nightspore
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Posted: May 21 2011, 07:33 |
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| Quote (Ugo @ May 13 2011, 18:49) | @ SlightlyLion: I'm not a Spotify customer as it can't be accessed from Italy, but I think I can most probably give you the answer. You are talking about the UK edition of L+S, right? Well, I remember two tracks being featured as bonuses on the UK edition of L+S: "Lakmé" [duration: 4:55] and "Cook's Tune" [3:15]. "Cook's Tune" appeared on the album as a sort-of ghost track (i.e. not listed on the cover or in the tracklist), coming after the end of "Lakmé" and preceded by about one minute of silence.
If the piece you found on Spotify is this one, you can be assured that it's not bogus: it's a Mike Oldfield piece in the tradition of his "funny" singles from the Seventies ("Cuckoo Song", "In Dulci Jubilo", etc.) and it's called "Cook's Tune". What probably happened on Spotify is that the people managing the service omitted "Lakmé" entirely, then they took the ghost track to be "Lakmé", hence the wrong title. But the ghost track is actually "Cook's Tune". 
By the way, welcome to the board. I hope you will find yourself at home here. I've just one question for you: is your nickname inspired by a section in Mike's Amarok album?  |
# Slightlylion - welcome! A much better name than Slightlylyin' 
# Ugo - I'd have said "Cook's Tune" was jolly rather than funny. Still, in my opinion it's closer to being funny than the announcement of instruments in TB,which seems to me to have a solemn, mantra-like quality. (I know Mike's own opinion - as detailed in Changeling - is that the announcing of instruments is supposed to be humorous; but for the life of me I can't see it like that.)
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, although it's played and constructed excellently. The announcements on the original TB have never sounded solemn to me... they've always sounded amusing, if not downright funny (in the meaning I used above), and that's why I think that Alan Rickman's "diction" of them on TB II sounds too serious to me, and unfitting to the style of the announcements themselves.