AwayWeGo
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Posted: Aug. 18 2015, 19:00 |
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Tubular Bells III was trimmed down from an original (much longer) cut, but does anyone else feel as if this album cut was rather rough?
There are a few abrupt stops, like the guitar at the end of "Outcast." It just gets cut off. The same thing happens at the end of "The Watchful Eye." "Serpent Dream" has a cut right before what sounds like it's about to be a crescendo.
Some of the synthesizer/glockenspiel type sounds on this album (notably on "The Source of Secrets") have all-but-distracting overtones that have never plagued a Tubular Bells album before this installation.
There is a tinny audio clip sound at the end of "Far Above the Clouds," like there was a disc read error or something on the album.
Also, I don't get the whole wind notes thing. It doesn't appear in a complex enough fashion to be an enjoyable repeated motif.
Lastly. I just don't think this was really technically a "Tubular Bells" album. I mean, technically only Mike can make that call, but it felt more like a collection of songs than a complex Tubular Bells record.
Did these things jump out at anyone else? Let me know what you think. Thanks all!
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