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nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Sep. 26 2008, 20:04 A pretty obvious topic, really, given recent discussion: but what is your favourite piece of MO guitarwork? Mine is that brilliant passage on "Celt". Back to top

warlock Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Sep. 26 2008, 20:10 Blue Saloon and it's equivalent on Tubular Bells. Ok - here's my guitar cover of Tubular Bells blues part (track 6 on 2003 version) -> http://tubular.net/forums....;t=8681 Feel free to comment  - details are in the thread above -------------- cheers from Poland. Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: Sep. 26 2008, 21:34 The two that always spring to mind for me would be that famous section of Ommadawn from 9:25 to 11:08 approx..And then the soloing over that "traveling marimbas" type section from side three of Incantations..3:32 to 8:34.I`d be hard pushed to have to choose between the two but I`d maybe favour the Incantations one if I had to.However I`ve already thought of a couple more whilst typing this post so I think I`d better quit now before I confuse myself further. Favourite solo from one of Mike`s songs though is probably Man In The Rain. Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Sep. 26 2008, 22:57 I think Incantations pt3 would be my most listened to guitar part and favorite. Some very noteworthy parts would be from "Ommadawn", "To France" electric and acoustic, as well as "The Lake". There are so many. But kind of putting two threads together(the other one about your fav. decade), MO was at his peak to me, from '75 to '85. After that, with the midi/synth/sampler explosion, he kind of leaned more towards programming. There are some fine guitar moments on his other albums up until around 2000-01. After that, it slowed quite a bit in favor of loop based software and computers. My 2 cents worth. -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Sep. 27 2008, 13:46 Off the top of my head, I'd say a couple of my faves are "Incantations Part Four" (9:06 - 11:58) and "Wild Goose Flaps Its Wings". Also, I just love what's going on, guitarwise, in the live "Platinum Part Four" (from The Complete Mike Oldfield). -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Sep. 27 2008, 19:02 There are various. I'll list the ones that pop into my mind right now... - The Fast Waltz from Amarok. Especially the very fast bit from 22:30 to 22:43. - "Ringscape" (L+S), because it's substantially the same as the wonderful owl cavern sequence in the Tr3s Lunas game. - "Serpent Dream" - "The Inner Child" - "Russian" from TB 2003 - "Red Dawn" I could list many more, but generally the passages I tend to like best are not the ones where Mike 'shows off' his tehcnique by playing very, very, very fast. Instead, my preference goes to his slow, emotional pieces. Things like "Women of Ireland" or "Let there be Light" or "Summit Day" from Guitars grip me every single time I listen to them. I always think [I've said it elsewhere, IIRC] that it's much more difficult to play a slow piece and put real emotion in it than play a jillion notes at an astoundingly fast speed. That's what I don't like in virtuosos of any instrument - the mere display of technical prowess. However, as far as I can see, this kind of 'showing off' is luckily getting rarer and rarer. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Sep. 27 2008, 19:50 Quote (Ugo @ Sep. 27 2008, 19:02) Things like. . . "Summit Day" from Guitars grip me every single time I listen to them. Agreed. It's an impossible topic; there are far too many good ones to choose from! I take it, from your criteria, Ugo, that "Outcast" wouldn't be among your favourites? (I like that piece more and more every time I hear it. Incidentally, there's a section of its melody that reminds me a lot of part of the melody in the song "Discovery".) Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Sep. 28 2008, 07:34 "Jungle Gardenia" and "Ambient Guitars" (2003). -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Sep. 28 2008, 08:05 @ Daniel/nightspore: "Outcast" and other similar "heavy" pieces, like "Caveman" on TB 2003 and "Altered State" on TB II work for me very, very good as parts of a bigger whole. I normally don't play them on their own, but I like them a lot. They are also perfect examples of what Mike can do with guitars & little else, and ample justifications of why he should be considered, first and foremost, a great guitarist. Brian May used to do similar stuff with layered guitars, but maybe he owes a fair share of his well-deserved reputation as a great guitarist to the fact that he was (and still is) the guitarist in a powerful and very popular rock band - unlike Mike. Another very good guitar piece is IMHO "Turtle Island" from 3L. I've heard several people (here and elsewhere) depreciating Mike's guitar playing on the 3L album, but I think that the level of expressiveness reached by that particular track is very rarely found in Mike's work. Maybe what trivializes it is the context... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

warlock Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Sep. 28 2008, 08:20 + i just love the fast Dark Island acoustic part   -------------- cheers from Poland. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Sep. 28 2008, 08:42 @ Warlock: yes, I love that too. But it's not my fav track off Voyager... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

warlock Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Sep. 28 2008, 09:02 Voyager (album) is one of my faves of his. Well, here are albums i love above anything else (order is not important) 1. Tubular Bells 2. Tubular Bells II 3. Voyager 4. Hergest Ridge 5. Ommadawn -------------- cheers from Poland. Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Sep. 28 2008, 20:12 Quote (warlock @ Sep. 28 2008, 09:02) Voyager (album) is one of my faves of his. At last someone with something nice to say about Voyager! Now if only someone would say that Islands (apart from "Magic Touch") is as well! Or am I the only one? Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Sep. 29 2008, 18:57 Quote (nightspore @ Sep. 29 2008, 02:12) Quote (warlock @ Sep. 28 2008, 09:02) Voyager (album) is one of my faves of his. At last someone with something nice to say about Voyager! Now if only someone would say that Islands (apart from "Magic Touch") is as well! Or am I the only one? @ nighspore: you're not alone. I love Islands. I also belong to that even more restricted group of people (at least here on the board) who love Bonnie Tyler's vocals on the title track and think they are perfect for that track. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Sep. 29 2008, 19:12 Quote (Ugo @ Sep. 29 2008, 18:57) I love Islands. I also belong to that even more restricted group of people (at least here on the board) who love Bonnie Tyler's vocals on the title track and think they are perfect for that track. Ugo, I totally agree! Bonnie Tyler's tortured, haggard, I've-been-washed-up-on-the-desert-islands-of-life vocals are exactly right for the song! Back to top

Starwatcher Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Oct. 05 2008, 10:50 Hi Ugo, hi nightspore, I'm the third one! In fact, [/I]Islands[I] is one of my favourite albums. And I like Bonnie Tyler's singing very much! It always hurts me a bit to read all those negative comments concerning her voice...   -------------- "...but every while I would remember..." Back to top

Black Bunik Group: Members Posts: 176 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Oct. 05 2008, 17:10 I like MO's live performances a lot. Like the 1999 tour which I been on in Prague or Art in heaven. Right now I fell in love with live shadow on the wall from 1983 at Wembley. He plays the song differently, it got 6 minutes, plus Roger Chapman live = pure awesomeness. Back to top

Bassman Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Feb. 2008 Posted: Oct. 05 2008, 18:03 So what's the matter with "Magic Touch"?  That's my fave off the album (the Max Bacon version)! Speaking of Bonnie Tyler, I love her voice.  There's this really cheesy song called "Dance In My Pants" on Jim Steinman's "Bad For Good" album.  I have long had this fantasy that Tyler and Rod Stewart would do a duet version of it. The tune she did on Moroder's "Metropolis" was most excellent. Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Oct. 06 2008, 08:22 I've been listening to the original TB a lot lately and the guitar solo between the Caveman song and the Hornpipe blows me away.Such a pure tone and the way it just 'rolls' with all the peddle tones.Lovely stuff.Other that it's gotta be Downwind or anything off the Montruex DVD. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

Ray Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: Jan. 2000 Posted: Oct. 06 2008, 12:05 It has to be the solo's in Ommadawn, specifically the live Karawitz one where that SG comes in after about 1.5mins. BUT....... Listen to the solo on In Dulici Jubilo.   Absolutely a delight to the Hearoscopes!!!  "Mr Oldfield + SG Junior" through and through. R   -------------- Looking out over the harbour in Peel....... Back to top

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