Top 7 Mike Oldfield Albums |
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Psychedelic Paul
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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. ================================================================== 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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kenethlevine
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1. Five Miles Out
2. Tubular Bells 3. QE2 4. Ommadawn 5. Platinum 6. Tubular Bells III 7. Discovery
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1- Ommadawn
2- Tubular Bells 3- Amarok 4- Return to Ommadawn 5- Hergest Ridge 6- Crises 7- Voyager
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1. Tubular Bells (1973)
2. Tubular Bells II (1992) 3. Amarok (1990) 4. Ommadawn (1975) 5. Incantations (1978) 6. The Songs of Distant Earth (1994) 7. Music of the Spheres (2008) |
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1. Ommadawn
2. Incantations 3. Hergest Ridge 4. Amarok 5. Songs Of Distant Earth 6. Platinum 7. Crisis
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1. Tubular Bells
2. Ommadawn 3. Hergest Ridge 4. Incantations 5. Tubular Bells III 6. The Songs of Distant Earth 7. Return to Ommadawn
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1. Ommadawn 2. Amarok 3. Tubular Bells 4. Five Miles Out 5. Incantations 6. Hergest Ridge 7. Crises A lot of albums could be there at #7, see: Platinum, QE2, Tubular II-III-2003, The Songs of Distant Earth , Return to Ommadawn, or maybe even Voyager / Guitars (well that's just a bit of stretch). Great catalogue. |
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1. Ommadawn
2. Hergest Ridge 3. Incantations 4. Tubular Bells 5. Return to Ommadawn 6. The Songs of Distant Earth 7. Amarok |
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Ian
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Incantations
Tubular Bells 2 Ommadawn Tubular Bells Hergest Ridge Five Miles Out Return To Ommadawn |
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Matti
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1 Ommadawn
2 Incantations 3 Hergest Ridge 4 Five Miles Out 5 Crises 6 Tubular Bells 7 Tubular Bells III (Return to Ommadawn could be on the list, but for some reason I haven't much listened to it.)
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Psychedelic Paul
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This is how the point-count looks so far after the first ten rounds of voting:-
1. Ommadawn (88 points) 2. Tubular Bells (60 points) 3. Incantations (44 points) 4. Hergest Ridge (34 points) 5. Amarok (25 points) 6. Five Miles Out (22 points) 7. The Songs of Distant Earth (21 points) 8. Tubular Bells II (19 points) Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 06 2020 at 07:35 |
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kenethlevine
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not surprised about Ommadawn. It's definitely the favourite around here
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Psychedelic Paul
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I must have listened to Ommadawn more times than any other Mike Oldfield album. I love Tubular Bells too, although it always sounds slightly sinister to me now, ever since I heard the music featured on The Exorcist.
Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 06 2020 at 10:18 |
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Hi,
I really like most of his stuff all the way through VOYAGER (1996) ... but since then I have not exactly listened a whole lot, but I did buy one of the newer things, and I was disappointed ... it was nice, but just did not click with me. The further adventures of Mr. Tubular Bells is not one of my choices of work by MO at all ... I much prefer, AMAROCK, SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH, VOYAGER, OMMADAWN, INCANTATIONS and HERGEST RIDGE. I would like to see MO try to do something like AMAROK again ... that was an amazingly fun listen, and such a huge finger to folks that wanted something else! We need more "fingers"!
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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I adore Amarok and would love another one like that. I doubt he's likely to get that pissed off at people again.
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Ian
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I am currently doing my "discovery" of Oldfield's albums(literally listening to Incantations on the train). Ive only just heard Tubular Bells 2 for the first time this morning. Here is my current ranking
1. Ommadawn 2. Crises (Title track is definitely my favorite piece of his) 3. Incantations 4. Five Miles Out 5. Tubular Bells 6. QE2 7. Amarok |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Top 7 update with Corcoranw687's votes added:-
1. Ommadawn (100 points) 2. Tubular Bells (63 points) 3. Incantations (50 points) 4. Hergest Ridge (34 points) 5. Amarok (26 points) 5. Five Miles Out (26 points) 7. The Songs of Distant Earth (21 points) 8. Tubular Bells II (19 points) 9. Crises (15 points) |
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The Dark Elf
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I guess if one was lazy, they could just choose Tubular Bells I through VII, or however many times Oldfield rehashed the same idea.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Although each Tubular Bells album was uniquely different in its own special way, in my opinion anyway.
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Had to find the time to listen to Ommadawn again to make my list. I only have 7 Oldfield albums (listened to most of the others but they were not worth buying, to my ears). My appreciation goes more to his pop/rock albums than to the others, which explains my list: 1. Five Miles Out 2. Crises 3. Discovery 4. QE2 5. Tubular Bells II 6. Tubular Bells 7. Ommadawn |
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