Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells

[half & half derby scarf]

Ommadawn & Hergest Ridge are the ones I go back to the most but I think that's probably due to overplaying TB.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Can you give me a minute/section anywhere else on it that is better than the first 4.
I’ll be really keen to have a listen.

Whole album is brilliant but in answer to your question, I have a memory of BBC using the piece from about 8:45 to 9:40 for what in my mind was the Winter Olympics but they were 1972 and 1976 and the album came out in 1973. So I had it in my head as 1973/4
Could have been Ski Sunday or the likes but they showed this clip of downhill alpine skiing and the crescendo around 9:18 as the guy came over the hill in slow motion always stuck in my head. Really emotional and as an impressionable 10/11 year old I was in awe.
Love the album still.

 

[idahoblues]

Was Maggie Reilly on the album? I know she was involved with some of his later stuff

 

[Bill Walker]

Was Maggie Reilly on the album? I know she was involved with some of his later stuff

No

 

[Bill Walker]

I liked his later album also ...Crisis

That's hard Maggie Reilly warbling on it I believe, something about a moonlight shadow.

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

Haha
Sitting down and writing out the names and titles of 100 LPs or Movies to some people is akin to be forced to writing an essay about Shakespeare's King Lear at school.
A list that you know only one person will read and then it will be discarded forever.

You need to read the not so small print. You only needed to list your top 20, from which @BlueHammer85 compiles the top 100!!

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Ommadawn & Hergest Ridge are the ones I go back to the most but I think that's probably due to overplaying TB.

TB3 is decent, and some of the covers done by others of TB1 are excellent, think there's a guitar only one out there, but like you I keep going back to Ommadawn. Never liked Hergest Ridge though. Amarok is another favourite, plus Crises, QE2, Platinum, Guitars - I'm a big fan of his.

 

[Bill Walker]

You need to read the not so small print. You only needed to list your top 20, from which @BlueHammer85 compiles the top 100!!

My top 20 would change daily haha

 

[Saddleworth2]

Not my fave album. Good for showing off a good hifi though. Can't remember the last time I played it.

 

[bluebaja]

This is an excellent BBC doco about the making of Tubular Bells, fantastic album I've always loved.
Mike was quite a strange guy in those days.

I have seen that before, good watch.