Rating: - splendid score
Give this one a try. It is splendid score (simple but uplifting themes and not to complex orchestration). It works on you quickly and you can listen it over and over again. The track no. 5 is favorite of mine. The brass theme in the 4th minute is epic highlight. There are more magic moments - put it in your player and play it's splendour for yoursel.
Rating: - Why Give it One Star?
Why are people clicking one star just because it sounds like Mike Oldfield, it is his style. It doesn't really sound like Tubular bells it has a classic music quality to it. Great music.
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.
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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!