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    Posted: August 19 2023 at 02:44
Have you ever wondered what it would be like hear the sound of the Tubular Bells chiming at sunrise on top of Hergest Ridge at the Ommadawn of a new day? Looking out to sea from the top of the ridge, you'd be able to see the sun casting its delicate Incantations of light across a calm Platinum silver sea. In the distance, you might be lucky enough to see the QE2 sailing Five Miles Out from Southampton, where the lucky passengers are temporarily escaping the world's Crises by  embarking on a voyage of Discovery to exotic tropical Islands. A voyage aboard a luxury cruise liner promises to be an Earth Moving experience of a lifetime, where you could sail to the exotic island of Amarok in Indonesia, or witness a tropical monsoon when the Heavens Open over Java. It's almost as exotic as the astronauts who journeyed to the Moon aboard gleaming silver rockets, which glinted in the Sun like Tubular Bells II of stainless steel. As the space travellers journeyed into orbit around the Moon, they'd hear The Songs of Distant Earth aboard their Voyager spacecraft. Maybe they'd listen to Tubular Bells III and the distinctive sound of Mike Oldfield's Guitars, whilst the tolling of The Millennium Bell on the album announces the beginning of a new century. The Tres Lunas (or three lunar astronauts) would be travelling between Light + Shade as their spacecraft orbits the Moon, where the Music of the Spheres can be heard across space and time. Maybe one day in the not too distant future, a spacecraft will land a Man on the Rocks of Mars, before the long journey home and a welcome Return to Ommadawn here on Earth. Smile

Simply list your Top 10 favourite Mike Oldfield albums, then choose your favourite tracks from each of those ten albums.

Top 10 Favourite Mike Oldfield Albums

08. 4 stars 2017: Return to Ommadawn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-nptvm9-hE&t=4s

Top 10 Tracks from Those Same Albums

01. Ommadawn Part 1
02. Tubular Bells Part 1
03. The Bell
04. Far Above the Clouds
05. Let There Be Light
06. Musica Universalis
07. To Be Free
08. Return to Ommadawn Part 1
09. Moonlight Shadow
10. Lake Constance
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Frets N Worries Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2023 at 13:04
Ah how I love Oldfield, let's see...

1) Amarok - Amarok
2) Tubular Bells - Tubular Bells Part 1
3) Ommadawn - Ommadawn Part 1
4) Incantations - Incantations Part 3
5) Platinum - Platinum (I'm counting this as 1 track)
6) Crises - Crises
7) Tubular Bells 2 - Altered State
8) Hergest Ridge - Hergest Ridge Part 2 (Such an overrated album IMO)
9) Tubular Bells III - Far Above The Clouds
10) Return to Ommadawn - Return to Ommadawn Part 1

One of my favorites, I should own more of his albums, and eventually work my way through his entire discography. I liked Tubular Bells III a LOT more than I thought I would. I love the sound of that album
The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time...
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Exposed - Tubular Bells/Incantations (live)
Ommadawn
Return to Ommadawn
QE2 - Taurus 1 (live)
Live at Montreux (video) - Platinum (live)
Crises - Crises (live)
Amarok
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Ommadawn - Ommadawn Part 1
Hergest Ridge - Hergest Ridge Part 2
Incantations - Incantations Part 2
Tubular Bells - Tubular Bells Part 1
Amarok - Amarok
Retiurn To Ommadawn - Part 1
Tubular Bells II - Altered State
Tubular Bells III - The Top Of The Morning
The Songs Of Distant Earth - Magellan
QE2 - Taurus 1
5 Miles Out - Taurus 2
Platinum - Part 1 Airborn



Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - August 19 2023 at 19:43
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2023 at 16:06
Ommadawn - Part 2
Hergest Ridge - Part 1
Incantations - Part 3
Amarok - ''Hobson's Choice''
Songs Of Distant Earth - (No idea , I think of this as one complete thing)
Return To Ommadawn - Part 1
Crises - Crises
Platinum - Punkadiddle
Tubular Bells - Part 1
Discovery - To France


Edited by richardh - August 20 2023 at 16:08
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Steve Wyzard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2023 at 11:18
This took A LOT of thought:

1. Amarok - the whole thing!
2. Five Miles Out - Taurus II
3. Tubular Bells II - Weightless/The Great Plain
4. Crises - Crises
5. Hergest Ridge - the whole thing!
6. Ommadawn - On Horseback
7. Platinum - Charleston
8. Heaven's Open - Music from the Balcony
9. Tubular Bells III - Outcast/Serpent Dream
10. Islands - The Wind Chimes
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote kenethlevine Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2023 at 11:43
chronologically

Tubular Bells - Part 1
Ommadawn - Part 1 Band 1 and Part 2 Band 3
Incantations - Part 4
Exposed - Tubular Bells Part 2
QE2 - Sheba or Conflict or QE2
Five Miles Out - Taurus 2
Crises - In High Places or Moonlight Shadow
Discovery - Trick of the Light  or Discovery/The Lake
Complete Mike Oldfield - Live version of Platinum Suite, Argiers or Crime of Passion
Tubular Bells 3 - The Source of Secrets or Top of the Morning or Far above the clouds

Best non album single - Pictures in the Dark
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2023 at 10:19
Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

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Best non album single - Pictures in the Dark

Non Album single? I like his disco track Guilty especially the live version on the Exposed DVD with Maddy Prior having so much fun.   


Edited by richardh - August 22 2023 at 21:54
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1. Tubular Bells Part 1
2. High Places
3. Sentinel
4. Ommadawn Part 2
5. Shadow On The Wall
6. Nuclear
7. Harbringer
8. Far Above The Clouds
9. Taurus II
10. Tubular Bells Part 2
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