# The "Bell" Album

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bell-album/190474>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 23, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bell-album/190474 "2003-07-23T20:04:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bell-album/190474/1 "2003-07-23T20:04:12Z")

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Sitting around listening to Back in Black the other day, I realized there are a couple of decent rock songs with bells involved. Being an unemployed college student on summer break, I figured I may as well burn a compilation CD of them, since I have nothing better to do. I started thinking more specifically about what songs to include and could only come up with three:  
Hell’s Bells - AC/DC  
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica  
Don’t Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult (“I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell”)

I turn now to you, the ever-helpful Teeming Millions, to round out my disc.

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**Author:** ![Wumpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bell-album/190474/2 "2003-07-23T20:33:52Z")

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The Belle Album - Al Green. 😉

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**Author:** ![arachnidlove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@arachnidlove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnidlove)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bell-album/190474/3 "2003-07-23T21:58:44Z")

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Hmm. When I first read the title of this thread I thought of The Division Bell by Pink Floyd. The only song that comes to mind is High Hopes from that album.

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bell-album/190474/4 "2003-07-23T23:38:28Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Ender\_Will \*  
> \*\*Sitting around listening to Back in Black the other day, I realized there are a couple of decent rock songs with bells involved. Being an unemployed college student on summer break, I figured I may as well burn a compilation CD of them, since I have nothing better to do. I started thinking more specifically about what songs to include and could only come up with three:  
> Hell’s Bells - AC/DC  
> For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica  
> Don’t Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult (“I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell”)
> 
> I turn now to you, the ever-helpful Teeming Millions, to round out my disc. \*\*

Well, you’ll be looking for the relevant part of Tubular Bells (original, II, III or the 30th anniversary revamp - it doesn’t matter).

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**Author:** ![silverfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@silverfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silverfish)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bell-album/190474/5 "2003-07-24T10:33:12Z")

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There were bells  
On a hill  
But I never heard them ringing  
no I never heard them at all  
_Till there was you_

The Beatles did it, but I think that was a cover, so I don’t know who originally did it.

Also Johnny B. Goode (‘But he could play the guitar like ringin’ a bell’) by Chuck Berry (I think)

Also, there is the rhyme Oranges and Lemons (Oranges and Lemons said the Bells of St Clements …)