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Aftee the travesty of silliness that was the ASDA fight, I thought it would be nice to have a sensible thread.

So here it is:

Which of Gustav Holsts' - The Planets did you like the best?

Mars! Baaa-da-da-daa-daa-DDAAAAAA-DAAAA!!!
Though Jupiter has his moments.

I must admit Mars is a good one, very atmospheric.

But Jupiter makes me feel happy.

You what?

You what?

The Planets.

Nine pieces of music written by Gustav Holst years ago.

Very good classical music.

Each planet has it's own subheading, which represents the feel of the music.

Is it just me, or has bits of it been put into movies and such like?

If "yes", anyone know any examples?

I'm sure Star Wars had some of Mars in it.

I'm a huge fan of the whole suite, but if I had to pick a favourite i'd say Mars. Jupiter and Pluto run a close second and third.

You know, I find it hard to belive that onyl five people like The Planets.

Is there anyone else out there who likes them?

The Planets are excellent pieces of music. Like most other people, my favourite is Mars. I remember listening to it for the first time at Junior School when being forced to do dance during PE, it actually made it acceptable!

The Planets are excellent pieces of music. Like most other people, my favourite is Mars. I remember listening to it for the first time at Junior School when being forced to do dance during PE, it actually made it acceptable!

You are really lucky.

At my school, all we get is cheesy pop music, or music appropriate to the dance.

You are really lucky.

At my school, all we get is cheesy pop music, or music appropriate to the dance.
I'd put it down that that was about...erm...1990...ish :eek:

I'd put it down that that was about...erm...1990...ish :eek:

If you were talking about my school, try 1999!

A time when I thought pop was dead.

I really hated dancing there, they didn't even teach us the tango.

Not sure what "Pluto, Lord of the Underworld" is, but it can't be part of the Planet Suite - Pluto wasn't even discovered until about 15 years after the suite was written.

Not sure what "Pluto, Lord of the Underworld" is, but it can't be part of the Planet Suite - Pluto wasn't even discovered until about 15 years after the suite was written.

Never knew that.

Possibly, they were named after ancient gods, and when they realised that the nine suites matched the nine planets it became known as The Planets.

Just speculation, though.

Ive heard a few of them, but i think my favourite is Mars

Aftee the travesty of silliness that was the ASDA fight, I thought it would be nice to have a sensible thread.

So here it is:

Which of Gustav Holsts' - The Planets did you like the best?

You just (temporarily) became one of my favourite posters by liking Holst. *nods* Mars kicks ass. Jupiter, however, has a section which is identical to my high school's alma mater. lol

Never knew that.

Possibly, they were named after ancient gods, and when they realised that the nine suites matched the nine planets it became known as The Planets.

Just speculation, though.

I've heard the Pluto suite, and I"m rather sure it was written by Holst.

I love The Planets. I was listening just the other week. Always wonderful. Especially Mars and Jupiter.

Mars and Neptune... Neptune has a very... different feel about it. Very... mystical?

"Their traditional order in performance is: Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. There is no piece for Pluto because this planet was not discovered until 1930, whereas Holst was busy composing this suite almost twenty years before."

Holst wrote neither Earth nor Pluto. The original suite had only seven movements. Those other two must have been added later by somebody else.

Nice try, but the original Planets suite only has seven movements. Holst didn't write a movement for Earth, and Pluto hadn't been discovered at the time. The movement Pluto, the Renewer was commissioned from a Holst aficionado in 2000.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/The-Planets

I like the whole suite. Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune, especially.

But Mars, man... Mars sounds like a great huge sweeping camera shot of like an intergalactic warship or something charging up the FTL drives... or like a fleet of them disembarking from hyperspace and cruising into low orbit over a gas giant, ready to do battle with an enemy armada...

Buh buh buh-duh-duh-duh--dudhduuuuuuuhhh!!!

(And in the middle of it all, space fleets closing in on either side, one space Janitor aboard a small scavenging ship--played by Jackie Chan, reprising his role from Rush Hour--sings along to the tinny beat of his portable music player, unaware of the havoc about to break loose...

Wah! Huh! Whaaadddisit good fo? Absoluly... nuh-thin.... wah! Huh.... )

Buh buh buh-duh-duh-duh--DudDUUUUHHHH....

(Wah! Huh! Waaadddisit good for? Absoluly nothin.... Waaaahhh!!!)

How come Jackie has never played a bumbling kung-fu space janitor? Man... I got a whole movie right here!

(oh god, I'm drunk or somesh*t. I'm going to bed now.)

Jupiter, however, has a section which is identical to my high school's alma mater. lol

The section will be the tune of "I Vow To Thee My Country", words by Cecil Spring-Rice. Though, for those who are interested in rugby at all, it was also the tune of "The World In Union" which was the theme to the first Rugby World Cup.

Someone said earlier was it used in movies, I can't think of one off the top of my head (but the answer is almost certainly, yes), what I can say is that Mars was definitely not used in any of the Star Wars movies. Ah, apparently it was used extensively in The Man Who Fell to Earth.