Album Rating: 4.0

i can see it being good driving music in some strange way

Album Rating: 5.0

It was, "People Are Strange" ;)

Album Rating: 4.0

It's so nursery..



The cow says moo.. And now - the mandolin! Where is our mandolin? Here it is! ding-ding-ding-ding....



Somebody please give MIDI keyboard to this poor guy.

Album Rating: 4.0

Slightly muted spanish acoustic guitar being played by a little person riding a unicycle whilst also playing a trombone and balancing a cup of tea and saucer on his head whilst writing a Murphy Brown.

Album Rating: 4.0

What the fuck is happening in the last eleven minutes of this album? It sounds like the fucking cookie monster has a guest spot.

Album Rating: 4.0

The first five minutes: wonderful, classic, iconic.



The rest: piffle.

Album Rating: 4.0

The music is quite good but the vibe is so plummy and pretentious it undermines the album. By the penultimate movement of part one - when a pie eating voice starts introducing different instruments "two ~slightly~ distorted guitars" - I came to a conclusion: Mike Oldfield almost certainly went to a English private school (i was right!). What a load of self-conceited, posh nonsense this album is!

Album Rating: 4.0

Once the music everyone knows from The Exorcist passes what do you get? A young lad futzing around with a bunch of instruments and for the second half, a series of aggressive caveman grunts(?). It's alright but feels somewhat lightweight compared to much of its prog rock contemporaries.

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm afraid that as it stands, Tubular Bells is remarkably unpalatable. The introduction is almost 4 minutes long, repeating the same initial riff ad. infinitum. I can tolerate some repetition as long as it's used for creative effect; but I see no real purpose behind it in this instance except to lengthen the recording. And the rest is rather dull: instruments are introduced by a narrator (Vivian Stanshall, formerly of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band) in an undeniably annoying manner. While I can appreciate the skill behind the conception and utilisation of such a miniature symphony, this is RateYourMusic, not RateYourMike Oldfield.



Perhaps I haven't devoted enough time to this album (I have listened to it through twice); perhaps, with my lack of musically critical expertise, I fail to appreciate the subtle balance that this album remarkably achieves; perhaps I don't comprehend the scope of its innovation and the extent of its influence; or maybe it's simply down to the fact that I cannot understand the deeper meaning behind the thing... it matters little. To me, Tubular Bells is an incredibly boring experience that really doesn't deserve any more of my hard-earned listening time.

Album Rating: 4.5

i recorded a shoddy remix of this album last year. was fun reversing and engineering the fuck out of the song

Album Rating: 4.0

I suppose one of the reason why I rate this album poorly is the over-exposition of such a musical idea-poor album: a few good ideas but greatly overly-extended and an incredibly cheesy instrument announcement part around the close of the side 1 of the album. As if we b-needed him to know what a grand piano or a slightly distorted guitar is.... Let's face it: very few albums managed such a great commercial success on so few ambient ideas. As the little old lady once said about her hamburger: Where's the beef?????? Oh, yeah, although there are some slight folk influences (Mike was in a folk-rock band Sallyangie with his sister Sally at the start of the 70's) throughout the whole album, they become insufferable in the semi-jig-like finale

Album Rating: 4.0

As the little old lady once said about her hamburger: Where's the beef??????

Album Rating: 4.0

Created in 1973, Tubular Bells is the contemporary of PINK FLOYD's Dark Side of the Moon, but while undoubtedly groundbreaking for its time in many ways, the album as a whole lacks the sort of timelessness of the PINK FLOYD album. This music is very pattern-oriented in the way of modern classical musician Steve Reich rather than relying on more traditional soloing. From a sound quality perspective, the mix seems very quiet and in some places the synths cause very odd effects, getting too buzzy for my taste, and sometimes even seeming a bit off key. On the positive side, I give OLDFIELD a lot of credit for being able to put so many parts together in synch with each other without modern technology at his disposal--it must've been a real accomplishment.

Album Rating: 4.0

Some albums just rub you the wrong way. Tubular Bells is one of those with me.

Do you wonder what would happen if you had the band room to yourself in middle school? I think this is what happened with Mike Oldfield. Hey, listen to the cool sound I can make with this wood block! Listen to this to this little tune I just came up with! Isn't that great?! How about this sound---it's called a tubular bell! Neat!



(The irony for me is that Richard Branson encouraged this and somehow made the resulting album a cult classic. I attribute this more to marketing than musical quality.)

Album Rating: 4.0

As far as developing a musical theme goes, this album is more than okay.

Album Rating: 4.0

>i recorded a shoddy remix of this album last year. was fun reversing and engineering the fuck out of the song





woah do u still have that. can u talk about it

Album Rating: 4.5

still goated

Album Rating: 4.0

ja me gusta

Album Rating: 5.0

I never got your prev avi leddd, that s weird too, but perhaps not as much (?)

Album Rating: 5.0

@FR33LORD

"Had it on vinyl in early 80s."

I was born in 83. How old is FR33LORD tho? How old are the rest of you? Park, Ghandi show us your balls.