Mike Oldfield's Albums

Tubular Bells III (1998)  

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 18 2020 at 01:43

Rednight wrote: Never gave much consideration to Oldfield's music. He did cover a Hall and Oates tune (cheeky fellow). By the way, your wordplay has grown precious and taxing.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Rednight wrote: Never gave much consideration to Oldfield's music. He did cover a Hall and Oates tune (cheeky fellow). By the way, your wordplay has grown precious and taxing.   Thanks. The tricky part in the intro was weaving all of Mike Oldfield's album titles into the storyline in chronological sequence.

I do admire your resolve. Cheerio!

Guitars (1999)  

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 18 2020 at 01:42

Rednight wrote: Never gave much consideration to Oldfield's music. He did cover a Hall and Oates tune (cheeky fellow). By the way, your wordplay has grown precious and taxing.

^ I'd personally scrape off Millennium Bell but add Amarok


Edited by thief - August 18 2020 at 03:00

The Art in Heaven - Live in Berlin 2000

Tubular Bells 2003 - featuring Master of Ceremonies, John Cleese!

^ I didn't know Alan Rickman was Master of Ceremonies on Tubular Bells II. I thought that was John Gordon Sinclair, although maybe I'm confusing the album with Tubular Bells III.

I have to be honest about the 2003 version of Tubular Bells, having just heard it for the first time: it's like a carbon copy of the original 1973 version  and doesn't really add anything to it at all. The only major difference is John Cleese acting as Master of Ceremonies instead of Vivian Stanshall, which is not necessarily a good thing. Maybe I was expecting another masterpiece like Tubular Bells II or III, so I couldn't help feeling disappointed. One thing's for sure, I would have been upset if I'd gone out and bought the almost identical Tubular Bells 2003 when I already have the original version. To be brutally honest, it was a pointless remake of a classic album.