In Popular Music
The Flaming Lips' 2002 track "Do You Realize??" features tubular bells.
The animated television series Futurama's theme is played on tubular bells.
The "funding for this program provided by ..." rider that followed the end credits of the children's television show Sesame Street also prominently featured tubular bells in the 1980s.
The Smashing Pumpkins' 1994 recording "Disarm" uses tubular bells to create a haunting mood.
Tracey Ullman's 1983 cover of Kirsty MacColl's "They Don't Know" features tubular bells in a celebratory manner, reminiscent of wedding bells.
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