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D Seph Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: Oct. 2006 Posted: Dec. 08 2008, 18:35 Earlier today, I felt musical. I searched my CDs eagerly in desire of listening to one of them. MSI...Shut Me Up is a good song, but I don't feel like having their unique rock today. Vanessa Mae...I enjoy a beautiful asian playing violin just as much as the next person...but...AHA! Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells. I popped my CD in, listening to the occasional skip it made due to its age. Volume up, I listened. Half an hour passes, as I sit, entrapped in his music. Melancholy, dark, and beautiful. The atmosphere was laid the second the CD played. I could hear his music, and all of its beauty, speaking to me. I could feel it, and its desire to be heard. It yearned for me, and I for it. I was hypnotized. Every single sound has me trapped in a world of melancholy. I could not escape it. Though it may be dark, I truly desire it, and more. All of the 7 Deadly Sins could be described in tune with this album of Tubular Bells. The Organ, humming out. The guitars, speaking to me. I was trapped in its beauty, and melancholy. I found myself eager to hear the rest...when... OH GOD The Sailor's Hornpipe blasted around the room. I was trapped in a dark, beautiful world, and freed by one of the most unusual tunes to grace a dark album. Mike Oldfield, you're an evil genius! Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Dec. 09 2008, 18:38 As far as I remember, the Hornpipe was especially chosen as a way to close what Mike considered a very serious album in a not-too-serious, tongue-in-cheek way. And if you listen to the so-called "drunk version" with the spoken intro by Viv Stanshall you'll have even more fun. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

D Seph Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: Oct. 2006 Posted: Dec. 09 2008, 19:22 Quote (Ugo @ Dec. 09 2008, 18:38) As far as I remember, the Hornpipe was especially chosen as a way to close what Mike considered a very serious album in a not-too-serious, tongue-in-cheek way. And if you listen to the so-called "drunk version" with the spoken intro by Viv Stanshall you'll have even more fun. I listened to the original album. Not sure if this is what you mean. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Dec. 10 2008, 09:09 Well, what I'm actually referring to is the remix of the original album, as included in the Boxed set. On that remix, TB ends with a longer (and, in the opinion of several fans here, funnier) version of The Sailor's Hornpipe, where an obviously drunk Viv Stanshall gives surreal descriptions of a couple of rooms in The Manor before the proper music starts. The TB album was supposed to end like that, but Richard Branson thought that the longer version wasn't suitable to a newcomer's first album and asked Mike to remove the spoken part. You may find the whole piece here (scroll down to Boxed and then click on "original ending"). If you like it, PM me and I shall send you a lossless version of it. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

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