Top 7 Mike Oldfield Albums

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like hear the sound of the Tubular Bells chiming at sunrise on top of Hergest Ridge at the Ommadawn of a new day? Looking out to sea from the top of the ridge, you'd be able to see the sun casting its delicate Incantations of light across a calm Platinum silver sea. In the distance, you might be lucky enough to see the QE2 sailing Five Miles Out from Southampton, where the lucky passengers are temporarily escaping the world's Crises by  embarking on a voyage of Discovery to exotic tropical Islands. A voyage aboard a luxury cruise liner promises to be an Earth Moving experience of a lifetime, where you could sail to the exotic island of Amarok in Indonesia, or witness a tropical monsoon when the Heavens Open over Java. It's almost as exotic as the astronauts who journeyed to the Moon aboard gleaming silver rockets, which glinted in the Sun like Tubular Bells II of stainless steel. As the space travellers journeyed into orbit around the Moon, they'd hear The Songs of Distant Earth aboard their Voyager spacecraft. Maybe they'd listen to Tubular Bells III and the distinctive sound of Mike Oldfield's Guitars, whilst the tolling of The Millennium Bell on the album announces the beginning of a new century. The Tres Lunas (or three lunar astronauts) would be travelling between Light + Shade as their spacecraft orbits the Moon, where the Music of the Spheres can be heard across space and time. Maybe one day in the not too distant future, a spacecraft will land a Man on the Rocks of Mars, before the long journey home and a welcome Return to Ommadawn here on Earth.  
All Mike Oldfield album titles in Blue Highlights and in chronological sequence.

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Here's your chance to name your Top 7 Mike Oldfield albums. Simply list your Top 7 albums in order of preference below and then I'll assign points to your listings as follows:- 
1st album - 12 points
2nd album - 8 points
3rd album - 6 points
4th album - 4 points
5th album - 3 points
6th album - 2 points
7th album - 1 point

Here's my Top 7 to get the poll underway:-

1. The Songs of Distant Earth (12 points)
2. Music of the Spheres (8 points)
3. Ommadawn (6 points)
4. Tubular Bells (4 points)
5. Tubular Bells II (3 points)
6. Tubular Bells III (2 points)
7. Return to Ommadawn (1 point)

MIKE OLDFELD ALBUMS

  Tubular Bells (1973)

  Hergest Ridge (1974)

  Ommadawn (1975)

  Incantations (1978)

  Platinum (1979)

  QE2 (1980)

  Five Miles Out (1982)

  Crises (1983)

  Discovery (1984)

 The Killing Fields (Soundtrack) (1984)

  Islands (1987)

  Earth Moving (1989)

 Amarok (1990)

  Heaven's Open (1991)

  Tubular Bells II (1992)

  The Songs of Distant Earth (1994)

  Voyager (1996) 

  Tubular Bells III (1998)

  Guitars (1999)

  The Millennium Bell (1999)

  Tr3s Lunas (2002)

  Tubular Bells 2003 (2003)

  Light + Shade (2005)

  Music of the Spheres (2008)

  Man on the Rocks (2014)

  Return to Ommadawn (2017)

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 24 2020 at 02:47

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