I love this piece of music "Tubular Bells"

I like it, too, but it sure doesn't put me to sleep!

Keep away.. the song is mine!

Early in his career he used LSD and later suffered some mental health problems, and I think some of that comes through in his music.

Billy Friedkin had the right idea to switch out Lalo Schifrin's original score for this. The original score sounded like haunted house music. I think Friedkin did say in subsequent interviews that if he could have done it all over again, he would have used the music of Tangerine Dream instead. He did not discover Tangerine Dream until 1974, but he would go onto use their music for Sorcer in 1977.

Such a relaxing fugue. Like a Calgon Bath!

Tangerine Dream was pretty out there stuff. It would have been interesting to see what they would have put together for the Exorcist.

True, R1. Once I made the mistake of using Tubular Bells as my cell phone's ringtone. It was all well and good until one night I got a wrong number and the sound of Tubular Bells woke me from a sound sleep at 2:30am and I lay there in the darkness fighting back a heart attack.

Did it not occur to you that it might have been a phone call, R7?

R4, it's hard to imagine any other piece of music being associated with the film.

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The opening music and chanting is appropriate given the Iraqi dig scene.

Exorcist II also had some good music thanks to Ennio Morricone. It was about the only good thing about that film.

Lalo Schifrin is brilliant. So many movies have memorable scores and title theme music he composed. For relaxing and titillating at the same time, the Amityville Horror.

But my favorite Schifrin theme is Mannix. It is a perfect example of musical scoring of the era (1969) and is unmistakable in its place in time.

Excellent scores, r14.

Jerry Goldsmith's opening theme for Alien was an unparalleled masterpiece of sci fi horror, IMO.

If Tangerine Dream produced something like Ricochet Part II for The Exorcist, that could have been an unforgettable combination of music and visuals. Go to 17:00 in the video below.

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R17, I have always been a fan of Tangerine Dream. Very out there, experimental stuff that vacillates from trippy to eerie to peaceful and beautiful.

I love Tubular Bells but I get scared when I hear it.

I love Schifrin, too, R13/R14, but for me it's "Bullitt".

Here's a suite from the rejected score.

LMGAO at R2

R2 explained for the uninitiated.

[wuote] Did it not occur to you that it might have been a phone call, [R7]?

...from inside the house.

I love early electronic classical music.

Effective use as a sample near the start of Cam'ron's "Losing Weight, Part 2".

Lawrence Roger 'Larry' Fast (born December 10, 1951) is a synthesizer expert and composer. He is best known for Synergy, his 1975–1987 series of synthesizer music albums, and for his contributions to a number of popular music acts, including Peter Gabriel, Foreigner, Nektar, and Hall & Oates.[1]

Fast recorded a series of pioneering synthesizer music albums under the project name Synergy.

The first album in the series, Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra, was released as an LP in 1975. Like the following albums, it exclusively makes use of electronic instruments, mainly synthesizers. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Fast released eight more Synergy LPs on Passport Records, all of which were later re-released on CDs. The 1998 re-release of Semi-Conductor, a compilation album originally released in 1984, was a remastered version of the original, and contained ten additional tracks. The eleventh album in the series, Reconstructed Artifacts, was released in 2003, and contained completely new performances of select compositions from the previous albums, using modern digital synthesizers, as well as the new digital recording technologies.

I actually don't mind the rejected score.

Excellent music pieces, keep them coming!

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Going back to the 1920s: Charles Ives was experimenting with quarter-tones. In his 3 Quarter Tone Pieces from 1924 there are two pianos, one of which is tuned one quarter tone down. The effect isn't "pretty" but it creates an almost digital sound. In person the effect sounds slithery and absolutely bizarre.

“Tubular Bells” reminds me of this 1966 piece by Ed Thigpen in some parts.

I also like the soundtrack section from “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, where Bond saves the Diana Rigg character from suicide-by-drowning in the opening sequence (starts at 2:38.)

^^video

Some of the scariest musical moments of "The Exorcist' were provided by the schizophrenic, string cacophony of Krzysztof Penderecki.

And kids? If you ever want to scare the hell out of your parents with the music you listen to, forget blasting gangsta rap or heavy metal, and just put the hellish music of Penderecki on the loud speakers.

Don't laugh at me, but I remember being disturbed that Tubular Bells was included on that Pure Moods new age album from the 90s. Whenever it was on next, I would skip over it really quickly on the CD player.

The music's great...it's the director I'm not crazy about. Never have been.

This piece is called "Night of the Electric Insects." I believe this is the scene when Father Karras finds the message "help me" scrawled on Regan's stomach.

I loved Tubular Bells, although I don't know whether or not that outweighs it being responsible for launching Richard Branson on an unsuspecting world. Oldfield was 19 when he wrote it.

I know Eno's a pretentious dick, but this is probably one of the most influential albums of the last 50+ years. It's amazing with a good set of headphones.

I prefer the live version.

Thanks, R42.

I want to go to Georgetown and climb stairs.

So many good musics. Thanks, everyone.

Nice, R41

Satan's music.

If you can divorce the music from the film, it actually is rather soothing..

In general, I think horror movie music has deteriorated. Everything sounds too heavy-handed, and like they are trying too hard to make it sound "epic." Here's an example of horror music that has elements that are scary (the use of whales screeching), but they drown it out with too much thumping music on top.

The last horror score I enjoyed was from a rather mediocre film, "From Hell," but the music was a high point, really capturing the despair and dark underbelly of Victorian London.

Tori Amos always covers this beautifully.

On Letterman back in the day

I had this song on loop for one Halloween, complete with decorations. Kept most of the trick or treaters away!

I loved Tubular Bells long before I heard about The Exorcist so obviously I don't associate it with horror or anything scary.

It's MO's birthday today, so happy 65th Mike!

One of my favorite albums:

Puts OP to sleep.

I really wish Bill Murray's character Nick the Lounge Singer had sung the theme to "The Exorcist."

I like this piece of music. I have no idea what genre you call it.

I wish a few more films back then had experimented with changing from orchestral scores that weren't anything special. R4 I'm glad Friedkin hadn't heard of Tangerine Dream yet and switched to Tubular Bells for the music. It added something special.

But I do like the Tangerine Dream music in Legend. Don't know if the movie studio or director Ridley Scott didn't like Jerry Goldsmith's original score and changed it. But think the replacement music in this scene adds a lot more to it then the usually great Goldsmiths did.

R58 I totally agree.

You know, I always preferred TUBULAR BELLS II. It was a lovely sequel and beautiful LP to just drift along with.

That version of the song ‘TB’ is more pulsing and intense on the second album, too. More electric guitar, I think? I always imagined it would be cool to see someone put together a modern dance routine to it.

Ding!