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First Released
1973
Progressive Rock
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Rock/Pop
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15,000,000 copies
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Sorti en 1973 sur le tout nouveau label Virgin, Tubular Bells est le premier album studio de Mike Oldfield.
Composé et enregistré par l'artiste alors âgé de 19 ans, cet opus instrumental ambitieux, mêlant rock progressif, musique minimaliste et textures classiques, a propulsé le musicien vers une renommée mondiale.
Le succès fut massif, notamment après l'utilisation de son ouverture iconique dans le film L'Exorciste. Véritable tour de force technique, l'album repose sur une stratification méticuleuse d'instruments joués par Oldfield lui-même.
Il demeure l'un des disques les plus vendus de l'histoire, posant les fondations de l'empire Virgin et redéfinissant les possibilités sonores du rock de l'époque.
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The opening sequence of Tubular Bells is most widely known as The Exorcist's foreboding theme, but many of this album's freakiest moments come much later. Recorded by 19-year-old English prodigy Mike Oldfield, two 20-minute-plus sections play out variations on almost every theme that could form in the head of a young LSD voyager. "We wouldn't have all those beautiful tracks like 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,' and we probably wouldn't have Tubular Bells — a lot of things, really — without drugs," Oldfield later told The Guardian. The first half employs ambient soundscapes, guitar riffage and a section where "master of ceremonies" Vivian Stanshall mock-pretentiously introduces an array of instruments — "glockenspiel!" and "two slightly. . .distorted guitars" — à la the Bonzo Dog Band. In part two, Oldfield totally loses his shit, as phlegmy, drunken grunts and howls over otherwise upbeat symphonic rock leads into "The Sailor's Hornpipe," better known as the seafaring song popularly used in Popeye cartoons. R.F.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-greatest-prog-rock-albums-of-all-time-20150617/mike-oldfield-tubular-bells-1973-20150617
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Sorti en 1973 sur le tout nouveau label Virgin, Tubular Bells est le premier album studio de Mike Oldfield.
Composé et enregistré par l'artiste alors âgé de 19 ans, cet opus instrumental ambitieux, mêlant rock progressif, musique minimaliste et textures classiques, a propulsé le musicien vers une renommée mondiale.
Le succès fut massif, notamment après l'utilisation de son ouverture iconique dans le film L'Exorciste. Véritable tour de force technique, l'album repose sur une stratification méticuleuse d'instruments joués par Oldfield lui-même.
Il demeure l'un des disques les plus vendus de l'histoire, posant les fondations de l'empire Virgin et redéfinissant les possibilités sonores du rock de l'époque.
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The opening sequence of Tubular Bells is most widely known as The Exorcist's foreboding theme, but many of this album's freakiest moments come much later. Recorded by 19-year-old English prodigy Mike Oldfield, two 20-minute-plus sections play out variations on almost every theme that could form in the head of a young LSD voyager. "We wouldn't have all those beautiful tracks like 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,' and we probably wouldn't have Tubular Bells — a lot of things, really — without drugs," Oldfield later told The Guardian. The first half employs ambient soundscapes, guitar riffage and a section where "master of ceremonies" Vivian Stanshall mock-pretentiously introduces an array of instruments — "glockenspiel!" and "two slightly. . .distorted guitars" — à la the Bonzo Dog Band. In part two, Oldfield totally loses his shit, as phlegmy, drunken grunts and howls over otherwise upbeat symphonic rock leads into "The Sailor's Hornpipe," better known as the seafaring song popularly used in Popeye cartoons. R.F.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-greatest-prog-rock-albums-of-all-time-20150617/mike-oldfield-tubular-bells-1973-20150617
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One of the all time classic albums