Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds

[Jacques]

Hit, Miss or Maybe?

[Arginald Valleywater]

Dire. Take away Richard Burton and you have on very dated and weak album.
However not anywhere as bad as Tubular Bells, fuck me that is pile of cack.

[jj]

Comapred to some other contemporary 'rock-opera vanity-projects' [to
coin an inelegant phrase]: tentative hit.

And at least aural-semolina-purveyor-half-troll-half-undientified-
hunchbacked-rodentman Lloyd-Webber never went anywhere near it
[shudder.....]

[Trumpton]

Wasn't David Essex involved with this?

[BeestonBoy]

Hmmmm used to be a hit during my "acid" days

Probably a miss these days....un less you catch me having a flash back!!

[thesaint3333]

A lot better than some of the supposed 'music' nowadays.

Talented musicians and not computerised music.

[The Last Word]

Interesting and entertaining marriage of spoken word and anthem/pop/faux-classical etc. Still popular too it seems.

Note that at the time of its initial release Hollywood was already well into its campaign of turning science fantasy into a regular crowd-drawing spectacle, so it was good to see something of the same staple tap the imagination via the ears alone.

[Pervert]

It had its moments----and the best speaking voice known to man.

But then, I liked Tubular Bells.

[Deuce Bigolo]

Yes the original radio broadcast was so good that the listening public thought it was for real

Enough said