Jeff Wayne, Richard Burton - Dead London, Pt. 1 (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2020
- The War of The Worlds - Dead London [Part 1] (Official Audio)
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Lyrics
There were a dozen dead bodies in the Euston road, their bodies softened by the black dust. All was still, houses locked and empty, shops closed but looters had helped themselves to wine and food, and outside a jewellers, some gold chains and a watch were scattered on the pavement..
Ulla!
I stopped, staring toward the sound. It seemed as if that mighty desert of house had found a voice for its fear and solitude...
Ulla!
The desolating cry worked upon my mind. The wailing took possession of me. I was intensely weary, footsore, hungry and thirsty. Why was I wandering alone in this city of the dead? Why was I alive, when London in state in its black shroud? I felt intolerably lonely, drifting from street to empty street, drawn inexorably towards that cry...
Ulla!
I saw, over the trees on Primrose hill, the fighting machine from which the howling came. I crossed Regents Canal. There stood a second machine, upright, but as still as the first
Ulla! Ul-!
Abruptly, the sound ceased. Suddenly, the desolation, the solitude, became unendurable. While that voice sounded, London had still seemed alive. Now, suddenly, there was a change, the passing of something and all that remained was this gaunt quiet
I looked up and saw a third machine. It was erect and motionless, like the others. An inane resolve possessed me. I would give my life to the Martians, here and now. I marched recklessly towards the titan and saw that a multitude of black birds was circling and clustering about the hood. I began running along the road, I felt no fear, only a wild trembling exultation, as I ran up the hill towards the motionless monster. Out of the hood hung red shreds, at which the hungry birds now pecked and tore
I scrambled up to the crest of Primrose Hill, and the Martians camp was below me. A mighty space it was, and scattered about it, in their overturned machines, were the Martians - dead... slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things upon the Earth: bacteria. Minute, invisible bacteria!
Directly the invaders arrived and drank and fed, our microscopic allies attacked them. From that moment they were doomed!
Listening to this while I have Wildfires around me. Sky is Red just likein this story, but for me it's real. Dear God i hope i see clear skies soon.
Did you?
I know, for a fact, you did eventually come out on top.
That is the human condition. No matter the threat, be it wildfires or deadly martian machines, humans survive. Nothing can keep us down.
I do not know you, but i love you. If for no other reason, than that you are human. That you deserve to be happy, and live. And if you did not make it, then Godspeed man. We are lesser as a whole for your passing
Probably it's the heat ray, don't get scared.
@@MrBioWhiz what if someone's a nonce?
Omg hope your ok but what a way to go.
The music in this is perfect. It sounds like a clock slowly ticking until finally it ends. There's nothing but a dreadful quiet. Then it picks up showing the journalists just wants to end it. It's truly fitting.
Good job Jeff!
hello cousin
Before I heard Richard's narration, in a way it reminded me of a musical piece from Bear McCreary
And Richard Burton, of course.
I really love this drawing, it just looks so open and you can see a devastated city below the martians, and it shows you how big the Martians are
It gives me a scared yet happy feeling because everyone is dead but you look up and see the killers also dead. It’s just that the protagonist is alive and can see all of this which many of the people didn’t
ngl, I didn't notice the city at first and just assumed they were in an open field.
In a way it’s sad to see the martians die, they’re no different from us, doing what they can to survive. However no doubt this is our world and I would defend it.
@@thearmoredgeorgian2736 exactly
@@thearmoredgeorgian2736 - I think it's sad if you go visiting someplace like a tourist and you get misinterpreted and attacked as a threat. But if you travel to some place and go on the rampage like the Martians did here, then you deserve to get got!
"from that moment, they were doomed". Gives me goose bumps every time. This is an awesome masterpiece.
Slain by the humblest creatures that God, in His wisdom, placed upon the Earth.
By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges, for neither do men live nor die in vain.
This song has such an atmosphere, it feels just like the book.
Love how horrific and terrifying this entire musical was.
Scared me as a kid like no film I ever saw could do.
I love so much how the beginning of the melody is the same as when the fighting first started but back then it sounded more hopeful, now it has a depressing spin on it after the fighting is over. Definitely on my playlist for when the world ends
Soo cool innit? 1978 was it? An amazing piece of work
This has to be on everyone's apocalypse playlist, surely?
@@Kaz249 It's gonna be now. Gonna make a post-apocalypse playlist.
The music, the cry, the narration. It's like listening to The Albatross. Our nemesis, despite everything, still has our pity, our sympathy even whilst thankful or hating. The true measure of humanity, the ability to feel those things together. It also makes all war horrific.
That sound...truly puts you on those empty streets of dead London. What a masterpiece of sound and music.
So true
if i gave you control over the nukes...
...would you do it?
i love the whole album
And Richard burton makes a great narrator with his great voice,he captivates you and you can almost paint the picture in your head when he speaks!!
No one could've done better. One of the greatest voices
Liam neson , does a good voice as well
@@roboman34 a great voice, indoubtly.
Without doubt my favourite excerpt from the entire album.... 0:00-1:48 of Dead London is utterly beautiful.... Atmospheric, melodic, haunting and compelling....
Same here mate.
Been my favourite bit of the album since I was a kid (first listen to the album in 2005, must’ve been about 6 years old, we’d listened to it for a music class in school and wanting to hear the rest, I rushed home and immediately asked for it for my birthday that year XD), love the sound of those late 70s synthesisers.
Proper atmospheric, all those wind sounds conveying the vibe of a desolate, ruinous London enrobed in smoke.
I’m thinking of going to London for a city break this summer, you know, gonna dedicate on of the days to seeing the area around Regents Park which is the site of the final Martian encampment, and finally fulfil a dream of listening to Dead London walking on Primrose Hill. Can’t wait! 😆
@@JackMellor498 ......take some decent headphones and listen to some of it whilst you're sat there 👊🏼
Chills
You said it, haunting is the word - chilling
@@SLAmey-mu9hd I got gooood headphones for Christmas, I'm here building a WotW playlist. Been listening to this since 1980. That makes me old I guess 😁
If the phrase “I’ve won, but at what cost?” was a piece of music.
Listening to the intro of this track gazing out of my bedroom window at an overcast grey white sky is such a vibe.
The only other fitting place to feel the same vibe is if you actually went to Primrose Hill in London and listened to it strolling about, especially in the early morning, dawn coming up, and that sensation like you’ve made it through the night.
Yeah spacing out looking at the overcast sky rly makes u feel the song more, the element of loneliness the song captures hits u hard
I think the original narrator actually came across the primrose pit at dawn too
the transition from brave new world to dead london is heartbreaking
Jeff wayne's war of the worlds is until today a masterpiece, giving goosebumps!
You are 100% spot on.
What an amazing track.
Thank you Jeff Wayne & Richard Burton
@@ninosmirzai2776 Very few musical pieces have me coming back so many times as this one. Somehow the loneliness and isolation have been so perfectly captured that no longer are we listening- we have been transported to those dark, dusty streets where he stumbles towards his ultimate fate. The unearthly howl of a Martian in its death throes, not knowing why it is dying, not comprehending why its fellows are already dead. The plan to conquer Earth is over and defeated.
I love Jeff Wayne's war of the world's dead London part 1 song ❤💖❤️💕😍
These ULLA sounds are how I feel rn. Wish I could make them myself.
You can try, we have vocal cords for a reason.
*ULLA*
2:16 hearing the martians cry out in pain as they still continue trying to do their job almost makes you feel bad for them. as well as the fact they probably feel sad when they see eachother flop to the floor dead, not knowing whats happening to them.
Makes it even sadder, knowing that they didn't take over earth for power. They didn't more power, land, and resources to grow their empire. They were desperate, mars couldn't sustain them for much longer and Earth was their only hope to survive and thrive.
This is more depressing than EARTH DEFENCE FORCE
“I don’t need it. I don’t need it.”
“I NEED IT!”
“No, Ulla, stop!”
“Pinkie! PINKIE!”
To be honest, they were probably a better species for the Earth anyway. They wanted the planet in its purity. Where as Human Beings only want to exploit it.
It’s all emotions……Fr it’s sad…but happy at the same time..
The first 1:18 is pure chills after listening to all the album before this
Strangely enough this is my favorite.
Same can’t wait to get to it
Love the guitar riff. Awesome! !!
Yesss
That intro though. Makes my emotions stir for whatever reason
This is still in my top 10 of go to albums when walking somewhere or doing DIY etc. Timeless and brilliant piece.
This is so haunting. London is dead, deserted, devoid of anyone.
I wonder how long I could survive in such a place without giving in to despair.
This album is perfect, I can’t think of a single flaw in it.
Amen!
2:20
When you stub your little toe on the table
Nice!!
I sound like that!!
The whistling at the beginning gives me chills
No wonder why this was the best version of war of the worlds
I haven't done anything in 2 years because of chronic lung disease.I have been very careful,as I am classified as being very vulnerable.
I was invited to my nieces wedding.
So took a risk and went.Took my ff3 mask off and ate the food and danced.I thought;
"I would give my life to omicron"
I caught it.I now have a headache and runny nose,what's all,after a week and 3 positive lateral flow tests I'm fine.
This was my Richard Burton moment in War Of The Worlds.
I have survived!
This picture used to scare me as a kid
I'm it Did back then 😞 Sorry to hear that
What made it scary? I'm curious
@@garbhanbyrne8132 The bird tearing apart the martian's flesh, it just felt very unnerving
Same here..... I first looked at those pictures in the Album when I was about 6. 40 years later and I still find them haunting. At night I occasionally look out of my bedroom window, across the countryside. I've imagined the vision of flashing lights and a fighting machine in the distance.... It's a very powerful and, influential album.... I love it.
I”m 43, I have this on vinyl and the artwork has always freaked me out.
I love this song
Me too, kitty ^^
The first 2 minutes of this is beautiful, the synth is so good.
Everytime I listen to this phenomenal soundtrack, it always gives me goosebumps.
Specially Dead London.
Haven't heard anything like it.
Phil lynott and David Essex are amazing guitarists this album let's us hear their genius
And don't forget Herbie Flowers on bass guitar.
3 Years and It still not getting forgotten
This is great sad music
When the Martians said “ULLA!!!” I felt that.
I really like your videos they really like cool and I love the background and the song
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
i grew up listening to this album its so beautiful
I fell asleep for a few quick seconds, and when I woke up as I listened to the music everything looked dead, destroyed, deserted. The sky was grey, but red at the same time. It was all my imagination, but God it felt so real. That is what a piece of music can do.
My Favourite song out of the whole Album
Masterpiece..
Big ass machine with heat ray that can set people on fire vs birds
Best war of the worlds song
I listened to this in the final minutes of 2020
Still listening in Ireland 🇮🇪🙌🌬🙏🌾
The last two years were worse
How I feel during second Lockdown.
I ignored the hell out of them. Pure blood
Martians: *Invade*
The common cold: I'm going to do what's called a pro gamer move
Prachtige tekeningen spreken echt tot de verbeelding en de muziek erbij maakt het helemaal compleet.. Hoeveel keer ik al naar deze muziek heb geluisterd ik vindt het een meesterwerk..
And so the Martians, who could not be defeated by man, were in the end defeated by the tiniest and most humble forms of life on Earth.,..
Bacteria
Minute and invisible Bacteria
I wonder what happened to the birds once they digested the flesh of the Martians?
they mutate and start saying Ulaaallaah?
Oooooooooolaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!
I pity, and hate the martians at the same time.
Scared the willies out of me as a kid!
no one is saying this but i felt sad as the tripod cryed at its fallen brother and it just standing there like a rock really makes you know the its not coming back and the cryies sound like of sadnees and pain noises its just heartbraking yes they murdered people but they needed to do it if they wanted to survive just the narrator saying it stoped almost made me cry.
Superb !
Masterpiece.
Weird, the dying howls make me feel bad for the Martians.
Huh.
It makes sense, sickness is a terrible way to die, perhaps not unwarranted but terrible nonetheless. It only gets worse if you go off the canon of the one rts game for their reason to invade.
Their world could no longer sustain them, in desperation they came to earth to preserve their species. The transit was long, and the pods they rode in cramped, compounded with the pressure being charged to save their civilization. When they arrive, they are greeted with an uncomfortable atmosphere and the creatures they were charged to either exterminate or enslave, but feel some relief in finding they are well equipped for this task, and that whenever they succeed, they are treated to a feast, a rarity on their dying world and boding well for once the world is theirs.
More land and join, bases are constructed as a grim harvest begins and for the first time in years, there is enough food to go around. A fitting reward to ensuring the survival of their species, if that alone is not enough. Now fast forward to this point and put yourself in one of those machines.
Breathing, already uncomfortable, now becomes unbearable, interrupted as mucous chokes you and forces you to cough, further irritating your lungs. Your body’s futile attempts to battle whatever ails you causes your body to shift temperature drastically, leaving freezing one moment, and burning and dehydrated the next. Your vision blurs from pain, dehydration, and lack of rest. Your limbs cannot even reach the controls of your machine, once your throne from which you reigned over these animals, now a cramped prison, and soon, your coffin, until the humans move it, that is.
Native creatures circle overhead, you note absentmindedly, reaching over yourself with what strength you have in a futile attempt to ease the pain. Your death will mean the death of your species, and worse yet, all the weapons and technology you had brought with you to perform your mission will be taken by the humans. The last remnants of your civilization will be subsumed and lost amongst to warring natives, used to murder one another in absence of a common enemy. As if to prove you right, despite your blurred vision, you see one draw closer, your brethren, delirious or feeling vulnerable, loose weak, warbling war cries, and the human draws closer, unafraid.
Soon the humans will pick your machine clean for it’s secrets just as the creatures above will pick your body. The last hurrah of your entire civilization, a note in the history of another.
Guess they never heard of COVID.
@@quox3987 You sympathize for the Martians?
@@brian.phillips1985 no, just acknowledging that dying by disease sucks.
I feel bad for them the same way you might feel bad for a rabid animal.
Umm you guys realise the martians are a metaphor for Empire right? They are (some of) us.
how are the birds eating the tripods they are made of (steel)
so this pic is unrealistic but awesome
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V
The "eyes" at the front are organic. It's not clear whether they are actually the Martians themselves, or simply the "pseudo organic" parts they used in their machines. Even in the original Wells novel, it is noted that the Machine legs are actuated by a "sham musculature" that works in much the same way as, say, human muscles. It is stated that the Martian machines are very different to human machines - for example, they make no use of the wheel - but instead are much more like living things.
I cant explain the feeling I feel while listening to this
When You´r So Smart And Humans Can´t Do Anything Against You, But A Bacteria Kills You:
War of the worlds was in large parts a criticism of European colonialism, which was justified by "superior technology" and "superior culture". So in his work, H.G. Wells confronted British society with a more advanced society conquering their land. And like the British, for all their technology, weren't nearly as prepared to deal with malaria as native African peoples, the Martians were unaccustomed to the germs of earth.
The Martians were so arrogant they forgot about the simplest life forms on Earth.
@@Hydro66 I don’t think that was because they were arrogant.
Such a beautiful yet haunting intro
Near future every single all the video will have millions of views
Being reviewed so much
"I felt no fear. Only a wild, trembling exultation. Scttered around in their overturned machines were the Martians. Dead. Slain after all Man's devices had failed, by the humblest things on earth. Bacteria. Minute, invisible, bacteria. Directly the Martians arrived and drank and fed, our microscopic allies attacked them. _From that moment..they were doomed_ "
Wait, if that green stuff in the machines are alien flesh
Oh god *the unmistakable image of dead alien butt is appearing in my head and won't disappear, help*
its a window through which the alien is breaking through in desperation
I’m listening to this music as I’m just wandering around my house, waiting for the day I can finally set foot outside. #2020sucks
Keyboard amazing ' 'homesick feelings 💜 0:48
The War of the Worlds is a fantastic piece of literature...hemmed in by its era maybe but fantastic regardless. HG Welles takes the strongest empire of the time and reduces it to nothing in moments ..mere lines on a page but he destroys it.
There's always a bigger fish and all at...
That*
Yes
ULLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooa
Amazing
The fact that these tripods are 400 .Ft tall and still fell to a fate worse than death... It truly makes you wonder how little you are to this world? They were once destroyers, but now are intricate devices of metall once sent whirling to destruction... Their horn, once used to find humans, now used for a cry for help. The heatray, once used in offense, now ot not be used again, or at the very least... Defense. This was the end of war, but you can't just not feel sympathy for the martians.. They faced a slow, painful death. The heatray only made it quick.
the music hits me hard, it makes me realize we watched the battle at weybridge where the Army (Artillery Regiment) fought taking one down then lost fighting to stop the martians and most likely to protect fleeing civilians, then we watched Thunderchild take 2 down and go down fighting to protect the steamer, as man fought bravely and was unable to stop the threat, the music comes in and me thinks "we watched the Army fight, then we watched Man strongest technology (Ironclad battleships) fight to protect he steamer and civilian evacuation which thunderchild did but was unable to stop the full wave of tripods then only to see the martians die from bacteria"
It’s like the feeling of leaving your school for the last time.
*ULLA*
Humanity: Fails to even dent the Martian war effort
Bacteria, of all things: Now This Looks Like A Job For Me
can you imagine how terrifying this is from the Martians' perspective
Just been thinking, how long would they last if they landed now. If normal bacteria defeated the martians, what would COVID do to them?
Normal bacteria? I don't think you understand how the immune system works.
When Europeans first landed on America, many Native Americans died of THE COMMON COLD.
The Martians died because they had no immunity to Earth diseases that our bodies have learned to kill. COVID is killing people because it's new, and most people have no immunity to it.
COVID wouldn't have been more devastating than the other germs that killed the Martians. The result would have been the exact same, just maybe different symptoms.
COVID isn't a supervirus, just a new one
@@PyroGothNerd Very true. COVID-19 isn't that severe of an illness in general. SARS-CoV2 is just a normal Coronaviridae too, simply much more infectious and the illness it causes more severe. Pathogens like Influenza, Smallpox, Tuberculosis and the like still bear such a greater danger (though Smallpox is one we are safe from for now, but still it exists and most definitely in the hands of people who we don't know if we can trust.)
Amazing books about disease are The Great Influenza by John M. Barry (my favourite book of all time, alongside War of the Worlds) and The Demon In The Freezer by Richard Preston. I highly recommend them, amazing books about microbiology and pathology :)
Kill them on the spot.
Martians: Where are all the humans? Oh, there’s one!
Anti-vaxxer: *cough*
Martians: *all drop dead*
Ebola would have been spreading faster, as they inject human blood.
As the world caved in we weren’t men, we didn’t try anything, we let it happen, the reset of the year never happened. And with that we died.
This does kinda make sense though considering mars is practically uninhabitable, even for diseases and viruses
@chad not really, we have no way to know theyr biology, for all we know we could be too acidic for any extraterrestrial microbe to survive in. same reason the tobacco spiral virus doesnt infect you. theres a need for compatibility
@@TheHortoman they ingest human blood, I think they're semi-compatible. Perhaps the dirty human blood from cities like London filled with horrors like lead were the true causes
When coronavirus ends, but eliminates 3/4 of humanity.
I can understand how this happened because we are told earlier in the story that the Martians had long since removed from their planet all kinds of viruses and bacteria that causes diseases so of course they had no defence against earthly bacteria that in itself was enough to wipe them out but I find it strange they could not have thought about that before their invasion of the earth and the distance they had to travel to get to the earth along with the the technology required
TThe novel suggests that either Mars never had bacteria, or they were all eliminate dlong ago by Martian science. So long ago that the Martians had forgotten about them. It made sense given that in Wells' time bacteria were seen as exclusively bad, just causing disease. We know differently now of course.
It makes you wonder if any foreign body who invaded our planet would ever survive the bacteria.........
wow
Would the crows become Martian ?
Guess I’m not the only one here amidst Corona fears. Remain indoors, friends.
Uuuuuuuullllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaa
The martians least favorite part
The Bad side is, this happens in our history, here, with no marsians, only between humans!
Conquest of south and middle Amerika is one of many examples 😪
Ulllaaa
0:48
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M•u•g•e•n battle Katerina kittycat strawberry shortcake Jeff Wayne's war of the world's and SpongeBob vs Patrick star and cailou
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The loneliest song on Earth.
But - how many (Official Audio) is there of this item on YT? Asking for a friend
Man's foot look like a dinner plate ngl
How come no one has ever made a movie version of this album?
05:10
when the birds digest the martian flesh, do they mutate and go uuuuuuuuuúúuuûùűūllĺĺlllľlļľllàæäaæââ as well?
Do they have heatrays too? 😧
How can the tripod’s eyes bleed if they are a machine?
Idk
Organic Windshields?
or the Martians desperately trying to Leave the tripod through the windows
The Martians make use of organic components in their Machines. Even the original Wells novel indicates this.
@@richardgregory3684 intresting
i’m pretty sure they harvested humans
real question is how the birds managed to destroy the walkers armor to get to the martians corpses if "all mans devices had failed" to do so
Probably because the "windshields" were organic or some frame was just like broken down by bacteria.
Because by that time the Martians that controlled the Machines were already dead, havin gbeen killed by earthly bacteria.
If I had to guess, when the machines fell slightly, some if the windows cracked
@@gdeproductions1225 If you look at the picture you will see the bir is tearing apart the organic front part of the machine. Remember, these are the artists creation for the Wayne version. In the Wells novel, the Martians can be seen "riding" the machines and it is they that the birds are feeding on.
@@richardgregory3684 ok, ive not got round to reading the book yet so I didnt know this =)
Why was I alone in this city of the dead