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Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Nov. 22 2002, 17:21 If you have to choose your fav Mike's songs to create your MO compilation,what songs would you choose? -------------- "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

theweightless Group: Members Posts: 604 Joined: April 2001 Posted: Nov. 22 2002, 17:49 i've made that..something from every album -------------- ASMK Back to top

Baggiesfaninessex Group: Members Posts: 682 Joined: Mar. 2002 Posted: Nov. 22 2002, 19:43 Couldn't do it unless it was a mega box set. Many compilation albums suffer through MO's long, instrumental pieces being cut to ribbons for the sake of the casual 'best of' consumer. So, my album would be several CDs (sides of an LP in old money) cos much of Mike's 'best' sits firmly in his 70's and 80's side long compositions. It is for this reason that Mike made his name, as at the time, few had dared to do what he did for the pop/rock scene. It follows that with originality comes brilliance..... -------------- “A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by its own farts.” - Frank Skinner Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: Nov. 22 2002, 21:25 My one, which I am about to burn as soon as I get Tres Lunas, will be at least 5 CDs, probably over 70 minutes each. It will have a lot of long instrumentals (Orabidoo, Taurus II, Crises, The Lake) in full, as well as extracts from Ommadawn, Amarok, Tubular Bells and Incantations. It will also have a lot of his 80s songs and short instrumentals (this is a very complete best of) as well as my favourite stuff from his 90s albums. There will be at least one piece from every album he has done (except orchestral TB) as well as from the Music VR mix. I may put the track list on my own site once I have done it. Yes, it needs to be a mega box set, and there is heaps more I could add if I needed to! It's amazing that one artist could have so much amazing "Must Hear" material from so many decades and styles. That's why I love Mike Oldfield (well, the music    ). -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

oblique Group: Members Posts: 411 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Nov. 22 2002, 23:11 For me it really doesn't matter as long as people stop cutting out pieces from a composition that is supposed to last longer than a few minutes.... I know it's a means of getting someone to listen to something that's new to him/her but it surely doesn't do justice to the music. -------------- "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

Terra111 Group: Members Posts: 30 Joined: Sep. 2002 Posted: Nov. 25 2002, 13:49 Orabidoo isnt instrumental...Mike is talking through the whole thing...Well, except from 0:00-2:40 Back to top

MusicallyInspired Group: Musicians Posts: 1445 Joined: June 2001 Posted: Nov. 26 2002, 18:51 ive already made one a while back. tho it doesnt have near to what i all like by MO and consider 'best of' material. mine started out as a wish list for an MO concert and i just ended up burning it on cd from the original versions. its 2 cds long...here is the tracklist: cd1: 1-Sentinel (Remix) 2-Cochise 3-Summit Day 4-Fire Fly 5-Tres Lunas 6-Turtle Island 7-Moonlight Shadow (Extended) 8-Let There Be Light 9-Return To The Origin 10-Supernova 11-Crystal Clear 12-Ascension 13-North and South Winds (excerpt from Four Winds) 14-Out of Sight 15-Evacuation 16-Taurus 2 (Beginning Excerpt up to the bagpipe-like instrument part) 17-Taurus 2 (end part just after the female voices and the beat changes) cd2: 1-Ommadawn Part 1 (beginning up to the end of the Majestic part) 2-Ommadawn Part 2 (the kool solo at the very end right before 'on horseback' 3-Ommadawn Part 2 (On Horseback) 4-Incantations Part 1 (middle part with the whistle and wiked drums that keeps repeating and building up) 5-Incantations Part 3 (The long solo midle part with the vibes) 6-Incantations Part 4 (Hiawatha's Song or whatever its called...the last part anyway) 7-Platinum (all parts) 8-Punkadiddle 9-Outcast 10-Serpent Dream 11-Secrets 12-Far Above The Clouds 13-Tubular Bells Part 2 (end part from Exposed and Knebworth concerts just before sailor's hornpipe) 14-Out of Mind its great to take with me places when i want to listen to certain MO tunes. i dont need to take all of them with me . but like i said it doesnt contain near the amount of tunes id like them to have....perhaps ill make more -------------- 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

lazeeladuk Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: June 2002 Posted: Nov. 26 2002, 19:07 how do you choose? it's a very hard choice, when you think that you have got what you want you just have to change your mind. my surggestion is, buy a big bag and take all the albums with you wherever you go!!!         Back to top

MusicallyInspired Group: Musicians Posts: 1445 Joined: June 2001 Posted: Nov. 26 2002, 19:45 funny thing...right now thats exactly what im doing! i put them in a backpack (all 40+ of them) and take them and my brother's ghetto blaster everytime i get dropped off at my church where i wait until its time to go to work....i play my guitar to them until i have to leave.  i never listen to all of them tho lol. its just good to have a wide selection . i usually just end up playing one song and then repeating it anyway.. -------------- 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

Wanderer Group: Members Posts: 119 Joined: Aug. 2002 Posted: Nov. 27 2002, 00:14 MIKE OLDFIELD - THE ULTIMATE SELECTION DISC ONE: Tubular Bells Part 1 Hergest Ridge Part 1 (abbreviated version) Ommadawn Part 1 Incantations Part 1 DISC TWO: Platinum Live Punkadiddle Live Arrival Conflict Wonderful Land Taurus 2 Taurus 3 Pran's Departure Requiem For A City The Trek The Boy's Burial / Pran Sees The Red Cross DISC THREE Five Miles Out Mistake Moonlight Shadow (extended version) Shadow On The Wall (extended version) Pictures In The Dark (extended version) Crime Of Passion (extended version) To France (extended version) Islands Shine (extended version) Holy (Hard N' Holy Mix) Innocent (12' Remix) Earth Moving (disco version) Heaven's Open (single mix) Man In The Rain Amber Light To Be Free DISC FOUR: Amarok: African section Sentinel (single edit) The Bell (live at Edinburgh castle) Tattoo Asencion / A New Beginning Indian Lake The Chamber / Hibernaculum The Song Of The Boat Men The Spectral Army The Song Of The Sun Women Of Ireland (Lurker Edit) The Voyager Mike's Reel Secrets (original mix) Serpent Dream / Inner Child (live) Cochise B. Blues No Man's Land The Ice Cavern Amarok Finale: Endings Are Just Beginings... DISC FIVE Mike Oldfield's Single In Dulci Jubilo Portsmouth Argiers William Tell Overture Cuckoo Song Wreckorder Wrondo Pipe Tune Guilty (extended version) Blue Peter (Dutch mix) Waldberg (The Peak) In The Pool Bones Jungle Gardenia The Path Afghan Legend The Trap Music For The Video Wall Tubular X Don Alfonso Froggy Went A Courtin' Back to top

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