Tubular Bells

[Baclava]

Am I the only one still listening to this?

[MN ChimpH8R]

1. Try Ommadawn

Oldfield's third album. Still a great piece of music 30 years later.

[Atlas Mugged]

3. I prefer 'Incantations'

I love his take on the 'Song Of Hiawatha'.

Actually, I have a lot of his stuff. And I'm no fan of "new age", at all. I just like Oldfield.

[Felix Mala]

2. Gives me the heeby-jeebies whenever I hear it.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Nope. It's Great Listening During A Flight

My friend listens to his CD in the car. So, there's at least two more of us.
The Professor

[redqueen]

5. Nope!

I love it.

[Atlas Mugged]

6. To directly answer your question

You're not alone. I even have his remake of it.

[edbermac]

7. Me !!!!!! I love Mike !!!!

I have the original, the remaster, the Boxed remix, and his 2003 remake, I have all but 2 or 3 of his CD's...also like Hergest Ridge, TB2, Five Miles Out and Amarok...

[Chichiri]

11. I have all of his albums.

I'm a total Mike-head.

[edbermac]

12. I don't have The Killing Fields soundtrack...

I saw the movie and was surprised when I saw him credited because it didn't really sound like him; also don't have Complete MO and Essential MO compilations, got all the rest...and waiting for his Light and Shade CD next month...

[TrogL]

13. I feel old

I've used one of those 4-track decks.

[Chichiri]

8. Not at all. Mike Oldfield is the man.

Always has been, always will be.

[supernova]

9. I love it

but it's been a while since I've listened to it. I'll have to get it out again.

[Reciprocity]

10. I had the album and now the CD.

[bikebloke]

14. Thanks for the reminder

I'll have to pull my box of cassettes out of the closet. It's been so many years since I listened to Mike Oldfield. I also have a Sally Oldfield tape that has some good songs. When I first started buying music, I bought only "new age" (before they called it so) because everything else, I could hear on the radio. Though once and a while they'd play it on the old WHFS and WGTB (DC area).

[swag]

15. It's pronounced "tube-lee-ur"

Substitute the "schwa" symbol for that "ur"

[Baclava]

16. Cool.......I bet y'all have drip candles in your past too...

It's OK ... I still listen to Black Sabbath too....

[TrogL]

17. are there actually any "tubular bells" played on the album?

Officially they're called "orchestral chimes".

...and why'd he bend one into a pretzel for the front cover?

[Baclava]

18. He played all the instruments on the album

...totally, eh?

[El Supremo]

19. Fenway Park plays it all the time.

I heard it during a rain delay last week.

[Baclava]

20. Thanks all...

I thought maybe I was the last hippie left alive...:-)