ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Tubular Bells” by Mike Oldfield

Was confused this wasn't about Moonlight Shadow honestly

Can confirm that Moonlight Shadow being well known here in Europe thing. My first thought when seeing the title of this video was "oh right, the Moonlight Shadow guy". I didn't even know he made the Exorcist theme.

Calling Mike Oldfield '80s music shit is exactly what I expect from an American with zero taste in music. Not only that but most of his work was fantastic, but hey Todd always had the worst takes whenever he is talking about European bands and their "one (usually he lies, because there's multiple hits) hit wonders"

I remember *Portsmouth*.

Blind Guardian covered “To France”!

I feel almost ashamed how much I reacted to learning Mike Oldfield did Nuclear

Do DOA by Bloodrock for the spooktacular

"The music Michael made was the grist of his pain. Since that rebirthing thing, he's found it very hard to reach the places where the 'real' music came from."

I really hate that mindset. Isn't it at all possible to make great music without suffering from mental-anguish? Not to mention, we've seen time and time again what cost great-pain making great music can have.

…in de volgende aflevering, van Bassie en Adriaan!

I hear Moonlight Shadow, I think about Dave Angel, eco warrior. God bless you, Simon Day and The Fast Show.

@Toddintheshadows There are a couple of his tracks that were single length, just about, that he did called Punkadiddle and Wonderful Land.

The main thing about his work, it really needs to be played through a really immersive, enveloping sound system, or a pair of really good headphones, you need to feel like you're swimming in it.

A few other people have already mentioned it, but Amarok is quite an experience lasting almost exactly an hour. I describe it as fractal music, it keeps exploring the same sequence of music but presenting it in different ways. Also, with a really good pair of headphones, you get to experience Margaret Thatcher clog dancing her way around your head, though a word of warning about the extremely loud crescendo. It's not an album to fall asleep to, not unless you need to make sure you're ready to go somewhere in an hours time…

My first association with this song was when I played it while tarot reading at my family's garage sale without knowing anything about "The Exorcist"

my dad used to put oldfield's weird ultra long albums in the car during trips when I was a kid, and it probably altered my brain in unpredictable ways

OMG I have listened to Oldfield's music literally my entire life, and I keep going back to it again and again, both his artsier stuff and the pop stuff most fans seem to hate! I love his songs with Maggie Reilly, and from his earlier works Incantations is my favorite. I work in the visual field, and when I need to get into a really good flow state and just make and create things for hours, that is the album I put on. Srsly, from the second those opening notes hit, my mind just flies.

Me in europe hearing for the first time that the guy from the moonlight shadow had a completely different hit over the pond

Ah yes, I'm nuclear I'm wild

OH MY GOSH SOMEONE IS FINALLY ANALYZING THIS MASTERPIECE. INSTANT SUB.

When I was a small child we had the video version of the first Now album, Moonlight Shadow was on that. And for years I assumed Maggie Reilly was Mike Oldfield, I think I only realised differently during the London Olympics opening ceremony.

So I caught up to this video finally after 9 months (I've been busy, aight??) and HOLY SHIT THE GUY WHO WROTE THE EXORCIST THEME WROTE "MOONLIGHT SHADOW"????

Until I got to that point in the ideo I was comfortably sitting at the "Wow, I really never heard of anything else this guy did? I guess that's not that unexpected for a One Hit Wonderland" couch and then I got bludgeoned in the face with memories from early 2000s LAN parties and AMVs rocking the techno remix.

Is it just me, or does this song sound a lot like the cross-examination theme from the first Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney game? I kind of hear L's theme from Death Note in there as well.

Moonlight Shadow is a song I hear ocassionally when my mum listens to it (I'm 32) it was so wild to put a name and an artist to such a sense memory.

"Tubular Bells" is great. That, "Orinoco Flow," "Sadness Pt. 1," and "Return to Innocence," got me into New Age Music but one of my all-time favorite songs is "Moonlight Shadow."

I honestly kinda hope you do more of these horror movie theme videos for the OHW Halloween specials going forward! Sure not many of them would be considered "hits" like according to Billboard maybe, but they're loved in the horror community for a reason, and they're a great way to expose non-horror fans to these composers! Like Ennio Morricone, one of my personal favorite film composers! It was John Carpenter's The Thing that really brought Morricone to my attention, and after looking him up, I was so surprised to see all of the movies I'm familiar with that he composed the music for: Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon A Time in the West, A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, What Dreams May Come, Twister, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Death Rides A Horse, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, and so many more! And then speaking of John Carpenter, he's a musician/composer as well as a prolific director, and arranged and composed much of the music for his movies from Halloween (1978), Halloween III: Season of the Witch, They Live!, Halloween Kills, Halloween Ends, Escape from New York, Christine, so he absolutely deserves recognition for his musical talents like a Morricone, a John Williams, or a James Horner!

I hope you're not implying moonlight shadow is shit. That's punishable by death