Oldfield or Vangelis - Progressive Rock Music Forum

i would compare vangelis with jeanne michelle jarre .

between the two, oldfield

Edited by jonbirion - November 02 2017 at 03:47

dr wu23 wrote:

Dark Elf said...Both are hit and miss.

Yep.....never really got all the love for these guys....pretty straight ahead instrumental stuff.

The sounds Vangelis makes with his Yamaha CS80 and other synths are very special. And when he combines it with real instruments, whether flamenco guitar or saxophone, voices, chimes, etc., it's like ear candy:) And he kept the use of sequencers to a minimum, making him a bit unique compared to other synth artists, such as Tangerine Dream. Plus he has real composition skills, his music is quite emotional, and he bucks the trend towards minimalism in electronic music. There's really no one else out there quite like him. For me, everything started with Blade Runner when I was child, and it was a matter of hearing everything else he did.

Edited by jude111 - October 31 2017 at 12:31

As a solo artist, early Oldfield (especially Tubular Bells and Ommadawn), as for collaborative efforts, I　prefer Vangelis - Aphrodite's Child and Jon & Vangelis (I love The Friends of Mr.Cairo and Short Stories in particular). Although except for L'Apocalypse, Vangelis solo work leaves me mostly cold. Collaboration of Oldfield and Jon Anderson is interesting too:) In High Places especially is a piece where Anderson has space to shine.

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richardh wrote:

Both were pretty amazing between 1973 and 1984 and hardly put a foot wrong. I can't even guess who was the most brilliant but in terms of personal preference I would probably go with Vangelis just about. After that it does go a bit patchy for both of them. Oldfield had 2 more masterpieces in him (Amarok and Songs Of Distant Earth) while Vangelis I would say managed a definite one in El Greco (not the OST for a film which he also did) and perhaps a debatable one in Voices.

I love Voices; I rank many of his 90s work as among his best, especially 1492, Oceanic, and Voices. His single Ithaca with Sean Connery's voice from 2004 is a classic, and his newest album Rosetta's really good too:)

Tough as I love both.

Both were pretty amazing between 1973 and 1984 and hardly put a foot wrong. I can't even guess who was the most brilliant but in terms of personal preference I would probably go with Vangelis just about. After that it does go a bit patchy for both of them. Oldfield had 2 more masterpieces in him (Amarok and Songs Of Distant Earth) while Vangelis I would say managed a definite one in El Greco (not the OST for a film which he also did) and perhaps a debatable one in Voices.

If I had to choose who I would want to listen to every album by, then I would choose Vangelis definitely as Oldfield has plumbs some real depths unfortunately. His forays into pop and rock just don't work for me. As a solo artist Vangelis has managed to avoid that but when he does veer off and collaborate then it goes very well as evidenced by his albums with Jon Anderson and Irene Papas. Oldfield is possibly a bit too much of a control freak and maybe the nearest he had to a proper collaborative work was Crisis with Simon Phillips. I think he might have benefited more from doing more of this.

Edited by richardh - October 30 2017 at 12:35

Never been much a of a fan of either person.....I suppose Oldfield if I had to choose.

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octopus-4 wrote:

I love Oldfield but it's Vangelis, for Heaven And Hell, Albedo 0.39, China and for having touched all the prog subgenres during his career.

Same with me.

The Jon and Vangelis albums are very special to me, particularly Short Stories and Private Collection. I like the Vangelis solo output, but there is something about teaming with Jon that takes it to the top level for me.

Oldfield is easily among my favorites, and I give him an edge over Vangelis. My go-to albums include Tubular Bells, Ommadawn, Amarok, Tubular Bells II, Songs of Distant Earth, and Return to Ommadawn.

For me, it's easily Vangelis. Blade Runner (the Esper Edition) is probably my favorite album all-time. I know his music may seem cheesy to many initially, but there's always really weird stuff lurking under the surface, which is quite appealing to me:) I was just listening to "See You Later" today, and "Oceanic" yesterday (one of its tracks features prominently on an episode of "Stranger Things"). And the ghost of Vangelis's OST hovers over the score for the new film 2049, which has been in constant rotation at my house since it came out.

Edited by jude111 - October 28 2017 at 18:29

Oldfield... but I also like Vangelis