Mike Oldfield's Albums

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Man on the Rocks is awful, Amarok & Return to Ommadawn are excellent. In that case, I doubt if I'll be adding Man on the Rocks to my Mike Oldfield shopping list.

I wouldn't say Man on the Rocks is awful... it's a nice pop album, but not more. Yet, I do love a pair of songs on it, the title track and Nuclear... perhaps you could check those ones out... and perhaps even buy the songs you like on ITunes or something.

Dellinger wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Man on the Rocks is awful, Amarok & Return to Ommadawn are excellent. In that case, I doubt if I'll be adding Man on the Rocks to my Mike Oldfield shopping list. I wouldn't say Man on the Rocks is awful... it's a nice pop album, but not more. Yet, I do love a pair of songs on it, the title track and Nuclear... perhaps you could check those ones out... and perhaps even buy the songs you like on ITunes or something.

Dellinger wrote: Man on the Rocks might be the most un Mike-Oldfield album made by Mike Oldfield.

^ I felt the same way about Abacab too, and the Genesis I used to know and love were unrecognisable on Calling All Stations.

TB3 is very underrated imo although the best version is he performance from Horseguards Parade(on DVD). I can't listen to TB2 , its just a pale imitation of the original. 

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Catcher10 wrote: So many albums and I only own one of them......what a shame.   Which one? Let me guess..... Ommadawn?   The good news is that all of Mike Oldfield's full albums appear to be on YouTube at the moment, so this seemed like the perfect time for a Mike Oldfield albums tribute thread.

I don’t have all of them, but it’s more than one!

Catcher10 wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^ It looks like that guy in the second photo has even more albums in his collection than I have, although mine are all on CD. I hope he has them all arranged in alphabetical order, otherwise how would he ever find anything. I don't organize in any order at all, so by definition no organization. I like it that way so then I just flip thru till I find something catches my eye. I just built some record storage bins, I need to build 2 more to fit more I have in boxes/crates, each holds about 450-475 records.

Projecting out from your pictured collection, Catcher', is the Earth, Wind, & Fire album. Is it any good (it must be)? I remember an older brother giving me for Christmas That's the Way of the World the year it was released, and I scoffed, asking him to return it to wherever he bought it from. I now lament that attitude and decision and hope to collect 'World sometime in the future.

Edited by Rednight - January 16 2021 at 10:46

^ Well, I ended up getting the Tubular Bells 2003 instead of the original, mostly because it was the one available at the store when I was looking for it. I do enjoy it a lot, and have come to enjoy the Master of Ceremonies part... then, I compared the intro piece with the original version (which I had because of some New Age compilation), and thought the new one sounded better... specially, I remember, the bass sounded very clear and beautiful on the new version, while on the original I just couldn't hear it (perhaps that was corrected in one of his remasters or remixes or whatever). It is the Tubular Bells 2 the one I found rather dull too, indeed just a pale imitation of the original (though it does have a few very beautiful moments). And I was pleasantly surprised with #3, specially the Secrets songs and the far above the clouds one (a perfect and powerful way to close his Tubular Bells series).

Edited by Dellinger - January 21 2021 at 22:15