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tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: July 13 2005, 18:20 So it's been a LONG time since i've been on here [apparently according to my profile my last post was back in october of 04]. but i think it's even been longer since i've listened to any of Mike Oldfield. I think i really lost track of things when he started the whole music VR or whatever it was. I was always more into the music rather than computer games and stuff like that. But it just seemed to be a little bit of a disappointment that he was making computer stuff rather than just plain ol' good music. but times change i suppose. I've kind of changed my music style from the original ambient/MO stuff to progressive/trance now. well, i suppose it's been a transition years in the making, but it hit me a few days ago when i was packing and found all my MO CDs packed away in a box in my closet. wow did that bring back memories. about a week or so ago i went to play the piano here on campus and sure enough i can still play Tubular Bells and Top of the Morning. so i think those tunes will never really escape my tastes in music, but as for some of the other material i think it's just not there anymore. If i want to relax or chill out, now i listen to In Search of Sunrise, rather than Guitars or TSODE. anyways, has anyone else ever strayed away from MO's style of music? I used to listen to a lot of his later works [like 1990 - 2003] almost all the time, but now it just seems like they're just packed away with memories. and perhaps that's just part of life. and who knows, maybe down the road all my Armin Van Buuren and Tiesto CDs will be packed away too. is this what getting older is about? packing things away? -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

familyjules Group: Members Posts: 1190 Joined: May 2004 Posted: July 14 2005, 05:06 Quote (tubularbills @ July 13 2005, 18:20) anyways, has anyone else ever strayed away from MO's style of music? Oh God yes.  In fact other than when I listen to Mike's albums, I always stray from Mike's style of music.  Nobody else I listen to sounds anything like him. Jules -------------- I like beer and I like cheese Back to top

Trinidad Group: Members Posts: 295 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: July 14 2005, 05:13 Well, sure our tastes change while we grow and get older, that's a reality, and I think there are certain times in our lives when those changes are very noticeable. And I suppose you and me are, more or less, at the final point of one of those times. Although for me it's been the oposite way: I used to listen disco and "black music", for example, but then I started to feel curiosity about the music my mother liked, with Mike in it. And one day I couldn't hear my "old" music any more. I suppose I still like some of it, but it's not the same, you know. Are we changing, or is that we are finding what we've been always searching without knowing it? I don't know. Is everything going to change in the future? Maybe, who knows... Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: July 14 2005, 05:44 Well, Mike was the first artist who's music I really, truely loved, and that has never left me. Over time there have been plenty of other bands and artists who's music I have discovered: Pink Floyd, Yes, Harry Chapin, The Who, The Beatles and most recently Nick Cave, but Mike has always remained the musician I love most. So no, I have never moved away from Mike Oldfield (well, not yet anyway, and I don't plan to anytime soon), but I have certainly expanded my tastes from when I first discovered him. -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

Chicular Group: Members Posts: 240 Joined: Sep. 2004 Posted: July 14 2005, 06:33 I would say that in the last year or so i've began to broaden my horizons by listening to other artists such as Coldplay, Damien Rice and the Killers. I've always liked the Beatles and other older stuff.  Recently i've been intrigued by Film Scores. I think i'll always love instrumental music, i think i'll always love Mike Oldfield music but when there is a period where there is no new music from Mike i'll find something else that's good. Back to top

torbenyj Group: Members Posts: 377 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: July 14 2005, 07:59 Hi I found rammstein since Mo last album - sorry folks - but what energi they have torben Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: July 14 2005, 09:31 Mike Oldfield has left my "Zone of Obsession" a long time ago. Right now, at this very moment, Os Mutantes are occupying it. Who knows who'll be next? I'm like that. Kraftwerk and Nick Drake were on it just a while ago. But still, I find myself returning to Mike Oldfield not too seldom. His music still has a couple of bits and things that I keep discovering. And the more time passes, the more "Tubular Bells" sounds like it came from another dimension, in another time and another place. Did anyone ever NOTICE how otherworldly that comination of piano, organ and glockenspiel REALLY sounds? -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

bugular tell Group: Members Posts: 482 Joined: Mar. 2003 Posted: July 14 2005, 16:24 I still class Mike as my Favourite artist, but i dont listen to his music as much anymore, i go through fazes, but the good thing is that i dont get bored of it, as i do of some other artists, at the moment i am getting into Overseer, i like that style of music, grungy guitars and heavy beats, i have to blame Blade Trinity for that! also the matrix soundtracks started converting me, The Prodigy, also push the right buttons, Experience and music for the jilted generation are amazing albums, groundbreaking in there nich'e, fat of the land was good too, but not as much, on the other side of things i like Embrace, keane, kasabian, foo fighters, enigma, a real mishmash, but I always end up gravitating back to MO -------------- Light travels faster than sound, thats why some people appear bright until you hear them speak Back to top

BOOsTER Group: Musicians Posts: 1024 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: July 14 2005, 17:14 Trance, I believe, is the most natural progression of music taste when you are going from mike... actually I believe that there's a lot of similar things in MO music and trance or prog in general. They seem to have same...power and emotion (not well said, but if you like trance you know what I mean) and one more thing...there's big respect in trance scene for Mike. Many BIG Guys like Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold or D:Fuse have said that they like Mike's music and have big respect for him... -------------- http://www.djbooster.net Back to top

Guest Unregistered Posted: July 14 2005, 17:48 I've never been obsessed with any musical style, but I have still none the less grown out of several artists I was previously impressed with. It's part of growing up and out. There are some songs/pieces by many artists that I can't believe I ever enjoyed, but that's life. we change, we evolve, we move on. Having the scope for more than one kind of music, or more than one kind of litterature, or even more than one kind of lifestyle is healthy. Enjoy the changes, and try to look back fondly on what went before. Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: July 14 2005, 18:57 This all seems so familiar. I belive that music flows through our lives like a river. A souce of life/energy moving onwards. It holds many things and can alter many things, like water. It changes as we grow older, as you have said and it is essential to us all. Nothing ever stays the same. We learn as we go. With Mike's music, I find ( as I've probably said before) it's a strong constant in my life. I go through patches when i try all kinds of music- I'm into Music from the Old Jewish World right now (how did I get there?!!!! and I'll listen to whatever catches my ears, and then suddenly, out of the blue (!!! only Mr Oldfield will do. I can't explain why - it just is what happens to me. His music centres me. There is so much to listen to in a single piece. And I am forever grateful to him  for this and the fact that I have discovered it. What is interesting is that many of us have similar experiences regarding his music. -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: July 15 2005, 00:24 Quote (BOOsTER @ July 14 2005, 16:14) Trance, I believe, is the most natural progression of music taste when you are going from mike... actually I believe that there's a lot of similar things in MO music and trance or prog in general. They seem to have same...power and emotion (not well said, but if you like trance you know what I mean) and one more thing...there's big respect in trance scene for Mike. Many BIG Guys like Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold or D:Fuse have said that they like Mike's music and have big respect for him... I know what you mean. there's a lot of trance out there that has some major emotion/power to it - much like Far Above the Clouds. Music that is just bangin' and gets into your head. I have a live set of Oakenfold where he mixed in Oldfield. that was pretty slick. Mike's music still has that emotion/power, but i'm just seem to like the much more upbeat/faster music that can provide it. I also find it interesting to hear that others out there kind of feel the same way. -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

familyjules Group: Members Posts: 1190 Joined: May 2004 Posted: July 15 2005, 06:15 Quote (BOOsTER @ July 14 2005, 17:14) Trance, I believe, is the most natural progression of music taste when you are going from mike... Well it certainly wouldn't be natural for this fella! Jules -------------- I like beer and I like cheese Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: July 15 2005, 06:21 Quote (familyjules @ July 15 2005, 19:15) Quote (BOOsTER @ July 14 2005, 17:14) Trance, I believe, is the most natural progression of music taste when you are going from mike... Well it certainly wouldn't be natural for this fella! Jules Me neither. I don't believe there is one most natural progression from Mike's music to any other, and in fact it is quite interesting to read about people here, who all like Mike's music, but otherwise have extremely different tastes in music. Of course, there are bands common to many here, but Mike seems to appeal to all sorts of listeners. That may be because Mike himself has all sorts of styles. I wonder. -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

familyjules Group: Members Posts: 1190 Joined: May 2004 Posted: July 15 2005, 07:21 Quote (raven4x4x @ July 15 2005, 06:21) Me neither. I don't believe there is one most natural progression from Mike's music to any other, and in fact it is quite interesting to read about people here, who all like Mike's music, but otherwise have extremely different tastes in music. Of course, there are bands common to many here, but Mike seems to appeal to all sorts of listeners. That may be because Mike himself has all sorts of styles. I wonder. I think you're onto something there, Alex. I don't think there's another single artist that we all agree on.  We all have disperate tastes, and it's Mike that's our common ground...and even then we don't all agree about what constitutes Mike's best work. All of this is just fine of course. Jules -------------- I like beer and I like cheese Back to top

Alan D Group: Members Posts: 3670 Joined: Aug. 2004 Posted: July 15 2005, 12:53 Quote (raven4x4x @ July 15 2005, 11:21) I don't believe there is one most natural progression from Mike's music to any other, On the ball as ever, Alex. Spot on. Suppose someone who knew nothing of Mike Oldfield started with Tubular Bells, and worked his/her way through the whole album sequence in chronological order. Would he ever be able to predict what was coming next? No, of course he wouldn't. There's no formula to the progression. There's growth and development, but no predictability. That's one of the signs of a great artist. Ruskin called it 'changefulness'. Even knowing what Mike has said about this next album - we actually have no idea what it will be like. We don't even know whether we'll love it or hate it. I think that's wonderful! Back to top

TOBY Group: Members Posts: 1562 Joined: May 2002 Posted: July 15 2005, 15:36 For me MO has been the artist I've stayed with longest out of all the music I've ever been into. I started seriously liking his music in about 1988 and when Earth Moving came out in 89 I had all his albums up till that point. The thing about an artist who you're really into like Mike is that its OK to drift away and discover other things, its certainly not a crime. Mike's music, good and bad, will always be there and as long as he continues making music he'll be somebody I'll always follow, I've studied his career for to long now for it to be any other way, I'm sure most of you feel the same way. In the last year I can't say I've listened to Mike's music at all much but it doesn't matter. Like you guys and girls I know all his albums inside out, I could hear every note of Amarok in my head if I wanted to. Nowadays my musical attention is much more into, well anything really. The great thing about getting heavily into an artist as diverse as Mike at a relatively early age is that it teaches you to have diverse tastes. Personally I'm just as happy listening to the Prodigy at speaker destroyingly loud volume as I am chilling out to Debussy and that's pretty much because to like Mike's music you've got to learn to like anything and be prepared for anything, that's what I'll always love about him. Tha'ts why I'm eager to hear what he's going to do next. In the mean time Q magazine have an excellent prog rock special issue out today which is just superb reading, very enjoyable. The TB logo features on the cover and they list TB as the 9th best prog rock album ever on a list of 40. They've written quite an interesting little piece about TB, nothing new but the journalist has made a few interesting observations. I'll try and copy it out over the weekend and post it here. Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: July 17 2005, 02:53 Quote (familyjules @ July 14 2005, 05:06) Quote (tubularbills @ July 13 2005, 18:20) anyways, has anyone else ever strayed away from MO's style of music? Oh God yes.  In fact other than when I listen to Mike's albums, I always stray from Mike's style of music.  Nobody else I listen to sounds anything like him. Jules This subject really interests me for two reasons, the first one is the amount of people who listen to 'similar' artists to Mike. While I do have ambient and new age albums that have been given to me there is possibly not one thing I have ever bought that could really be compared to Mike because his music is enough for me, when I want that kind of music I always go to Mike, or I go for something completely different. I regret missing out on great artists in the 70's and 80's because of my obsession with Mike so for the last 15 years I have bought over 300 cds ranging from Gershwin to Tool. I usually listen to JJJ radio when not listening to Mike who play alternative music and influence my cd buying pattern a great deal. Most recently I have bought Cold Play, the Gorillaz, the Dissociatives, Epicure, Moby, Cat Empire, Vines, White Stripes, Powderfinger, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, John Butler and lots more. I do think dance or trance music feels like a natural progression for me from Mike, and Moby immediately comes to mind, he is the only artist I have ever dared to mix with Mike by putting both of them in the cd player at the same time and playing at random. But as a general rule, for me, it's all Mike all day, or something comepletely different. P.S. - Good to have you back tubularbills. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: July 17 2005, 03:05 Quote (familyjules @ July 15 2005, 06:15) Quote (BOOsTER @ July 14 2005, 17:14) Trance, I believe, is the most natural progression of music taste when you are going from mike... Well it certainly wouldn't be natural for this fella! Jules See I agree with Booster and Family Jules and yet they don't agree with each other, we obviously all get something different from Mike which shows how diverse an artist he is. I love it when I meet fans of Mikes how different they all are as individuals, I have met a housewife in her 50's and a dreadlocked hippie in his 20's, churchgoers, and generations from one family who are fans. I wish I had the power to bring Mikes music to the attention of the general Australian youth, I love JJJ and yet they refuse to play Mike, although I am so certain if they played the right stuff it would blow the minds of their listening audience who would probably be hearing it for the first time. They play artists like GoldFrapp and even Kraftwerk played at the Big Day Out gigs hosted by JJJ, it doesn't make sense to me but I'm still hopefull. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: July 17 2005, 21:05 This is a very interesting topic and everyone's comments have been insightful. I have taken breaks from MO over the years, but besides a couple of other artists, it's the only music I've consistenly listened to for all 25. Some of that may be because it's so interesting to dance to, and without dance, I'm not sure if I'd have listened to it quite so much. Same thing with running. I run and really don't enjoy it without music. I find that running with Mike's instrumental stuff makes time fly more easily/quickly, though I'm currently on a Coldplay kick and so have tended to run with that. The morning after the upcoming full moon, I'll be back to Mike, though. Thanks to various residents of Planet Oldfield, I've been introduced to a much wider variety of music than I'd have ever found on my own--everyone from Neil Finn to Ken Baird to the group Amarok. Sometimes I've been momentarily consumed by the newer stuff, but it's as if a homing device has been implanted in me--I always return to the music of Mike Oldfield. -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

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