Mike Oldfield and Jean Michael Jarre

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Been checking out Japan 2001 - flower arrangin' an' shit - nice - but on tha bus we are working our way thru these two fellas - what are your thoughts on them ?

Hey you in Manhatten - go see the exhibition featuring our JAP'S EYE BRIDGE - that's as good as we get up here !

Euro city of culture 2008 ?

― Tiimmmiiee, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tiiiimmmmmmiiiiieeeeee!!!!

(Sorry, I have nothing to say on topic, I just had to add that)

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good to see the Geordie Racer back here!

I rather like "Portsmouth", though I don't quite know why. I suppose it'd be my usual ancient-history-into-immaculate-pop-novelty thing. That era of analog synth sounds better now than the technology of ten years later, as well.

― Think Big, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I heart "Moonlight Shadow"

― tarden, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i don't have anything constructive to say on this thread, except that i'm glad the geordie racer is back.

― gareth, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike Oldfield - good gtr playing on a couple of Kevin Ayers records, at least. 'part from that, who knows or cares (i only know the "hits")(wish i could whistle the main theme from "Tubular B." tho...)

― Duane, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

which kevin ayers records, duane??

― gareth, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

uh, the ones i know well that have him on it is "Shooting at the Moon" (KA's 2nd alb, a real good one) & some stuff on the singles/unreleased comp. "Odd Ditties" - i'm sure he's on others but i ain't got any later than that...

― duane, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Moonlight Shadow - dud. Moonlight Shadow when used as the theme music for 'Dave Angel - Eco Warrior' on The Fast Show - total classic.

Tubular Bells is fine enough. I remember enjoying Ommadawn as well; in fact, that little refrain at the end of side one haunts me to this day. The rest of it, and Jean Michael Jarre - dud.

― John Davey, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

("the ones i know that have him on it" = the ones that i know that...fuck it, you know what i mean )

― duane, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

weave moved onto 'Alpha Motherfuckers'- JMJ overdose made us wanna suck tha goat!

― Geordie Racer, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The thing where Oldfield introduces the instruments one-by-one on "Tubular Bells" I find comical. Not so sure this was his intention. So dud.

― Josh, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Josh, it used to be pretty comical. Not sure if it still is, a hundred zillion copies later.

― X. Y. Zedd, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not sure if you are referring to scary no. of copies sold of TB I or of the innumerable Oldfield-done knockoffs (TB II, III, etc etc). Did THOSE have the introductions too?

― Josh, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At least one does--TB II, I think. As with many jokes, the second time around doesn't work nearly as well. There's a much funnier Bonzo Dog Band piece called (I think) "Introducing The Band," which is a vamp in which we're asked to meet Princess Margaret on the drums, etc. Is it Buckminster Fuller on the sax?

― X. Y. Zedd, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jean Michel Jarre - "equinoxe" = good, "Oxygene" = good. The rest = sux0r

M. Oldfield - "That one w/him standing by thee seaside" = good. The rest = sux0r, esp thee one where he tries to go D&B = k-sux0r

Tang dream = better all round IMO, esp "ricochet", "Phaedra", "rubycon", "stratosfear". AVIOD any tang dream made after 1980.

"aviod" = "avoid", BTW. me=k-crap @ typing.

xoxo

― Norman Fay, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tracer - hi there! nice to be with you, glad you could stick around!...over there, Eric Clapton on ukulele...Hi Eric! & looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes...mmm, NICE! The Count Basie Orchestra on triangle. (BING!) Thank you!...General DeGaulle on accordian...Really wild, General!
Nah, Buckminster F. isn't in there tho' (don't think)...but yeah, who needs "Tubular B." when there's a *whole song* like that.

― duane, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oops, not Tracer, X.Y Zed... I get you guys with foreign names mixed up, sorry.

― duane, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Foreign? How can I be foreign when I live in the same country where I was born?! Anyway, thanks so much for reminding me how that song "goes." Now I'll be hearing it in my head for the next week...

By the way, that little ditty about horses on "Hergest Ridge" still echoes within my mind after all these years--and I like Jarre's "Revolutions" best.

― X. Y. Zedd, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hey everywhere's foriegn from my little corner of the world.

― duane, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oops i mean FOREIGN.

― , Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Imagine how I was lying awake last night, trying to sleep, when it came to me--the link between the Bonzos and Mike Oldfield: Vivian Stanshall, of course! How could I have forgotten that the BDB founding member and narrator of "Tubular Bells" were one and the same!? So the novelty number and great art statement are truly nearly one and the same. And there I lay awake, deep in the woods in a cabin on a mountainside, far away from Stanshall's classic "Sir Henry At Rawlinsworth End"! The funniest album I know of outside Ruth Draper's. "So much incest in that family even the bulldog had a clubfoot." Vivian, we miss you!

― X. Y. Zedd, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MUSTARDS! TO PIERCE THE TONGUE LIKE CARDIGAN'S LANCERS!
"That was inedible muck — and there wasn't enough of it!"
"Was there not a wee bit too much gristle in the blancmange?"

― mark s, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

vs
"I'd rather be — on horseback!"

― mark s, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven years pass...

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 22 January 2009 02:13 (sixteen years ago)

Mike Oldfield and Jean Michael Jarre Will Suck Cock for Cab Fare.

― Moka, Thursday, 22 January 2009 07:52 (sixteen years ago)

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