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Mike Oldfield - Incantations (1978)
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Poll Question: Which is your favourite movement on Incantations by Mike Oldfield?
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    Posted: October 30 2010 at 05:02
I'm curious about this volume album! I consider all the parts as great, but I prefer a different one in various moments! Now I'm with Part three.Wink What do you think?
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I always liked the first half more than the second. But the part with vocals, the last 9 minutes of part 2, has always been my favourite. So my vote goes to part 2.
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I would have to refresh my memory first.
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part two - love it, but the whole album is great.


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Hard to choose, as it's my favourite Oldfield album anyway... eventually I voted for part four.
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I always listen to it as a cohesive album.  No part matters or appeals to me more than another.
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What an equality! It proves this album to be really balanced! Clap
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The  whole album is a masterpiece but Part 2 takes it for me. Oldfield at his repetitive best and Maddy Prior's exhaustive recitation of Longfellow's Hiawatha is one of the musical highlights of my listening years :-)
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Incantations is the first Oldfield album I heard properly (I'd heard Tubular Bells before, but I only kinda skimmed through it and only once) and I already think this is the best prog album ever made. Of course when my initial zeal for the album settles down a bit I might change my mind ;) But still it's 72 minutes of just unexplainable music!
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Great album - up there with his best (IMHO) - Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn and Amorak.
 
Voted Part one - but love all four of the little beauties!
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Part two for its grandeur.
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Posts: 8836 		Post Options Post Options   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2012 at 14:18
Really tough call as this album is a beauty but I went for Part 3, as that has a sublime guitar section about 3-8 minutes in followed by a heavy prog section with a monster finale. Extremely satisfying.
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