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This album was also released as 'The Tomita Planets' and 'The Planets (Deluxe Edition)'. Patrick Gleeson, who did several classical synthesizer albums using the Emu Modular synthesizer, released his own version of Holst's 'The Planets' on Mercury Records. There was some consternation at RCA and Mercury that both artists had worked unknown to each other on a synthesizer version of the same piece. 'The Tomita Planets' was more than likely so named in the USA to avoid the confusion the record companies were fearful of.

'The Planets' was taken out of market for a few years by court order from Gustav Holst's relatives. They claimed that Tomita had manhandled their father's great composition, and the record company withdrew some 30,000 records from the stores. Despite this, 'The Planets' is arguably Tomita's most complete and popular work, and was listed as one of the best keyboard albums over the past 20 years or so by Keyboard Magazine.