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Psychedelic Paul
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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.
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 01. 1975: Ommadawn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlNi-zZF6wI 02. 1973: Tubular Bells - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_4sZCLlr0&t=12s 03. 1992: Tubular Bells II - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_krAp5sVJ1c5iY1QnmYBqE2iEh1z-LWcXw 04. 1998: Tubular Bells III - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_llEdp2M0JPDTDFCWu_OYLHyT-o16reiic 05. 1994: The Songs of Distant Earth - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m5EDNhJKHSZckJa6BUSIaeFgkO28OZ_v0 06. 2008: Music of the Spheres - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m7NjotMryQ_MyaHnx0AMW7Vz_pHyTyHk4 07. 2002: Tr3s Lunas - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nIC4ZJYCl1eRaNkBAfRC-ZNoRtmdrEDn8 10. 1999: The Millennium Bell - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k-js4yobib6wRAywOf2OhSozabNEz7Z1M 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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Frets N Worries
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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
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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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terramystic
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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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Nogbad_The_Bad
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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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Ian
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richardh
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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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Steve Wyzard
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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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kenethlevine
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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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richardh
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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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Dapper~Blueberries
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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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