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Question: I love Tr3s Lunas MORE than I love... :: Total Votes:14 Poll choices Votes Statistics Life itself 1  [7.14%] Christmas 1  [7.14%] Trees 0  [0.00%] Sushi 5  [35.71%] Light + Shade 7  [50.00%] Guests cannot vote

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ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: Feb. 08 2011, 09:29 Sorry Sweetpea. Back to top

HR lover Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Sep. 2010 Posted: Feb. 08 2011, 12:55 What if I find Tres Lunas worse than Light+Shade? -------------- Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: Feb. 08 2011, 13:17 Quote (HR lover @ Feb. 08 2011, 12:55) What if I find Tres Lunas worse than Light+Shade? Oops, forgot to put something worse than Light + Shade like... hmm... burning in hell? (just joking...) This is really just a joke thread anyway. edit: If you're reading this Nightspore, I guess I've moved away from my subjectivity theory. Back to top

Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: Feb. 09 2011, 20:22 Sushi. What the...? -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Feb. 10 2011, 11:11 I love Tr3s Lunas much more than I hate The Killing Fields. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: Feb. 10 2011, 11:21 Sushi doesn't seem to be very popular. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Feb. 10 2011, 15:30 @ Syd, off-topic: that's what Deckard's wife called him. Cold fish. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Feb. 11 2011, 23:07 Quote (Ugo @ Feb. 10 2011, 11:11) I love Tr3s Lunas much more than I hate The Killing Fields. I keep hearing echoes - little melodic phrases - in a lot of the contributions to the tubular.net 2011 project. So I suspect it's more popular than people think. How many times have you listened to TKF, Ugo? I probably should listen to it again. Experience has taught me that Mr O's music sometimes works by stealth. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Feb. 12 2011, 08:21 Quote (nightspore @ Feb. 12 2011, 05:07) How many times have you listened to TKF, Ugo? I probably should listen to it again. Experience has taught me that Mr O's music sometimes works by stealth. Well, most of Mike O.'s music actually does 'catch' me at the very first listening, so I wouldn't say it works by stealth - at least not for me. I've listened to the whole of the Killing Fields CD hundreds of times - it's actually my third most-played Oldfield album (meaning albums that I play from start to finish), right behind Amarok and TBII. I even played it in my car, to see whether listening to it without focusing my mind on it would make it work. It didn't. I just can't seem to get it into my head, my body or my soul. To me it's still the worst album Mike O. ever made, and it's no wonder that he didn't even attempt to make another soundtrack after that. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

HR lover Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Sep. 2010 Posted: Feb. 12 2011, 08:29 You've listened to it hundreds of times, but don't like it? Seems kinda odd to me. I don't like the millenium bell and I've only listened to it once   The same goes for Tres Lunas. -------------- Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Feb. 12 2011, 08:47 Quote (HR lover @ Feb. 12 2011, 08:29) The same goes for Tres Lunas. Try playing the game, HR. There's a lot of first rate music that didn't make it into the album. And "Firefly" is one of the best little pieces he's ever written, in my opinion. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Feb. 12 2011, 08:49 Quote (HR lover @ Feb. 12 2011, 14:29) You've listened to it hundreds of times, but don't like it? Seems kinda odd to me. Yes, it does sound odd but it's true. I'm somehow fascinated by how bad TKF is. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: Feb. 13 2011, 14:45 I listened to Tr3s Lunas this morning (followed by Slayer's Reign In Blood ) for the first time in probably two years, and I actually was surprised at how much I liked parts of it - particularly No Man's Land, Firefly and the title track. However, I still say that TSODE is far and away the best album from Mike's "electronic" period. That album is as good or better as anything Enigma or any of those bands put out (actually, I say definitely better, because of Mike's sublime lead playing on that album). Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Feb. 13 2011, 17:43 Quote (Syd B @ Feb. 13 2011, 20:45) However, I still say that TSODE is far and away the best album from Mike's "electronic" period. TSODE = Mike's "electronic period"?? Somehow like Picasso's "blue period" or something?? Right after TSODE, Mike made Voyager, which is not electronic-based at all [heck, there's an orchestra on it! ]. And then he made TBIII, which also isn't electronic-based. And then he made Guitars, which isn't at all. He did only two albums which are electronic-based, namely 3L and Light + Shade, both of which are great (IMHO). So I think it's unfair to say that Mike has ever been in an "electronic period", because it's just two albums - which, by the way, are wildly different from each other and are separated by TB 2003, which has got a few electronics but, again, it's not electronic-based. And anyway, if by the time of TSODE he was in his "electronic period", what period is he in right now? His "back-to-basics" period?? -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: Feb. 13 2011, 18:18 'Foreign Affair' period...??? The lyrics seem to evocate the kind of life he's currently living!!! Although I know you really dislike the song... sorry about that!!!   -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Feb. 13 2011, 18:44 Quote (Delfín @ Feb. 14 2011, 00:18) Although I know you really dislike the song... sorry about that!!!   No, I don't. I don't like it a lot because it's too repetitive, but all in all I don't mind it. The song I really hate on the Crises album is "In High Places". I have a strong dislike also towards "Taurus 3". -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: Feb. 13 2011, 18:54 Ah, that's it. I read it about 'High Places'. 'Taurus III' I didn't know. I'm finding out now in this thread about your opinion about 'The Killing Fields'. I would tell you I would never like it if I listened to it like a "normal" soundtrack album. It's one of the weirdest albums I've listened to, and that's why I like it. I think it doesn't work on the film because the best tunes don't get enough volume. I consider it a proper Mike Oldfield non-soundtrack album and believe it's a bit like 'Amarok'; he did more or less what he felt like doing with the tools he had at the minute and that's the result. A really caothic and weird, and extremely honest, album. -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Feb. 14 2011, 00:24 Quote (Ugo @ Feb. 13 2011, 17:43) Quote (Syd B @ Feb. 13 2011, 20:45) However, I still say that TSODE is far and away the best album from Mike's "electronic" period. TSODE = Mike's "electronic period"?? I think Syd is referring to the music with a space orientation (which includes the rarely-mentioned Maestro too, of course). It will be interesting to see what happens when TL reaches the remastering/revamping stage: with any luck it will swell to a two or even three CD set. Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: Feb. 14 2011, 10:56 Actually, I meant his albums that have drum machines and lots of synths. And you're right, it's less a period than a group of albums that aren't chronologically connected. Back to top

HR lover Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Sep. 2010 Posted: Feb. 14 2011, 16:48 Yes some of the music in the game is quite good I agree. -------------- Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Back to top

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