Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells Pt. 2 (First Listen)
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Song Link: • Tubular Bells (Pt. II) 
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Mike Oldfield is my favorite artist. Ever. I've listened to Tubular Bells countless times, and always enjoy it. I own every single one of his albums, and it's an amazing journey to listen to his progression as a musician over the decades. He's not shy about trying different things. "Guitars" is a pretty interesting album he did with a conscious decision to use *only* guitars for every possible sound. His step into trance with "Songs of a Distant Earth" was also amazing (based on the novel). Glad to see other folks discovering this amazing musician.
I wouldn't really call TSODE anything like trance. Electronica maybe (like Enigma). Trance is more club-style stuff with dreamy chord progressions. He flirted with that in The Millennium Bell and Light & Shade though.
Trance ist es nicht- irgendwie meditativ angehaucht teilweise- eben Oldfield. Er passt in keine Schublade
Finally someone gave this track the love it deserved.
So so deserved
Mike Oldfield is a brilliant artist. Unique. TUBULAR BELLS is stunning.
Gotta agree with that!
I've grown up with Oldfield since 73 and he's as relevant now as he's ever been. He's been a major part of my musical journey. ❤️🎼
Simply a masterpiece. Mike Oldfield a hugely underrated genius musician/composer, the Mozart of progressive rock.
The first time I heard this back in the 70s, the vocals halfway into the second side gave me the impression that Regan's demon from the Exorcist was making a guest appearance.
This part with the background weird vocals are my favorite part of the whole song.
The short piano part is the best piano solo ever.
@@ianchristopher9422 I have this theory that William Friedkin needed a soundtrack for his film, and got a bonus when he found a starting point for doing the demonic voices.
Also interestingly, I recently learned that Friedkin was also trying to get Peter Gabriel to score one of his films.
@@bobholtzmann Strangely as it seems W. Friedkin only used the opening of Tubular Bells part one, without having consideration for the rest of the composition.
He did miss an opportunity of knowing it better since besides that there's a lot of good material he could've used in the movie you know especially in the better Part Two.
@@ianchristopher9422 Plenty of the album is in the Exorcist.
@@bobholtzmann Friedkin worked with Pete on the story for part II but nothing came of it
Fucking genius this part 2! Ambiant guitars! The most beautiful guitar solo/combination I'ever listened to.
I've always found this album and Rick Wakemans Journey To the Centre of the Earth were the most melodic works of the prog rock era.
Have you ever heard of Aphrodite's Child's 666 album? It's a lost classic of the prog era, and very melodic, I think. I'm not good with music theory.
Ommadawn by Oldfield too. I seem to remember The Enid were pretty melodic too, but it's a while since I heard anything by them.
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I continue to suggest Justin listen to Aphrodite's Child 666 (The Apocalypse of John 13/18), but because of the track "∞," I'm uncertain if Justin would do a whole album listen on the channel. Not that the lyrics of "∞" are objectionable, but...
I would love to just know of Justin ever listens to it, even on his own, and if so, would love to get his impressions, even if he does it without the music, or at least without playing the track "∞."
@@IllumeEltanin Lol I'm sure it'll be fine
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I hope so. But Justin does say he only wants to feature family friendly music on the channel and he :may: find "∞" borderline. That would be his call.
I discussed this with another follower a few weeks ago (I'm sorry I don't remember the user name) who said he heard the entire album as a child on the radio. He felt "∞" sounded as though a woman was being chased as a boy. So, it is open to interpretation...
In 1993, twenty years after the original, he released Tubular Bells II. It "rhymes" stylistically with the original, with different melodies and in many instruments.
Oldfield is an amazingly versatile artist, playing many different instruments and also many styles from classical ("Music Of The Spheres") through pop, techno, new age... Never get tired of him.
Listening to this "with you" all these years later, it makes me realize how few times I actually played side 2 (part 2). Not that it was bad, just that I loved side 1 so much that it was played & played to the point that Tubular Bells became side 1 in my mind.
I had the same reflection!
l have to listen to this album in it's entirety or not at all. I love both sides equally.
Me too!!
The beautiful thing about this album isn't just the different VERSIONS, but the different MIXES. This is the most recent remaster of the original album, and if you can find the original 1973 mix, you'll be able to hear the subtle differences between what you heard the first time, and what those of us who first bought and listened to the original mix fell in love with. Oldfield actually did this with practically all of his early work, including HERGEST RIDGE, which followed BELLS, and then OMMADAWN, which came right after RIDGE.
He remixed Hergest Ridge also?
Who DIDN'T buy this album when
it was released? Alone in my room;
a teen gettin' a steam release with
Tubular Bells 💞
BTW...give a listen to "Koaanisquatsi" by Philip Glass (from a film by the same name) and "Love_Devotion_Surrender" by John McLaughlin/Carlos Santana and The Mahavishnu Orchestra.
YES Koyaanisqatsi!!! In fact I'd simply recommend to watch the film, the film with the music by Philip Glass is just such a cohesive whole, and it's a real masterpiece in my opinion!
Good reactions JP: Mike Oldfield is a seriously talented dude with a very British sense of humour. Try the Viv Stanshall version of the Sailor’s Hornpipe! I suggest that either of his next two albums would also repay you (Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn)
Derek Meade, Some time back I found the above albums in a 4 lp boxed set that includes the Viv travelogue on the Tubular Bells disc. I had no idea this alt ver existed until it found me and then I found a TB cd with the Viv version that I gave my son. The lp box includes a nifty booklet with interesting notes about each release.
"Crises" has vocals, including Jon Anderson, and my favourite track, "Moonlight Shadow" with Maggie Reilly singing.
And Kanye sampled "In High Places" for MBDTF. Really funny to hear Jon Anderson on a hip hop track.
Oh, yes... "In High Places" from _Crises_ is a wonderful song. The album as a whole is fine--I'd say "Foreign Affair" doesn't live up to the others, but it's still very good, just kind of repetitive.
The great Simon Phillips on drums/percussion and boot 😁
And the flip of Portsmouth, creating the worlds worst duo
I've heard this many times, but the quieter first half of pt 2. of this still gets me every time...
13:46 Several species of small furry guitars gathered together in a cave and grooving with a piltdown man :)
Just notice that what you've been listening to was NOT the original version. It's the remastered one, in the early 2000. According to me, the original version is the best. There's another version, in 2003 where Oldfield re-record all the same scores but with 30 more years of experience. BTW, I love your chanel because you respect the music by not making commets during the songs, like most of the others do.
Didn't know it was remastered in 2000, but does sound a bit different. Maybe 2009? remaster as he's remastered it several times. 2000 was iirc the HDCD remastering? which didn't alter the mix, just it's quality.
@@Coneman3 You're right, I ment 2009. As you can hear, they took the same tracks but changed the mix. For exemples, in the peace section, female voices volume is much higher than the original and in the last part (Sailors hornpipe), we hear the guitar part very well and the organ part is so low that it's almost unaudible. In the piano and male voices part, they clearly ad 2 bars !! In the end, the music that we were listen to in that video is very different than the original version. Same tracks but different mix.
@@flipknight5400 Yes, and more tinkly piano near the start. In those recent remixed, he could really only mess about with relative volumes, sometimes it helped oftentimes not. Seemed more of a yacht/retirement fund project imo, let's milk the fans some more lol
The 2000 release uses the remaster that was prepared by Simon Heyworth for the 1998's 25th anniversary edition; which is what prompted his work on the rest of the catalogue for 2000. Musically, it's effectively the same as an original 1973 version - he concentrated mainly on cleaning up extraneous sounds such as clicks. For all that the composition is clearly crucial, it's never been something that I love unconditionally from start to finish, and so I can happily tolerate alternate versions. The trick is to find one that satisfies all the way through, and so far none of them have pulled the rabbit out of the hat. Original is obviously wonderful in places but can sound dated; Boxed excels intermittently; nothing beats Exposed's improvements to the orchestral start of the Caveman sequence, but I can't compare it as an equivalent piece; 2003 sounds gorgeous, but changes arrangements randomly... and so on. We've heard 2009 here and for any new listener, it can be argued that they might prefer to have experienced it in an original form but it's definitely not the end of the world!
I thought this sounded off in places, I am so used to the original.
The Sailors Hornpipe, played every year (except this corona year) at The Last Night Of The Proms. They play it faster and faster to great effect. Great reaction. (we need Viv Stanshall 'master of ceremonies).
I recall it's the opening bar of "Popeye the Sailor" cartoons!
@@bobholtzmann Those were the days!
Do your balls hang low?
Can you swing them to-and-fro?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Do you get a funny feeling when you're hanging from the ceiling?
No you'll never be a sailor if your balls hang low.
@@ganjiblobflankis6581 Do you kiss your mother with that mouth :)
@@markspooner1224 What? It's just a song to help sailors remember to store their cannon balls properly to avoid accidents at sea.
The thing about TB is that whether you love or hate it, it just is. An incredible artist who made something completely original, disregarding any of the norms of the time (although the times they were a changin'). I was 14 when this came out and I used to listen to this endlessly. TB has been a constant ''go to'' album for all these years, both relaxing and uplifting, but always leaving the question: how on earth did he think of that?
Very true earl!
Now you need to hear the travelogue version of tubular bells with Viv Stanshall.
Some of the best clean Strat tone you will hear. Rings like a bell.
When he rerecorded the entire album in 2003, the sections were labeled, as I mentioned back on the Part One clip. Let me list the labels in accordance to how you're reviewing them:
28:25 is from "Bagpipe Guitars"
28:36 is from "Harmonics"
31:04 is the segue from "Harmonics" into "Peace"
34:04 marks once again the transition from "Peace" into "Bagpipe Guitars"
35:00 is the transition from "Bagpipe Guitars" into "Caveman" (referred to as "Piltdown Man" on the original release...and BTW, the vocals ARE Mike!)
35:14 intros "Caveman", and here's an interesting thing to point out about the two mixes...In the original 1973 mix, the buildup here is a lot more discordant, raw, percussion-heavy, and there's a piano riff that carries us into the "Caveman/Piltdown Man" vocal with Steve Broughton's drums coming to the fore.
39:28 begins "Ambient Guitars", the last section before "Sailor's Hornpipe" kicks in.
Beautiful
You are so right, Justin, about the setting being important for music. I don’t listen to jazz at home (please don’t shoot me). But live, in smoke filled bars (well it used to be like that) with a beer and a lively crowd makes it come alive, watching great musicians do their thing. [edit] oh, and if you want more Mike “ommadawn” is great.
Been wanting to go out for jazz nights recently, hopefully soon!
@@JustJP What you said about the setting in which we discover music is dead on. Which is why so much music needs to be relistened to, they are "growers", not made to be enjoyed as pop music. Laurie Anderson: discovered her live, on her Home of the Brave tour in the mid-80's, had no idea what she did, only knew she collaborated with Peter Gabriel. What a shock. Saw her live a half-dozen more times, made me a fan. (Next Oldfield, yes Ommadawn is a must - but i think you'd get a kick out of the Taurus II suite on Five Miles Out.)
Breathtaking
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I haven't heard this since I relocated to another continent in 1979 (had to leave my entire record collection behind) It was like meeting up with an old friend whom you haven't seen for years, and when you do, it's as if you had never been apart - 40 years melted away and I was back to my young self. Your analysis was insightful and spot on!
I love to hear that Sue, thank you
I'm genuinely impressed you went back for more. Bravo!
Haha ty Jon!
For the more meditative side you should go to "Ommadawn" next. For me, his masterpiece is "Incantations" which derives wholly from the opening chord and the stepwise progression it consists of.
I love "Incantations"! Maddy Prior's vocals are amazing and perfect for the Longfellow? Emerson? Whitman? poetry Oldfield set to music (and made me experience the romantic poets with new ears). Anyway, it's great to see others like "Incantations" and that I'm not alone.
Incantations is a masterpiece.
I think I love Ommadawn a tiny bit more than Tubular Bells. Just a tiny bit. They are both beautiful and spooky and a great journey to get lost in.
Totally agree with you. Followed by Ommadawn.
Next Oldfield album: Songs from Distant Earth.
Fantastic album I have a whole collection of his library passed down from my dad
The whole album...truly a masterpiece
The ending, " Sailors hornpipe" is a traditional melody, not written by Oldfield. Like an old sea shanty, of unknown origin.
And the Captain Pugwash theme, for those of a certain age who grew up in the UK ;-)
Which always reminds me of the Popeye theme, of course...
It was written by Roger the cabin boy and Seaman Staines allegedly.
@@Ifyoudonttakeitucantfakeit "Sailor boy, sailor boy, such a dirty nipper/Lined his a$$ with broken glass/and circumcised the skipper!"
Regarding the horn pipe at the end, originally Mike Oldfield, Tom Newman and Vivian Stanshall they got drunk on Richard Branson’s antique whisky collection, wired Bransons mansion up with mics in every room at about 3am and played the horn pipe whilst stomping through all the rooms in the house whilst an inebriated Vivian Stanshall gave a surreal description of the rooms they visited. They never used this in the final release (although it has been made available since) and was replaced with the horn pipe played in the studio.
Been a long time since I've listened to part 2. Thank you for this.
Happy to!
The beautiful pastoral beginning of part 2 find its continuation on Hergest Ridge, the second album 1974 :) a musical journey through Herfordshire. Oldfields former house and recording studio "The Beacon" is now an inn and a popular destination for Oldfield-Fans :)
I have always preferred Part 2 for the same reasons you say, particularly all the cool ambient parts, wonderful.
Side two is the reason I tend to use Mike Oldfield albums as my background music when I write. Intriguingly evocative.
There's a 1973 BBC video of Tubular Bells with Oldfield and a bunch of other musicians that is worth checking out on RUclips, if you haven't seen that yet. On a side note, one of the guitarists is MIck Taylor. I read a week after the recording of this, he went on tour with the Rolling Stones. Brilliant work by Oldfield and all others.
Yes!
I was going to suggest Justin watch the same, if no one else did. The opening shot just amazes when you realize how many musicians are there to pull this off live, when Oldfield played most of the instruments on the album himself. It's also interesting to note that while the broadcast is only of part 1, drums are included.
I also find it interesting that Oldfield plays very few leads in the broadcast, featuring his guest guitarists more.
@@IllumeEltanin Very true. It's cool when the instruments are called out and you actually see them played, especially the guy striking the tubular bells at the end of part 1.
There are times I will listen to Part 1 on its own, but I only listen to Part 2 if I've just listened to Part 1.
A M A R O K, you'll thank me for it🙂👍
I am so pleased you are experiencing one of my all time favorite musicians, next to Pink Floyd. I could close my eyes and go on a fantastic journey.
Mike Oldfield is so much of an individual. His album, Tubular Bells, made Virgin Records and Richard. The guy also has over 100+ certifications with instruments (I never knew there were that many)? He is a natural orchestral artist.
I also enjoy his albums Incantations, Ommadawn, QE2 (w/ gaelic vocals), Five Miles Out, Crises, as well as Tubular Bells 1-3.
There is a documentary, on Mike Oldfield, out there. It's really good.
Ty Deuce!
The last part is a trad tune call "Sailor's Hornpipe". Drums were by Steve Broughton of the Edgar Broughton Band.
Love the Broughtons. A pity they never get mentioned in Classic Rock reviews. Greatly, greatly overlooked.
You may remember Sailor's Hornpipe from Popeye cartoons.
When i saw Mike Oldfield live at the scandinavium in early 80's...in his band he had an awsome drummer.
It was Pierre Moerlen from "Gong"... and in a couple of songs Pierre shifted from drums to cylophone or vibraphone.
And who was taking Pierre's place at the drums? Yep.. it was Mike Oldfield.
He was good at the drums too. So cool to watch.
He had a pop'ish period starting from Platinum and 4 albums on. A couple of big hits.
Then returned back to his best.
I really love his album "Songs from distant earth", and the music is based on a book from Arthur C. Clarke.
17 songs, many are short. It's from 1994. There u can hear how he had evolved... or had he..?
It's one of his best albums, along with Ommadawn and Tubular Bells.
His "Return to ommadawn" is also good.
What he said, can't argue with that!!
I love that you listen to Laurie Anderson. United States Live is one of my all time faves. Just throwing that out to start.
And yes, I am gonna request Ricochet parts 1 and 2 by Tangerine Dream again. 😉
On the other hand, the memory of my sainted mother's face when she heard Piltdown Man (after having really enjoyed the preceding instrumental) is still remembered as if it was yesterday.
I like very much the way you talk about the music! Very heartfelt and intelligent at the same time. Subscribed, of course 🙂. Looking forward to more music with you!
Thanks Hilde! I appreciate that!
Great analogy with the stainglass painting.
Most excellent my dude! Now you have been properly introduced to Mike Oldfield. I so enjoy watching JP discover Oldfield. Saw you getting goosebumps at 10:04. Oldfield's music does that man. I found that Part 2 lends itself to being background music while reading Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, as well as Hergest Ridge, his next album. I was disappointed that Peter Jackson didn't have Oldfield's music in the Lord of the Rings movies.
I agree that this album is very well produced and recorded. That kind of excellent production and mixing seems to be owned by the British: The Beatles' George Martin, Pink Floyd's Alan Parsons, Genesis' engineers to name a few, they just have this knack for producing dense orchestrations of instruments and making it sound really cohesive. But this album is just over the top with overdubs. OMG!! Talk about a multi-instrumentalist. Oldfield did a lot of the engineering and production of Tubular Bells, along with some other blokes. I've read interviews with people who have worked with him and they say Oldfield just knows what instruments go together. And truth to tell, I think Mike Oldfield is one of the most tasteful and technically proficient guitarists of the 70s and.
I'm glad that you appreciate the writing and arranging that makes Mike Oldfield's music such a joy to listen to. Oldfield, as you have noticed, is the absolute master of smooth transitions, yes? Never hurried, never rushed, just lets the music evolve. He is the source of New Age music, like Enya. Now I suggest that you keep on going with Oldfield's catalog. Hergest Ridge is his excellent 2nd album. And you MUST give his 3rd album Ommadawn a listen- it will blow you away JP!!
Oh yeah I almost forgot- eventually you have to check out his1992 release of Tubular Bells 2 and 1998's Tubular Bells III. You can hear references to the original album but they are new. and blow away.
Welcome to ancient Britain JP ;)
I saw Tubular Bells Part ll at Carnegie Hall back in '93. When the full Tattoo came into the hall, it became an outer body experience. The whole show was amazing. One of my top 10 concerts, and I've seen a lot of concerts. This is one I will never forget.
Thanks for brightening a somber and dismal day. Very happy you enjoyed the second listen, its interesting how setting affects music and visa versa.Have a great day and beware the Neanderthals!
Wow. You have definitely given the album a top review. Just in time for the 50th anniversary release this month. Just brilliant. Going to watch your other videos now.
Thanks so much for that Fennies, I appreciate that comment
Ommadawn is a must listen after Tubular Bells. My favourite. Also way far ahead is Ommadawn 2 not forgetting all the other Tubular Bells!
The Caveman excerpt is simply astonishing. I love it
Haven't heard this album for a long time, I think I appreciate it more after your thoughts on it. The relaxing vibe feels perfect for the 70's when I was a kid and the new middle class had what they considered posh dinner parties with nibbles on cocktail sticks, martinis with an olive, and Mike Oldfield in the background. Another album from that era that everyone seemed to own was Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.
The eerie piano intro (main theme) is performed in alternating measures of 7/8 and 8/8 - so foot-tapping is nearly impossible. The YT video "Mike Oldfield 'Tubular Bells' Live at the BBC 1973" is superb! Must see!
Mike Oldfield - genius at 19.
Just as mesmerizing as when I first heard it 47 years ago.
If you liked the Hard rock bit in the middle with all the electric guitars and growling vocals Check out these classic Mike Pieces Titled "Platinum", "Taurus 1/2", Crisis or his 1 hour epic Amorak. If You love the beautiful calm and amazing sections with amazing Transitions, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn and Incantations Are Definitively for You
MANHATTENMAN ! “Crises” (with an ‘e’) was my introduction to Mike Oldfield, and I’ve been a fan since then. Highly recommended!
And Return to Ommadawn too.
Watch punkadiddle live it's on RUclips 1981 Montraux. He is spellbinding .
Love the reaction....
Ty John!
The first 2 minutes of side 2 is just about as good as music gets... Pure escapism.
The ending is like an ascent to heaven and when you get there it's shit.
The "wolf howl" was from Bootleg, an Irish Wolfhound resident at the Manor when Mike was recording the album.
I am a bit of a contrarian - I tend not to follow crowds too much, instead ploughing my own furrow through life's fields. If I happen upon a major thoroughfare, that is a happy coincidence but, as per my comment on the Part 1 video, being stuck in traffic isn't my thing. So I tend to prefer Part 2 although both are good. The noodling before Sailor's Hornpipe reminds me of the instrumental work on Fairport Convention's "A Sailor's Life". See what you think of Oldfield's Hergest Ridge, which is more out of the mainstream and therefore more my cup o' tea, if you can find it.
Justin I would just like to say as a brit I'm so glad you and others enjoy listening to tubular bells by mike oldfield and other great brit bands like pink floyd,led zeppelin,the who,act.and must also say you are one of the best if not the best reactors I have ever seen I will definitely recommend you to others iv'e just subscribed and can't wait for more reactions,keep up the good work a lot of other reactors could learn much from you.🇬🇧🇺🇸👏👏👏
Thank you so so much Michael! I really appreciate that
My man! Thank you for reviewing the whole Tubular Bells! Now you have to do his best album, “Ommadawn”. You like drums? You’ll get drums! You liked female choirs? You’ll get them! The only problem with Ommadawn is that is too short! 😎
I got introduced to Mike Oldfield with “Crises” (1983). A 20:40 long song, where drums take a front piece. Think Mike + 80’s synths.
Back to the original Tubular Bells, a bit of background from the “death metal part” (lol): the “Piltdown man” was a fraudulent “missing link” between man and ape, and with Brandon demands for vocals, he gave him “Piltdown vocals”. Could we call them “fraudulent vocals”? 😂
On his 2003 re-recording (note by note) of Tubular Bells, the Piltdown Man section is called “Caveman”. Also, the 2003 version Master of Ceremonies is the one and only John Cleese, of Monty Python fame. This 2003 version is very good, recorded with Mike on top of his game, with money, time, resources, all instruments in tune...with possibly the best version of the ending tune.
Happy musical discoveries!
This is such a beautiful part.. That gorgeous intro, harmonics.. Mike's acoustic playing on this album is sublime imho. ❤️
Trance like.. Dreamy... So thoughtful.
What an absolute genius.
❤️ That hard section, with vocals. Superb. Hear his electric guitar playing.. Oh yes.
His transitions are seamless Justin. 👍
I loved the way you got lost in this part butty.. I've got lost many a time listening to Mr. Oldfield Justin.
🎶♥️.
Personally, I always feel in a really good place after listening to Mike. He does that so well.
Your review butty.. Is absolutely perfect, just like this song ❤️
Thank you so much for your time, understanding, and gratitude for such great albums Justin.
Have a wonderful day butty.
And thank YOU for your comments and always being a joy to hear from!
Justin, you got something special here butty. 😊
Also Justin, your reaction to the "vocals" when they start his priceless butty 😊 has shocked as I was when I first heard them.. 😊 I love it now
I first listened to this whilst I was walking around an old iron age fortress where they would have spoken an ancient form of celtic language. The vocal bit just sat nicely with the environment I was in.
You might have best commentery and insight of any reactor / reviewer
I really appreciate that Linus, thank you
Tubular Bells was released May 1973 (therefore composed and recorded earlier) - Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandö was released December 1973!
È una caratteristica del prog quella di migliorare ad ogni ulteriore ascolto.
Non bisognerebbe mai fermarsi al primo ascolto, e questo vale per tutti i gruppi che hanno fatto prog.
The great thing about Tubular Bells is all the cross melodies and harmonies on the overdub,. just fantastically woven together, that build to make a fantastic collage or a complex tapestry (insert metaphor).
Re: the Piltdown Rock section - ah, they don't write lyrics like that any more.
Not since about 3000 BC 😅
@@JustJP sure they do. Stained. The Sickness.
Werewolf!
Metal band should cover it
'Piltdown Man' was a infamous faked human fossil remains. Probably more evidence of Mike's sense of humour re. being asked to provide some vocals by Branson.
The Sailor's Hornpipe (also known as The College Hornpipe and Jack's the Lad) is a traditional hornpipe melody with origins in the Royal Navy, crews exercise tune.
A very good 2 part first listen to Tubular Bells. I'm really glad you liked it. I consider TBs to be one of the finest records ever recorded. Mike Oldfield doesn't get nearly enough recognishion he deserves and he's virtually unknown in America. He's an amazing artist and his music throughout his whole discography is so varied genre wise. The 2 albums that got me into Mike Oldfield was TB's and Platinum. I laughed my head off at your reaction to the Cave Man section in part 2 (I was waiting for it) as it was the exact reaction l had when l first heard it.
Just a few things: These 2 parts you listened to are actually the 2009 remix version of the album, but it's only slightly different to the original 1973 mix. Tubular Bells was the first ever album released on Virgin records and launched the label. It was recorded at The Manor, produced by Mike Oldfield, Tom Newman (who is a great guy) and Simon Heyworth. The voice introducing the instruments on side one was Vivian Stanshall who was recording at the Manor with The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Thank you for covering Mike Oldfield. I think you should do more long tracks as you asked. On a final note, if you enjoyed TBs, you may want to cover Oldfield's Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Platinum, Crises, Discovery, The Songs Of Distant Earth and Return To Ommadawn (to name but a few) next. Great talking to you. Keep em coming. I subscribed to your channel as well because you cover a lot of stuff l like. Take care Justin.
Ty Lee!
Love the Cro Magnon man sequence.
I brought this album soon after it came out, was 11 at the time. My dad was a DJ for the local social club so could get a LP free once in a while so picked this one up. Got hooked for life on Mike Oldfield. Even the storekeeper said its a strange one to listen to. (Still have that album now, worn out tho).
The ending is a traditional sailor's hornpipe (as played at the Last Night of the Proms every year). It is very useful to wake you up sufficiently to turn the record over and roll another joint. Or at least it was forty-five years ago!
Respect for you to take the time to listen to long tracks
When it came out I didn't like the neanderthal singing but now I think it's great, it gives the album some humour but also a certain human strength.
*nodding*
I was 13 when Tubular Bells was released, and a Top 40/bubblegum listener. I had yet to hear any Yes, Led Zeppelin, or metal of any sort, other than what got Top 40 air play. I didn't understand the Pitman growl part at all when I heard it.
I think I'm also one who played and played part 1, and only listened to part 2 once, when I first heard the whole album. Listening to it again now, after decades of exposure to progressive and harder music, although I'm still not a metal fan, I'm blown away by part 2.
My younger self had much to learn in music appreciation...
Another great reaction
Ty Courtney!
Mike had an awesome live concert at Montreux in 1981. you can find parts of it here on RUclips - highly recommendable!
Taurus II from "Five Miles Out" is a must!
Also, look into the history of the Piltdown man hoax.
The Piltdown Man section was the first of many middle fingers toward Richard Branson and Virgin Records
I know what you mean, but I don't mind it, I think it adds a bit of humour!
Implying that Branson was a fraud too? For those of that aren't aware, the Piltdown Man was a fraud, attempted by a couple of scientist to get famous, look it up, most amusing.
@@paulhansberry8168 No, I mean he was asked to include lyrics in a song, and he screamed into a microphone for 10 minutes and called it lyrics. That was the first of many middle fingers toward Branson, meaning doing the opposite of what he wanted
A bit more esoteric than the morse code message FUCK OFF RB in Amarok.
Huge fan since the late 70's! FYI - Tubular Bells was used for the movie "the Exorcist". Amarok, Songs of Distant Earth, Voyager, Ommadawn, Crisis, Incantations and so on are some of the greatest pieces of music you can listen to when you're on shrooms!
It can be both difficult and easy to digest. Building up a rising level of curiosity as you go along. Like the durian fruit (yumm) 😁. As I said before; Magnetic..😀
I've always wanted Durian Cheesecake..
The sailor’s song at the end was partially used in the old Popeye cartoons intro/outro.
Great 2-part reaction! My 13-piece tribute band is called Tubular Bells Live and that’s what we do in the UK and we have had the original record producer Tom Newman perform the caveman vocals! Check out his hit single Moonlight Shadow with stunning guitars - recorded in one take!
oh mike oh mike
In part 2 you could hear a story. When I was 14, I hear it almost every day for years. At the first silent part I saw an island, with white sand, christall blue water and all the buity of nature you can imagine.
When the music grows louder, I saw native men from that island, who comes nearer to another native man, but not for good. They were worriors and hunt him. When they've catched him, the leader speaks to him and with his tribe-members to decide, what to do with him. The situation gets more and more dangerous the louder the music sounds. Finally they kill him and that is the moment, the silence break through and just the guitars were playing their soft dialogue. That guitars are beneath the dead man on his way to haven. And when he gets to the lord, the happiness begins at the end...
That were my imaginations at the age of 14 to 16. And today it feels the same way.... even though I'm 42 years older now... it touches me.
I should say, that don't have any negative feelings about native people at all, it were just pictures, like in the movie "robinson crueso"...
Found my physical CD of this weird masterpiece... had to have it. Better put everything back, made a mess. The female vocal choir was nice, I wish it would have been developed more. I kinda wish the album didn’t have the Exorcist connection but, hey, it worked in the movie extremely well.
It’s funny that I, maybe we, fold our hands when hearing church- like organ. I did and Popeye would be proud of the ending.
Glad you started early, cuz I would be late for work, I would be fired and on the street without internet, and no Justin:( , the horror!
Take care everyone, much love and respect,
Peace and Sailor Music
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Yep.
I like the Piltdown dude’s reaction at 14:10.
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Highly recommended: the live version of Tubular Bells from the album Exposed. The experience is quite different, lots of musicians involved, drums are used on part 1 all over the place. The guitar solo towards the end of part 2 is fantastic.
Now you can enjoy Pt1&2 together, part 2 is a great floaty comedown after the complexity of part 1.... then BAM! sailors hornpipe... back in reality 😌
TB & TB 2(1992 remake album) should always be listened to in a dark room.
TB 2 MC: the late Alan Rickman - in that really droll way he could deliver the end of the world, if he wished.
The Piltdown section aka the caveman part is Mike releasing his demons. It's all about an inner tension he built up during his childhood. He had a troubled relationship with his mother who was suffering mental problems. Mike would withraw himself in his bedroom and learned to talk through his instruments and music. Check out the album Children Of The Sun by the Sallyangie: being 15 year old Mike playing guitar while his older sister Sally is delivering vocals.
www.discogs.com/artist/476576-The-Sallyangie
Although there is no deliberate link, the opening section of Part I was used in the soundtrack of the 1973 classic movie The Exorcist. The caveman section is in a certain way Mike excorsing his negative feelings. He will repeat this caveman moments on later albums in different disguises. For instance the hardrock song Shadow On The Wall (sung by Roger Chapman) on the 1983 album Crises has the same purpose.
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I really cannot imagine someone not liking this. I know there are people not caring about Mike's music. But I love his music. I think I'd like side 1 even better without the naming of instruments but then again it makes you pay attention to the changes and differences. Anyway, yep another Oldfield tune that I think is genius and very "progressive" considering the time he created this. I think I sometimes hear some similarities with Pink Floyd in Echoes. But I could be wrong ;-)
Something else to note: Oldfield established several "leitmotifs" in TUBULAR BELLS that he would come back to quite often, especially in HERGEST RIDGE, when he uses part of the "Piltdown Man" theme for a jam that appears on Part Two of that album.
Long time since I revisited this one. Have the LP. Love it. Have to check out the remastered version first, and I think I will buy the CD version.
This is the 2009(?) Remaster I believe.
@@jasomkovac9115 In the meantime I bought the CD (2009 stereo mixes by Oldfield) - Eager to buy Amarok. I listened to a few fragments, and I liked what I heard.
After 3 albums Mike came ou withe a colective album "Boxed" It contained 4 LP:s the three first albums and then one with other stuff. It also hade a Booklet. There was among other things a story about how Oldfield and his Brother Terry worked makin Tubular Bells. They spend the days in the studio and the evenings at the PUB. At one night when they where extra drunk they came up with the Idea om a "grand tour" ov the mansion where he lived. With them was Viv Stanshall who is the one who intrduce the instruments. they wheren't alowed to put it in album but by the time Boxed came out Mike was famous snough to do as he pleased. Have fun: ruclips.net/video/BmRUJGRwkj0/видео.html
I feel that many of Mike's early albums had better second halves. I think he sounds more fluid in repose. Start of Ommadawn Part 2, OMG that's one of favourite pieces of music ever. It's so beautiful.
No tiene nada que envidiar al anterior, para escuchar de fondo mientras lees un buen libro, celestial.