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onion Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: July 2005 Posted: July 01 2007, 09:36 As far as I´m concerned - not being a musician - It´s very obvious that MO pure/puts (not sure of spelling) his soul into his music. I have always thought that "saved by a bell" on the Discovery album is his most personal song and the title says it all ...as if he didn´t made tubular bells, he would have self destruct. Am I right or does anyone have a better song thats describes MO´s life? Mike -------------- Are soft boiled eggs supposed to make a crunchy noise when you eat them? Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: July 01 2007, 11:53 I'm not so sure Mike puts so much soul into his lyrics. He used a rhyming dictoinary and didn't seem so keen on writing lyrics (listen to Pictures in the Dark!). I guess a song like Discovery is quite personal in that it epxresses his frustration with other people misunderstanding him. Most of the it seemed Mike was looking around him for things to write about; a sick relative, a bumpy airplane ride...er...Kevin Ayers? I think the instrumental pieces say more. Like the end of Ommadawn pt 1. He's on record saying that was one of the times when he put most of himself into his music. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: July 01 2007, 21:59 I'd go with Amarok,which to me sums up who he is. -------------- "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

Jameson Kimball Group: Members Posts: 148 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: July 02 2007, 03:41 Amarok, Ommadawn, plus.... TUBULAR BELLS!!! those are his (in my opinion) greastest achievements. now, i cant wait to hear what sound he is comming out with soon, as many have said, this might be the fourth installment to the famous 3. so yeah, -------------- www.soundcloud.com/jamesonkimball Back to top

Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: July 02 2007, 05:15 I think I agree with Onion on this one, though I would go further and suggest that the whole of side two of that album (Discovery) is quite personal. The first side is pleasant pop fluff but the lyrics for Talk about your life and Saved by a bell have always stuck me as being from the heart. In terms of whole albums being personal by Mike letting loose with emotion rather than personal songs as such, there is lots to choose from but I'd probably agree with Jameson above on the main three... -------------- "I say I say I say I say, what's got three bottles and five eyes and no legs and two wheels" Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: July 02 2007, 08:25 OK, I just checked up the lyrics form "Saved by a Bell". Most of the songs is about looking at starts through a telescope and wondering if there is life out there. If the chorus has a meaning then I think it's mostly because someone wants it to have one. Sounds to me like words that fit. "Talk About Your Life", on the other hand, could very well be a deeply personal song. But the words don't give anything away, and I think most people can relate to them; "do you have to be so distant...", lack of communcation etc. "Talk About Your Life" is my favorite track on the album in fact. I have a favorite line in the lyrics (that I think stand out); "It's not easy going where noone goes".[I] This line has stuck with me because a lot of the time I do exactly that. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: July 02 2007, 09:07 "Man in the rain" Mike said about it: "Yes, I wrote it 10 years ago, when I was on a bad moment. I just splited with my family, which it has been the correct decision." from a review: "Man In The Rain tells the story of Mike's painful split from his family. It's a song about something that you know you love, but at the time you know you have to leave." One of his greatest vocal songs to. -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

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