?
The Martians! They were inside the hoods of machines they'd made. Massive metal things on legs! Giant machines that walked. They attacked us! They wiped us out!
Machines?
Fighting machines! Picking up men and bashing 'em against trees. Just hunks of metal, but they knew exactly what they were doing
Mmm. There was another cylinder came last night
Yes. It looked bound for London
London! Carrie! I hadn't dreamed there could be danger to Carrie and her father, so many miles away. I must go to London at once!
And me. Got to report to headquarters, if there's anything left of it
At Byfleet we came upon an inn, but it was deserted
Is everybody dead?
Not everybody. Look! Six cannons with gunners standing by
Bows and arrows against the lightning. They haven't seen the heat ray yet!
We hurried along the road to Weybridge. Suddenly, there was a heavy explosion. The ground heaved, windows shattered and gusts of smoke erupted in the air
Look! There they are! What did I tell you?
Quickly, one after the other, four of the fighting machines appeared. Monstrous tripods, higher than the tallest steeple, striding over pine trees and smashing them. Walking engines of glistening metal. Each carried a huge funnel and I realized with horror that I'd seen this awful thing before...
A fifth machine appeared on the far bank. It raised itself to full height, flourished the funnel high in the air - and the ghostly, terrible Heat Ray struck the town. As it struck, all five fighting machines exulted, emitting deafening howls which roared like thunder
Ulla! Ulla!
The six guns we had seen now fired simultaneously, decapitating a fighting machine. The Martian inside the hood was slain, splashed to the four winds, and the body, nothing now but an intricate device of metal, went whirling to destruction. As the other monsters advanced, people ran away blindly, the artilleryman among them, but I jumped into the water and hid until forced up to breathe. Now the guns spoke again, but this time the heat ray sent them to oblivion
Ulla!
With a white flash, the Heat Ray swept across the river. Scalded, half-blinded and agonized, I staggered through leaping, hissing water towards the shore, I fell helplessly, in full view of the Martians, expecting nothing but death. The foot of a Martian came down close to my head, then lifted again, as the four Martians carried away the debris of their fallen comrade..…. and I realized that by a miracle I had escaped!
Ulla! Ulla! Ulla!

[@nono-nt8je]

the apocalypse has never been so groovy

[@hemidas]

“This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.” ― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

[@keyabrade1861]

A tad inaccurate; ants don't shoot back with artillery.

[@hyperion3145]

@@keyabrade1861 I mean, they do fight back, a few can be lethal like driver ants

[@Bluejay_99336]

yes

[@axjagfilms]

It’s an extermination Better call The Doctor

[@pygma9]

@@keyabrade1861 they bite and do Jack all Which is the equivalent here

[@heather173]

I'm old, and have the original record as a kid in the 70s, narrated by Sir Richard Burton. "Ulla" struck terror in my heart. I named one of my horses Thunderchild. KZbin is a wonderful thing...thank you for this upload.

[@tnetroP]

Like you, as a kid in the 70s, I used to listen to the original record. The art work on it is fantastic. Before she died my mum had the record mounted for me into a picture frame, open flat with the main art showing (it can be removed if needed). It is now hanging in my home office.

[@druunderwood5602]

I cut The Artilleryman's grass once, He told me he has dreams of being Prime Morlock.

[@druunderwood5602]

I blame Scarlet Traces for putting the idea in my head.

[@denysesieders9035]

Heather173..we are Old together....Ulla.. xoxo

[@Waxcoat]

I'm from the eighties,I've heard of this in the 00, ideal with a glas of ouzo or absint.

[@silmarillion3]

In 1978, my middle school English teacher used this in lessons to introduce us to HG Wells. This whole album is brilliant - must have played it 100’s of times- never gets old

[@darania1]

Our hippie maths teacher Clarky also played it during maths class the day before Easter holidays back in 1983...

[@davidmulqueen8322]

the funk ray has haunted me since i first heard it as a child.

[@Liq_Ful]

da FUNK

[@armybeef68]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/moi1iIyPqZlqiKs I bet you used to play with dolls

[@MatthewT394]

@@armybeef68 what.

[@shaunpenne1840]

I remember hearing this in the early 80's when I was about 5 or 6! The start of the funk Ray when the cylinder unscrews and the cries of ULLA scared the bollocks clean out of me! I'm 44 now and it still freaks me out! Lol!!

[@browngaymethodistjesuschri1361]

@@shaunpenne1840 I was 5 when I first heard it and I loved it hehe. That was 2007 though so like, hi old people

[@dalekbumps]

This image haunted my nightmares when I was a child, the woman in green in particular. The look of utter shock and horror on her face, the genuine fear that's captured in her eyes, as she runs in terror from a threat she can't even begin to understand. The blood, the bodies, the burning building falling on the crowd of men, women, children and dogs as they desperately try to escape, all while that sinister metal tripod looms ominously over the buildings. As a child, this image made me feel true horror, yet I kept coming back to it again and again, thinking that one day I'd be 'grown up' enough to look at it without feeling scared. Only now, returning to this image as an adult, do I realise how important that feeling is. Nobody in their right mind should be able to stare into the face of the woman in the green dress and not feel that same horror.

[@bramvanduijn8086]

The woman in dark green in the front you mean and not the older lady in lighter green? Yeah, that's the look of someone who's mind has shut down and all that is left is terror. A perfect picture!

[@0Ploxx]

@@bramvanduijn8086 looks like she just discovered the inner workings of c o m m u n i s m

[@dayday8421]

Summed my childhood up perfectly

[@jemp1965]

The same for me, very well explained!!

[@jemp1965]

@@0Ploxx Sorry, but what do you mean with this??

[@joshuanianko5388]

Can we just look how detailed this art is, the look on people's faces the buildings even the outfits. You can even see the seam on the lady in green dress.

[@anonymousanonymous-cj9ik]

Now this is the best track on the album, an absolute ridiculous bit of quality

[@browngaymethodistjesuschri1361]

But like brave new world and red weed and dead london and horsell common and the heat ray thooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@keiths8370]

Cool cool absolutely

[@iangreen4572]

Spirit of man is pretty good too

[@Yustillhere]

I *love* all of them

[@Bob-fh4ht]

@@browngaymethodistjesuschri1361 Brave new world for me is a meh but dead london, this, heat ray, and thunderchild are bangers

[@moritamikamikara3879]

The artilleryman's delivery here is absolutely perfect. It blows the new version out of the water. You can just hear the despair in his voice when he says that his unit's been wiped out. In the new generations it sounds like he's exclaiming about how his team lost a football match, here, he sounds like he's about to start sobbing. When they leave for London and the artilleryman says he has to go back to headquarters, in the new version he sounds like he's making a sarcastic joke to the journalist, but in this, he sounds honestly afraid that he might return to HQ and it's just not there. He sounds lost. They did it so much better. Oh gods and when he announces the fighting machines "LOOK! THERE THEY ARE! WHAT DID I TELL YOU!?!?" In the new generations again he sounds like he's shouting at a football game, like "What did I tell you?! I knew he was gonna score." but here, he sounds so honestly afraid, like someone who is seeing an invasion from another planet would. In the word "Look" you can hear his voice breaking slightly. It's just so much better

[@moritamikamikara3879]

@Nigel Kent then hes a legend

[@litteralyjustsam5262]

I think new generation Artilleryman worked much better in Act 2 rather than Act 1, original Artilleryman is better in Act 1... Like, way better. Ricky Wilson was good in the live show though, much better than his album recording for New Generation.

[@allmind974]

Moritami Kamikara ,if I spelt your name wrong I'm sorry ,can't find me glasses , anyway just wanted to say that you're so rite about the old version and the crappy new version , they should have remastered the original one , but you are spot on , mind yourself 🎄🎄

[@litteralyjustsam5262]

@@allmind974 Lmao bruh

[@allmind974]

@@litteralyjustsam5262 I don't know what that means ,I'm not very good at computer lingo ! !

[@Chris-yz7cs]

I'm seeing a common tread in the comments that they were frightened of this as kids. I remember whenever my dad put on the cassette I would scream uncontrollably for him to turn it off. When I got older I learned to love this masterpiece, I even saw the live stage show twice and have some war of the worlds tattoos. Its funny how we embrace the things we were frightened of as children.

[@pygma9]

You better have had gone to the immersive experience it's the best experience you'll ever have.

[@S-51153]

@@pygma9 scared the shit out of me genuinely but its amazing

[@patrician7219]

Maybe because we survived the terror? We somehow, conquered it! Like it or not, through no action of our own, we just grew up! There is a sense of relief/accomplishment in that. We DID IT! (Well, you guys did. I was a junior in H.S. when it was released. I wasn't frightened by the story anymore. Mind you, I still mourn the damn Thunderchild!) 😒

[@williamparker8694]

@@patrician7219 Thunderchild is one of my favourite songs to this day! I'm planning on getting a tattoo of the ironclad fighting the tripods because to me it is still the most awe striking scene ever. The imagery that is evoked by it is unparalleled in my mind

[@garyturner5739]

I remember once in 80s as child they played the b in class 'Earth under Martians.' At the time that really freaked me out listening to that.The whole album scared me stiff but I still played it on tape machine as kid.. I think the times were pretty scary then:Thacher and the Cold War...

[@Flamingboy100]

The book goes into tremendous depth and opens the story up - a superb read. Wells' descriptive scenes outlines how far ahead of its time the book really was. Richard Burton is pure class oratory and backed up well by David Essex as this section plays out - absolutely mega, yet devastating at the same time. Pure brilliance :-)

[@18922009]

It was the first book I read in 1st form and it blew me away so ahead of its time

[@allmind974]

@@18922009 I loved the book and loved the original L.P , I don't know anyone who didn't love it ,H.G.Wells was year's ahead of his time ,and so was Jeff for turning a great story into a great musical , mind yourself 🎅🎅🎅

[@sarahlockwood7082]

I am rereading war of the world for the millionth time. X

[@jeffstone2136]

*LOOK!! THERE THEY ARE!! WHAT DID I TELL YOU?!!*

[@akarbonemyat580]

hi sup umm NEVERMIND

[@jimjiminyjaroo300]

We can start all over again?

[@SeanusAurelius]

Sounds weirdly like Vegeta from DBZ

[@Skibidy_rizzler_]

Uh

[@spockofucc]

i felt that

[@stephengraham7037]

H G WELLS, JEFF WAYNE, RICHARD BURTON ,JUSTIN HAYWOOD, DAVID ESSEX AND VICTORIAN ENGLAND AND SUPERB ART ,WHAT A INCREDIBLE COMBINATION BY FAR THE BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME ,,.....I BET H.G WELLS IS LOOKING DOWN WITH A BIG SMILE AND A REASHUREING NOD. WELL DONE JEFF

[@John_May.]

I've been looking for this song off and on for close to 40 years.

[@JimK1rk]

This whole album is a masterpice!

[@michaeljackson2838]

Just get the album, worth every penny!

[@allmind974]

Why didn't you buy the record /CD . 40years to listen to a fuckin song ,you would have learned to play it with spoons in 40years !!!!

[@allmind974]

@surinam steve just having a little look at your replying , bit of a fuckin know all , I'd say it's hard being you , but your stuck with it and you'll always be you , Surinam the knows everything about nothing ♈♉♊♋♌

[@allmind974]

@surinam steve I thought it was your man who was looking for a record for 40 bleeding years , I wasn't going to track you down and put a pound of Semtex under your car or something weird like that , just a bit of Craic on a Monday morning , mind yourself , and sorry for being a prick ⌛

[@willfomes406]

As soon as the Thunderchild synth hook played my face lit up. I felt a sudden exhilaration. I was not expecting it. The Thunderchild had vanished forever taking with her my brain’s last hope of victory. The fighting machines inhabited my mind and no-one and nothing was left to fight them. My Brain belonged to the Martians.

[@bogusmole]

I've listened through this album so many times and 5:06 - 5:28 ALWAYS gives me goosebumbs

[@qwertyuiopqwerty112]

Uuuuullllllllllaaaaaaa uuuullllllllaaaaaa

[@bigdavesbigdaves6263]

I got this Album back in the 1970s when I was 10, it went from NZ to the Uk and back to NZ still have it today, how can you not like this master piece Richard Burton voice just makes it !

[@rebeccacalledalice]

I see there's a pattern with our dads playing the album, getting scared, and then eventually growing to love it as well.

[@rockhouse7485]

It’s just a WOTW thing

[@Chaoitcme]

My dad would play this album multiple times whenever we went on long road trips. It never scared me and I always loved it.

[@trancelover1992]

This whole album intrigued, terrified me, and made me very uneasy. It give me multiple nightmares as a child yet I still wanted to listen. It just seemed to be naturalistic and believable in the way it was delivered. The acting and music were equally as good. It is creepy, and awe-inspiring at the same time. The artwork also use to scare me. As i child, I always wondered if the woman in the green was meant to depict Carrie. Looking back I think I may have been too young to listen to the album. It traumatized me.

[@S-51153]

As a kid my dad would play this and it would scare me but i couldnt stop listening. I went to the war of the worlds experience in London recently and its terrifying even now im 30 it still gets me

[@brubeck1]

this was the must have album cassette back in the 80s still gives me shivers well its the greatest sci fi /rock /story book (thing) ever made .

[@stephensheehan-qy2ph]

Got the original vinyl and cd versions .Everyone should listen to this masterpiece .65 years old and i am still in awe

[@ghostgoji9532]

God The Part At 5:28….ITS A MASTERPIECE! An Absolute Shiny, Protected Piece Of The War Of The Worlds Media. Jeff Wayne Is A Genius.

[@magicienblanc]

That whole sequence that starts from there and lasts a couple minutes is definitely one of the higlights of the entire album. Those synths sounds are so juicy and the way they shine like that in the mix is a testament to the superior quality of production on the album. That's definitely the most prog part of the album.

[@owencartwright4538]

I still have absolutely no idea how this soundtrack still makes me feel like that frightened 6 year old in the back of my dad's car every time I hear it

[@nigellaird8655]

Terrifying, exciting, saddening, confusing, joyful wasn't it? Isn't it still?!

[@stevelee9924]

Agree 100% mate. It gave me nightmares.

[@jamesbecki8104]

I'm the same and I grew up near Woking (Horsell common) and we would often drive up to London to my Dads work, which made it even more terrifying!

[@CaJoel]

No exaggeration one of my all time favorite songs

[@elliotbizarre6885]

You can really hear the despair in the Artilleryman’s voice

[@Minillus]

Which makes his optimistic and almost crazy turn on his personality later even better

[@Bob-fh4ht]

@@Minillus God I've only gotten to the part where the pod thing opens because I used a audiobook and well it was 5 hours, so it's a no for me but what is this personality twist lol

[@Minillus]

@@Bob-fh4ht This happens in both the Book and the Musical: The Artilleryman at this point of the story is dead inside. He's just lost his comrades, has almost been killed by the Martians and was one of the first people to see the Tripods. He's pretty much convinced that human kind is lost. Something the Book and the Musical share is the fact that the 3 main characters go crazy at the end (The Parson/Curate, the Artilleryman, and the Narrator). After watching a Martian getting destroyed by the military, and learning that they, in fact, aren't invincible, he pretty much becomes a crazy man who thinks they've got a chance of surviving. When he meets the Narrator again, he tells him his plan, which consists on people hiding into the sewers, building houses there, scrapping all the "useless" things like poetry or something, except science, and also reverse-engineering the Martian's Heat Ray (in the musical, it happens in the "Brave New World" song). The Narrator later decides to leave him, as he realizes the Artilleryman hasn't actually done anything for his plan.

[@IshijimaKairo]

@@Minillus All he needed was a few men to help him out.

[@Fireheart1945]

@@Minillus May I ask why that is crazy? Man's only earthly hope of survival at that point (had the Martians not died off from disease) was guerilla warfare; the only other option is, let yourself be captured and eaten (just hiding only prolongs the hunt). Between the two, it's no contest many would choose resist (even if they lack heavy ordinance necessary) rather than let themselves be eaten.

[@RS250Squid]

I'm just picturing Herbie Flowers. A veteran bass player from a dozen dozen bands, and here he is enjoying himself and making this awesome awesomeness even more awesome.

[@michaeljackson2838]

Saw him play with Sky - brilliant player in a brilliant band

[@RS250Squid]

I'm not one for idols, I don't sit around wishing "if only I was as good as XYZ". But if I could be half as good at bass as Herbie Flowers I'd be a very very happy dude.

[@campfortson4387]

The bass on this whole song is UNREAL

[@kainedakillerv2704]

I must of been about 4 years old when my grandfather played this to me on vinyl. The artwork in the booklet always used to captivate me. I would look at it for ages imagining the horror.

[@grxvs8519]

In love with the wobbly bass synth (?) after the 5 minute mark.

[@gjones7547]

Brilliant, utterly brilliant. Through the music you feel every word, emotion , fear and elation in the book. Classical Masterpiece ..

[@mikej3129]

The woman in green, her face & eyes in the artwork ('Panic in streets'), as a young kid I would search through my dads LP collection & find this album book and I was fixated with this particular painting & the one of Thunderchild & Dead London. I found the album pretty terrifying as a young kid & it drew my curiosity in. The LP artwork book was a big factor to the experience of Jeff Wayne's War of Worlds for me. The CGI mock ups in the musical production dont come anywhere close to depicting the horror of Geoff Taylor's paintings for the album

[@ChristianMitchellMusic]

Couldn't agree more!

[@joshualoynes7408]

@@ChristianMitchellMusic be a pretty bland live show if all they showed was album artwork...

[@willfomes406]

I have a theory that that woman is Carrie.

[@vicentehizon6202]

@@willfomes406 fun fact: the actress for Carrie in the live shows, Anna-Marie Wayne, said that when she saw the painting of the crowd, running from the tripod as it shoots down the building, she thought the exact same thing.

[@willfomes406]

@@vicentehizon6202 it definitely could be her.

[@darksideka]

1:33 And me?... to report to headquarters..... If there's anything left of it. The dread in his voice and the sudden music change is so chilling.

[@davidcousins3508]

I’ve still got the original on vinyl from the late 70’s ..all round a brilliant production 👍

[@anonymousanonymous-cj9ik]

Just an absolute masterpiece, incredibly stunning music

[@philippuslibratum6684]

I love how the music describes the desparate war against the martians. It's so on point. Just perfect ! THIS GUITAR !!! 6:43

[@yingyang5632]

YES

[@pandaandthegecko5480]

This is basically what the Europeans were to the Aboriginals, a civilisation Millenia ahead of theirs that destroyed them, but there were no germs to save them

[@zombiedeltaliban1670]

Yes, actually H.G. Wells books are a critique of the methods of the Victorian England

[@pandaandthegecko5480]

@@zombiedeltaliban1670 yep.

[@amy-ql5wo]

Yeah. The book is a critique of empire really.

[@zombiedeltaliban1670]

@@amy-ql5wo Herbert Wells was an a socialist

[@jauhgnaw]

"""Civilization"""

[@louisejoseph2199]

My dad played the lp and I used to be scared but had to listen and sing the the songs but now as I've got older it take me back to my childhood but no longer scared I just wished I could have been closer to him in later years but I did get to say I love u rip dad xxxxx

[@robstar20011]

3:25 “Look, there they are! What did I tell you?!” That with the music gives my chills every time

[@OwO2620]

wheoow wauw we-o wheoow wauw we-o-a-e-o-e-o

[@mikeheap7978]

I got given the double cassette when I was about 10 years old, I used to listen every evening and scare myself rigid with the haunting tunes and story. Think David Essex sang and narrated the original artilleryman part. I'm 55 now and listening once again on youtube, still brings back vivid memories of my fear and fascination as a child.

[@synthwave7]

A masterpiece !!!

[@willfomes406]

5:28 The Martians released their black smoke but the ship sped on, cutting down one of the Tripod figures. Instantly The Martians raised their Heat Rays and melted the Thunderchild’s valiant heart.

[@Bluejay_99336]

wrong song

[@jazdajazda2191]

@@Bluejay_99336 he maybe means the solo played which you can hear in thunderchild but its a bit different i think

[@Willlhelmvonmanfred]

@@jazdajazda2191 maybe

[@axjagfilms]

*Hey wait a minute*

[@alanaspinall7147]

In the book the thunderchild went down, but she won the battle, taking out two, Maybe even a 3rd

[@gavinpowers1217]

Imagine if aliens invaded earth. Imagine how earth would react. No need to imagine because this is pretty much as it would happen. Along with the Beatles' Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts album, this is, quite frankly, up in the realms of God's creativity in its beauty.

[@guymadgesam24]

And Dark side of the moon

[@Defenestration700]

So what reason would aliens have to invade Earth in a hostile manner? Also, there is no god

[@Defenestration700]

@Nigel Kent I never denied extraterrestrial life. In fact, I think life in the universe is probably abundant. I just don’t think it’s likely that there is a Christian god.

[@Defenestration700]

@Nigel Kent I’m sorry you lost your dog. I know how attached we get to pets and how much it hurts to lose them

[@TheExperienceYT]

I mean if aliens invaded, we have Nuclear bombs, tanks, Anti air and all sorts of stuff that would make the aliens want to get off of earth ASAP

[@user-qo1dx3le9y]

Thank you mr.Jeff Wayne.

[@TheNollaigo]

must have heard this 1st around 1977 in a mates flat and still listening to it today also introduced this people over the years

[@strigonshitposting793]

David Essex does a fantastic job of portraying a traumatised soldier here.

[@AndreyOrochi]

such a masterpiece.

[@screamingbaboon664]

The true war of the worlds indeed. This is wonderful, everyone gets to hear this in its entirety. What would you do if they invaded when you were asleep?

[@tompeck5495]

I'd die.

[@LittleWeeWees]

Klaatu barada nikto.

[@whiteopsrules]

Try captures a fighting a machine

[@cameronmonaghan6883]

I go with The Tripods strategy

[@lauragodridge8966]

Die of course

[@kainedakillerv2704]

My grandad used to play this to me on vinyl when I was a child. I would sit there about 4 years old and listen to this while I looked at the haunting artwork in booklet that came with the vinyl.

[@robertbuckland8608]

Herbie Flowers on Bass Francis Monkman on Synthesiser Haunting Voice of Richard Burton Total Brilliance

[@willfomes406]

I thought it was Ken Freeman who did the Synths.

[@markdudney8209]

David Essex , great voice and a Hammer

[@bololollek9245]

1:40 and 2:45 are the bits for me. Especially 2:45, the desperation is just...

[@guymadgesam24]

Love your profile pic

[@martinc9750]

those two parts of the music are absolute genius, nothing less of!!!!

[@garethjudd5840]

As a 10 year old I was totally transfixed listening to this whole album while wearing headphones in my parents dinning room back in the 70s.

[@gravy2973]

Ohhhhh laaaa damn that scared the crap outta me as a youngster lol still does 😳😂😂

[@paulandren936]

Shut your eyes and listen brilliant

[@Estoniabritcountryball]

Im very young and I learned about this musical as my stepdad put the live musical on the tv and since that day, this has been my favourite musical by a mile. Great work on this music by the clever mind of Jeff Wayne, the story of the musical is great to. I love this franchise and I would love to have a cd of it and even the book. The narration is great as well by sir Richard Burton.

[@paulmajor8865]

Love that baseline gets me everytime

[@noahoost2305]

My dad always played this album when we where in the car. I never liked it until i grew up. Now its one of my favorites

[@petrawylie4766]

They dont make Records like this anymore 🤭Brilliant

[@nigellaird8655]

Coolest ain't it tho?!

[@DrGonzo123456789]

Bass player truly carries this album, keeps the underlying sturdy through the whole performance. I don't know his name, but he mentions a huge shout out!

[@goobi3780]

What a groovy soundtrack for such a terrifying book

[@trinibi]

Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair are depicted in this painting

[@gaboralmassy]

1978 in Ungar gehört Diese Platte abba jetzt immer noch guth ! 🙂🙂🙂

[@darrenmoses3385]

'LOOK, there they are, what did I tell you!!'

[@greggregson9687]

Whoa, I haven't seen this image for many years. I used to pore over the booklet from the album when I was a kid. Works of art. I will have to go and check on the album when I visit the oldies.

[@hammer1349]

It makes me wonder actually, how many losses the Martians suffered and whether or not that they considered a retreat or surrender. We see one here knocked out by a single artillery battery. Thunderchild takes out 3 by herself, with possibly others lost the ironclads of the royal navy. The machine is replacable though the crew not so much. At some point they must have thought about whether or not they still had enough "people" to balance construction and repairs with combat and conquest.

[@De-Mystifying]

TWotW was decades ahead of its time in posing all of these logistical questions with intimate experiences behind the Martians' frontlines from the narrator's perspective. The part in the novel when the protagonist is trapped inside a house while a pod has landed on it and proceeds to send out machines to fortify the position is still amazing military/scifi storytelling. The Martians must have been in horrible conditions, basically like tankmen in Africa in WW2 but forced to stay inside their tanks. If they disembark they are barely able to move or breathe. The story is virtually sympathetic to the Martians without ever saying it.

[@aputridpileofb-movies6542]

Another question is how effective is a tripod in places like the rainforest, the sahara, siberia, and african bush? Given their reliance on their tripods, could they have realistically won? The other thing to consider is that if the occupation turns into a big slog quagmire that takes 25 billion forevers, humans will definitely put up a united front.

[@thearmoredgeorgian2736]

@@aputridpileofb-movies6542 I can imagine the polar ice caps of Mars, and the general low temperatures of the entire planet meant the martians machines were probably able to operate decently in cold temperatures. In fact since our ice caps are visible from space I’m positive they took the cold weather into account. It’s the same reason they chose southern England as their drop zone, from space the human population around London stands out.

[@HoppingSkipper]

​@@aputridpileofb-movies6542 If I recall, there was a licensed game (RTS I believe) based on the Martian Invasion and one of the endings (Martian victory) actually features said human resistance. After the credits roll, a small bit of text describes a fighting machine's encounter with and subsuquent destruction at the hands of a group of well armed humans after falling into their underground city (sound familiar?)

[@aputridpileofb-movies6542]

@@HoppingSkipper does sound familiar but can't remember from where or when.

[@evangelical4087]

best song on the entire album, i love every single track but this one sticks out as my favourite

[@chrisb222]

yep

[@Wriggs74]

The art work is amazing.

[@user-yq5fn9ol9k]

That funk ray do be sending me to oblivion doe

[@Jokoko2828]

This is a pretty amazing album, actually got chills from it.

[@lewismurray2505]

This image used to scare the absolute crap out of me. Just the sheer fear and terror on everyone’s faces is haunting.

[@willfomes406]

When I first listened to this album I saw this particular piece of artwork and it didn’t really scare me. My thoughts were “oh look at that people running from and evil alien.” It was a kinda ok I understand reaction.

[@JoaquinAntonioMSilva]

I remember listening to this album in 2012 or 2013 when I was only 7 and the "ULLA" cry that the machines emitted to my ears seemed alien and was unlike anything I had heard before. Listening to it again in 17 the "ULLA" is unsettling and haunting to me. I don't know why but it has to deal with the horrors that the Martians did in the War of the Worlds and this sound honestly perfectly captures that horror. We'll probably never get an album like this again or maybe we can/have but it will never live up to the impact and storytelling that this musical adaptation gave.

[@ashleywintle8570]

I have to say this song is the nearest to musical perfection

[@latexzebra5693]

This was always the scariest song for me as a kid when I listened to this. But the music always made me keep on listening.

[@gfall4389]

Pure British excellence

[@vinto34]

Bows and arrows against the lightning...meaning their artillery is no match for the fighting machines. Great album.

[@goinghome9518]

Truth drops in fiction

[@robertbuckland8608]

Can't remember who that brilliant guitarist was on this particular phase of album

[@xtrict]

Chris Spedding. Top session musician. His list of credits is far to long to post here.

[@S0UND112]

When i was 7 or so my dad put this on in the car when we were on a trip home from my nans and i was petrified almost shitting myself. It didnt help that there was a car behind us with one headlight working, me and my siblings cried for it to be turned off and when i got home i threw up in the gutter and couldnt sleep. Now i just enjoy listening to it because its a good story and music.

[@guntherbgunnerson8989]

Listening with headphones is so cool. I was practically deafened when I heard the first ulllaa!

[@jenlarge9036]

Yep, he looks smart and can run fast. I say he got away.

[@VorticyHP]

i've only listened to this song for the first time back in october of 2021 but man it makes me feel so damn nostalgic! and brings me back to a very specific time in my life! i remember what i ate for lunch that day, how cold it was outside, the kinds of cars i drove past what i did at work! its amazing!

[@Mrcryptidsarereal]

NGL I wish you uploaded the original vinyl version, which imo sounds better.

[@KorbynTaylor]

UULLLLAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@cameronmonaghan6883]

5:28

[@CaJoel]

best bit for sure

[@vexv2k66_-3]

Yes

[@willfomes406]

Did you know that the synthesizer for that part was actually called Thunderchild.

[@yccallumgames6321]

Absolutely fantastic

[@DarkCornerProductions]

I love 5:48 in particular. When Herbie Flowers did this bass part Live, I got the biggest goosebumps. 😃

[@terrymurphy66]

If any Musical/story told a story this was the One Bril

[@brianjohnson516]

It's now coming to the end of 2023. I watched the Tom Cruise version if WOTW recently and it brought up the reality back in my younger years (I am now 73) when this seemed REAL. There was a program on TV called ' quatermass and the pit ' when I had to hide under the stairs it was so scary. My parents and my brother laughed at me.

[@clintonalver2715]

The original radio show in the 30s caused mass panic because it was done so well

[@theaustraliantrainspotter]

Just remember this was made nearly 40 years ago

[@joshualoynes7408]

44 I believe

[@Ben-hk4kz]

Apropos the lady in green, there's a theory (suggested by Anna Marie Wayne in an interview with her that I've seen), that the lady is actually Carrie, the Narrator's true love who 'Forever Autumn' is dedciated to. I'd like to think so!

[@peterbuckley1794]

Charlie who your boys the Narnaa's😂

[@Matteus2109]

Christ, the Tripod sound for this sends chills down my spine.

[@garbhanbyrne8132]

"Bows & arrows against lightning, they haven't seen the heat ray yet"

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

Must be how people today feel under drone attacks.

[@lauragodridge8966]

Fighting machine=test building=school crowd=me

[@peterbuckley1794]

The joy of painting

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

'UUlAAAHHH'.. i remember being scared shit less by that sounds as a child. 😨

[@Yeez2705]

3:14 best part

[@luclefeber7426]

Luc Lefeber 0 seconden geleden Prachtige tekeningen .. Vroeger had ik het op een casettenbandje staan nog wel gekopieerd ik heb dat rot gedraaid..x aantal jaren heb ik het op cd gekocht en heb er al uren nog eens uren naar geluisterd ik word het nooit beu. En nu ik dit beluister hoor ik altijd iets nieuws en echt meesterwerk. Het spreekt meer en meer tot de verbeelding.

[@garbhanbyrne8132]

6:36 the scariest ullah I have ever heard

[@willfomes406]

Ulllllaaaaaahhhhh!

[@lewmydudes]

UUUUUUULLLLLLLAAAAAAAA

[@carlosfernandoparedesvarga185]

JEFF WAYNE

[@biaregina1000]

The true the war of the worlds !!

[@justsomeguywithafoxmask2998]

@David Still Every war of the worlds that ever lived is true except for BBC, it doesn't count

[@litteralyjustsam5262]

@@justsomeguywithafoxmask2998 Yeah the BBC one... exists?

[@cameronmonaghan6883]

The book and this musical are the only TRUE War of the Worlds

[@litteralyjustsam5262]

@@cameronmonaghan6883 very true, hopefully a good film gets made but the chances of that are a million to one

[@Agustin_Leal]

@@litteralyjustsam5262 but still it comes

[@JasonAFlintham]

I had a bit of a frightening realisation when I was listening to this on my way home from work today. One thing that always struck me as odd was that this, to me, always sounded victorious and optimistic, but then it hit me. In my head, I’d always figured that Jeff Wayne chose to use the strings and acoustic instruments (older, traditional) to symbolise humanity, while using synthesisers and electric guitars (newer, more advanced) to symbolise the Martians. Aside from one moment that involved the string section and an acoustic guitar (the moment when the cannons took down one of the tripods), all of the optimistic and victorious moments are played almost entirely on synthesisers and electric guitars. So in my head, I’m right in that this is in fact an anthem of triumph. The part that struck me as frightening was that this was an anthem of triumph for the Martians!

[@eugenemurray2940]

He who goes to war... Doesn't do it out of... The hatred of that is in front of him... But because of... The Love... Behind him... After CK Chesterton....