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AlexS Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: Nov. 2005 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 08:15 I just re-discovered "Tubular X". Bit of a naff title, but a superb version of the X-Files soundtrack with a tubular twist. Too bad they didn't use it in the film. This was at one point due to be on TBIII... I guess musically it didn't really fit in. -------------- http://www.thelightdream.net http://thelightdreams.bandcamp.com/ Back to top

Sonilink Group: Members Posts: 393 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 14:45 (of course the time would't be right) But tubular-x is more for me 2003-ish. And I love mark snow's work (I have the whole X-file serie) -------------- Take the Time Back to top

MusicallyInspired Group: Musicians Posts: 1445 Joined: June 2001 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 16:02 Actually Mike didn't name the title. He made the tune and then he said in an interview that "..they called it Tubular X, or something." I love it. Brilliant rendition. Although it made me realise that the the off-beat to the song was actually the on-beat. I've been listening to it wrong all this time lol. -------------- BrandonBlume.com "The beauty in life is in the embracing of the variety of things. If all the world was blue there would be no colour blue." Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 16:23 Sonilink: you love changing avatars, don't you   This one is cool. Family Guy and Simpsons: no cartoon beats those! (not even southpark though that's cool as well) -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 17:39 Yeh I love the Tubular X track, bought the whole soundtrack just for that track but really like some of the other stuff on there too. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

MyCoalField Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: June 2005 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 17:46 Can anyone tell me what album the Tubular X track is on. I wanted to get it at the time of release but now cannot remember. Thanks   Back to top

MusicallyInspired Group: Musicians Posts: 1445 Joined: June 2001 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 23:40 It's on the second X-Files movie soundtrack (there are two). -------------- BrandonBlume.com "The beauty in life is in the embracing of the variety of things. If all the world was blue there would be no colour blue." Back to top

MyCoalField Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: June 2005 Posted: Nov. 21 2005, 17:58 thanks MI Back to top

Sonilink Group: Members Posts: 393 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: Nov. 23 2005, 08:16 Quote (Piltdownboy on horseback 22 @ Nov. 20 2005, 22:23) Sonilink: you love changing avatars, don't you   This one is cool. Family Guy and Simpsons: no cartoon beats those! (not even southpark though that's cool as well) thanks I love your avatar too   -------------- Take the Time Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Nov. 23 2005, 10:05 Quote (Sonilink @ Nov. 23 2005, 08:16) thanks I love your avatar too   Yeah, it's my own design!!   Great, eh!! I like its abstract character btw; sonilink, thanks for looking at the page of my band!! and I put an answer in the guestbook!! -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

Sonilink Group: Members Posts: 393 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: Nov. 23 2005, 14:56 ohohoh let me gess QE3!! -------------- Take the Time Back to top

Happy? Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: April 2022 Posted: April 11 2022, 03:29 A bit of a topic kick after 17 years, but... I've always found the mood and instrumentation of Man in the Rain a total misfit on the TB3 album. Even more so if Mike wouldn't have put the reference to 'the man in the rain' in Far Above the Clouds. An 80s vocal pop track doesn't make sense at all on a TB-labeled album, which I associate with piano and guitar tunes with only voiced oohs and aahs. So the first thing I always do when making a TB3 playlist is throwing Man in the Rain out of the bag of secrets and replace it by Tubular X. Much more pleasant to listen to than that dull 80s pop variation on Moonlight Shadow that would have fit well on Crises or Discovery, but not on TB-whatever-number. Man in the Rain totally ruins the atmosphere of the TB3 album for me. Fortunately, Tubular X enhances it very well! It's atmospheric, spooky, mysterious... Must come from the same source of secrets far above the clouds as the other tracks. -------------- I'd rather be... happy? Back to top

qjamesfloyd Group: Members Posts: 1357 Joined: April 2001 Posted: April 11 2022, 06:53 Not sure I would insert Tubular X into this album, but I agree about Man in The Rain, I always found it out of place to have a traditional song in the album, TB1 and TB2 have nonsense word songs, which would have been better, there is also no instruments introduction in TB3 which is weird. Back to top

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