Heaven's Open

Heaven's Open Artist: Michael Oldfield
Label: Blue Plate Caroline
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724384938628
EAN: 0724384938628
ASIN: B00004T9AU


Release Date: 2000-08-15

Heaven's Open


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Tracks:

  1. Make Make
  2. No Dream
  3. Mr. Shame
  4. Gimme Back
  5. Heaven's Open
  6. Music From The Balcony

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  1. Earth Moving
  2. Discovery
  3. Tubular Bells III

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars HEAVEN'S CLOSED.......2005-07-24

NO STARS.Frankly I'm very surprised to read all this positive reviews;undoubtedly this is the Oldfield's worst album,even worse than EARTH MOVING and almost I can't believe that the man who made OMMADAWN made this rubbish too;so if you wanna buy an his record don't buy this;he has many fantastic ones such as DISCOVERY,TUBULAR BELLS (the first,of course),THE SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH,HERGEST RIDGE (the original mix,of course),EXPOSED and others.

1 out of 5 stars The only one................2005-02-16

I am an Oldfield fan from way back in the 80's. I have heard every album. I have most of them on CD today. I am a music collector of sorts who prides himself on obtaining most if not all of the music of the artists I love, such as Mike Oldfield. This is the only Mike CD that I have ever swapped away at a used CD store. You can make your mind up from there.

3 out of 5 stars For completists and fans only.......2004-09-13

Ah, the dreaded Contractual Obligation Album. After letting out his anger to brilliant effect with "Amarok", Mike Oldfield had one more slice of audio to deliver to the hated Virgin, and this was it.

"Music From The Balcony" seems to be a none-too-subtle parody of what his albums would sound like if made by the interfering primates at his soon-to-be-ex-record company. It wanders aimlessly from style to style amidst a spray of synth effects and sampled monkey noises. I daresay he picked all the sounds out of his folder of "synth noises that are a bit too silly to use on a real album, but interesting".

The songs, too, are contorted into veiled references to his souring relationship with Richard Branson's company. No master vocalists, just Oldfield himself. Yet, curiously, the end result is not as awful as "Islands".

4 out of 5 stars Great way to finish a contract........2004-07-20

This is Mike's worst album? Excuse me, but I can name about a dozen worse Mike albums. As far as Mike's "pop" records, this is one of his best! Much better than Islands and Earth Moving, if you ask me. The songs are all catchy and almost retardedly entertaining. "Gimme Back" is his funniest stab at reggae, "Mr Shame" and "Make Make" are as good as 90's pop can possibly be, and "No Dream" and the title track are brilliant! And "Music From The Balcony" is his most unpredictable, brilliantly written instrumental pieces of all time. Remember "The Lake"? The cutesy-cutesy "atmospheric" "The Lake"? The innofensive, tame "The Lake"? The song that you forgot as soon as it was over? Well, try THIS one. This is weird, schizophrenic rock 'n' roll! Jazzy, groovy, scary and gorgeous as it could ever be! Plus, Mike's vocals are good. If you don't like it, go listen to Fred Durst, then. Great album, and much better than anything Mike did afterwards. After this one, he became pompous and arrogant, and took himself WAY too seriously.

5 out of 5 stars A joke? well,a perfect joke if it is!!.......2003-09-30

a last album for Virgin Company is one huge joke to whole firm - from trashy pop "make make" to quasi Peter Gabriel's "mr.shame".but as we all know Mike he made this joke into a whole eighties popculture item and This CD tells and shows all the things that were funny and trendy in eigties/synths,female choirs and strange but interesting avantgarde experiments.
the best song is really haunting ballad "no dream",an artistic manifest about freedom of choice.
Mike does all hte vocals and he does it great

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