Alex Clouter wrote:Saw a preview of War of the Worlds... hmmmm I liked the b&w original PLUS the Jeff Wayne musical version which I have on a DOUBLE CASSETTE: that's going back a bit, but not as far as the B&W film!!

The trailers have so far been quite good for War of the Worlds, and i'm glad they've kept the martians out of them. I went to see millions (good film) the other day and there was a different ad, which answered some of my concerns about the first one. I had been about worried that the atmosphere might not have been there, but this ad had the glow over the countryside and similar voiceover to the Richard Burton narration at that point (though obviously, unfortunately not upto the hypnotic atmospheric quality of his). To me the definitive version is the Jeff Wayne musical version, which seems to put you right in the middle of it so well. I've got it on a double disc gatefold vinyl that has fantastic paintings the size of the opened out sleeve, as well as full lyrics and two pages of sleeve notes.
Aparently there's a new collectors edition coming out on 13th June with 2 hybrid SACD's containing a remastered version in both stereo and 5.1 surround, a CD of the best club mixes, 3 CD's of rarities, outtakes and unreleased tracks (including the full richard burton narration - apparently only 40% made it on to the original album) and there's also a DVD with a 75 minute making of film on. There's also a 12" square hardback book which includes along with new material all the stuff thats on the sleeves of the original vinyl (including that gorgeous artwork).