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Zanny Group: Members Posts: 21 Joined: May 2004 Posted: May 20 2004, 16:45 Well hopefully this will be a fun topic and may have been done to death already, and if it has I apologise but hey its fun     Anyway whats the earliest memory you have of Mike Oldfield music.  I dont just mean first hearing it on the radio etc but I mean when you first HEARD IT IN YOUR SOUL and thought wow this is really good and who is it and where can i get more.  You know what Im talking about. For me I was about 14 (1983).  I was staying at a friends house for a sleepover and was going through his albums to see what music he had. "Whats this???"  I said holding a copy of QE2. "Oh its QE2 by Mike Oldfield, it was one of my dads albums, wanna have a listen?" said my friend. "Go on then" I said. The rest is history... Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: May 20 2004, 17:27 For me it was when I first saw the live broadcast of the TBII show on TV. I got hypnotized - literally. I bought the CD the morning after that, and I fell deeply in love with that music. It's not that I didn't know Mike Oldfield before - I knew who he was, I knew what Tubular Bells was, and I knew about the use they made of it in The Exorcist. But the TBII show on TV, and listening to the TBII CD, were the two things that really got me into him. And now I can actually play most of TBII - I mean, on real instruments, not air ones. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: May 20 2004, 17:40 OK, let's see. (I seem to remember having posted parts of this on various occasions already but hey, why not again ) The very first time I heard any music in connection with the name "Mike Oldfield" was on my Commodore C64, at about age 7 (guessing). There was a music demo which seems to have been quite popular at the time, called "Synth Sample". It contained a rendering of the Tubular Bells theme (quite bad, in retrospect), as well as tunes by Jarre, Vangelis, Walter Carlos, OMD, and some other stuff (mostly quite good - the Oldfield one was really the worst one ) However, that's not what got me into his music, it merely set the stage, so to speak. You know, it was just a nice little demo with nice music in it, and the name Mike Oldfield was connected with it. The first album I heard knowing who it was was, I'm pretty sure, The Orchestral Tubular Bells. The father of a friend had a few albums, and I remember that friend put that one on sometime. However I didn't listen very closely. I did not not like it but it didn't click with me either. The album that did that was Amarok. That really aroused my interest and struck me as being completely different from what I'd heard before. I quickly explored the rest of that guy's collection (Five Miles Out, The Complete, Islands, Earth Moving if I remember correctly) and then went on to buy the rest of his albums, Ommadawn being the first. I think Ommadawn was what eventually won me over completely. Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: May 20 2004, 17:58 Me,aged 9-10 years old,watching the video for William Tell Overture on a TV special about progressive rock. -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

torbenyj Group: Members Posts: 377 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: May 21 2004, 02:41 hi My story it's almost like Zanny, but it was five miles out and I was 12. The day after I just had to hear more of the man Oldfield Back to top

BOOsTER Group: Musicians Posts: 1024 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: May 21 2004, 05:28 I was about 3-4 and my mom bought a copy of Islands LP, it's still somewhere in my house...she was playing almost once a day...heheh so I could not dislike it it still reminds me nice days when I didn't have to care about anything -------------- http://www.djbooster.net Back to top

familyjules Group: Members Posts: 1190 Joined: May 2004 Posted: May 21 2004, 05:32 I think it was the summer of 1976, making me around 10 years of age at the time.  My older brother's friend had Tubular Bells playing on a portable cassette machine out on the banks of the grassy valley near our house (it's probably someone's back garden now). I was really intrigued by this music and swapped some record of mine I didn't listen to very much for a copy of Tubular bells owned by another friend of my brother's.  Although only 10 I pretty much had memorised the whole of Part One after about a dozen plays. Then I bought Hergest Ridge, which disappointed me.  The Thunderstorm section gave me a headache and still does, the rest just didn't grab me until this week - I finally got into Hergest Ridge after 28 years! Nothing could prepare me for Ommadawn though.  As soon I as heard the mounting tension at the end of Part One for the first time, I knew it was very very special indeed.  I loved it then and I love it still.  Tubular Bells sounds less impressive now than it did all those years ago.  Ommadawn keeps on sounding better and better. Jules -------------- I like beer and I like cheese Back to top

Thea Cochrane Group: Musicians Posts: 445 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: May 21 2004, 05:48 I would have been about 10/11 and the TB2 concert was on tv. I didn't actually watch it, but my parents said it was very good and the day after we bought the cassette of TB2. I remember listening to it in the car on the way home and it just seemed amazing to me that one guy could do all that, and make a guitar sound the way he did. Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: May 21 2004, 07:35 My story is quite boring, really. One day, I casually clicked on the "Mike Oldfield" reviews page of George Starostin. I didn't know who he was, the name "Tubular Bells" was only faintly familiar to me, I hadn't watched The Exorcist, and I didn't know a single note off that album. Yet, I felt so curious I got the album, based on his sole review. As the album ended, I was certain that I had just listened to one of my favourite albums of all time. This was in 2002, and Tubular Bells still leaves me breathless, intrigued and amazed. My next album, Amarok, consolidated me as a definitive Mike Oldfield fan. At this moment, it ranks along with "Dark Side Of The Moon" in my list of "Never To Be Topped" albums. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

Zanny Group: Members Posts: 21 Joined: May 2004 Posted: May 21 2004, 08:39 Wow only been a fan for 2 years! Its funny in my twenties i almost forgot about mike (please forgive me), amarok had been religated to the dreaded cardboard box of forgotten cd's.  When i hit my thirties and had kids and needed to relax one day i was going through the box and there was amarok.  I dug it out and after listening to it again nearly kicked myself for not playing it for almost 5 years. Back to top

familyjules Group: Members Posts: 1190 Joined: May 2004 Posted: May 21 2004, 09:31 Quote (Zanny @ May 21 2004, 08:39) Its funny in my twenties i almost forgot about mike after listening to it again nearly kicked myself for not playing it for almost 5 years. Think yourself lucky - I went 25 years without listening to Ommadawn.  I'm like "what was I thinking?!?!" Jules -------------- I like beer and I like cheese Back to top

Matt Unregistered Posted: May 21 2004, 11:01 Bought a CR02 casette tape by mistake when I was 10 and my brother swapped it for a couple of his normal tapes. One of them was a copy of Tubular Bells. Had that on while forced to clean my mess of a room and thought it was great. Took at least 10 playings to clean the room :-) Forgot about Mike and didn't buy anything else until Moonlight Shadow. Heard it on the radio when I was about 14 and straight down to the shops the next day to buy the single. Totally in love with that sound. Tried to buy everything from then on, especially after AMAROK! Cheers Matt Back to top

MrRcorn Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: May 2004 Posted: May 21 2004, 13:25 Twas when i was a lad about 10 (28 now) and my mother used to get a really bad headache (being had 6 kids (9 Now) she would go upstairs and listen to TB1 (Classic might i add) to calm her headache down. As being the older of the Clan i would go and check to see if all is well and to find mother sleeping it off with "Mandolin" breasing accross the room, so i would sit outside the room and listento the rest while making all others keep there noise down so i could here it!   Being in my teens now and moved into my dads a friend of his came up with a copy of TB2 and played it on the amp and well       when do i Stop! I got hooked, I've bought TB1 and TB2 Twice now due to a theft in a trusted friend!!   (Revenge will be mine i say!) TB3 WOW, The Millenium Bell another WOW and then Tr3s Lunas and now im settled. Not forgetting the other albums that have been out before and after and i have all and enjoy listening too all. If i had to choose a favorite i spose well its Joint really TB1 and ofcourse TB2003 what a cracker it is and would like to say Mike Your a Star and you've bought alot of peace in me and TB1 will definitely be played at me funeral to see me off into the next world (hopefuly theres a music stall there). Well thats it Just another "BIG THANKS TO YOU MIKE" your a STAR. A Dedicated Listener MrRcorn P.s. Any new Music coming..... I know every is die'ing to know. Back to top

PICTURES IN THE DARK Group: Members Posts: 42 Joined: Nov. 2003 Posted: May 21 2004, 17:58 Hi The first time I heard about Oldfield was when he released Guitars. I saw an advert on TV and my Mum said: "It was time he did something different" I didn't know anything, so I asked: "Who's that guy?" "Someone who's mad about bells", my Mum replied. I didn't understand a thing, so I asked "What?" and my Mum said: "He's got three albums which are called Tubular Bells" I know it's got nothing to do with the topic, but I thought you might find it funny :P OK, let's get to the point. The first time I listened to Mike's music was when I was 12-13 years old. My father had a CD with hits from the 80s and he was showing me. I remember the second song was Moonlight Shadow. By that time I associated Mike Oldfield with bells, and bells with boring music, and when the song started, I was really impressed. That guitar... Just when I heard the beginning, I thought "It's going to be really great". Not to mention when the lyrics started... I was very surprised when I heard a GIRL singing. I asked my dad: "It's not Mike singing, is it?" Of course, he told me it was Sally, Mike's sister...   Anyway, since I listened to Moonlight Shadow I knew I wanted more Oldfield music. Well, I won't write anything else... I think I've written too much. Next time, I'll tell you about my "Oldfieldgasm" and the story of the Voyager cover picture. LOL Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: May 22 2004, 13:48 Quote (PICTURES IN THE DARK @ May 21 2004, 17:58) Next time, I'll tell you about my "Oldfieldgasm" and the story of the Voyager cover picture. LOL Oh, God, no. Spare us. ... uh, er... I'm malicious. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

PICTURES IN THE DARK Group: Members Posts: 42 Joined: Nov. 2003 Posted: May 22 2004, 14:36 Quote Oh, God, no. Spare us. ... uh, er... I'm malicious. Hey, it's nothing bad!:P With "Oldfieldgasm" I simply mean that last year, when I got Five Miles Out as a birthday present I almost had an orgasm when I heard Taurus II. I mean, it really moved me. I thought "Wow, that's really superb!" Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: May 22 2004, 18:55 Oh, well. I thought the "Oldfieldgasm" was relationed to the "Voyager" cover... which scared me... Though I would prefer staring at the cover of "Voyager" for 24 minutes straight rather than listening to Taurus II again. Seriously. And I'm a straight male. But what truly brought me to Heaven was listening to Tubular Bells on a roadtrip, late at night. Very atmospheric! -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: May 23 2004, 00:06 Quote (PICTURES IN THE DARK @ May 21 2004, 18:58) Next time, I'll tell you about my "Oldfieldgasm" and the story of the Voyager cover picture. LOL I know that...the effect on the female's hormonal taxes regarding the cover... -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: May 23 2004, 00:13 Well, I first heard Mike Oldfield through the CD of Tubular Bells that we had, and I liked that quite a lot. The first thing of his I REALLY liked was the Tubular Bells II/III DVD. That was amazing. That was quite a few years ago now, and I haven't stoped loving Mike's music. -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

ekloef Group: Members Posts: 122 Joined: April 2004 Posted: May 23 2004, 01:31 Hello! One of my first experience listening to Mike Oldfield was at a friends house around 1984 when I was twelve. We borrowed his older brother's LPs and listened to "Exposed" and I really enjoy it. I asked my friend what it was and he simply answered "Exposed". I thought "Wow, this is great I just have to get a copy of my own and looked for several months in records-stores all over, for a group called "Exposed". I was very sad when I couldn't find it anywhere... Finally I found out that the artist was Mike Oldfield and the album that was called "Exposed". And from then on I have been listening to his music. I have had periods when I did not listen to him for a long time, but every now and then I got back to him and listened to all of the albums that I have got. Lately I have been listening a lot and it has alot to do with all the great websites out there and especially this forum which has provided me with lots of interesting information, making wanting more... Thank you! -------------- https://www.instagram.com/robtch/ Back to top

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