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Mike Oldfield is a genius...

BigBadMickBigBadMick
edited March 2008 in Chit chat
...and here's the proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdEjNUDD2Jc

God, I love Tubular Bells :D
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  • SpectorSpector
    edited March 2008
    I saw that album for a quid on vinyl last week. What's it actually like? Is it any good, or is it just a load of bells?
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  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited March 2008
    ...and then he wrote Moonlight Shadow

    Oh well!!
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited March 2008
    karingal wrote: »
    ...and then he wrote Moonlight Shadow

    Oh well!!

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    Co-incidently Tubular Bells was recorded in a converted Barn on the outskirts of the village I grew up in Kidllington (Oxford). Unsuprisingly this is also the Village the Richard Branson calls home.
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  • WinstonWinston
    edited March 2008
    Spector wrote: »
    I saw that album for a quid on vinyl last week. What's it actually like? Is it any good, or is it just a load of bells?

    There are remarkably few tubular bells in Tubular Bells (1 or 2).
  • BigBadMickBigBadMick
    edited March 2008
    This song has a blistering guitar riff that he first plays about 18 seconds in:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrTC2ROEYqQ

    Funny the way his eyes goes all wide and dramatic and slighty psycho-like several times during the video though.

    He does the exact same thing with his eyes several times during this performance (mime, although he's playing the guitar) of the same song on german TV:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCX84BaCaf0

    Quality. :D
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited March 2008
    karingal wrote: »
    ...and then he wrote Moonlight Shadow

    Oh well!!
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2008
    The Original Tubular Bells was a musical masterpiece as was Hergest Ridge.

    However Tubular bells II was only passible to me in my younger days when I was extremely high and thought I was listening to Tubular Bells 1, everything after that just seemed like shameless money spinning crap and Mike Oldfield ought to be ashamed for putting his name to it, the musical whore :D
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  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited March 2008
    Oh and what about the Blue Peter theme. Has this man no dignity?
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2008
    karingal wrote: »
    Oh and what about the Blue Peter theme. Has this man no dignity?

    When I finally go back to England to visit my ma, I'm stamping on all my Mike Oldfield vinyls even if they are first presses :D
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  • ÆlitaÆlita
    edited March 2008
    I loved his album 'Crisis'..still play it sometimes.
    I stole it off a space ship.
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