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tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Oct. 23 2000, 15:23 This idea was brought up in the TB3 forum, but i think it would be interesting here as well. If you were to rename any of the albums, what would you call them? Would you rename any of them or leave the titles as is? -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Oct. 23 2000, 20:18 ALL RIGHT!! LET'S HAVE SOME FUN!!! Here are some of mine [please take 'em with a very big pinch of salt, I'm joking ...and please don't ask me "why this" and "why that" : they're just out of this moment's inspiration!! ] TB: The War of Heaven with Hell Ommadawn: 1) The entire phrase containing the title, i.e. "Ommadawn Eg Choil" 2) "I'd Like to Be on Horseback" Platinum: 1) "Soft-shoe Dancing" 2) "Tapping in The Dark" QE2: "Still Ruling the Waves" FMO: (also for the song): "Mayday Mayday Mayday" Crises: 1) "Moonlight" 2) "The Moon Watcher" EM: "Holy Songs" Amarok: THE MASTERPIECE!!! TB2: The War of Heaven with Hell, Episode II: Hell Strikes Back (I'm a huge Star Wars fan!) TB3: The War of Heaven with Hell, Episode III: The Triumph of Heaven [of course!!! ] To the TW forum members: please add! [This message has been edited by Ugo (edited 10-23-2000).] -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Oct. 23 2000, 20:54 OK, OK, all right. Before anyone asks, here's "why"... As I said, the whole thing was a joke, which was in turn stimulated by a moment's inspiration after reading Tubulabills' message. So I simply gave a quick look at my Oldfield collection and came up with the titles. In particular: The TB trilogy immediately reminded me of the classic Star Wars trilogy, because I always saw the music in those albums as a kind of musical battle between good and evil forces, always ending with the 'good guys' winning. So: TB1 is dramatic, from its very beginning, and ends very cheerfully. TB2, IMHO, is slightly more dramatic and ends a little bit less happily than TB1; finally, TB3 is the most mood-varied album of the trilogy, and it ends in what I consider a very triumph-like climax [despite the child's voice...see my posts in the "Sound of too boo lar bells" topic, TBIII forum ] Whoever knows the Star Wars movies will realize that their cinematic content is more or less the same as the musical content of the three TBs. All the other titles, except of course Amarok, were born out of mental associations between the real titles and the cover images. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Blue Dolphin Group: Members Posts: 1232 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Oct. 24 2000, 20:06 Hergest Ridge: doggie on the grass ( ) Platinum: Heeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaahooooooooww (Platinum part 4 ) Crises: You can't get away Crises: Watcher and tower Discovery: Give me some truth Earth Moving: Bridge to far country Amarok: I'm busy Amarok: Happy now? -------------- -The mark of a good musician is to play one note and mean it- Mike Oldfield - 1980 Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Oct. 25 2000, 16:04 Dolphin ---> The choir on Pl. 4 actually says "We are home". Listen to it more carefully...also the solo voice version of it on The Complete...and you'll realize that there are words, and they are "We are home". A friend of mine, who knows very well Philip Glass' North Star (the piece which this was taken from) also says it's "We are home". "We are home" also sounds to me as a very good alternative title for Platinum Part 4. Oh, and another one for EM (based on the cover): Floating Songs. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Oct. 25 2000, 16:39 If i was to rename any of them, i'd do the following: Voyager: Ireland's Calling The Songs of Distant Earth: Songs of THE Distant Earth (it just sounds better that way!!!!!!) What would be kind of cool, if he made an album like Guitars, only in Piano. -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

Pacha Daddy Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: Sep. 2000 Posted: Oct. 27 2000, 12:16 Here's a few: TB: No, It's NOT 'The Exorcist Theme' TB2: No, It's STILL NOT 'The Exorcist Theme' TB3: Get Off the Whole 'Exorcist' Thing, Okay? Voyager: Men Without Shirts SODE: More Interesting Than the Book Heaven's Open: Giving Ricky the Finger Amarok: Aliens Broke Into My Studio Back to top

CarstenKuss Group: Musicians Posts: 362 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Oct. 27 2000, 16:05 Are we in Criticism & Humour?... Yes we are! OK!!!!! TMB: A Momentary Lapse Of Reason -------------- -Carsten- Back to top

Jammer Group: Members Posts: 643 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Oct. 27 2000, 19:33 Tubular Bells: Breakfast in bed Tubular Bells II: Breakfast in bed II, the second helping Tubular Bells III: No thanks, I'm full Platinum: The cruelty to innocent butterflies Take it away Not airborne anymore thanks to a puddle of molten metal Five miles out: Five miles *up* The family man goes flying above Mount Teidi The eye to Ireland [any of the techie spiel used in FMO] Crises: In high places; Shadow on the sea Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Oct. 28 2000, 20:54 On behalf of the CDDB system, I'd like to offer... Amarok: Sounds of a crackling fireplace (and no, I don't know what it means either...) And while we're taking inspiration from the covers... Incantations: "Oh I do like to be beside the seaside..." Heaven's Open: "Are you sure you cooked that egg properly?" Ok so they wouldn't sit too well as album names but there you have it (if we're onto making concise titles, we could shorten Earth Moving to 'Earthquake!!' although it might lose some subtlety in the process...). Back to top

TimHighfield Group: Members Posts: 543 Joined: Oct. 2000 Posted: Nov. 03 2000, 06:31 Bad pun time: The Complete Mike Oldfield: Swallow-ed Up (groan, as opposed to the infamous Swollowed Up By A Big Fat Snake that I have heard much about at another Mike Oldfield site and that I am not advertising) -Tim- Back to top

Man In Rain Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: Sep. 2000 Posted: Nov. 05 2000, 05:10 TB2 > Golden Bells TB3 > Bells in Rain TMB > Without Bells FMO > Code 7700 Crises > The Mystery Amarok > Son Dela Back to top

Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: Dec. 05 2000, 18:27 Oh m'eye friend Tub'l'are'beels! Thanks four you're topeak, it just inspires m'eye imagin' nation...hummm...let's sea... Oh K.! TB -- The Dawn HR -- Bootleg's Sights Ommadawn -- Amadian Om Collaborations -- Old Field&Friends Incantations -- Across The Seas Platinum -- Butterfly's Dances QE2 -- The Great Boat FMO -- Across The Skies Crises -- Moonspell Discovery -- The Lake TKF -- Killing Fields (only for changing) Islands -- Isles (...) Earth Moving -- I'm Drawning Heaven's Open -- Not Virgin! .......................................... TB2 -- New Dawning TSODE -- Songs Of The Distant Earth (your write, tbills!) Voyager -- Celtic Voyage TB3 -- Eternal Dawning Guitars -- Gits TMB -- The Dawning Of A New Millenniumm .......................................... Albums to come (see my reply to TB4? topic): HR2 -- CD's Sight Flanger -- Phaser Sigh of Grace -- Songs Of THE Nearby Earth (the other) -- Blue Cover I hope you like my titles, I think 1s are better than others, but...just makin'litttlefun...! Thanks, Tubularbills for your grate I.D.I.! Delfín -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

Archangel Foster Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: Oct. 2000 Posted: Dec. 17 2000, 12:16 TSODE: I'd rather be flying through space... Back to top

Pikalcazar Group: Members Posts: 93 Joined: Oct. 2000 Posted: Dec. 19 2000, 16:55 FUUUN !! FUUUUUN!! This isn't Gen. Comments, it's Criticist & Humour! Ok, here are my opinions: TB3: Twisted Bell agn TB2: Da' Yellow Bell TB: Up to 13 million copies TSODE: New Millennium Music Voy: Britanic Islands FMO: Crassshhh!!! XDDD Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Aug. 08 2001, 19:46 This idea just popped into my head while i was browsing the boards. I remember before TMB was released there was some debate on what the album should be called. The only two options were "The Millennium Bell" and "Saqsaywaman" (i remember this because someone made the comment that if you said it fast a couple times it sounds like 'sex-ay woman'). Now that the album has been out for quite some time, i have a question to ask: for those who wanted the album to be called "TMB" do you think it should have called Saqsaywaman instead of TMB? There seems to be quite a dispute on calling this album a "bell" album. -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

TimHighfield Group: Members Posts: 543 Joined: Oct. 2000 Posted: Aug. 16 2001, 06:35 Well, if you look at it like that, two of the most popular albums (you know which ones) are words from a LOTE, so calling an album Saqsaywaman wouldn't be anything new...except for a change in language. But personally, I don't think it would be any better. Maybe it's just the eternal pessimist in me, but any album that can be interpreted as being called "Sexy Woman" would not be as great as it could be in my mind because of the title (this coming from someone who thinks the title is the most important aspect in writing Lit. essays (as long as it has a bad pun/other play on words in it)). I'm not a huge fan of Pacha Mama anyway, which is probably affecting my judgement, but I don't think that Saqsaywaman is a good alternative. It's not a Bell album, but it's been called that and we're stuck with that title. Unless something really really really drastic happens. And it probably won't. A good alternative title? I don't know, and it's too late anyway. -Tim- Back to top

Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: Sep. 16 2004, 07:40 O.K., so I'd like to complete my list of alternate names for the new albums: Tres Lunas --- Dos Lunas (that's the real name of the bar in Ibiza) Tubular Bells 2003 --- Return to the Beginning By the way. I'm sorry cos my premonitions about Hergest Ridge 2 and other albums didn't come true - so far. It's just he's accumulating all the works to release them all together in one year's time... wait and see!!! By the way, I saw in a dream the title of the new cover: it is called Atlantis. Have a good time. -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Sep. 16 2004, 08:04 Where has this thread been all this time? Ok, my turn to have some snide fun: Tubular Bells II: "Synthesized Bells" Tubular Bells III: "Sampled Bells" Tr3s Lunas: "Synthesizers" (the perfect follow-up to Guitars) Five Miles Out: "Cruising On Autopilot" The Songs Of Distant Earth: "I knew movies were always worse than the books, but this is ridiculous." Heaven's Open: "And you can all go to Hell." Crises: "Crises? What Crises?" (get the reference! ) Boxed: "Quadrophenia" Half of these suck, but hey, I'm bored. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Sep. 16 2004, 10:03 Tubular Bells - "SLOGGOGH WAKHHH" Ommadawn - "Some Make Cars" Crises - "Winter Brain and Saw" Five Miles Out - "Don't come in again like that" -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

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