ELEMENTS: THE BEST OF MIKE OLDFIELD

• Tubular Bells Part1 (edit) Tubular Bells, 1973
• Ommadawn Part One Ommadawn, 1975
• Punkadiddle Platinum, 1979
• Incantations (Parts 3 and 4) Exposed, 1979
• Taurus 3 Crises, 1983
• William Tell overture The Complete Mike Oldfield, 1985
• The Bell Tubular Bells II, 1992
• Out of sight Guitars, 1999
• The Sailor's Hornpipe Tubular Bells 2003, 2003

It's really audacious to talk about "the best" work from a very prolific and important musician like Mike Oldfield. This one is a compilation that includes some excerpts of the best and more progressive and innovative M.O.'s albums (Tubular Bells, Ommadawn and Incantations), some "greatest FM hits" (Familiy Man, Moonlight Shadow, To France) and some traditional "magic" music (Portsmouth, In Dulce Jubilo).

IMHO, this is not a recommended way to know the Oldfield's discography, because a simple and short excerpt from Incantations or Tubular Bells never could demonstrate the majestic of such albums, and -in the other hand- there are many better songs than the most commercial showing here.

Nevertheless -as an approach to Mike Oldfield production- can be useful, but in any way definitive.

Send comments to Marcelo (BETA) | Report this review (#28635) | Review Permalink
Posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004

A good compilation, but certainly not the best Mike Oldfield has to offer. This is more a case of his successful pop songs and shorter radio friendly hits. Though some of the songs on this album are great, the overall problem is that there is so much more to Mike Oldfield's music than what can b ... (read more)

Report this review (#187419) | Posted by Valarius | Thursday, October 30, 2008 | Review Permanlink

Compilation, nothing more. Original 1CD Elements features Oldfield's major hits as well as excerpts from epic instrumental works. The problem is we got at least two Oldfields. First one existed 1973-1978 and wrote monumental epic instrumentals on 40+ minutes. (Re-born in 1990, 1992-1994, 1 ... (read more)

Report this review (#78289) | Posted by Zavgorodny | Monday, May 15, 2006 | Review Permanlink

Really don't like some thing on this album... So, it's good that I haven't got all his albums :) After 10th thing I usually switch it off. Wanted to give two stars, but it's "Collectors/fans only" - and I'm sure that collectors/fans do not need a compilation, even if they really like ALL Mike's ... (read more)

Report this review (#44761) | Posted by stansult | Monday, August 29, 2005 | Review Permanlink

This is a real box of candies! Simply an essential album with Mike's best, recognizable songs and excerpts from instrumental suites, released between 1973 and 1993. My only peeve about this album is its... essentiality! It has been probably conceived as a cheaper version of the 4CD collection ... (read more)

Report this review (#28637) | Posted by LaserDave | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 | Review Permanlink

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