Jeff Wayne - The Red Weed free for downloading

I can just picture the red weed creeping across the English countryside and clogging up the once beautiful rivers and steams like described in this.

I've herd a lot of remixes of this great piece of music why they bother trying to up tempo music like this make no sense . it's like michelangelo white washing the sistine chapel and doing the same paintings again . only painting by numbers style. The original will aways be the best !!

What is this from? I heard it somewhere on an obscure radio station. Is it a movie or a book? is it from the 1970's?

For what it's worth, this is the best piece of music I have ever heard. I remember reading the book and feeling the cold claw of death and extinction around my heart when I read the passage about thunder child. And the musical version gave me the exact same feeling, years later. Now THAT is art.

First heard this album as a little kid back in the 80's , my dad had it on vinyl. I'm nearly 40 and this part of the album still scares the living shit out of me. Burton 's voice is so haunting but when we hear the part of Parson Nathaniel wake up, Phil Lynott takes over in part 2. The music really does give you the impression that the world is totally fucked and there is no hope left for humanity because the Martian's have literally made our planet their own. Extremely terrifying to think that there have been, still are and probably always will be places on Earth that are like the world we hear about in this piece of music, where everyone had been wiped out and there is no hope left. The sad truth is in reality us that the world doesn't have to be invaded by Martian's for it to he a shitty world

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Anybody else playing this in the heart of the Covid-19 outbreak? I only hope I'm still here to re-read this in years to come when I play through these classics again. Heres to ya Future Jim. There can be only one!

Ah yes I used to listen this back on Mars

I used to listen to this on headphones on a crappy little tape player as a kid. I was maybe 5 or 6 years old. Thanks to my parents for being awesome and intoducing me to this!

Liked the word so much I subbed. I went under damn you. Intrinsic. I threw up listening to this when I was little.

I tend to hum this to myself at work when I am pissed off lol. Anyone close by would think I have totally lost it lol

The red weed sounds just like a Theremin.

The flute sound always makes me think of the Clangers.

Childhood nightmares intensifying.

It's so chilling and eerie. But the Eve of the war is my fav track.

It is just perfection, you can just imagine fields of red, spores or seeds floating over them, crawling vines in and over buildings

At a few parts, it sounds like it's being played on an old radio that was left on since the beginning of the invasion and the red weed is growing inside the radio, corrupting the music

Smoke red weed everyday

I listened to this when I was young...And the way this was narrated along with the music made it far scarier and vivid than any of the movies. THIS is what actually gave me nightmares. This. Fucking. Masterpiece.