[peel] Re: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73

[cannon alan]

I think by this time at the tender age of 19 i
instinctively had made the step of deciding what to
listen to off my own bat and bought Tubular Bells on
the strength of Oldfield's work with Kevin Ayers and
the Whole World plus the fact that Viv Stanshall had a
cameo role on it. Also i actively (even then) sought
long pieces with classical pretensions. I subsequently
played the album in it's entirety to the student
household in which i resided; within a week or two it
was big hit and instantly uncool thereby. Evenso
having paid good money it wasn't going stop me playing
it to death. There are very few records that don't
pall after a while and that are truly timeless;
doesn't mean i have to sneer at them in retrospect. 
 I still like to hear that Flock of Seagulls
photograph song every now and then for instance; not
bad as 3 minute ditties go and for the life of me i
can't hear the haircut part on it.
    alanjc

--- Martin Wheatley <martinw@...>
wrote:

> At 11:02 23/06/2007, you wrote:
> 
> >I'm not usually inclined to believe anything R.
> Branson says - but I
> >wonder if there's some truth in this? At first I
> thought it was
> >another version of the myth that JP in his early
> days "played albums
> >all the way through" if he liked them - he never
> did, of course, due
> >to needletime restrictions
> 
> 
> On the contrary  Needletime restrictions were
> exactly why he could
> do it.   'Reviewing new records' was one of the
> needletime exemptions
> (film soundtracks was another).   Playing large
> chunks of a new album
> (once only!) was quite common
> 
> martinw 
> 
> 



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