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Think of you as insane? Do your thing. And here, read Kerouac: "and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved"
Most people seem to think the Caveman Song (as I call it) is creepy. I don't think it's creepy so much as funny. I think it's funny that Mike Oldfield put it in there. (Apparently, a record company he showed the song to said that they'd sell the album if he added lyrics. He didn't want to. As a result, he threw this in, deciding, "Well, here's the lyrics".)
I want to add that Mike Oldfield recorded this when he was just 19, and played almost all the instruments himself. (Vivian Stanshall is introducing the instruments, and all the vocal parts except the "Caveman Song" are other people. Someone else played bass and drums, I can't recall who.) I think that's incredible that someone does that (or rather, someone else - I am a musician, and I record all the music and singing exclusively on my own). Tubular Bells thusly struck me as quite inspiring.
Out of all the modern music pieces written and composed (modern meaning, it's too new to be classical), I think that Tubular Bells is one of the finest and greatest. It tells no real story and has no real meaning, but the beauty is that, especially since there are no lyrics, you could take the music as telling a story of some kind. (Part One somehow makes me think of dying and going to heaven, though I don't really know why.) Tubular Bells is the piece that Mike Oldfield will always be most remembered for, and it's good that he should, because it is truly a beautiful piece of art.
This ending to side 1 is just absoultely great!