Hear Excerpts From Jeff's 'Collectors Edition'

[jeffwaynefan]

Over at Jeff Wayne's site www.thewaroftheworlds.com you can hear excerpts from his June 13th release of 'Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worls - Collector's Edition' boxset. To hear the exceprts, go to his site and click on the 'Music Player' and load the tracks. There are some familiar favourites on there, some remixes you will notice from the 'UlladubUlla' album and brand new mixes including the excellent accoustic arrangement from 'The Spirit Of Man' that features just the accoustic guitar and strings section and the awesome electric guitar solo and strings of 'Horsell Common And The Heat Ray'.

Judging by these couple of fresh tracks, we are in for a big treat.

NOTE: You will have to wait for the tracks to stream before hearing them fully, but its worth it.

[scarred]

Absolute brilliance! I can't believe how much different it is just through my computer speakers. Even the opening narrative is immediately recognizable as being "sweetened".
This is going to be great. Just judging from the clips on Jeff's site this remix is going to be nothing short of amazing.

I'm going to have to pick up a fresh "old" version just for comparison and archival purposes.

[Spirit of Man]

Yup, I've had an extensive listen to the sound clips on the site and they do sound rather different, and very cool

The Spirited Man remix is also superb.

[EvilNerfherder]

I like the 'Guitar vs Jangle' Horsell common thing. Excellent guitar twiddling.
And, yeah, 'Spirited Man' is great too.

[HTT]

[glow=purple,2,300]Thanks for pointing that out! I assumed that the music player just played the existing album tracks & didn't bother with it.

Listened to it last night. To be honest, I didn't expect much through streaming media and poxy PC stereo speakers, but I was surprised!

The quality of sound, the crispness, the identification of sound - it's beautiful! I compared it to my current CD - you can now hear so much more! I'm hearing intruments and counterpoints I couldn't hear before!

If it's this good over the net, the actual sound we'll get through a proper stereo will simply blow us away! I can't believe how much improvement there is! Still, only just over two weeks to go - but after hearing those clips, it's just two weeks to long!![/glow]