Mike Oldfield 1990-1999
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Prog Polls
Forum Description: Create polls on topics related to progressive music
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=127985
Printed Date: May 04 2024 at 00:14
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Mike Oldfield 1990-1999
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Mike Oldfield 1990-1999
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 02:08
Part 3 of 4 1990: Mike Oldfield - Amarok - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCHbDuFs5Q_NiiC8gaTQtol" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCHbDuFs5Q_NiiC8gaTQtol  1991: Mike Oldfield - Heaven's Open - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzB0DUZacliLMBLpywIVQC2U" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzB0DUZacliLMBLpywIVQC2U  1992: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCYR--YnDjUtSd6SE_Bapm" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCYR--YnDjUtSd6SE_Bapm - 1994: Mike Oldfield - The Songs of Distant Earth - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDeXsOSN5XOJ3cJ4ltVe6bt" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDeXsOSN5XOJ3cJ4ltVe6bt 1995: Mike Oldfield - Voyager - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBEeJjOGLq02kxClYF9bd45" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBEeJjOGLq02kxClYF9bd45 1998: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells III - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBMryYkw8voB1sFcW4gGNQA" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBMryYkw8voB1sFcW4gGNQA 1999: Mike Oldfield - Guitars - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzC_FmeVrGG5S3KWme4Odb6a" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzC_FmeVrGG5S3KWme4Odb6a 1999: Mike Oldfield - The Millennium Bell - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBK2VWmA2JmS4aKBmEgkW3g" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBK2VWmA2JmS4aKBmEgkW3g |
Replies:
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 02:25
|
Amarok ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 02:53
|
1. The Songs of Distant Earth 2. Tubular Bells II 3. Tubular Bells III 4. The Millennium Bell 5. Guitars 6. Voyager 7. Amarok 8. Heaven's Open
|
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 03:39
|
Amarok ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 04:42
|
TB2, ahead of Amarok |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 04:52
|
Amarok ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 05:57
|
I'm partial to Songs of Distant Earth. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 10:17
|
Amarok ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 11:12
| Amarok is his magnum opus masterpiece! |
Posted By: hergest ridge
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 11:48
|
Clearly Amarok, for me. An incredible track ! 1. Amarok 2. Tubular bells II 3. Tubular bells III 4. Voyager 5. The songs of distant earth 6. Guitars 7. The millenium bell 8. Heaven's open Several good albums during the nineties. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 16:35
| TB 3 is superb |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 18:15
| First vote for Voyager. An album that's quite special to me. |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 22:16
| For some reason I've always loved Tubular Bells III. Songs from Distant earth is pretty good as well. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 22:28
|
Distant Earth is my choice. The novel is great, so having read it adds value to the concept album. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: December 09 2021 at 23:07
| I'm going with Songs of Distant Earth for a whole album, though perhaps the ending of Tubular Bells 3 is his greatest moment of the 90's... oh well, or perhaps tied with the Africa section of Amarok. |
Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: December 10 2021 at 02:02
| both Songs of Distant Earth and Tubular Bells III |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 10 2021 at 05:22
| My vote to Songs Of Distant Earth. Could be argued that he started the New Age music thing with TB and then finished it very neatly with this masterpiece (his last probably) . Amarok should win the poll (its a prog site!) , completely barking mad off the wall brilliance. |
Posted By: EduTatsumi
Date Posted: December 10 2021 at 09:30
|
The Songs of Distant Earth Honourable mention: Amarok
|
Posted By: Modrigue
Date Posted: December 10 2021 at 10:53
|
Guitars for me, followed by Songs of Distant Earth ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqf2srRfppHAslEmHBn8QP6d_eoanh0eW" rel="nofollow - My compositions |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: December 11 2021 at 04:41
|
Voted for TBII not on the basis that I'd like to listen to this most (actually none of these is very big on my list), but rather because it arguably started the series of "variations" of the base material of TB. My first thought when listening to it was "why would anybody do this kind of thing except to make an easy buck?", but then Oldfield built on it in a way nobody else has done, to my knowledge, and it all started to make some sense to me, and hat off to him for doing something unique, taking into account the whole series. OK, one could argue that the Orchestral TB already existed at the time, but that was probably perceived as a one off, and others had done something like this already. TBII kind of annoyed me at first listen, but when he did more of these, I revisited it and now find it nice and even fascinating as a "study". |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: December 12 2021 at 13:43
| I only have Voyager out of these. I like it a lot more than most. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: December 12 2021 at 20:32
| ^ I did not dislike that one, but I didn't love it either. Perhaps you would do well to check out some of the other albums... though they are not really very much like that one, I guess. Tubular Bells 2 might work nicely along Voyager. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 13 2021 at 02:37
| I thought Amarok and Songs Of Distant Earth would suck in all the votes but pleased to see people voting for the other albums and avoiding Heaven's Open. TBIII is great although I would direct anyone who likes that album to the Live At Horseguard's Parade DVD version. Like to do that one out occasionally. Oldfield has quite a nice selection of DVD's to his name that are worth checking out. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 13 2021 at 04:28
I never expected Amarok would go on to win this poll. I thought it far more likely Tubular Bells II or The Songs of Distant Earth would win, but then again, I'm always biased towards my favourites when it comes to predicting the results of a poll.
 |
richardh wrote:Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: December 13 2021 at 10:30
While I voted for the all-powerful, all-encompassing Amarok in this poll, I consider Heaven's Open to be a 5-star album and vastly underrated. The short songs are great (although "No Dream" could stand a little editing), I have no problem with Mike's vocals, and the epic "Music from the Balcony" is almost a corollary to Amarok, with its appropriation of "found sounds". That being said, I understand why no one has voted for it taking into account the decade's competition.
|
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 14 2021 at 16:50
I've only managed to get through it once or maybe twice. I know Oldfield considered it to be the pinnacle of his song writing side which was interesting in itself. I need to give it another go.
|
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 05:00
| Either ...Distant Earth (I was very fond of it at the time, less nowadays) or Tubular Bells III -- voted the latter for being generally underrated and having stood the test of time better. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 05:44
The Songs of Distant Earth is my all-time favourite Mike Oldfield album.
 |
Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 07:01
| Voted the 'Bells II. I got it when it came out (I was 14) and listened to it a lot. I remember I also saw a concert on TV where he performed the album. |