Progarchives, the progressive rock ultimate discography
Mike Oldfield - QE2 CD (album) cover

QE2

Mike Oldfield

 

Crossover Prog

3.51 | 380 ratings

From Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website

Frankie Flowers
3 stars QE2 deserves three and a half stars because it's very good, with a kind of music that's very hard to classify. Oldfield just seems to create sounds of his own as always, particularly from his guitar playing. Though while providing us with a handful of instruments (harps, african drums, mandolin, tambourine ..) he seems to dig out some of his celtic roots among the other wonderful cross-over of styles. It's very enjoyable music, from the happy energetic "Celt" to the short, melancholy "Molly". The finest moments here for me are "Wonderful Land" (which was interestingly a Shadows cover), "Mirage" and "QE2". I especially love those real horns which were replaced by synths in the next album. The one other cover on this album was "Arrival" by Abba. Some fans dont like the idea of Oldfield sticking these two covers on the album, but I don't have a problem with that. The Shadows responded to Mike by covering Moonlight Shadow some years later. Often such good music is not so commercially succesful but this album reached the no.1 spot in German album charts. Nice stuff. Good for your collection.
Frankie Flowers | 3/5 |

MEMBERS LOGIN ZONE

As a registered member (register here if not), you can post rating/reviews (& edit later), comments reviews and submit new albums.

You are not logged, please complete authentication before continuing (use forum credentials).

Forum user
Forum password

Share this MIKE OLDFIELD review

Social review comments () BETA







Review related links

Copyright Prog Archives, All rights reserved. | Legal Notice | Privacy Policy | Advertise | RSS + syndications

Other sites in the MAC network: JazzMusicArchives.com — jazz music reviews and archives | MetalMusicArchives.com — metal music reviews and archives

Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.