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The Best of Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield
Released: 2001
A shifting labyrinth of complex orchestral pop beckons you on a two-part 1973 suite of mostly instrumental music that goes well beyond the familiar tinkling melody of its opening section. Oldfield—a prodigious talent who wrote his first songs at the age of nine—plays 20 instruments throughout, including the titular bells, and the scope is staggering. Spanish guitar flickers, ambient moments materialise and it all builds to a finger-plucked, deliciously proggy finale.
Track List
1Tubular Bells, Part 1 (original edit)4:42
2Tubular Bells, Part 1 (orchestral edit)3:15
3Tubular Bells, Part 1 (original edit)3:48
4Tubular Bells, Part 1 (Exposed edit)3:21
5Tubular Bells, Part 1 (original edit)8:30
6Tubular Bells, Part 2: "The Caveman Song" (original edit)4:47
7Tubular Bells, Part 2 (Exposed edit)4:15
8Sentinel (Tubular Bells II)8:08
9The Bell (Tubular Bells II)6:59
10Far Above the Clouds (Tubular Bells III)5:28
11The Millenium Bell (The Millenium Bell)7:32
12Tubular Bells, Part 2: "Sailors Hornpipe" (original edit)1:36
