tubular bells

[Pieoftheday]

I thought I'd buy some of those albums 'everyone' seems to have, starting with tubular bells and dark side of the moon, on CD. The tubular bells is a HD CD, don't know how this differs to a regular CD? Anyhoo 7 minutes in and I've put Bergerac on! Idont like it, maybe I'm just not in the mood, I'll try again tomorrow, anyone else think its crap? I mean doesn't like it?:)

[Gordon Steadman]

I thought I'd buy some of those albums 'everyone' seems to have, starting with tubular bells and dark side of the moon, on CD. The tubular bells is a HD CD, don't know how this differs to a regular CD? Anyhoo 7 minutes in and I've put Bergerac on! Idont like it, maybe I'm just not in the mood, I'll try again tomorrow, anyone else think its crap? I mean doesn't like it?:)

I have never heard it so can't comment on its quality. But it shows you are not the only person to have missed it. DSOTM on the other hand is essential listening.

[Joe]

I've never sat down and listened to it, but lots of my contemporaries owned it and so it was often playing in the background. Seemed pleasant-enough noodling but I didn't feel the urge to rush out and buy a copy.

[awkwardbydesign]

I bought the LP when it first came out. After a while I decided I didn't like it so I sold it. Then I bought again. And sold it. And again! I finally realised it flattered to deceive, so never bought it again. Slow learner. :rolleyes:
DSOM on the other hand IS good, just not as good as Wish You Were Here!

[Pieoftheday]

I have never heard it so can't comment on its quality. But it shows you are not the only person to have missed it. DSOTM on the other hand is essential listening.

Gordon, I'm pretty sure dark side will be more my thing, I'll def give tubular bells more time though, jim

[Pieoftheday]

I've never sat down and listened to it, but lots of my contemporaries owned it and so it was often playing in the background. Seemed pleasant-enough noodling but I didn't feel the urge to rush out and buy a copy.

I think only paid 3quid off that there bay,there had been something on sky arts about classic albums, critics n journalists gushing over it, I'd had a drink or two and hit the buy it now:doh:

[Pieoftheday]

I bought the LP when it first came out. After a while I decided I didn't like it so I sold it. Then I bought again. And sold it. And again! I finally realised it flattered to deceive, so never bought it again. Slow learner. :rolleyes:
DSOM on the other hand IS good, just not as good as Wish You Were Here!

Wish you were here is on my list, the first version of that song I heard was by the Catherine wheel on the album , like cats and dogs, brill

[walpurgis]

I try generally to avoid music 'the masses' are likely to want.

I was never keen on Dark Side of The Moon. After its release it spent years being played to death at audio shows. Tubular Bells is tedious, contrived and dirge like.

[Pieoftheday]

I try generally to avoid music 'the masses' are likely to want.

I was never keen on Dark Side of The Moon. After its release it spent years being played to death at audio shows. Tubular Bells is tedious, contrived and dirge like.

After just 7 minutes I was thinking similar thoughts,

[Gordon Steadman]

I bought the LP when it first came out. After a while I decided I didn't like it so I sold it. Then I bought again. And sold it. And again! I finally realised it flattered to deceive, so never bought it again. Slow learner. :rolleyes:
DSOM on the other hand IS good, just not as good as Wish You Were Here!

Very true. We play that all the time but Dark Side very occasionally nowadays. Still good though as you say.

[walpurgis]

After just 7 minutes I was thinking similar thoughts,

Cheer yourself up with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDiZG-eAk30

Not to everybody's taste maybe (I love it). But a brilliant recording that sounds incredible through big Tannoys.


Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Iow4cWvP0

Another superb recording.


If you listen to these through crummy little PC speakers, you just won't get it!

[awkwardbydesign]

I try generally to avoid music 'the masses' are likely to want.

That's a shame, as sometimes there is a reason why it's popular. Such as being damned good!
Apparently Solid Air has been played to death at hifi shows; I only discovered this recently, but I have loved the album since 1973. The fact that other people play it won't stop me.

[awkwardbydesign]

Cheer yourself up with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDiZG-eAk30

Not to everybody's taste maybe (I love it). But a brilliant recording that sounds incredible through big Tannoys.

Never really got into Raja Ram's ambient stuff, but his first band, Quintessence, was one of the best live bands of all time! Especially tripping. :smoking: They were local to us in the early '70s, and we still love their albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5TtdmUwcOU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YaKHFQEPD0

[Pieoftheday]

That's a shame, as sometimes there is a reason why it's popular. Such as being damned good!
Apparently Solid Air has been played to death at hifi shows; I only discovered this recently, but I have loved the album since 1973. The fact that other people play it won't stop me.

I use to not like stuff because it were popular,felt like I were been forced to like it, top 40 in 70s 80s! Now I like what I like, always good to find something relatively unknown though

[walpurgis]

I use to not like stuff because it were popular,felt like I were been forced to like it, top 40 in 70s 80s! Now I like what I like, always good to find something relatively unknown though

I have much the same view.

[awkwardbydesign]

I use to not like stuff because it were popular,felt like I were been forced to like it, top 40 in 70s 80s! Now I like what I like, always good to find something relatively unknown though


I have much the same view.
Try Suns of Arqa then, if you haven't already. I have 30 albums and counting!
http://www.sunsofarqa.co.uk/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA0IPZy3_mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22R5gbKd0WM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTeO1P18t30

[Gordon Steadman]

Cheer yourself up with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDiZG-eAk30

Not to everybody's taste maybe (I love it). But a brilliant recording that sounds incredible through big Tannoys.


Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Iow4cWvP0

Another superb recording.


If you listen to these through crummy little PC speakers, you just won't get it!
:hmm:

[Joe]

Very true. We play that all the time but Dark Side very occasionally nowadays. Still good though as you say.

Just not as good as 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'.

[ReggieB]

Tubular bells is one of the most over-rated albums out there. Repetitive twaddle.

[Barry]

Tubular bells is one of the most over-rated albums out there. Repetitive twaddle.

In you opinion of course!

I think 'Tubular Bells' is a most enjoyable LP; and I hasten to add, a rather good test record. Can you continue to hear all the instruments as they are introduced by Viv Stanshall? Do the tubular bells at the end sound distorted or loud and clear?

Regardless - it is a triumph of over dubbing, done long before Queen's 'A Night at the Opera'.

[Oldpinkman]

I like tubular bells. It may not be great in the way shine on you crazy diamond is, but it was the first lp I listened to that wasn't "top of the pops 11", and with the lights off, a few drugs...

But my favourite lights off, smelly burning sticks and nooky music is enigma mcmxc

[mikmas]

...look out for 'Tubucular Balls' by sax nutjob and former compadre of Oldfield, Lol Coxhill

- created using "Doubled and Echoed Flexatones" :lol:

[Gordon Steadman]

I've just downloaded Piper at the Gates of Dawn (hadn't heard it:o) and Tubular Bells and I will give a definitive verdict later. None of this IMO rubbish, I will tell you if they are any good. What you do with such information is entirely up to you:D

[Gordon Steadman]

Looking at the track list I realise that I have most of them on 'best of' so Piper at the gates of dawn gets a thumbs up but no, I don't think it's better than Wish you were here or even DSOTM.

As for Tubular Bells...........:comatose::comatose::comatose:

I'm not sure why I saved it to iTunes as it will never get played again.

[Macca]

Tubular Bells is a good example of music for people who don't really like music.

However good it may be as a test disc (a test of boredom threshold?) it really has no redeeming features as far as I can tell.

[Gordon Steadman]

Tubular Bells is a good example of music for people who don't really like music.

However good it may be as a test disc (a test of boredom threshold?) it really has no redeeming features as far as I can tell.

I tried Spongle too. Another test record with very few musical redeeming features that I could detect. Great sound but where does it head? Wallpaper musak just doesn't appeal to me I guess. Is this what they mean by ambient? Too old to know all the latest sub genres.

[Pieoftheday]

I tried again with tubular bells, really not my cuppa tea at all

[Haselsh1]

LOL... love it.

Tubular Bells is one of those albums I have always managed to avoid thankfully. The only few seconds I honestly love is 'Two slightly distorted guitars'.

Now as we briefly mentioned Enigma, I just so love their albums, any of them.

[Anthony K]

I preferred Tb2 and 3