Mike oldfeild fans Help!

  need advice quik!

i love Amarok and its great music but can anybody give me advice on other albums to your opinion that are as good.

plzz tell me another album by mike thats good (mike fans only)

 

 

I LOVE mike oldfield and have everything apart from those ones that Flowerchild rightly warned you about - rightly so. Actually Heaven's Open isn't toooooo bad ... but its basically a rant against Richard Branson who (it is said) treated him quite badly in the record deal. Oldfield was largely responsible for putting Virgin Records on the map ...  Heaven's Open was the last album under the Virgin contract so MO used it as an opportunity to kick sand in his face ... I wonderif Branson was aware or even cared?

I think Amarok is his best work, but in order to truly appreciate it I think Flowerchild is right, those 3 early albums are classics. Of his recent stuff Songs of Distant Earth is my favourite ... a bit new-agey but in a good way   Hey, there's even a computer game on it but you can't play it unlsess you have a Mac!  How very Oldfield ....

thanks for the endorsement flowerchild. Btw (off topic I know) but couldn't help noticing that you are a fellow Tangerine Dream fanatic ...  what a great band ... too few people realise how much they influenced other electronic/ambient artists (probably more so than Eno or at least on a par with) and the great contribution they made to film & "mood" music

Flowerchild is my man.
You did an excellent work on your list. I agree 100%.

THANKS GUYS, i will probebly get tuberbells because i've heard so much about it. 

i think i will give earth moving a miss.

hope tuberbells is as good as Amarok. 

Yes, Flowerchild, it's like the ultimate list. Very good. 

flowerchild wrote: You're lucky I'm online, I'm a Mike Oldfield expert (serious) I also think that Amorak is a masterpiece and I would recomend you to follow that one up with the following: Tubalur bells Ommadawn Incantations Hergest ridge ...and then: Tubular bells II Tubular bells 2003 The songs of distant earth Tres lunas .....after that u know for yourself...but the pop-era in the eighties can be left out IMO. if u not become i die-hard-fan like me and get almost everything Warning: Discovery Earth moving Heaven's open Good luck and feel free to ask me more

I agree with this.  I do note that there is some nice guitar work scattered amongst his 80s pop phase, so a true junky would get them all and appreciate that.  But the pop albums are very disappointing in general--that's not why somebody listens to MO.