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Girl in the Rain Group: Members Posts: 13 Joined: July 2002 Posted: July 21 2002, 16:26 The advert of the new VW car which can be run on diesel I want 2 know why they put the TB music on this advert? Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: July 21 2002, 19:31 It's playing on the album's connections with the film 'The Exorcist', with the advert being a kind of horror spoof. Back to top

Pugwash Unregistered Posted: Aug. 05 2002, 16:39 ...and DIE writen in red letters. It seemed an obvious link, but then my girlfriend refers to the tune as 'The theme from the exorcist' gah! Back to top

Blue Dolphin Group: Members Posts: 1232 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Aug. 06 2002, 14:54 I still haven't seen that VW commercial, even though we have BBC here on the TV (but then again, I don't watch BBC very much). Is it still on the BBC, or somewhere available on the internet? I'd like to see it. -------------- -The mark of a good musician is to play one note and mean it- Mike Oldfield - 1980 Back to top

iancampbell79 Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: April 2002 Posted: Aug. 07 2002, 04:38 You wouldn't.  They don't run adverts on BBC at all.  The advert is appearing on ITV and Channel 4 here in the UK. Back to top

blugoogirl Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: May 2003 Posted: May 22 2003, 10:20 i wish they hadn't used tubular bells for the exorcist! now all my friends no about tubular bells but they dont even no the name and the whole tune! they just call it the theme to the exorcist. it really anoys me since tubular bells existed ages before the exorcist did and its miles better! Back to top

bugular tell Group: Members Posts: 482 Joined: Mar. 2003 Posted: May 22 2003, 14:34 tubular bells didnt exist ages before the exorcist, will maybe in mikes head,i think they were released in the same year -------------- Light travels faster than sound, thats why some people appear bright until you hear them speak Back to top

bugular tell Group: Members Posts: 482 Joined: Mar. 2003 Posted: Sep. 25 2003, 14:15 on sky sports the last saturday they used Top of The Morning from TBIII during the rugby!   -------------- Light travels faster than sound, thats why some people appear bright until you hear them speak Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Sep. 25 2003, 18:30 Top of the morning for rugby? I'm surprised they didn't play Outcast! lol -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

bugular tell Group: Members Posts: 482 Joined: Mar. 2003 Posted: Feb. 20 2004, 14:16 just heard the TB opening theme used in a magic show call Max Magic on sky one, it was the music for the ice cream van, quite funny actually! -------------- Light travels faster than sound, thats why some people appear bright until you hear them speak Back to top

wowser Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: Nov. 2003 Posted: Feb. 20 2004, 20:09 Quote (iancampbell79 @ Aug. 07 2002, 04:38) You wouldn't.  They don't run adverts on BBC at all.  The advert is appearing on ITV and Channel 4 here in the UK. they do on BBC America - I was shocked - THIS ISN'T RIGHT! i though!   -------------- Pointless act! You don't give a five hundred dollar tip to the housekeeper! That's inappropriate! That's inexcusable! Back to top

The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Feb. 26 2004, 17:37 During the seventies tubular bells was played as backing music to loads t.v stuff. It was a bit like that moby album ,it seemed to crop up all over the place ,maybe on John cravens newsround or tomorrows world but it was sampled a lot.The main one that sticks in my mind is that a segment of TB.1 Pt 1 was used on a milk marketing board advert to encourage the good people of the British Isles to drink more of the white stuff and I think also to have it delivered. -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Feb. 26 2004, 19:09 Quote (The Big BellEnd @ Feb. 26 2004, 23:37) During the seventies tubular bells [...] seemed to crop up all over the place [...] [Partly off-topic reply ] In the seventies, you say? It still crops up everywhere. Janet Jackson, Paul Hardcastle, Ice-T, Tori Amos, Jean Michel Jarre (his song "Bells" on Metamorphoses), even Therapy... It's become just like one of those classic items from the seventies that a lot of people re-use - just like the drums from "When the levee breaks" by Led Zeppelin. About the horror connection: the theme to 'Halloween' features a tinkling keyboard; the often-quoted main theme to the 1975 Italian horror-thriller 'Profondo rosso' features a tinkling keyboard (a harpsichord); one of the themes to the first movie in the 'Nightmare' series features a tinkling piano; a theme (by Ligeti, IIRC) used during some scary moments of Kubrick's 'Eyes wide shut' features a tinkling piano, and a theme to another cheap Italian horror movie from 1976 called 'La casa dalle finestre che ridono' (a.k.a. 'The house with laughing windows' in the USA) features... guess what... a tinkling piano. Evidently horror directors think that a tinkling piano somehow brings a spine-tingling terror to the viewers... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Feb. 26 2004, 19:14 ...plus, always to keep myself off topic , to my ears the tinkling piano note at the beginning of Pink Floyd's "Echoes" has always created a very spooky atmosphere. And "Echoes" came before TB and The exorcist. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Feb. 26 2004, 20:50 Quote (Ugo @ Feb. 26 2004, 19:09) a theme (by Ligeti, IIRC) used during some scary moments of Kubrick's 'Eyes wide shut' features a tinkling piano Yeah sure. Ligeti is such a bad Mike rip-off.   Back to top

The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Feb. 27 2004, 16:46 There are no tinkling piano,s on echoes. I am refering to the seventies when said album was released.If you can't remember the advert I mentioned don't change the subject . Most horror films use piano in close harmony,almost as a special effect as much as a piece of accompioning background noise. Let's not forget way back to when film was a silent media it was up to the cinema organist to provide the drama .cinema.drama.keyboards inseperable. -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

Bones Group: Members Posts: 38 Joined: Oct. 2003 Posted: Mar. 17 2004, 14:09 That VW advert was the first time i ever (knowingly) heard Tubular Bells.  Wow. Hooked since then. -------------- Amarokin' All Over the World "Music is at its best when listened to in the dark" Back to top

Jammer Group: Members Posts: 643 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Mar. 17 2004, 19:15 Quote (Holger @ Feb. 27 2004, 01:50) Quote (Ugo @ Feb. 26 2004, 19:09) a theme (by Ligeti, IIRC) used during some scary moments of Kubrick's 'Eyes wide shut' features a tinkling piano Yeah sure. Ligeti is such a bad Mike rip-off.   I'll pretend you didn't say that Holger IMO, Gyorgy Ligeti is perhaps the greatest living composer of the modern world! He may be seen as a rip-off in your eyes, but this is merely a creative synthesis of various styles. I have not seen Eyes Wide Shut, but I have heard that Kubrick used the second piece of Musica ricercata. The basic principle behind this collection of piano pieces was that he limits himself to two pitches, then gradually employs more and more in each piece up to the final chromatic fugue. By limiting pitches in this way, the use of register comes in to play for variation instead - hence the high register of the piano. Furthermore, this was one of his early works. I think written in the 50s. He didn't rip off Mike at all! He has to be commended for the ability to constantly reinvent himself. At the moment, he is one of my favourite composers of 'classical' art music. I hope to do a dissertation on one of his major works for my music degree finals Sorry for the off-topic reply. I think Ugo meant that it is the directors of such films who associate the tinkling piano sound with a spooky atmosphere. I understand that you're half-joking and I gather you have knowledge of twentieth century music to know this. It's just that I support these composers as much as I would support Mike! It wouldn't go down well if I decided to slate Mike unfairly Back to top

Jammer Group: Members Posts: 643 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Mar. 17 2004, 19:40 To stop topic-drift (which is very interesting in itself), I heard Sentinel played as backing music on English television. It was a program about the outdoors. The presenter was on the coast of Dover, UK It may be the album cover, but I always associate the opening of TB with the sea rather than a spooky image Also, I don't know if some of you remember the theme used in adverts for Blockbuster video rental shops. That has a measured piano figure similar to that used in TB Back to top

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