Transmogrified Tiger wrote:No kidding, it's a wicked blustery day.planet pujolsian wrote:Beautiful day for baseball in St. Lou! Should be a windy one.
at TT's sig. AHHH NEED BASEBALL TO START NOW.
Guess what, guys.
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Jmodene
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Cronos - before I forget, I wanted to thank you for the Mike Oldfield mention in your sig; I just got the re-make of "Tubular Bells" in the mail this week and it's marvelous (although I still kind of prefer the original, which I already had) - I've never quite figured out, though, what that Klingon opera was doing in there after the Scottish bit. 
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I played this song about ten times today
Well, beat the drum and hold the phone - the sun came out today!
We're born again, there's new grass on the field.
A-roundin' third, and headed for home, it's a brown-eyed handsome man;
Anyone can understand the way I feel.
Oh, put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Look at me, I can be Centerfield.
Well, I spent some time in the Mudville Nine, watchin' it from the bench;
You know I took some lumps when the Mighty Casey struck out.
So Say Hey Willie, tell Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio;
Don't say "it ain't so", you know the time is now.
Oh, put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Look at me, I can be Centerfield.
Yeah! I got it, I got it!
Got a beat-up glove, a homemade bat, and brand-new pair of shoes;
You know I think it's time to give this game a ride.
Just to hit the ball and touch 'em all - a moment in the sun;
(pop) It's gone and you can tell that one goodbye!
Oh, put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Look at me, I can be Centerfield.
Oh, put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Look at me, I can be Centerfield.
Yeah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjMtgxg9FQo
Well, beat the drum and hold the phone - the sun came out today!
We're born again, there's new grass on the field.
A-roundin' third, and headed for home, it's a brown-eyed handsome man;
Anyone can understand the way I feel.
Oh, put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Look at me, I can be Centerfield.
Well, I spent some time in the Mudville Nine, watchin' it from the bench;
You know I took some lumps when the Mighty Casey struck out.
So Say Hey Willie, tell Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio;
Don't say "it ain't so", you know the time is now.
Oh, put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Look at me, I can be Centerfield.
Yeah! I got it, I got it!
Got a beat-up glove, a homemade bat, and brand-new pair of shoes;
You know I think it's time to give this game a ride.
Just to hit the ball and touch 'em all - a moment in the sun;
(pop) It's gone and you can tell that one goodbye!
Oh, put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Look at me, I can be Centerfield.
Oh, put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Look at me, I can be Centerfield.
Yeah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjMtgxg9FQo
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Cronos
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I still have to get the re-make of Tubular Bells. I heard a portion of it on youtube and it's an interestingly different take on it; he said it's the kind of sound he wanted to make for it in the original when the synthesizer technology wasn't available yet. I'll have to order that one sometime soon(I'm trying to complete my collection, I have just about every other album he's made).Jmodene wrote:Cronos - before I forget, I wanted to thank you for the Mike Oldfield mention in your sig; I just got the re-make of "Tubular Bells" in the mail this week and it's marvelous (although I still kind of prefer the original, which I already had) - I've never quite figured out, though, what that Klingon opera was doing in there after the Scottish bit.
Give Tubular Bells 2 a try sometime. It's almost like another version of #1; he wanted to follow the same formula, so to speak, and Tubular Bells 2 is what really got me into Mike back in the day. Plus, it's got an even more hilarious version of that klingon opera(well put, by the way) which he calls "The Piltdown Man".
But the old blighter is still making amazing music, a career 34 years strong(that's him in my avatar as well, if that wasn't easy to deduce). Glad someone else knows of him and appreciates him as I do.
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Jmodene
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'Preciate the headup on TB2. I'll see if I can't find it somewhere.
The sound on the new version (Tubular Bells 2003) is definitely richer, and the differences (while obvious to someone who's listened to the original dozens, if not hundreds, of times) are interesting; the only ones I didn't like was his going into spanish guitar in the middle of the scottish thing - tended to ruin the pulsing "drive" of the piece, which is one of my favorites - and the new narration for the parade of instruments, going from the understated narration of Stanshall to the overacting of Cleese.
Then again, when I think of it, using Cleese at the end of the first half is no less silly - and thus workable - than the sailor thing at the end of the second half, which cracked me up when I first listened to the album many years ago - it punctured any potential pretentiousness right out of it and left me feeling very good about the whole experience, so perhaps Cleese's version will grow on me. "Grrrrrrraand piano", indeed!
Try listening to the set while drifting off to sleep (especially the Part 1 finale, which has also been known to reduce me to tears by the time the chorus kicks in after the bells); it's an otherworldly experience you can't imagine. Also, for those who've been to then-Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix - they used to play an instrumental theme as they would close the roof prior to a ballgame that was very reminiscent of the Scottish thing from Part 2.
Somewhere, in a box buried deep in my garage or spare bedroom, I've got "The Space Movie", recorded off Showtime or somewhere, which uses much of Tubular Bells as the soundtrack.
A true masterpiece. And a real head-turner when I'm playing it on my car stereo.
The sound on the new version (Tubular Bells 2003) is definitely richer, and the differences (while obvious to someone who's listened to the original dozens, if not hundreds, of times) are interesting; the only ones I didn't like was his going into spanish guitar in the middle of the scottish thing - tended to ruin the pulsing "drive" of the piece, which is one of my favorites - and the new narration for the parade of instruments, going from the understated narration of Stanshall to the overacting of Cleese.
Then again, when I think of it, using Cleese at the end of the first half is no less silly - and thus workable - than the sailor thing at the end of the second half, which cracked me up when I first listened to the album many years ago - it punctured any potential pretentiousness right out of it and left me feeling very good about the whole experience, so perhaps Cleese's version will grow on me. "Grrrrrrraand piano", indeed!
Try listening to the set while drifting off to sleep (especially the Part 1 finale, which has also been known to reduce me to tears by the time the chorus kicks in after the bells); it's an otherworldly experience you can't imagine. Also, for those who've been to then-Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix - they used to play an instrumental theme as they would close the roof prior to a ballgame that was very reminiscent of the Scottish thing from Part 2.
Somewhere, in a box buried deep in my garage or spare bedroom, I've got "The Space Movie", recorded off Showtime or somewhere, which uses much of Tubular Bells as the soundtrack.
A true masterpiece. And a real head-turner when I'm playing it on my car stereo.
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Cronos
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It's amazing stuff. If you want to find any of the albums, I got most all of them off of Amazon. Really cheap, typically re-mastered(some people don't like it that way, but I do), and pretty readily available.Jmodene wrote:'Preciate the headup on TB2. I'll see if I can't find it somewhere.
The sound on the new version (Tubular Bells 2003) is definitely richer, and the differences (while obvious to someone who's listened to the original dozens, if not hundreds, of times) are interesting; the only ones I didn't like was his going into spanish guitar in the middle of the scottish thing - tended to ruin the pulsing "drive" of the piece, which is one of my favorites - and the new narration for the parade of instruments, going from the understated narration of Stanshall to the overacting of Cleese.
Then again, when I think of it, using Cleese at the end of the first half is no less silly - and thus workable - than the sailor thing at the end of the second half, which cracked me up when I first listened to the album many years ago - it punctured any potential pretentiousness right out of it and left me feeling very good about the whole experience, so perhaps Cleese's version will grow on me. "Grrrrrrraand piano", indeed!
Try listening to the set while drifting off to sleep (especially the Part 1 finale, which has also been known to reduce me to tears by the time the chorus kicks in after the bells); it's an otherworldly experience you can't imagine. Also, for those who've been to then-Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix - they used to play an instrumental theme as they would close the roof prior to a ballgame that was very reminiscent of the Scottish thing from Part 2.
Somewhere, in a box buried deep in my garage or spare bedroom, I've got "The Space Movie", recorded off Showtime or somewhere, which uses much of Tubular Bells as the soundtrack.
A true masterpiece. And a real head-turner when I'm playing it on my car stereo.
And they used to play Tubular Bells at Fenway either before or after games; I remember hearing it on one ESPN broadcast. I don't know if they still do.
OMG ONLY AN HOUR TO GO!!! Pre-game time! I bought me some beer and I'm grilling me some ballpark franks as we speak!!
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TB 2 is about an hour in length(I just pulled it up in winamp: 58:41 to be exact), and each half of TB 1 was about 20 something minutes, so that's about right. It also is basically split into two halves(which will be easy to hear if you're familiar with 1) though Mike was forced to split it up into tracks due to demands by the Virgin record label. If you rip it to your hard drive like I do with every CD I buy, rip the entire album as one song for it to make total sense, or listen to the CD the whole way through in one go, don't try to listen to the tracks individually. It's impossible to get the idea of the composition that way.Jmodene wrote:Found TB2 on Ebay; should get it in a week or two. Looking forward to it; Wikipedia notes it's about 20 minutes longer than the original. Is that right?
He gets a bit more eccentric than typical at the end, but Tubular Bells 2 is really what got me hooked on Mike Oldfield. Enjoy it, and let me know what you thought of it!
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And that pic is what I'm doing right now, sighyoung...and how I'm feeling, for that matter.