Rating: - One Star reviews for sounding like Mike Oldfield??????????
Mike Oldfied does what it says on the tin no more no less. Why buy or review something which changes slightly from disc to disc but be shocked that it sounds similar to the last album?
You could of course be clever and slate it with a wolf in wonderland review but it will change nothing
MIKE OLDFIELD SOUNDS LIKE MIKE OLDFIELD
Shock horror what a revelation.
Being Mike Oldfield is enough for most of us
Rating: - Music of the Spheres.
I was introduced to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells in my teenage years, and have bought and listened to a great deal of his music in the intervening quarter century or so.
I guess it's always a mixed blessing to produce iconic debut material, and it was a peak that, in my opinion, Mike would struggle to reach again for many years.
Follow up albums were merititious in their own right, but over time I think it became obvious that something, perhaps his increasingly strained relations with Virgin Records meant that albums of the late eighties seemed to lack "desire" and Mike was maybe going through the motions to fulfil his contractual obligations - and with the exception of Amarok, I shied away from Mike's music.
1994 brought ... Read More:
Rating: - Good-to-be-alive music
Brought up on TB1, I have to admit to bias but without doubt this is joyous music which lifts the spirits and makes one glad to be alive. Sit back and enjoy!
Thanks, Mike.
Rating: - it just gets better week after week.
Have had this lp for about a month,at first i thought it was t.b by orchestra but over the weeks it has developed a place of its own. It is not "planets" for the millenium ,it is a valid piece of classical styled music.Give it a go" your worth it".
Rating: - Music?
I'd waited the two weeks it takes for parcels to cross from UK to the Gulf in huge anticipation after inadvertently discovering this album on Amazon - Oldfield taking a crack at galactic vibration - now you're talking!
What a deflationary, nay, interplanetary let-down.
I'm listening to and rejoicing in Amarok as I write - even though I'm depriving myself of sleep and have an early start, you simply cannot start Amarok and not go right through to the end of its glorious, muli-layered delights which include the most innovative bridges ever committed to tape - and I cannot help but wonder why Mike chose to align himself with Karl Jenkins and his Lowest Common Denominator Orchestral Music Prevention Officers. And I really ... Read More: