Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Side A (Part 3/3) - Original complete version 25:29

[Eurobrokers]

nie ma jak dobry stary Mike Oldfield

[Improvizer]

voiceover part ruins it

[Neroscot]

Mike Oldfield ; Heaven is too small for your brain ...? Terrestrial Anjo Amigo...

[amorandme]

Holy shit!!! How could we let the music fall SO LOW today????

[lilromance95]

I was only 10 when this song was released.I still love it today.

[jono546]

What was the name of the guy who did the voiceover for this album?

[NowIAmAwake]

@jono546 The voiceover was by Vivian Stanshall.

[jono546]

@NowIAmAwake Thanks..........just listening to it again

[techkid100]

Longest song I have ever listened to the whole way through.

[8ig8alls]

forget the first part, this is the best part!!! who cares about the "Exorcist" this part is EPIC.

[5050zulu1]

voice over by the wonderful Vivian Stanshall on the original recording .alas the dreadful John Clease on the 2003 recording

[gojakd]

Grand piano...when He spoke up this word it always wake me up.

[enorton26]

not listened to this for about 20 years ...........great re-discovering it :-)

[nudist1033]

I love how the organ comes in very quietly @ 1:38.

The 1st few times I heard this I didn't realize that there was a sound there in the background. I had to turn up my stereo to really hear what was being played.

[francisdollarhyde2]

@nudist1033

IMHO, one of the genius factors in this album is that even after listening to it for over 23 years, I'm still discovering background instruments. They appear to affect the subconscious in a way that adds to the flavour of the experience. There's a cello part earlier that, although I felt it all those years, I only truly heard it today. No other word but magic.

[nudist1033]

@francisdollarhyde2,

A CELLO? In Tubular Bells Side A?

I know there's a huge Cello part for about 20 seconds in Side A of Ommadawn?

Where is there one in TB?

[francisdollarhyde2]

@nudist1033

At least I think it's a cello in the background @ 1.54 in Part 2/3 above.

It gently swells in and out. Pure magic.

[nudist1033]

@francisdollarhyde2,

Yeah, I can't tell what that instrument is. I don't notice that part so much as the guitar duet that happens throughout.

[trashcanalive]

@francisdollarhyde2 It's actually a double bass, one of the few instruments not played on the album by Oldfield. It was played by Lindsay Cooper, a Scottish session musician.

[220heavyst]

I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I went to play my CD and found it absent, lent to my brother a while ago. But you came to my rescue.

Truly excellent, even more so when compared to the current/recent crop of drivel we have to endure.

[Superdoerr]

amazing



[WideFormatOnline]

Did you know that this music was instrumental in Richard Branson's success

[nudist1033]

@WideFormatOnline,

The wikipedia entry for Richard Branson states the Tubular Bells was the 1st release of Virgin Records.

And considering how its release was carried in England (HUGE), it's no wonder how RB benefitted from it.

[cheapcape]

I don't know about others, but for me this definitely has a winter-esque feel to it. I always envision rain falling softly onto concrete and then it turns into a raging winter storm finishing with gentle snowflakes. A wonderful journey, must say.

[matador18uic]

@cheapcape I always like to imagine a big round staircase made of stone, like in a tower... and I am going up slowly while I am hearing all the instruments one by one until I reach the top and I find a very beautiful garden.

[drawyrral]

@Yowlcrazy how so?

[weedmc]

stunning! was brought up listning to this by my mum and dad, and to this day i am still greatfull to them for introducing me to such amazing music <3 xx

[drawyrral]

I used to make love to my girl friend at the time while listening to this piece. I would make her climax when the bells chimed in. I kid you not.

[Yowlcrazy]

@drawyrral ......one slightly distorted lie.......

[nukecat]

@drawyrral no shit ?wo,youre a talented guy! lol thats cool, wish i could do that!

[momb1034]

Haven't heard the this version in many years. We heard this for the first time in 73 or 74 while the hubs was stationed in Germany. Everyone we knew owned this album. There were so many good times as we played it loud in the candlelight. Tubular Bells is still in my top 5 all time greatest pieces of music.

[thewalkingpotofjam]

very talented indeed!!

[mikeybugguns]

This is great TY for posting. I have this on vinyl, I love the hole album, and I still like the end the best, again TY

[lintym]

aged 66 Tubular Bells is my mobile phone

[leannkaattari]

YES! Here it is! I can't tell you how happy I am to find this song! I'm plotzing!

[d2girls]

im 19 first heard this when i was 15 (same age as most of u old farts first listened to it, haha) and u know whats funny, i had no appreciation for this sorta tune, and turned it off. oh, how ive matured since then. =] ive had the pleasure to hear him live already. he is amazing. simply amazing... i like him more than kraftwerk!!! =]

[Wanderlustus]

@d2girls If you're just getting "into it," you might want to grab some Tangerine Dream. Force Majeure if you can lay your paws on it.

[drjackson63]

1977 (impressionable 16yrs. old )

Mushrooms...

Headphones...

Mike on at Mach II...

And then... " HE " Spoke...

Broken headphones...

Unfinished album...

Weeks later I listened to it again and just laughed, I Never had a shroom again though.

[Kingmick58]

To the two cretins who disliked this masterpiece. You are a pair of chutney ferrets. From the old Aussie.

[cogidubnus1953]

Remember going out and buying this when it first came out...hadn't even heard it...took it home and listened over my headphones in the dark with a couple of spliffs...the stereo effects off that vinyl were so freaky...then Viv Stanshall spoke up and I nearly shat myself...classic piece by possibly the most under-rated artist/composer of modern times

[spookshowbabe61]

Have listened to this for many years.....getting sooo fucked up...fire dancing....and j

ust living and enjoying life......tis 50 now and it makes me want to do it all over again....... :-)

[skateyuk]

Mike was only 18 when he wrote this, all record labels turned him down except a brand new one started by a university drop out called Richard Branson. The rest, as they say, is history! Ohh, and Mike played all the instruments also......

[mlchael0912]

part 3 best part....especially when played throughout the house on (then) professionally mounted Bose 901's matched across the house w/ 301's ...i had the 901's swinging..lol ..my dad was smart enough to own a Technics table and had Macintosh amp w/other goodies...but it was a sweet album to play when you wanted to hear BASS and lost of sound!!

[Django5198]

fucking hell I love this album

[Timmo4965]

ONE MORE POINT...WHERE IS THE SAILOR'S HORNPIPE, OR WAS THAT AT THE END OF THE A SIDE OF THE RECORD...........?? I LOST THE RECORD MANY YEARS AGO, AND NOW HAVE JUST BOUGHT IT ON CD, BUT IT JUST ISN'T THE SAME WITHOUT THE SCRATCHY SOUNDS...LOL

[Timmo4965]

THIS IS SOOO AWESOME, I FIRST HEARD IT WHILE STONED IN 1980, AND STILL LOVE IT, I HAVE ALSO SEEN IT PLAYED LIVE, CAN'T REMEMBER MUCH OF IT AS I WAS TRIPPIN' AT THE TIME, BUT APPARENTLY I HAD AN EXCELLENT TIME...LOLOL

[DRPadmologist]

me too buddy and i was 1 yr old, but not stoned obviously, still infects my system with goodness :)

[wolfmk9]

Take your back street boys, and shove them - is my response to all of those who have ab-so-lute-ly no appreciation for music what-so-ever AND then are pathetic enough to come to this link so as to express their oh so very unwanted and rude and crude comments. Up Yours, you oh-so-lil-boys!!!

[Deathss81]

A masterpiece!

[sonayaw]

this got me to sleep when I was 3! and still does. My dad used to tell me the story as it played still love it today and miss my dad. the fairies are running from the giant trolls but the good angels come to help....just listen you'll hear it.

[sonayaw]

this got me to sleep when I was 3! and still does. My dad used to tell me the story as it played still love it today and miss my dad.

[EmeraldeFlahme]

@1955thekeeper - I thought I was the only one who jumped like that, LOL

[roninpainbringer]

fuck is this shit??? have you people ever heard of the backstreet boys??? huh??? i didn't think so. " i want it that way" "you are my fiiiiiire"

[GODMONSTERRARGH]

@roninpainbringer Kill yourself quickly please

[Muzzer38]

@roninpainbringer Backstreet Boys??? Hahahahaha! What a fucking moron! Hahahahahahahahaha!

[1955thekeeper]

Give a thumbs up if the first time you listened to this in 1973 with headphones and the volume tweaked up a bit that as you were being lulled along with the mixture of rhythms and melodious tones that you didn't jump slightly when he said, "Grand Piano!" I know I did.

[BuckeyeSlimMobile]

@1955thekeeper i jumped in the begining with the little bursts of i think guitar. lol best song to fall asleep to in my opinion.

[Jetdirect1]

Mom, it's finished ! :(

[SuperLadySusan]

This is the best peice of music ever written.

[SATTHIARA1]

Never gets boring always sounds as good as the first time i played it.,

[SCFA100]

simplely perfect

[avatar4life100]

bores me 

[chaseisshredding]

@avatar4life100 honestly, there are moments that bore me as well. i think it was innovative for a solo musician to create something like this being the main contributor; though at the time that this came out, many groups were releasing music that carried much more weight than this.

[bendl2]

I can play this. On tubular bells i created myself... :]

[coralarch]

Can't believe that this sublime music was used in that stupid "horror" film, "The Exorcist"!!!! I call that sacrilege.

[xlwalrus]

i have no words, majestic

[NintendoGurl14]

Thank you for posting all the parts! Personally, I think this part is the most epic.. =)

[TacomaPaul]

This was given to me in '73 by a customer on my paper route when I said was saving up for a "real stereo" with FM radio !!! He gave me the extra 18$ I needed... and said "Play this first."

Then right after I heard this... still in a daze... I turned on FM radio and heard ALL 25 minutes of ELP's "Karn Evil 9"..... my life changed THAT night.

I was 14.

[jarabaa]

@TacomaPaul Thanks, TacomaPaul. Same here. Almost down to the paper route. I was 14 too. And in a daze when I heard this. Yes, a daze - that's a good word for it - a daze of delight and discovery and awe. It's a wonderful thing to remember the experience - and to hear the music once again. The daze is the same, with the "added value" of nostalgia. Good grief, 1973 was ... 38 years ago. Yesterday. (Meanwhile - what a generous, insightful customer that was. An angel in disguise maybe.)

[TheTongapuss]

@jarabaa. I agree, brilliant, along with this though there was Jean Michelle Jarre and Tangerine Dream. There was some incredible music in those days. Remember, when the earth was cooling!!!!! Wow.

[Wanderlustus]

@TacomaPaul

That's just grand, man. Sort of along the same lines as I heard Sabbath's Sabotage the first time. Same age.

[jjmm112]

Thank you so much!!!, 5* +fav. :)

[ThePaganElf]

Brillant and timeless. 

[stevent60]

there has never been anything like this !

[snelmanman]

1 of the best Progressive rock songs ever made. <3

[tiki2188]

Wow....so used to hearing the exorcist theme its crazy to think goes on for 40 minutes and becomes so different. And epic.

[simonjsellick]

possibly one of the greatest bass riffs ever written! right up there with fleetwood mac 'the chain'!