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Tubular Bells Vol.1: Remastered
by: Mike Oldfield

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724384938826
Label: Virgin
Manufacturer: Virgin
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Virgin
Release Date: May 29, 2000
Running Time: 49 minutes
Studio: Virgin
Sales Rank: 857

Disc 1:

Tubular Bells

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
The opening bars of this classic album by Mike Oldfield were heard by audiences that packed theatres to witness one of the scariest films of all time--The Exorcist. And it wasn't long before this debut release, not only from Oldfield but also from Richard Branson's new record label, Virgin, found itself in the upper echelons of pop charts around the world. Primarily an instrumental album, with performances on almost every instrument credited to Oldfield, it takes the listener into widely varying musical territories, ending as Viv Stanshall formally announces each instrument as it joins the mix. --Paul Clark

Description:
Debut album from instrumental wonderkid Mike Oldfield, the first million seller for both Oldfield and his label boss Richard Branson. The eerie music was used to great effect in the film 'The Exorcist' and remains synonymous with it still.Apart from Vivian Stanshall, who announces the instruments as they appear, every note was played by Oldfield himself.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Maybe you were really looking for Parsifal?
Amazon, for some reason, has suggested to me that I might want to buy this.

Ah no.

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.

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- This is how music should be
Alone amongst the arts, music has the ability to reach inside our weather beaten shells, grab our soul by the scruff of the neck and beat us to death in a darkened room. This album does just that. Stick it in the CD player, turn off the lights and be transported.

From the quiet, mesmerising start to the glorious finish Oldfield weaves in all sorts of themes and rythmns, whirling them around in sublimely a co-ordinated composition. The whole thing last over 45 mins and you never once get bored. The fact that he was only 19 and yet managed to play dozens of instruments from the guitar to the percussion, without it being really dreadful, speaks volumes.

Sure it was created in a hurry by people who didn't know what ... Read More:

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- Grand Piano!
For a teenager to compose and record an album of this scale, playing every instrument himself, is quite an astonishing achievement and is something of a lost art these days. How many multi instrumentalists of this quality exist today?
Tubular Bells was the inaugural release on Richard Branson's fledging Virgin label in 1973 and is still arguably that label's biggest seller. It also started a trio of epic instrumental works that would continue with 'Hergest Ridge' in 1974 and end with 'Ommadawn' the following year.
Strangely, I prefer the flowing seamless music on the next two albums to 'Tubular Bells', which flits from one musical theme to the next with an almost jerky agitation. Having said that the music on offer is of alarming ... Read More:

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- Everyone should own a copy!
I've had this album since I was 17 on LP, cassette, eight track stereo! And now recently purchased on CD. I listen to it every day and never tire of it. No one has ever produced an album remotely like this.There is always something different to hear every time you play it.Truly unique and timeless and an amazing achievement for a composer who was so young and unknown when it was first released in 1973. If I could take one thing with me when I die it would be a copy of 'Tubular Bells'...and hopefully something to play it on!

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- Time for a re-think?
I first heard this from a friend in the 70s who was very good at ferreting out the interesting and unexpected. We all loved it immediately but later, as it became a global phenomenom, it stopped being cool and l gave my LP away. Then punk happened and the rest is history. I'd forgotten about it until I heard it on a flight somewhere over the Pacific...

I don't think it matters if its hippy music or a rock symphony or anything else; it succeeds because there are so many melodies and moods seemlessly woven together with a wonderful Pyhtonesque undercurrent- terribly English, bit west country, bit rock, bit film score, bit zen, bit sole mio, bit country come to that and all a bit home made and down the pub/skin up a spliff. Why can't ... Read More:

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