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Poll Question: Which is your favourite Mike Oldfield album?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
12 [23.53%]
2 [3.92%]
17 [33.33%]
4 [7.84%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [1.96%]
2 [3.92%]
1 [1.96%]
1 [1.96%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [1.96%]
3 [5.88%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [3.92%]
2 [3.92%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [1.96%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [1.96%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [1.96%]
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Tubular.
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1. Amarok (1990)
2. Five Miles out (1982)
3. Tubular Bells II (1992)
4. Crises (1983)
5. Hergest Ridge (1974)
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1. Five Miles Out
2. Tubular Bells
3. QE2
4. Ommadawn
5. Tubular Bells 3/Crises/Platinum

Heaven's Open may be weak but it contains one of his best pop songs - and he has a lot of great pop songs - the title track
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1. Ommadawn
2. Hergest Ridge
3. Incantations
4. Amarok
5. Songs Of Distant Earth

Personally I don't there are many artists that can beat Oldfield's very best.
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TB2
Incantations
Ommadawn
Hergest Ridge
Five Miles Out
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Incantations!!!
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1. Ommadawn

2. Hergest Ridge

3. Tubular Bells
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Still remember where I was when I first heard Tubular Bells, one of those musical epiphanies for me. Doesn't matter that side 2 is disappointing, the first half is enough to make it an all time favourite. So:
Tubular Bells
Ommadawn
Return to Ommadawn
Then, a long way behind....
Tubular Bells 2
Hergest Ridge.
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It's so long ago since I posted this thread (October 12th) that I'd forgotten it was my poll. It was posted long before I started assigning points to everyone's Top 5 and Top 10 votes. Smile 
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I've not heard them all, but Ommadawn always held my attention the most, I guess. Part 1 in particular is very good.

I also have some affection for the desolate feel of Hergest Ridge.


I would agree Tubular Bells is a masterpiece, especially when you consider how old he was at the time, and how it came together, but I'm not compelled to listen to it very often.

I respect Mike Oldfield more than I enjoy his music, if I'm honest.
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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I thought I would bump this poll up because it is about a progressive musician.  Much as I admire Queen, I cannot entertain them as 'prog'.  To answer the question, it is very difficult as there are so many facets to his work.  So, the one I have played the most in recent years is 'Incantations' - from the wonderful period when he worked closely with Pierre Moerlen's Gong (check out his guest appearance on 'Downwind')
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Tubular Bells because its beautiful music. Smile
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

I thought I would bump this poll up because it is about a progressive musician.  Much as I admire Queen, I cannot entertain them as 'prog'.  To answer the question, it is very difficult as there are so many facets to his work.  So, the one I have played the most in recent years is 'Incantations' - from the wonderful period when he worked closely with Pierre Moerlen's Gong (check out his guest appearance on 'Downwind')
 
I've never considered Queen to be a Prog-Rock band either. They've always been an Arena Rock band to me, ever since their storming performance at Wembley for Live Aid in 1985, which has to be the biggest arena of all. Smile
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Tubular Bells is a masterpiece. Side 1 of Ommadawn is even better, but I can hardly stand side 2.
 
I know what you mean. I love Side 1 of Ommadawn, but Side 2 does tend to drag on a bit.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Tubular Bells is a masterpiece. Side 1 of Ommadawn is even better, but I can hardly stand side 2.
 
I know what you mean. I love Side 1 of Ommadawn, but Side 2 does tend to drag on a bit.

 I used to think that Side 2 didn't get going till late but now love all of it, probably more than Side 1.  The crescendo in Band 3 gives me goosebumps, and then a cosmic folk song about horses?  Love it
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Ommadawn
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Originally posted by Jim Oddball Jim Oddball wrote:

Still remember where I was when I first heard Tubular Bells, one of those musical epiphanies for me. Doesn't matter that side 2 is disappointing, the first half is enough to make it an all time favourite. So:
Tubular Bells
Ommadawn
Return to Ommadawn
Then, a long way behind....
Tubular Bells 2
Hergest Ridge.


I actually love the first half of side two of Tubular Bells just as much as the first side... but once the Caveman comes in, it goes downhill (and then with Popeye it seals my disappointment). Too bad, since the music was going into a very nice crecendo, that seems to be leading to a grand finale just before the Caveman.
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(Gentle Bump)

I'll give my vote to.. Amarok, the guts he had to do this makes it all the better. Not an accessible album by any stretch of the imagination. I love it though. 

(Also, come on, Platinum deserves better than 0 votes)


Edited by Frets N Worries - January 07 2024 at 21:38
The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time...
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Tubular Bells. I like everything up to Crises and TB2 is very good too. 
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