Tubular Bells

Max von Sydow as Father Marin, Kitty Wynn as Sharon, Lee J. Cobb as Lieutenant Kinderman, Jack McGowran as Burke Dennings.

The music, the iconic, and I'm going to use that word a lot even though I'm tired of it, Tubular Bells, which that I read by Mike Oldfield.

which is now just famously known as the Exorcist theme.

It's called

Tubular Bells?

Tubular Bells, yeah.

I remember one of my old roommates had it on the record.

He would play it a lot, but that's just now synonymous with the Exorcist theme song.

Uh, just-

Oh, um, you might have recognized the intros of Tubular Bells.

Anyone out there recognize this passage from the end?

Oh, Tubular Bells.

[playing drums]Tubular bells.

There you go.

Uh, this is award-winning radio.

Okay, I'm going to throw this one on there just because it'll give everybody the creep factor every time you hear this.

Tubular Bells.

That's on my list.

Yeah, 1973,

don't

like watching slasher stuff.

Now what you got? Well, my next one was Tubular Bells.

Oh, okay.

Mm.

So we have an ice cream van at the very opening, which is playing Tubular Bells-

Mm-hmm

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The, the Esquire piece poses a really great lingering question at the end.

Will the new movie still feature Tubular Bells as the theme song, right?

Mm-hmm.

That is the question.

It goes right back to that concept of harmonization he spoke about.

You don't need to play the whole song.

You don't need to show a spinning head, but you might just need to strike that one chord of Tubular Bells to instantly trigger the subconscious dread of the audience.

It's Pavlovian at this point.

When I went home to watch it, it had been recorded in Spanish.

I don't know what happened, but I couldn't change it to English, so I watched the game while listening to the music of Tubular Bells." So-

Ah, enjoying a little Exorcist theme.

I don't know how that would happen.

Uh, according to Tom, that should be the theme of, uh, this.

And you suggested, uh, I believe Tubular Bells.

[laughs] Right, right.

Which is the music from The Exorcist.

That wasn't like that.

Maybe Tubular Bells was a hit.

That was associated with The Exorcist and, you know, had a kind of a leg up that way.

Interesting that Frankenstein, at least the name of it, is a horror movie.