Tubular Bells Vol.2 - Mike Oldfield

Tubular Who? (209 words)
by SallyP - written on 17/06/01, updated on 17/06/01 (Useful, 33 readings)
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In the dim and distant past of 1992 I heard that M Mike Oldfield was about to release a sequel to the hugely successful Tubular Bells Album. Of course I had to have a copy of this proposed masterpiece as the orginal album was (is) one of the best albums I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. I'm afraid that the sequel was a huge disappointment. OK, I appreciate that I may not have been aware of what I was expecting, but this album didn't meet any expectation in any shape or form. I felt that it was a bad reworking of a very successful album. To be honest the only track that I liked was the first one, Sentinel. The rest had a remiscence to the original ...

Tubular Bells Vol.1 - Mike Oldfield

Rather amazing. (631 words)
by bigbtommy - written on 20/02/03, updated on 20/02/03 (Very useful, 301 readings)
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Tubular Bells still sounds fresh and experimental today. The production of the recording was quite an amazing one - a very high proportion of the instruments were played by Oldfield himself - guitars, organs, piano, percussion, bass and of course, the tubular bells. This almost amazing combination of rock and classical instruments, both in symphony and in solo, make this very much a listeners album, whatever one of those is (well, what isn't a listeners album?). Those interested in a Spice Girls-esque "Top 10" release would not be pleased by a release like this. Tubular Bells seem ...

Tubular Bells Vol.1 - Mike Oldfield

Virgin's first time (1797 words)
by pje - written on 03/06/01, updated on 09/08/02 (Very useful, 773 readings)
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some of his profits to buy a country manor house at Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, which was then converted into a recording studio and named (wait for it...) The Manor. Fortunately M Mike Oldfield was a bit more imaginative, musically. Mike Oldfield ''''''''''''''' 9;'''''''''' Michael Gordon Oldfield was born in Reading on May 15th, 1953. He asked his parents for a guitar at the age of seven, inspired, like so many others, by seeing Bert Weedon on the television. Family life was quite rocky, his mother suffered from depression, alcoholism, and addiction ...