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Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Jan. 24 2003, 18:34 Is there any Mike's tune that the lyrics,or the music(or maybe both), means a lot to you,that you say,"that´s my song!"? Mine:Amarok,Poison Arrows,Crises. -------------- "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

maria Group: Members Posts: 928 Joined: July 2002 Posted: Jan. 24 2003, 20:01 it depends on the season... in spring... saved by a bell ommadawn in summer... in high places tsode in fall... crime of passion amarok and in winter... five miles out tb -------------- ...morning and evening i'm flying, i'm dreaming... Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 25 2003, 17:48 Islands. It's not that the lyrics or the music mean anything particularily special to me, but it's one of my alltime favs. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

MusicallyInspired Group: Musicians Posts: 1445 Joined: June 2001 Posted: Jan. 25 2003, 18:24 Only Time Will Tell. The style of music in that song is exactly the style I love listening to (why I love TSODE). Can't say the music did anything for me that I'm thankful for (other than letting me discover it ), so it is also just my all time fav! -------------- BrandonBlume.com "The beauty in life is in the embracing of the variety of things. If all the world was blue there would be no colour blue." Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Jan. 27 2003, 10:59 I thought "Hey, that's my tune..." on first hearing 'Berlin 2000'...not because it meant anything particularly special to me, but because he used several ideas I'd used in a piece a few years earlier (that'll be Mike getting his own back for me slinging bits of Tubular Bells into live improvisations). Funny the way the world works Back to top

TOBY Group: Members Posts: 1562 Joined: May 2002 Posted: Jan. 27 2003, 14:10 I can catagoricaly say without question and without doubt that 'Music From The Balcony' is my tune. This is because a) I love it, its bonkers, its imaginative, it sounds like a mad soundtrack to some unmade movie. b) Its got some amazing playing on it from all involved and the lush production by Tom Newman is outstanding. And finaly c) Because I'm the only one who thinks all this of it (so it would seem anyway) but I don't care that you all hate it thats your loss and not mine, I'll just have it all to myself. Its not the greatest piece of MO music but for me its up there.  1991 was a good year for me and this was my soundtrack to it. Cheers Mike. Back to top

maria Group: Members Posts: 928 Joined: July 2002 Posted: Jan. 27 2003, 16:33 Quote (TOBY @ Jan. 27 2003, 14:10) ...Because I'm the only one who thinks all this of it (so it would seem anyway) but I don't care that you all hate it thats your loss and not mine, I'll just have it all to myself... well... just to say u are not all alone on that... if u lent me a small place in it, we could share it ... as i've recently said on some other near topic, 'music from the balcony' is the only one i would save from heaven's open , it's one of those pieces of music i come back from time to time at least we are two in the world...   -------------- ...morning and evening i'm flying, i'm dreaming... Back to top

TOBY Group: Members Posts: 1562 Joined: May 2002 Posted: Jan. 27 2003, 19:10 Cheers Maria I'll drink to that. Welcome to the 'Music from the Balcony' appreciation society. Club events include listening to MFTB very loudly and errr thats about it. But I'm sure we can both have fun together       Back to top

timshen Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: Mar. 2001 Posted: Jan. 27 2003, 20:55 There was a long season where 'Crime of Passion' qwas my tune after a close friend took her life in a crime of passion (nothing to do with me I may add!!!. There were uncanny similarities in the lyrics - same age, situation, even the picture on the front looked like her! -------------- Expect Great Things. Attempt Great Things. Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: Jan. 28 2003, 02:20 Well, I'm not sure.   The Berlin 2000 lightshow music is the single most amazing guitar piece ever, so I would have it here. Far Above the Clouds, another amazing guitar piece, is also on the list. Crystal Clear from TSODE, b-sides Afghan and In the Pool, as well as Outcast from TBIII and No Dream from HO, all for the amazing guitar (do you notice a pattern forming here?  ) -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

maria Group: Members Posts: 928 Joined: July 2002 Posted: Jan. 28 2003, 15:35 i’d like to add two more to the list ‘my tune‘ (i can’t just remain hold to one... that’s why i spoke about seasons.... it depends on so many things...) i also appreciate a lot the lyrics on ‘talk about your life’, the way it is written and what it says and for a short instrumental... ‘jungle gardenia’, this is imho a tiny jewel. Quote Cheers Maria I'll drink to that. Welcome to the 'Music from the Balcony' appreciation society. Club events include listening to MFTB very loudly and errr thats about it. But I'm sure we can both have fun together         toby, thanks for inviting me to that gorgeus virtual club, it'll be a honour to join, and u gave me a crazy idea... what do you think about a first event for its foundation? on saturday (could be some time around midnight... zulu time ) we could have that drink together (u from scotland and me from spain) for the health of mftb and get our hand up to cheer for music itself and for the power of communication... (everything's so close and at the same time so distant and unreal)  and... also for the soon coming spring. i’ll do it. -------------- ...morning and evening i'm flying, i'm dreaming... Back to top

TOBY Group: Members Posts: 1562 Joined: May 2002 Posted: Jan. 28 2003, 17:47 I'd love to join you Maria but can we make it Sunday night instead? I'm going away this weekend. We could make it early evening if you like. Anybody else want to join us? Back to top

maria Group: Members Posts: 928 Joined: July 2002 Posted: Jan. 28 2003, 18:50 sunday night is ok for me would be great a world-wide 'brindis' -------------- ...morning and evening i'm flying, i'm dreaming... Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Feb. 01 2003, 20:15 I'd have to go with either Top of the Morning or Far Above the Clouds. I love both pieces. in fact, in my junior year of high school we had to do a music paper in my intro to psychology class. we were supposed to find a piece of music that reflected our lives, and i picked "Secrets / Far Above the Clouds". just how it starts off with a small tune, and leads up and up until the climax and then dies off at the end. it resembled how i grew up, kept growing, will grow, and then of course reach the end. it was a real neat paper, and FATC just seemed to fit it so good. -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

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