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Post by Sam on Oct 1, 2004 19:10:53 GMT
Whats your favourite line from the musical?
I have many to be honest. The opening paragraph is brilliant, and excellent adaptation from Wells' first paragraph.
Sam
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Oct 1, 2004 19:33:07 GMT
Mine would have to be -
"It was the beginning of the rout of civlization, of the massacre of mankind"
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Post by Sam on Oct 1, 2004 19:41:00 GMT
Yeah, that is a classical, Horsell_Common. Definitely one of my favourites too.
Sam
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Oct 1, 2004 21:56:47 GMT
. . . or another
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one he said"
Altogether now, in harmoney - 1, 2, 3
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Post by krys666 on Oct 1, 2004 23:08:53 GMT
Mabey my guitar would be handy now.... I can play the first main tune, before it gets up and technoy.. Here are some of mine not already been mentioned.... "...sudenly... the lid, fell off... A huge rounded bulk, larger than a bear, rose up slowly, glistning like wet leather, it's lipless mouth quivered and slavered as snake like tentacalls rither as the clumsy body heaved and pulsated..." "Quickly, one after the other, four of the fighting machines apeared. Monsterous tripods higher than the tallest steeple, striding over the pine trees and smashing them. Each carried a huge funnel, and I realised with horror that I have seen this thing before..." Tripods waded up the Themes, cutting throught bridges as though they were paper, Waterloo Bridge, Westminster Bridge. And one, apeared above Big Ben.. Ulllllaaaaaaa!!!!!" ;D "The curiois eye of a martian apeared at the slit, and a menacing claw explored the room, I dragged the parson down to the coal cellor. I felt the claw toutching things, walls, coal, wood. And then it toutched my boot. I almost shouted but with a click it gripped something.. The parson! With slow diliberate movements, his unconcious body was draged away, and there was nothing I could do to prevent it.." ( ... and from that moment... they were DOOMED..." And there is almost ALL of Dead London, with GREAT words in, it really sets the scene as the once most powerful city, destroyed and the journalist, lonely, and depressed... Then there is that martian... with it's sad, desolationg cry.... I would give my life to the martians here and now!!!
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Post by Bayne on Oct 2, 2004 0:19:58 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]You listed most of mine Kryss Actually, as much as I love the music and songs, it is still the narration that I find most impactfull. [/glow]
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Post by Stewymartian on Oct 2, 2004 8:58:47 GMT
Hello fellow Humans/Martians
My favourite lines are at the very end of the first (CD) disk, just after the Thunderchild has been sunk:
'..and no one and nothing was left to fight them now. The Earth belonged to the Martians.'
Very spooky and atmospheric, and the horrible alien machinary noise that follows the line has me almost screaming for my mum every time.
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Oct 2, 2004 13:20:36 GMT
Welcome Steweymartian. I like the way Burton describes the Martian as it rises from the cylinder. He makes it sound like he's almost disgusted to look at it. I also like '.. I saw flames flashing in the deep blue night, red weed glowing, tripod figures moving distantly and I put down my champagne glass. I felt a traitor to my kind and I knew I must leave this strange dreamer'. Quite an evocative sentence. I always imagine the tripod shapes moving about when I hear it.
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Post by Curate on Oct 2, 2004 23:08:58 GMT
Most of my favourites have already been listed. I'd like to add this one though: "But they're not devils - they're Martians!" And the long, drawn out 'Ulla' that sounds shortly afterwards is the most chilling on the album. And by far the creepiest moment of narration: "Then, on the ninth day, we saw the Martians eating. Inside the hood of their new machine, they were draining the fresh, living blood of men and women and injecting it into their own veins" Then we hear a death scream.... ( which sounds oddly like Phil Lynott actually )
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Oct 3, 2004 0:51:36 GMT
I always thought Phil Lynott's scream was him portraying the Parson finally snapping at the sight of the Martians 'eating'. A screamed 'Nooooo!' actually.
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Post by Happy Chappy on Oct 3, 2004 9:13:20 GMT
same here Nerfy...It's a sort of "Revelation of the soul", type scream...
"NOOOOOOO!!! It's a sign, I've been given a sign. They must be cast out, and I have been chosen to do it..."
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Oct 3, 2004 13:07:37 GMT
"NOOOOOOO!!! It's a sign, I've been given a sign. They must be cast out, and I have been chosen to do it..." I always thought this was a line taken from the book The Joys Of Fly Fishing by J R Hartley ;D
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Post by Stewymartian on Oct 3, 2004 20:44:53 GMT
I had always thought that the scream was from the unfortunate victim of the martians' 'tea-time'. But it probably does fit in better as a yell of horror from the parson as his mind finally breaks.
The whole album is stuffed with such uniquely brillant sound effects (the heat ray noises make very good windows sounds).
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Post by krys666 on Oct 3, 2004 21:09:46 GMT
Yeah I have done alot of those noises and phrases to go with a windows theme!! I am using them for my game too!
I really didn't pay much attention to that Nooo, but i thought it was a noise of some kind as a result of the martian's eating...
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Post by Curate on Oct 3, 2004 22:11:59 GMT
Could be I suppose. It'll always be a death scream to me though, for that's how my 5 year old ( terrified ) self interpreted it Interestingly enough, it's not in the lyric booklet.
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Post by Killraven on Oct 3, 2004 22:47:48 GMT
A bit of ad-libbing on Phil's part me-thinks... Talking about authenticity of noises, I was never fully convinced of the steamer's whistle... surely a foghorn would have been much more appropriate?
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Oct 3, 2004 23:35:11 GMT
Always sounded like ' Nooo!' to me but here is someone who's put it down as 'Aaah!' members.aol.com/skyyeyes/jwwow.htm But I think the effect is still the same. As for the steamer's whistle.. why not a whistle? Wouldn't a foghorn travel further and attract more attention?
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jon_davies
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"Perhaps the future belongs not to us, but to the Martians."
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Post by jon_davies on Oct 4, 2004 16:29:25 GMT
My favourite line/s is as follows:
"As life returns to normal, the question of another attack from Mars causes universal concern. Is our planet safe, or is this time of peace merely a reprieve? It may be that across the immensity of space, they have learned their lessons , and even now await their opportunity. Perhaps the future belongs not to us, but to the Martians."
I just think this whole paragraph sums up the story really well, but leaves the listener to make up his/her own mind - does the future belong to us or the Martians?
I would be interested to hear your views about who you think the future should belong to, so if you have an opinion and a reason for your thinking, let me know!
Thanks.
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Post by Rob on Oct 4, 2004 16:35:52 GMT
I'd have to agree with Jon, I love that bit.
The millitary drums at the beginning rock.
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Post by krys666 on Oct 4, 2004 16:42:25 GMT
Well mabey if the War continued, there will be stand stills, like our technology has NUGELY advanced since then and so some surprises mabey for the martian invaders!! Or if they have vacined themselfves, what about new virus strains ect, you CAN'T get a cure for the common cold!!! Or something like, if they have "computers" of something like that, if they did something and gained acses to the internet, they would get a computer VIRUS ect ect ect... But,.. The first invasion could just be their first try, with still the big guns being rolled out on Mars!!! And so invade sooner or if they make a HUGE gun (like the cylinder launcher) but that fires amunition!!! Like HUGE heat ray bombs or something... But other than that i can't say at the mo! Need a rest!!
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