Top 7 Mike Oldfield Albums

richardh wrote: Although it didn't make my list , I've always liked TB3 which really had very little with the original album other than marketing. That and Tres Lunas are underrated I feel although they are just too close to the 'Ibiza scene' for comfort as far as prog fans are concerned!

Psychedelic Paul wrote: The Dark Elf wrote: I guess if one was lazy, they could just choose Tubular Bells I through VII, or however many times Oldfield rehashed the same idea.   Although each Tubular Bells album was uniquely different in its own special way, in my opinion anyway.

Really? I mean, it's the original Tubular Bells, then the orchestral Tubular Bells, which I understand should be just about the same one but with orchestra (and without Mike if I remember correctly, because he wasn't up to playing live yet by then and the record company had to do this anyway), then some live versions of Tubular Bells with Mike Oldfield himself, then Tubular Bells 2 which very closely follows the same path of the original, playing equivalents of every piece on the original but (for me) mostly of lesser quality (like they were done so for the sake of copying his original), then Tubular Bells 2003, which is the very original Tubular Bells re-recorded (and that's actually the one I have, not the original one). And then there's Tubular Bells 3, which is indeed a new work in it's own right for a change, and has some really beautiful moments indeed.

richardh wrote: Although it didn't make my list , I've always liked TB3 which really had very little with the original album other than marketing. That and Tres Lunas are underrated I feel although they are just too close to the 'Ibiza scene' for comfort as far as prog fans are concerned!

Top 7 update with Mortte's votes added:-

^ Your Mike Oldfield albums collection is almost the same as mine. I have every album in your Top 7 apart from QE2, although I used to have it on an LP album. Here's the latest update with your votes added:-

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 07 2020 at 13:17

The Dark Elf wrote: I guess if one was lazy, they could just choose Tubular Bells I through VII, or however many times Oldfield rehashed the same idea.

Top 7 update with Corcoranw687's votes added:-

moshkito wrote: 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"!

kenethlevine wrote: not surprised about Ommadawn.  It's definitely the favourite around here

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 06 2020 at 10:18

This is how the point-count looks so far after the first ten rounds of voting:-

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 06 2020 at 07:35