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Poll Question: Which is your favourite Mike Oldfield album?
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    Posted: October 12 2019 at 05:16
These are my Top 5 Mike Oldfield albums:-
 
1. Music of the Spheres (2008)
2. The Songs of Distant Earth (1994)
3. Tubular Bells 2 (1992)
4. Tubular Bells 3 (1998)
5. Tubular Bells (1973)
 
If other PA members want to list their Top 5 Mike Oldfield albums too, that would be great! Thumbs Up
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Ommadawn, Hergest Ridge, Amarok, Return to Ommadawn, Tubular Bells
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Incantations, Ommadawn, Hergest Ridge, Tubular Bells
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Mike Oldfield has many albums that I quite enjoy, but if I have to pick one, it has to be Ommadawn,
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Ommadawn is top 5 all-time for me.

Ommadawn
Hergest Ridge
Incantations
Amarok
Tubular Bells
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Tubular Bells
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Ommadawn, though all his 70's albums are wonderful, as well as a few others afterwards.
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Tubular Bells - as least from a personal point of view, so many memories in there - but all the first four great records.
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Originally posted by tamijo_II tamijo_II wrote:

Tubular Bells - as least from a personal point of view, so many memories in there - but all the first four great records.
 
Tubular Bells was also the perfect atmospheric soundtrack to The Exorcist movie.
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Tubular Bells is a masterpiece. Side 1 of Ommadawn is even better, but I can hardly stand side 2.
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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 exactly what you mean about the Ommadawn album. Side 2 was a big disappointment after listening to the superb Side 1. The first side of Ommadawn had a tremendous build-up leading to the grand finale but the second side just ambled along for 20 minutes without really going anywhere.
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The five I like most are Tubular Bells - Hergest Ridge - Ommadawn - Incantations - Crises. Not that much between these, I love them all, but overall I will probably just about prefer Ommadawn... or Tubular Bells... no, it's Ommadawn.
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Love side 2 of Ommadawn
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1. Songs of Distant Earth
2. Five Miles Out
3. Tubular Bells III
4  Islands
5. Earth Moving
6. Amarok
7. Tubular Bells II
8. Crises

I'm not keen on anything he did before Five Miles Out or after Tubular Bells III tbh.
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Hergest Ridge > Incantations > Return to Ommadawn
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Have to go with Ommadawn although Hergest Ridge is damn close in my affections.
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I voted Song Of Distant Earth because it fits very well in the concept. Who has read the novel can verify it.
Other albums that I like very much, other than the obvious Tubular Bells, are Incantations, Platinum, Crisis (with Ian Anderson and Chappo Chapman). Also TBII is quite good. I've had problems with Ommadawn, Hergets Ridge and Amarok. It take time for me to appreciate them. In particular the last.  
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"Ommadawn" appears to be taking a clear lead in the poll. I guessed it would be a toss-up between either "Ommadawn" or "Tubular Bells" topping the poll. I would have been amazed if anyone had voted for "Heaven's Open" - Mike Oldfield's most disappointing album in my opinion, recorded just before his bitter departure from Virgin Records in the early 1990's.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

"Ommadawn" appears to be taking a clear lead in the poll. I guessed it would be a toss-up between either "Ommadawn" or "Tubular Bells" topping the poll. I would have been amazed if anyone had voted for "Heaven's Open" - Mike Oldfield's most disappointing album in my opinion, recorded just before his bitter departure from Virgin Records in the early 1990's.
 


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