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AlexS Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: Nov. 2005 Posted: July 12 2007, 09:32 Since reading Changeling, I have started noticing things that relate to the book - various musical connections if you like, in the song titles or music itself. Here are a couple of examples of what I found so far.... The title "The Inner Child" on TBIII - Mike's references to his own inner child The shouts of "Out! Demon, out!" during TBIII - Mike wanting to get rid the 'demon' within (his own or his mothers?) The telephone rining in Amarok followed by the Piltdown Man's shouts - his hatred of phones, due to his family constantly being disrurbed in the night when he was young, with his father receiving emergency call-outs. There will be more.. anybody else noticed any of these kind of connections? -------------- http://www.thelightdream.net http://thelightdreams.bandcamp.com/ Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: July 12 2007, 11:51 Number 1 and 3 I find very much possible. "Out Demons Out" could just as well be a reference to the fact that the original TB was used in the Exorcist. Isn't that what Max Von Sydow says in the movie? -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 12 2007, 19:33 @ larstangmark - I agree with Alex and I don't agree with you about number two. The whole of TBIII was inspired by Mike being on Ibiza and getting his own fears (his personal demons) out of his body. "Outcast" is the beginning of the exorcism, in FAtC he succeeds in it. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: July 12 2007, 19:57 Quote (Ugo @ July 12 2007, 19:33) @ larstangmark - I agree with Alex and I don't agree with you about number two. :) The whole of TBIII was inspired by Mike being on Ibiza and getting his own fears (his personal demons) out of his body. "Outcast" is the beginning of the exorcism, in FAtC he succeeds in it. :) Well, I can be wrong. I'm not too familiar with TB3 actually. But now I remember where I heard the phrase "Out, demons out!" before. Sometime in the late 60s there was a "peace march" towards the pentagon. A band called The Fugs were there as some kind of spokespersons for the hippie movement. Under the leadership of the Fugs the whole crowd chanted "Out, demons out!" in order to make the Pentagon levitate (!). The Edgar Broughton band later made a renditon of this "song" and did the "Out, demons out!"-routine on stage. Interestingly, drummer (and brother of Edgar) Steve Broughton played drums on the original TB! -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

AlexS Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: Nov. 2005 Posted: July 13 2007, 04:55 "Far Above the Clouds" has to be Mike's most powerful and driving piece of music to date... When that first huge bell thunders in, it sends a shiver down the spine, every time. If anything, "Far Above the Clouds" represents Mike's musical zenith as far as Tubular Bells is concerned. The guitar solo is awe-inspiring, as the notes scream and cry. That track is just breathtaking and moving - almost like an emotional and spiritual 'release'. -------------- http://www.thelightdream.net http://thelightdreams.bandcamp.com/ Back to top

captain cavern Group: Members Posts: 267 Joined: Oct. 2003 Posted: July 13 2007, 06:48 "Out! Demon, out!" > Sorry, but I can't remember where this can be heard in TB3...   ? Back to top

theweightless Group: Members Posts: 604 Joined: April 2001 Posted: July 13 2007, 08:53 Quote (captain cavern @ July 13 2007, 06:48) "Out! Demon, out!" > Sorry, but I can't remember where this can be heard in TB3...   ? Outcast -------------- ASMK Back to top

AlexS Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: Nov. 2005 Posted: July 13 2007, 08:54 ...and Far Above the Clouds. I only discovered that bit recently on the headphones. It's near the beginning and just before the little girl starts singing "fa...fa...fa..." I always thought it was a drum sample, but it's not! -------------- http://www.thelightdream.net http://thelightdreams.bandcamp.com/ Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: July 13 2007, 15:21 AlexS, I thought the same about "Outcast", but your points about "Inner Child" and the ringing phone in Amarok hadn't occurred to me. Very interesting. -------------- "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

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 13 2007, 21:53 Quote (AlexS @ July 13 2007, 14:54) I only discovered that bit recently on the headphones. It's near the beginning and just before the little girl starts singing "fa...fa...fa..." I always thought it was a drum sample, but it's not! In FAtC there isn't the whole phrase. It's just a repeated sample of "Out", which, in the contest of FAtC, sounds very much like "Ouch". At least to me. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

onion Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: July 2005 Posted: July 14 2007, 11:54 I see more clear connections in song titles: Saved by a bell     Crises                 Gimme Back         Shadow on the wall Man in the rain The Voyager Mike -------------- Are soft boiled eggs supposed to make a crunchy noise when you eat them? Back to top

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