... Thanks to shrewd promotion both men, as well as the record, 'Tubular Bells', and their label, became hugely successful.
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Tubular Bells Vol.2
Released in 1973, Mike Oldfield's debut album--a single composition, loosely stringing
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together a sequence of musical motifs--managed to sell in excess of 16 million copies, effectively kick-starting the Virgin Records empire and bringing its creator, ...
TUBULAR BELLS VOL 2
Personnel includes: Mike Oldfield (various instruments); Vivian Stanshall (vocals); Sally
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Oldfield, The Pilt-Down Man.The 19-year old Oldfield played virtually everything on the mostly instrumental TUBULAR BELLS, which required hundreds of over-dubs in...
together a sequence of musical motifs--managed to sell in excess of 16 million copies, effectively kick-starting the Virgin Records empire and bringing its creator, ...
together a sequence of musical motifs--managed to sell in excess of 16 million copies, effectively kick-starting the Virgin Records empire and bringing its creator, then just twenty years old, a level of critical and commercial success he would never achieve again. Little wonder that he should choose, years later, to revisit his most famous work--though inevitably, this time the stakes were much higher. Good thing, then, that he took so few risks. Like its predecessor, the album unveils a series of musical tableaux, though this time without the slightest pretence of actual thematic development: it's less a single, unified piece, than a medley of pretty folk-rock instrumentals. The mood sits somewhere between foggy Celtic mysticism and pastoral elegy, occasionally pausing for a moment of unexpected light relief (the bizarre whimsy of "Altered State"). Unlike the original, however, it sustains its pleasures more or less evenly across the entire composition. --Andrew McGuire
Advantages: Excellent reworking of an old theme Disadvantages: None
...of each, a 'Best of Tubular Bells' (2001, also 11.99 from Amazon) features a couple of extracts from it, a fair quantity of the original work, plus excerpts from live performances of same, and even a couple from the later (and inferior) 'Tubular Bells III'. Sometimes you can take recycling too far, though I suspect in this case Virgin Records are probably more to blame than the artist himself. ...
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Album Notes: Personnel includes: Mike Oldfield (various instruments); Vivian Stanshall (vocals); Sally Oldfield, The Pilt-Down Man.
Album Reviews: Q (9/00, p.126) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...The most incident-packed of his '70s releases: you're never more than 2 minutes away from a crescendo or a beautiful interlude..."
Titles on disc 1
1.: Sentinel
2.: Dark Star
3.: Clear Light
4.: Blue Saloon
5.: Sunjammer
6.: Red Dawn
7.: Bell
8.: Weightless
9.: Great Plain
10.: Sunset Door
11.: Tattoo
12.: Altered State
13.: Maya Gold
14.: Moonshine
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