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Post by Gnorn on May 3, 2005 21:58:40 GMT
What is your favorite disc of WotW? Mine is disc one, it's very dramatic, has great music, love it!
-Gnorn
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Post by Slick2097 on May 4, 2005 8:08:28 GMT
Disc One for me, the eve of the war, forever autumn and thunderchild ... doesn't get much better than that.
Ste.
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Post by jeffwaynefan on May 4, 2005 11:33:50 GMT
Well, as I had the RARE chance over the weekend to listen to the 'new' version of the album I am having to say the 'Collectors Edition' . Watch this section as I will post my review of the album soon.
H_C
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Post by djmatt82 on May 4, 2005 12:52:08 GMT
mine is disk two. creepy
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Post by David Faltskog on May 4, 2005 12:53:29 GMT
ABBA's Greatest Hits. D.F.
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Post by jeffwaynefan on May 4, 2005 13:07:02 GMT
There's always one isn't there. I remember those classic ABBA songs such as Martian, Martian, Martian, Knowing Martian Knowing You (Ulla), Ulla-Vous, Gimme HeatRay Gimme, Martianeyes
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Post by HTT on May 4, 2005 13:08:18 GMT
[glow=purple,2,300]Perhaps if Jeff bunged 'em a few quid, they could re-record WOTW, with Benny as The Journalist, Björn as The Artilleyman, Agnetha as Beth, and Anna-Frid as..um...Oh,I know: Nathaniel, The modern day lesbian parson! [/glow]
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Post by David Faltskog on May 4, 2005 13:43:33 GMT
Now that i would like to see or hear or, well whatever.
D.F...Always the One.
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Post by Refugee on May 4, 2005 14:08:14 GMT
To me it has always seemed as though Jeff put all the new exciting and good music onto disc one then sort of hit a block at disc 2 then you get the dreary red weed but captures the weird atmosphere at that part of the story. It picks up for dead london because it contains the eve of war. Thats just how I think it seems, I dont think that is what actually happened.
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Post by jeffwaynefan on May 4, 2005 14:41:59 GMT
'The Coming Of The Martians' is slightly a faster pace compared to 'The Earth Under The Martians'. But its the slow begining of TEUTM that makes the differance between both albums. The first disc starts with 'Eve Of The War', a heavy fast paced song, but when you go to the second disc that starts with the 'Red Weed', a lumboursome life form that has nothing in common with the speedy Martians themselves. The second disc does feature some excellent scores and songs such as 'Sprit Of Man', 'Brave New World' and 'Dead London'.
H_C
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Post by HTT on May 4, 2005 15:21:33 GMT
[glow=purple,2,300]I have a theory about this, and it's nowt to do with the quaity of the music.
I notice that every album/multi disc I ever listen to, the A-side/1st-disc is always the best. I reckon it's coz you're all excited, that when you play it for the first time, it's seems so brill and ace and new. By the time you flip the vinyl/change disc the excitement has worn off somewhat, and you have 'got the measure' of the album. Hence, the first side is always more dynamic coz you subconciously associate it with the excitement of the first time you played it. There's also the fact that half the time, you only play the first album/disc more frequently, coz you can't be *rsed to change the disc/vinyl, so you listen to it more. Or that once the first disc is finished, you don't have time for the second, etc.
If the album hadn't been split, and only ever heard in one continuous, uninterrupted flow, would we be able to say that the second 'half' is weaker?
Personally, my favourite disc is both![/glow]
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Post by jeffwaynefan on May 4, 2005 17:42:37 GMT
True fact, that Jeffs album was originally intended to be released only as 'one' vinyl disc.
H_C
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Post by the Donal on May 4, 2005 18:14:31 GMT
Wysh You Were Here by Pink Floyd.
Oh - that's been done.
Anyway...
Tricky one- I'd say The Coming of the Martians as it's scared me most and has some of the best bits, but The Earth Under has some great moments too- a the end of the first side- "I've got a plan!"- then the very loud fanfare at the start of the second side (Brave New World). Also The Red Weed is amazing- creppy, atmospheric and with some of the best guitar tones (and playing) on the record.
The music in Dead London is also very scary and sad- that music on what sounds like a synth-harpsichord is very good at capturing the desolation.
The Donal (the other one...)
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Post by David Faltskog on May 4, 2005 18:30:20 GMT
D.F.
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Post by Stewymartian on May 4, 2005 18:42:56 GMT
A difficult call to make. My favourite track is Horsell common and the heat ray, but overall I prefer the haunting atmosphere of the second disc (Or the third and forth discs if you were brought up with the vinyl).
Disc one starts well, but it's the second side that lets it down. The artilleryman and the fighting machine is quite weak compared to the eve of the war. But this is just nit-picking, I'm basically comparing the very good to the bloody marvelous, there's no 'duff' track on this album.
Incidentally Horsell, how the hell was Jeff planning to do the whole thing on one vinyl disc?
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Post by jeffwaynefan on May 4, 2005 19:50:11 GMT
I guess it was planned to be nothing like what we hear today.
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Post by Gnorn on May 4, 2005 22:56:19 GMT
A difficult call to make. My favourite track is Horsell common and the heat ray, but overall I prefer the haunting atmosphere of the second disc (Or the third and forth discs if you were brought up with the vinyl). Disc one starts well, but it's the second side that lets it down. The artilleryman and the fighting machine is quite weak compared to the eve of the war. But this is just nit-picking, I'm basically comparing the very good to the bloody marvelous, there's no 'duff' track on this album. Incidentally Horsell, how the hell was Jeff planning to do the whole thing on one vinyl disc? The artilleryman and the fightingmachine is one of my favorite tracks, the way the music is sweeping you through the story, and then the way Burton is narrating that part, especially the part where he is in the river. -Gnorn
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Post by scarred on May 4, 2005 23:00:43 GMT
If I had to choose 1 of the 2 discs, I'd pick disc 2. While you couldn't have one without the other I feel there's more feeling on the 2nd disc. It's much eerier and IMO it's more dynamic than disc 1, at least as far as emotion and volume goes. For example--- "I've got a plan"....Daaa Da Da Daaaaaaa! Or maybe--- " I felt a traitor to my kind and I knew I must leave this strange dreamer".....Daaa Da Da Daaaaaaa! OK, it's kind of the same example but you guys know what I mean. To me, the dynamics of those parts, and others, really pound into our heads the emotion Mr. Wayne wanted us to experience. Like others have said, the second disc is definately creepier and there is some of the SWEETEST, TASTIEST guitar work I've heard in my 32 years. As a child, I was somewhat tortured by JW's WotW. First by my father, who felt compelled to put the album on at bedtime, and soon after by myself when I realized I in fact loved the album. I'd curl up on the sofa and listen to it when my parents were gone and scare the crap out of myself. I dreaded getting up to flip or swap out the LP's because I thought "they" would get me. Those experiences were so intense for me that I'd actually start to smell the red weed or the burned char of the heat ray. I'd catch myself allowing this to happen and then take a few breaths of air through my nose to try to convince myself there was no burnt, or whatever, odor I was smelling. Needless to say, it didn't work and it seemed I always smelled the same thing each time I listned to it. For an hour or 2 after listening to it, I'd be in kind of a "twilight zone", and not exactly a pleasureable one. Just kind of emotionally spent. Out of all my childhood experiences WotW had one of the biggest impacts, or at least the longest lasting effects. I read some of the dreams people have had here and I laughed to myself at the amount of folks who had such similar experiences. After that I had a great sense of relief knowing I wasn't the only one. This seems to be the case with a lot of people here on the forum. I hope Jeff, the musicians and the album artists read our posts here and realize how much damage they've caused....in a good way! In most peoples musical collection there are only a few CD's that they would say are their favorites. This is also the case for myself. If I could only have 3 CD's to listen to the rest of my life PF's DSotM would be one of them....The other 2?......... Sorry for what became an off topic rant...............
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Pete
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Post by Pete on May 5, 2005 11:37:45 GMT
I think disk one is the better of the 2, but disk 2 is the one that scared me most when I was a kid.
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Post by Gnorn on May 6, 2005 22:57:31 GMT
Funny how a lot of members got scared by the album. It never realy scared me, but it did posses me :-)
-Gnorn
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