The Complete Mike Oldfield
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Artist: Mike Oldfield
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
UPC: 077778640325
EAN: 0077778640325
ASIN: B0000072NU
Release Date: 1995-11-02 |
The Complete Mike Oldfield
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Tracks:
- Arrival
- William Tell Overture
- Cuckoo Song
- In Dulci Jubilo
- Portsmouth
- Jungle Gardenia
- Guilty
- Blue Peter
- Waldberg (The Peak)
- Wonderful Land
- Etude [Single Version]
- Moonlight Shadow
- Family Man
- Mistake
- Five Miles Out
- Crime of Passion
- To France
- Shadow on the Wall [12" Version]
Tracks:
- Ommadawn [Excerpt]
- Tubular Bells [Excerpt]
- Hergest Ridge [Excerpt]
- Incantations [Excerpt]
- Killing Fields [Excerpt]
- Sheba [#]
- Mirage [#]
- Platinum [#]
- Mount Teidi [#]
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Customer Reviews:
What Makes Him Great.......2006-12-03
The first commercial recording I ever bought was by Mike Oldfield back in the late 70s. I didn't know anything about him except that the guy in the music store recommended him. It blew my mind. He has been a favorite ever since even though my tastes tend to run toward baroque organ fugues, bagpipes and old country and western pieces with the occasional Sinatra thrown in.
Some of Oldfield's albums have been disappointments but others made the disappointments worthwhile. "Collection" albums were generally less than thrilling. This one, though, is an example of excellence and demonstrates many facets of his skills.
The album is on 2 CDs and contains a wide cross section of his work.
The first part of the first disk contains some his shorter instrumental pieces. These are usually classics to which he gives his own spin. He makes these pieces written for classical instruments sound like they were written (and written well) for electric guitars. He is a consummate instrumentalist.
The second part of the first disk is devoted to some of his vocal pieces. These have never thrilled me but the one here are some of his best and are worthy of hearing.
The first part of the second disk is labeled as "The Complex Section". It features outtakes from some of his album length masterpiece compositions. They are, in effect, major symphonic pieces composed for modern instrumentation. This is what he does best and the selections here are great.
The second and last part of the second disk is my favorite from this album. It features live performances of some of his mid length pieces from the "Long" albums. While I do not normally like live recordings, the quality here is high. More important to me, the selections are rendered differently than they are on the original albums. This means that when I expected something to happen a certain way, I was surprised when it often went off in a new direction or was done differently. It provides more examples of his superb artistry.
This is a great one.
A great source of Rarities for average Oldfield fan.......2003-10-31
if you somehow can't dig the net in search of his many unpublished and rare tracks this is the place - almost half of material from here was never published on CD - "Guilty","Jungle gardenia","Cuckoo song","Mistake","Waldberg (the peak)" and many more....there are also some live performances like amazing "platinum suite" improvisation (Oldfield proves here that he is one of best live guitar players)
there are also many of his hits like "Moonlight shadow","Family man","Etude" - some of them appeared in slightly shortened versions - and also pieces of his majestic long moods like "Tubular bells" or "Ommadawn")
"Complete" is a valuable source of Mike "Treasures" and a good starting place for starting Mike Fans.
Almost complete Mike Oldfield.......2000-10-07
This album features a glimpse of the range of style that mike covered up to the Killing Fields album. While it only contains snippets of the long tracks it covers all the singles, except "On horseback". Sides 1 to 3 may be not be for the Oldfield purists,(see above review), but the unreleased live tracks on side four are probable the best thing Oldfield has ever put on record. Maggie Reilly fans should also take note of it. This side should be played loud!!!!!!
Almost complete Mike Oldfield.......2000-10-07
This album features a glimpse of the range of style that mike covered up to the Killing Fields album. While it only contains snippets of the long tracks it covers all the singles, except "On horseback". Sides 1 to 3 may be not be for the Oldfield purists,(see above review), but the unreleased live tracks on side four are probable the best thing Oldfield has ever put on record. Maggie Reilly fans should also take note of it. This side should be played loud!!!!!!
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