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Question: Favorite Version of TB Intro :: Total Votes:13 Poll choices Votes Statistics 1. Introduction - Tubular Bells (1973) 7  [53.85%] 2. Introduction - Orchestral Tubular Bells (1975) 0  [0.00%] 3. Early Stages - Tubular Bells II demo (?) 1  [7.69%] 4. Sentinel - Tubular Bells II (1992) 2  [15.38%] 5. The Source of Secrets - Tubular Bells III (1998) 1  [7.69%] 6. Introduction - Tubular Bells 2003 1  [7.69%] 7. Introduction (alternate mix 2003) 0  [0.00%] 8. Harbinger - Music of The Spheres (2008) 1  [7.69%] Guests cannot vote

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Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Dec. 31 2008, 01:21 I know there are some who are aggravated by revisits to this tune, but I am fascinated with the variations. I'm so glad that Mike continued to tinker with it because, if he'd left it alone, I'd have been deprived of two of my favorite pieces of music: "Sentinel" and "Harbinger".  So, which is your fave? The original, or one of its offshoots? -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Dec. 31 2008, 02:41 I voted 1973 TB1, with it's hot staccato organ stabs. I mentioned a long time ago on here, after seeing those Ommadawn videos of Mike in the studio that he seemed "semi-autistic".........but by God he was focused.......it was in a lot of ways not a joke at all. He made little eye contact with whomever in those old videos, lost in the "holodeck" he created long before Star Trek TNG introduced the "holodeck". The music world is better for it. I was mesmerized years later by TB2, and TB3 had GREAT moments in it. TB1 was the best as far as the intro. Bar none. Jimbo -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Dec. 31 2008, 07:38 I don't think the original can be topped, because I think he never tried to go back to that mood again - which may only be for the better. I've mentioned elsewhere that the intro to that album is something completely surreal, and I can only compare it to an alien transmission - like something you'd accidentally bump into in the middle of the night, with a shortwave radio, "numbers station" sort of thing, like you had no idea of what it is, where it comes from, how it's produced, but you know you're definitively mesmerised. Everything helps: the quietness, the eerie mix of piano/organ/glockenspiel, the "distance" from the listener and the subsequent entry of the bass and the loud chords. I don't think there's any other moment in Mike's whole catalogue where it seems like he's so intent on bring out something nobody ever heard before, like he does there. I'm not opposed to the "remakes" for the reason - it's just that I don't want sugar on my dry wine, mind. The intro to Tubular Bells is one of the few moments in my whole collection that I'd call, without a tinge of hesitation, "perfect". -------------- 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

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Dec. 31 2008, 09:21 I voted for Early Stages because I think it is an improvement on the original. But the best version I have ever heard is Exposed live version with the legato female voices and the funky drumming. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Dec. 31 2008, 12:05 Quote (Sir Mustapha @ Dec. 31 2008, 07:38) I've mentioned elsewhere that the intro to that album is something completely surreal, and I can only compare it to an alien transmission If that's so, all the more reason to prefer the intro to TB 2, which expresses with great depth human, as opposed to alien, feeling. Back to top

clotty Group: Members. Posts: 237 Joined: Mar. 2006 Posted: Jan. 01 2009, 05:07 Went for the 1973 classic, but I also like the Exposed version. -------------- Clotty Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Jan. 03 2009, 09:09 I agree entrely with Clotty.The Exposed version is damn good.But then the Knebworth version is really good too.I like the fact that it goes into something akin to Downwind.But then he did have all the members of the then current incarnation of Gong (aside from Ross Record)in his band at the time. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

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