The Best of Tubular Bells is a compilation album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It was released in 2001 and features segments from all of the Tubular Bells albums up to that year.

The Best of Tubular Bells
Greatest hits album by Mike Oldfield
Released	2001 (2001)
Recorded	1972–1998
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	62:13
Label	Virgin
Producer	Mike Oldfield Simon Hayworth Tom Newman David Bedford Phillip R Newell Trevor Horn
Mike Oldfield chronology
XXV: The Essential (1997) The Best of Tubular Bells (2001) Collection (2002)
Tubular Bells series chronology
The Millennium Bell (1999) The Best of Tubular Bells (2001) The Complete Tubular Bells (2003)

It is a single CD which consists of pieces of various past versions of Tubular Bells albums; Tubular Bells (1973), The Orchestral Tubular Bells (1975), Tubular Bells live (1979), Tubular Bells II (1992), Tubular Bells III (1998) and The Millennium Bell (1999). The album has been re-edited so that the changes between most of the different parts of Tubular Bells are seamless.

It was advertised on television in 2001, where the actor Tom Baker, known for his role as the Doctor in Doctor Who, provides his voice-over.[1]

Track listing

1. "Tubular Bells" - Part 1 (Original edit) - 4:42
2. "Tubular Bells" - Part 1 (Orchestral edit) - 3:14
3. "Tubular Bells" - Part 1 (Original edit) - 3:47
4. "Tubular Bells" - Part 1 (Exposed edit) - 3:20
5. "Tubular Bells" - Part 1 (Original edit) - 8:29
6. "Tubular Bells" - Part 2 "The Caveman Song" (Original edit) - 4:46
7. "Tubular Bells" - Part 2 (Exposed edit) - 4:15
8. "Sentinel" (Tubular Bells II) - 8:07
9. "The Bell" (Tubular Bells II) - 6:59
10. "Far Above The Clouds" (Tubular Bells III) - 5:28
11. "The Millennium Bell" (The Millennium Bell) - 7:32
12. "Tubular Bells" - Part 2 "Sailor's Hornpipe" (Original edit) - 1:34

References