Ugo
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Posted: Nov. 04 2003, 15:16 |
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What follows is a list of non-Mike Oldfield instrumentals (plus three vocal songs), which in my very humble opinion sound like Mike Oldfield. Okay, I know that Mike has tackled so many different styles that virtually any song can sound like something he's done, and I also know who will be the first to disagree  , but I, as Phil Collins sang, don't mind... because none of this is meant to be serious, as it's based on my personal feelings towards these pieces of music (most of them are not very well-known). Anyway, here I go.
> "Marooned", "Signs of life", "Terminal frost" and "On the turning away", by Pink Floyd. Listen to the latter one from the first solo onwards - that's the point where it stops being really PF and starts being Oldfield.
> "La via" and "Dorado" by Vincenzo Zitello - he's an Italian Vollenweider-style harpist, but those two songs sound more Oldfieldish (TresLunas-ish) than Vollenweiderish.
> "Leyenda" by Vanessa-Mae - an Amarokish violin piece.
> "Voices" by Vangelis - it's very unusual for El Greco to sound like Mike, but here apparently he did, with a track in the style of "Magellan" (which came before it), with bagpipes and bells.
> "Conquest of Paradise" by Vangelis - here mr O. is the copycat.
> "Pimpf" by Depeche Mode. Jürgen A. is gonna kill me for this. 
> "Sunchyme" by Dario G. - remove the familiar Dream Academy sample (from "Life in a Northern town") & you get a perfect addition to TBIII.
> "Saltwater" by Chicane - apart from Máire Brennan samples, another very TresLunas-y piece.
> "Flying over the dateline" by Moby - yet another 'ambient' piece that may fit into Tr3s Lunas.
> "Contact lost" and "Never a word" by Deep Purple - from Bananas.
> "Blues for Narada" by Gary Moore - some sections.
> "Journey of the sorcerer" by the Eagles - some sections.
> "Young boy" by Paul McCartney - MoonlightShadow-ish in many elements.
There are plenty more, but these are the ones poppin' into my mind right now. 
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Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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