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richardh 
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Posted: June 20 2011 at 14:17 |
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Platinum is also a decent place to start as it has a side long peice as well a series of shorter peices.Tends to get overlooked though.Excellent stuff for testing the balance of your speakers as well as good 'through the headphone' listening. Very simple production which works well.
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Posted: June 20 2011 at 11:56 |
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Ommadawn,Tubular Bells and Hergest Ridge are obvious choices but you can try Crises,Amarok and Five miles out.
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Posted: June 20 2011 at 10:52 |
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Hi,
Tubular Bells for the 70's, Crises for the 80's, The songs of distant Earth for the 90's, Amarok for all.
If one doesn't know Mike Oldfield for his early prroduction could get a bad idea of him listening first to his most recent albums (post TSODE).
Single tracks of great relevance: The Lake (Discovery, 1984), First excursion (w/ D. Bedford, 1976)
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Posted: June 06 2011 at 16:54 |
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No one quoted Island? The long track is a pure gem to my ears.......
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richardh
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Posted: June 06 2011 at 01:41 |
 ghost_of_morphy wrote:
richardh wrote:
Tubular Bells though should carry a warning ''disjointed but has inspired moments''. |
Disjointed is probably the last word that could possibly describe Tubular Bells. Perhaps the most noticeable thing about the album is how one theme gradually merges into another. |
Its well known that Tubular Bells is made up of many different peices of music. This was clarified on TB2. Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn were much more organic recordings and far better imo even though Tubular Bells has some great moments.
Edited by richardh - June 06 2011 at 01:41
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 20:53 |
richardh wrote:
Tubular Bells though should carry a warning ''disjointed but has inspired moments''. |
Disjointed is probably the last word that could possibly describe Tubular Bells. Perhaps the most noticeable thing about the album is how one theme gradually merges into another.
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 18:03 |
Speaking of Oldfield, I should be expecting "Ommadawn" in the mail anytime soon. 
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 17:05 |
QE2 is good but the artwork cover is not his best one 
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 13:12 |
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He has lots of great albums. Another one I liked is QE2. |
Yep, QE2 is an excellent album. That cover of Wonderful Land is simply superb.
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 11:58 |
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He has lots of great albums. Another one I liked is QE2.
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Posted: June 04 2011 at 20:20 |
A very good album, it's a fact but if you got to start with Oldfield, first try Tubular, Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn, then after that you'll have a few more to discover  It's better to first read the first chapter from a story
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richardh
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Posted: June 04 2011 at 02:35 |
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I really enjoyed The Songs From Distant Earth. |
Yes so do I. The 'problem' with this album that its a lot different to the earlier more acoustic based recordings of Mike Oldfield. SFDE has a much more spacey feel to it that is more akin to electronic music. Very nice though.
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Posted: June 03 2011 at 04:45 |
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I really enjoyed The Songs From Distant Earth.
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 03:29 |
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Just for Taurus II, I would start with Five Miles Out..
.. and all of the Live at Montreux is a masterpiece...
And Ommadawn.. and Amarok......
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Posted: June 01 2011 at 14:59 |
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i got the remastered Hergest Ridge cd release a few weeks ago, and i find me surprised to love it because it never clicked on me untill today though it's such a good album, Incredible  |
For many years I had only heard the version on Boxed which is actually quite a bit different production wise to the original (basically stripped down). It is a very beautifull peice of music for sure in both forms.
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Posted: June 01 2011 at 04:54 |
i got the remastered Hergest Ridge cd release a few weeks ago, and i find me surprised to love it because it never clicked on me untill today though it's such a good album, Incredible
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richardh
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 14:47 |
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Tubular Bells though should carry a warning ''disjointed but has inspired moments''. I started with Mike Oldfield 'Boxed' which has the first 3 albums. Ommadawn was the one that blew me away.
Edited by richardh - May 31 2011 at 14:48
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 14:43 |
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Another vote for Tubular Bells, but only because you need some form of initiation before going for the monster - Ommadawn.
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 01:41 |
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^Like everyone else said, I would suggest "Tubular Bells": for some reason, I still have difficulties to get into "Hergest Ridge" and into "Ommadawn".
"Crises" or "Discovery" as a second choice: these albums have more various atmospheres and have short songs, which may help the beginner to get into them more quickly.
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 01:32 |
Start from the start....Tubular Bells. If you don't like it, you will probably not like the rest.
Iván
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