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First Released
1973
Progressive Rock
Reflective
Rock/Pop
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15,000,000 copies
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Tubular Bells ist das Debütalbum des britischen Musikers Mike Oldfield. Das im Jahr 1973 veröffentlichte Album gilt als stilprägendes Werk des Progressive Rock. Es besteht aus zwei Teilen, welche jeweils eine LP-Seite ausfüllen. Der damals 20-jährige Oldfield spielte fast alle Instrumente selbst ein. Tubular Bells war das erste Album, das unter dem Label Virgin Records veröffentlicht wurde.
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The opening sequence of Tubular Bells is most widely known as The Exorcist's foreboding theme, but many of this album's freakiest moments come much later. Recorded by 19-year-old English prodigy Mike Oldfield, two 20-minute-plus sections play out variations on almost every theme that could form in the head of a young LSD voyager. "We wouldn't have all those beautiful tracks like 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,' and we probably wouldn't have Tubular Bells — a lot of things, really — without drugs," Oldfield later told The Guardian. The first half employs ambient soundscapes, guitar riffage and a section where "master of ceremonies" Vivian Stanshall mock-pretentiously introduces an array of instruments — "glockenspiel!" and "two slightly. . .distorted guitars" — à la the Bonzo Dog Band. In part two, Oldfield totally loses his shit, as phlegmy, drunken grunts and howls over otherwise upbeat symphonic rock leads into "The Sailor's Hornpipe," better known as the seafaring song popularly used in Popeye cartoons. R.F.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-greatest-prog-rock-albums-of-all-time-20150617/mike-oldfield-tubular-bells-1973-20150617
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Tubular Bells ist das Debütalbum des britischen Musikers Mike Oldfield. Das im Jahr 1973 veröffentlichte Album gilt als stilprägendes Werk des Progressive Rock. Es besteht aus zwei Teilen, welche jeweils eine LP-Seite ausfüllen. Der damals 20-jährige Oldfield spielte fast alle Instrumente selbst ein. Tubular Bells war das erste Album, das unter dem Label Virgin Records veröffentlicht wurde.
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The opening sequence of Tubular Bells is most widely known as The Exorcist's foreboding theme, but many of this album's freakiest moments come much later. Recorded by 19-year-old English prodigy Mike Oldfield, two 20-minute-plus sections play out variations on almost every theme that could form in the head of a young LSD voyager. "We wouldn't have all those beautiful tracks like 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,' and we probably wouldn't have Tubular Bells — a lot of things, really — without drugs," Oldfield later told The Guardian. The first half employs ambient soundscapes, guitar riffage and a section where "master of ceremonies" Vivian Stanshall mock-pretentiously introduces an array of instruments — "glockenspiel!" and "two slightly. . .distorted guitars" — à la the Bonzo Dog Band. In part two, Oldfield totally loses his shit, as phlegmy, drunken grunts and howls over otherwise upbeat symphonic rock leads into "The Sailor's Hornpipe," better known as the seafaring song popularly used in Popeye cartoons. R.F.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-greatest-prog-rock-albums-of-all-time-20150617/mike-oldfield-tubular-bells-1973-20150617
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One of the all time classic albums