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Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Audio CD

A fair review of the Mike Oldfield "Tubular Bells" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Mike Oldfield reviews here, or go back to the Mike Oldfield tabs.

Mike Oldfield Band: Mike Oldfield
Title: Tubular Bells
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Release Date: 1992-06-29
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Tubular Bells, Pt. 1 2: Tubular Bells, Pt. 2

Unhappy
Have been over this many times. I paid for and never received my dvd. To this date my copy of Tubular Bells has not arrived. Now it is 5 weeks late. You need to suspend or cancel that seller. This seller is terrible
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awesome stuff
I mean, I seriously never heard about this Mike Oldfield fellow until a couple years ago. I can't believe this album somehow never came into my world before. I thought I knew 70's music pretty well, especially the early and mid part of the decade with all those amazingly influential musicians roaming about.

There's seriously some musical ideas on Tubular Bells that remind me of those adventurous feelings and dreams I'd constantly have as a kid. Free to think about anything and everything, and let my mind float away to outer space, haha. Come to think of it, I now know why I had so much trouble paying attention to my assignments in elementary school :)

But back to the music of Tubular Bells! There's over 100 reviews for this album here on amazon. WOW! That means I don't know HOW I could have overlooked this album for as many years as I have. Maybe I was aware of it and just didn't look up any information about it. I can't really remember anymore.

Well, I'm hearing it now! I must say, I'm quite impressed too. The music most of the time goes through a series of melodic and diverse instrumental passages involving all kinds of beautiful instrumentation and variety. It can go from a piano melody to a flute passage to. . . other weird things, haha. But it's all REALLY good, because some serious talent was involved making an album like this. I guess I can see the Pink Floyd connections, though honestly, this music reminds me more of early Alan Parsons Project as far as instrumental melody is concerned.

Well, Tubular Bells has over 100 reviews so that must mean it's popular and just darn right GOOD among most people, and that it most certainly *is* my friends. Pick up Tubular Bells as soon as you can. You'll be VERY happy you did.


A single must


This CD takes you to places, to sounds and feelings that no othe Tubullar Bells CD has ever been able to reproduce, as well as no other Oldfield, to that matter. Back in 1973, people bought two albums, Pink Floyd's DSOTM and Mike Oldfield's Tubullar Bells.

There are many versions, even the recent recreation from the man himself, however, whatever you purchase, puechase this one first, there is simply nothing comparable to it.


Maybe you were really looking for Parsifal?


Ah no. Amazon, for some reason, has suggested to me that I might want to buy this.

If you are really desperate to hear tubular bells, can I suggest a good recording of Parsifal? It has the virtue of being, if only subjectively, shorter.


No imagination!
Well people, you simply have no imagination. Going through the reviews of Bells, I am particularly surpised by the irritation caused by the vocal bit on side two - The so called Klingon vocal. I've always liked that bit. When it came, me and a friend of mine always had lots of fun, because we envisioned a little dwarf being chased by a pack of wolves. The little dwarf runs for his life, hindered by a full belly due to too much eating and drinking at a party the previous night. He has to puke constantly. Every now and then, he has to stop and lean against a tree to empty his stomach. That's where the SHLAUUUGHHH! noise comes from. meanwhile, you can hear the wolves, who are gaining on him, howl in the background.
By the way, Bells doesn't interest me much. It's a mosaic of little ideas and not particularly interesting melodies. Doesn't take a genius to put together. But, granted, Oldfield would prove his uncommon craftmanship years later, with Incantations and Amarok. .


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