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Moreno00 
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 Topic: Favorite Mike Oldfield albumsPosted: August 04 2025 at 12:50 |
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Mike Oldfield have many albums. My chart of albums in order of preference is:
1- Ommadawn 2- Hergest Ridge 3- Platinum 4- Tubular bells 5- QE2 6- Tres lunas And your list? |
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Posted: August 04 2025 at 12:59 |
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Ommadawn
Tubular Bells Hergest Ridge Incantations Platinum QE2 |
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Steve Wyzard
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Posted: August 04 2025 at 13:11 |
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1. Amarok
2. Five Miles Out 3. Hergest Ridge 4. Tubular Bells II 5. Platinum 6. Crises 7. Heaven's Open 8. Ommadawn 9. QE2 10. Islands |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: August 04 2025 at 13:20 |
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01. Ommadawn
02. Tubular Bells 03. Tubular Bells II 04. Tubular Bells III 05. The Songs of Distant Earth 06. Music of the Spheres 07. The Millennium Bell 08. Return to Ommadawn 09. Guitars 10. Tr3s Lunas |
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Posted: August 04 2025 at 13:24 |
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I'm fond of (chronologically): Tubular Bells Hergest Ridge Ommadawn |
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Jared
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Posted: August 04 2025 at 13:49 |
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Real soft spot for Mike, I own all his albums bar two.. Earth Moving & Man On The Rocks which don't contain enough of interest for me....
The first four can't be separated... Five Miles Out Return To Ommadawn Amarok QE2 TB II / TB III Songs Of Distant Music Spheres Guitars Crises and so on... |
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Posted: August 04 2025 at 13:57 |
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Incantations
Ommadawn Hergest Ridge |
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Posted: August 04 2025 at 14:20 |
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Ommadawn
Hergest Ridge Incantations Tubular Bells Amarok Return to Ommadawn Songs Of A Distant Earth |
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Posted: August 04 2025 at 15:42 |
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Ommadawn
Tubular Bells Hergest Ridge Incantations Crises Tubular Bells II Return to Ommadawn QE2 Platinum Amarok |
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Posted: August 04 2025 at 15:51 |
I'm only into these two and that's my order of preference. I'm sure I could like more if I tried more (I never got into Tubular Bells). |
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I'm not sure about the order, but I guess something like this. Ommadawn, Hergest Ridge, Tubular Bells, Incantations, Return to Ommadawn, Tubular Bells 3, The Songs of Distant Earth.
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Posted: Yesterday at 02:39 |
that pretty much nails it as far as his most important albums go and certainly within the very loose idea of 'progressive rock music''. I like that order as well. Of the rest I also enjoy Platinum QE2 Five Miles Out Crisis TB3 Tres Lunas Discovery I only truly dislike Man On The Rocks, Earth Moving and maybe Heavens Open. The likes of Guitars, Voyager, The Millenium Bell and TB2 are not terrible. I also love the live version of TB on Exposed Edited by richardh - Yesterday at 02:44 |
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Tubular Bells
Ommadawn Incantations I once saw a Kevyn Ayers concert/documentary live in Spain (Andy Summers was in the band at the time), and he said he loved Mike Oldfield like a son, but that after the first album, his sound always remained the same. However, Ommadawn always held a special something for me, with the addition of the African-influenced percussion and backing vocals. I once saw a Kevyn Ayers concert/documentary live in Spain (Andy Summers was in the band at the time), and he said he loved Mike Oldfield like a son, but that after the first album, his sound always remained the same. However, Ommadawn always held a special something for me, with the addition of African-influenced percussion and choruses. And Incantations with the electronics. |
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Posted: 21 hours 12 minutes ago at 19:34 |
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I don't know many to be honest and currently only own about 7. At this point Incantations might be my favorite but Hergest Ridge and Tubular Bells are great too. Ommadawn hasn't clicked with me yet and neither has Amarok. I'm also familiar with Islands which has a great 20 minute track but mostly average pop songs on the other side. I also have his only classical album called Music From The Spheres which is actually rather nice but only listened to it once so far I think.
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What I always love is his guitar solo on Kevyn Ayers' album, Shooting at the Moon. The track Lunatics Lament.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TmQVFlDV60&list=RD-TmQVFlDV60&start_radio=1 |
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Posted: 15 hours 11 minutes ago at 01:35 |
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Tubular Bells
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The great 20 minute track followed by 'average pop songs' routine is a blueprint for a number of his albums, esp Crises which has a great A side and fairly woeful B side. Personally, I think The Wind Chimes is a bit lacklustre by his standards, but I still own it. Music of the Spheres is a beautiful piece of music and a little underrated here; I play it quite often. |
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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