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Posted: Jan. 18 2011, 14:42 |
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As I'm writing this I'm listening to Tubular Bells, and I just want to say how much I love Mike's music. It all started with Moonlight Shadow when I was ten years old. I really liked that song, and it felt very mysterious to me. A bit different from other music. I didn't check out more of his music. Then I was twelve and I heard a little excerpt of Tubular Bells, just the beginning, but I liked that too. But still I didn't check out more of his music. When I was fifteen I heard some music by Mike Oldfield on the ipod of a friend of my. We listened to Song Of The Sun, Family Man and Moonlight Shadow. I loved it all. But still I didn't check out more of his music. Then I was seventeen years old, and I decided to look him up on youtube. One of the first things I've heard was Wonderful Land, immediately I thought this is the best song ever. Then I heard Blue Peter and I thought ok this is the second best song ever. This was incredible! so I looked up more stuff. Then I discovered Taurus 1, and I immediately fell in love. A guy like me who never was interested in music at all, had now completely fallen in love. I never could listen to something that lasted only ten minutes. I was easily put off. But I listened to it a lot and my heart was getting calmer. My heart was going like crazy in that time. Now I could listen to something of what I believed was considerable length of time. So now my favourite song was Taurus 1. Then I discovered Taurus 2 on youtube and this was incredible too. Whenever the sana rosana part kicked in, I went crazy. This was the most epic thing I've ever heard! This musician was by far the best in the world I thought. No one came even close to him. Now I heard all this stuff, I wanted records. I found Platinum, Five Miles Out and QE2. Everything was phenomenal. Of those three I think QE2 is the best though. At 1 min 30 seconds of platinum there is this great part that made me ballistics. And then I heard Sally. At one point in Sally there is a sort of solo (I have no idea what instrument it is, but I'd guess a guitar) that was the best frigging solo I've ever heard. Absolutely magnificent! Then I went to Amsterdam and got hold of Ommdawn and Hergest Ridge. Hergest Ridge made my heart go slow again, and is like Mike I think says is a safe place. A place I can be myself. Complete rest but there is also the troubled part, you can see the suffering. And I have felt like that too. I could relate to it. I always wanted someone to tell me I had suffered I think and now I've heard that. But I think it's that combination of something beautiful and optimistic and safe and then the suffering floundering side of it. That was me too. And that's why I like it.
Then I listened to Ommadawn, which was great too. Very emotional and real. Then I bought TB2 and TB3 the DVD. I was disappointed coming after the mighty Hergest Ridge. Especially about TB3. It was too aggresive for me, and I didn't like the vocals. I didn't listen to it for about a week and then I gave TB2 another go. And now I could see it was prety good though. I still find it a bit cheesy, but it's great. I could go on like this forever, but I already wrote a lot. I just want to say that his music is beyond words and that if there is someone who should be knighted it's Mike Oldfield. I hope you will share some of your impressions too and how you got to know his music.
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