Mike Oldfield's Albums

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.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - January 16 2021 at 11:13

Hergest Ridge (1974) - The name of the ridge on the English-Welsh border which Mike Oldfield retreated to following the release of the Tubular Bells album.

Incantations - Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4 (1978) - Sorry about the album being cut off in its prime just before the end.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 11 2020 at 12:17

So many albums and I only own one of them......what a shame.

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.

I can answer for him. Tubular Bells

Meltdowner wrote: Thanks for sharing that TB documentary. I'm an even bigger fan of one of my musical heroes

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.

Catcher10 wrote: 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. I've heard many of them, I do have some of them as digital downloads. I don't count downloads as part of a "music collection". You don't own anything, show me your digital files?? The man and his story is more interesting to me than his music. I have too much hard rock, heavy metal in me to really connect to his music.

BrufordFreak wrote: Catcher10 wrote: 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. I've heard many of them, I do have some of them as digital downloads. I don't count downloads as part of a "music collection". You don't own anything, show me your digital files?? The man and his story is more interesting to me than his music. I have too much hard rock, heavy metal in me to really connect to his music. I "hard copy" all my downloads onto CDs! Does that count for my "music collection"?

^ 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.