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tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: May 03 2002, 22:43 All right. now i'm sure everyone out there has a least favorite piece of Music done by the great MO and now is the time to confess. what ONE album or ONE song or ONE track do you absolutely hate!? no matter how many times you listen to it, it is still annoying. for me, i have to say i'm not a fan of 5 Miles Out (the album). it just sounds to damn annoying. ugh -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

Man In The Rain Group: Members Posts: 405 Joined: April 2002 Posted: May 04 2002, 12:19 you don't like Five Miles Out? IMO, thats his best album of the eighties! Anyway, um I honestly couldn't HATE a song of Mike's, but I think The Trap is pretty bad, it doesn't even work as good atmospheric music, although its scary it just gives me a headache. And that bit in Innocent where it goes 'speak to me, like the very first speak', I think that is the WORST lyric that I have ever heard in my life!... Arrghh thats terrible, I feel like I've sinned! muhahahahaha Oliver -------------- Hergest Ridge 165 - Ommadawn 038 - Incantations 243 Back to top

Man In The Rain Group: Members Posts: 405 Joined: April 2002 Posted: May 04 2002, 12:22 you don't like Five Miles Out? IMO, thats his best album of the eighties! Anyway, um I honestly couldn't HATE a song of Mike's, but I think The Trap is pretty bad, it doesn't even work as good atmospheric music, although its scary it just gives me a headache. And that bit in Innocent where it goes 'speak to me, like the very first speak', I think that is the WORST lyric that I have ever heard in my life!... Arrghh thats terrible, I feel like I've sinned! muhahahahaha Oliver -------------- Hergest Ridge 165 - Ommadawn 038 - Incantations 243 Back to top

theweightless Group: Members Posts: 604 Joined: April 2001 Posted: May 04 2002, 16:07 i don't like most of the tracks on the killing fields, but there is few great tracks on that album...but that's not really an album... -------------- ASMK Back to top

dgcaer Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: Dec. 2000 Posted: May 06 2002, 16:59 I'm don't like Five Miles Out too. It's too aggressive. I hate "Shadows on the Wall" too. It's too aggressive too. Have him try to impress us or the Heavy Metal fans ? I can't stand neither the voice of the young boy in the piece "Amber Light". It's atrocious. It's the worst of all. Apart these thing the rest is ok or fantastic. Back to top

oblique Group: Members Posts: 411 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: May 10 2002, 22:36 IMHO his worst track is Runaway Son. The whole album Earth Moving is a heap of crap with just some tiny jewels... But Runaway Son is NOT one of them. -------------- "While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past." - Jack Vance Back to top

Juan Luis Group: Members Posts: 60 Joined: April 2001 Posted: May 13 2002, 13:21 The only Mike's song which I hate, despite he did not compose it, is Speak (Tho You Only Say Farewell). It is terrible, awful, I can not stand it. How they can put that song in a compilation like Boxed?. What was Mike and David Bedford doing when they recorded it (perhaps too many beers) and what was Virgin thinking when they decided to put such a song in the compilation. All the song, from the beginning to the end is out of tune. Back to top

bibimimi Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 25 Joined: Mar. 2002 Posted: May 13 2002, 17:26 I like "Speak...", and yes, they were hammered when they recorded it. It reminds me of hanging out with drunken uncles, and, well, that's my stuff. "Make Make" on 'Heaven's Open' makes me cringe. I can appreciate the sentiment, but that's about it. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: May 13 2002, 19:26 In High Places from Crises. Horrible song, horrible vocals. . Jon did a much better work in Shine. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Thomas Andersson Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: Feb. 2001 Posted: May 14 2002, 06:50 I haven't got all of Mike's albums yet so I probably haven't heard the worst stuff. But I can't stand Shadow on the wall, yuck, nor Islands (the song). I've got both of those on my Elements CD and if it wasn't for In Dulci Jubilo I'd probably give the album away in order to convert someone else And Five Miles Out is fabulous. Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: May 19 2002, 00:49 I don't really know. The Killing Fields is pretty boring for most of it, but Etude rocks. I don't like much of Voyager either. Most of Music From the Balcony as well, even though the middle bit really rocks. The rarity Bones is awful as well. And I don't like a few of the songs on Islands. Or much of Incantations. That's it really. -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

ChiRho Group: Members Posts: 195 Joined: Feb. 2001 Posted: May 22 2002, 15:24 Need I say it? Moonshine (TBII). I haven't heard many of the albums (only ... 8!), and quite frankly, anti-climax isn't the word for that. What an awful note to end on. Why couldn't they have put a reprise of The Bell on after it, like at the live concert. -------------- <P>Mr. ChiRho Email to chirho@mine.nu.almost (guess what drops) Visit ChiRho Network Central [URL=http://www.chirho.i12.com/]http://www.chirho.mine.nu/[/URL] Check the forums (topic suggestions still welcome[URL=http://forum.chirho.mine.nu/]http://forum.chirho.mine.nu/[/URL] Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: May 31 2002, 05:09 Ah yes, Moonshine. Bleugh! My least favourite track on the album. The reprise at the end would have been so much better. In High places is awful as well, and I find Foriegn affair terribly repetitive. -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: May 31 2002, 18:16 I don't mind Moonshine...it's a silly thing like the sailor's hornpipe and nothing much more. Nice bit of banjo in there... Back to top

Man In The Rain Group: Members Posts: 405 Joined: April 2002 Posted: June 01 2002, 14:07 I would like to add the chants of what sounds like 'Sexy Woman' on The Millennium Bell - thats another cringe-worthy experience when you play that with someone who is not a fan there with you. urgh, 'oo-ach-a pacha mama, oo-ach-a sexy woman!'. I know it supposedly means something in Peruvian or something, but still, I speak English. And anyone saying 'sexy woman' makes me think Lionel Richie, or Tom Jones's Sexbomb... Oliver -------------- Hergest Ridge 165 - Ommadawn 038 - Incantations 243 Back to top

TimHighfield Group: Members Posts: 543 Joined: Oct. 2000 Posted: June 20 2002, 06:01 There are quite a few things I can't stand (and like ChiRho I haven't heard all the albums yet). But I must say, Five Miles Out is just behind Ommadawn (my favourite MO album) in my ranking. -Innocent, Nothing But, Hostage, in fact a great deal of EM (I do like the title track, See the Light, Holy towards the end, and strangely enough Runaway Son) -Gimme Back and Mr Shame -Pacha Mama and Mastermind -the dialogue in Altered State, and I'm not a fan of Moonshine. I think I know why though...there might be some good banjo-work in there, as Korgscrew said, but it's very different to what else I've heard by MO, whereas the Hornpipe sounds fine to me because of other pieces like Portsmouth. The worst thing, though, is probably Foreign Affair. VERY irritating, really, and doesn't go anywhere. Yeah, like most of my posts . I s'pose I'd better finish that 'Shadows of the Past' thing though. Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: June 22 2002, 18:13 One tune I don´t like...well... Saved by a Bell,from Discovery. -------------- "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

ally Group: Members Posts: 21 Joined: June 2002 Posted: June 25 2002, 09:50 Foreign Affair is very nice song. It´s like a never-ending story. You are waiting it is ending, but no it continues and continues and continues...wonderful. I don´t like songs from Earth Moving. I listen it only once and it was enough. I hate Sunlight Shinning Through Cloude from TMB. When I listen TMB, I always skip this track. Back to top

Blue Dolphin Group: Members Posts: 1232 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: June 27 2002, 13:18 I don't understand you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just love everything of Mike! I don't have any track that I hate! Well, wasn't that an opinion of real die-hard fan? -------------- -The mark of a good musician is to play one note and mean it- Mike Oldfield - 1980 Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: June 27 2002, 21:10 ahem, i think someone is in denial. we all know how much some of his music just sucks. so just admit it and be a human being with the rest of us, k? hahahahaha (J/K about the suckage thing...i wouldn't say it...sucks...it just doesn't appeal to my ears ) -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

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