YMMV / Gustav Holst

• Awesome Music: "Jupiter" and "Uranus" qualify for sheer force... especially "Jupiter."
  • "Mars", too (you might have heard a rendition during the end of the Battle of Yavin).
    • Not to mention 21 and 24's version.
    • Every time "Mars" is incorporated into the soundtrack for a war movie's battle sequence, take a shot. Star Wars, Fire Birds, Gladiator, and numerous others.
    • "Mars" was used as the soundtrack for the intro of Outpost, the videogame that preceded Outpost 2. Awesome just begins to describe it^note It played a MIDI version instead of a MP3 one as in the video and accompanied better the events described there.
    • The music in the launch sequence of John Glenn's Friendship 7 in The Right Stuff is Holst's "Mars" suite.
• First Installment Wins: Of all the segments in The Planets, "Mars, the Bringer of War", the first one, is easily the most popular and well known.
• Sampled Up: By Billie Eilish of all people, her song "GOLDWING" opens with a verse of one of his lesser-known works "Hymn To Vena".
• Tear Jerker: If you're in the right mindset, "Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age" is a gut-wrencher.
  • "Venus, the Bringer of Peace" is also a bit of a tearjerker after the sheer terror of "Mars, the Bringer of War". While it is supposed to sound more peaceful, like the aftermath and rebuilding after a devastating conflict, it also sounds a little bittersweet, as if to reflect the people killed to bring that peace into being. Hardly surprising for pieces written in 1914 and first performed in 1918.

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