The pop songs are worth hearing, but the excerpts of longer pieces don't do the albums justice. All of the tracks are, of course, available on other albums, so collectors will miss nothing by skipping this one. Similar Items Mike Oldfield, XXV - The Essential Mike Oldfield Feed...
The song, from the album Lullaby, was originally the second half of a medley with the group's version of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells," the 1973 instrumental that served as the eerie theme music of the classic horror film The Exorcist. Edited down to single length, "Pretty Boys And ...
Maggie Reilly (born 15 September 1956) is a Scottish singer best known for her collaborations with the composer and instrumentalist Mike Oldfield. Most notably, she performed lead vocals on the Oldfield songs "Family Man", "Moonlight Shadow", "To France" and "Foreign Affair", al...
Then, at the end of the first part of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, who should crop up to introduce the instrumentation but Stanshall again. Oldfield’s frequent collaborator Kevin Ayers is on hand to tell the story of the “Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes” (“thank you-very-muchh”), ...
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells ☆ Montrose Montrose ☆ Mott the Hoople Mott ☆ Neu! Neu! 2 ☆ New York Dolls New York Dolls ☆ Paul McCartney & Wings Band on the Run ☆ Paul Simon There Goes Rhymin' Simon ☆ Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon ☆ Procol Harum Grand Hotel ☆ Queen Que...
I find it really hard having the best of albums for artists like Pink Floyd, Vangelis and Mike Oldfield, especially where their works are more continuous in terms of composition. So invariably the song selection especially back in 1978 where album lengths were limited, is in short restricted ...
With no need to keep up a working band, Wyatt surrounds himself with his best Canterbury colleagues—there are cameos by Fred Frith and Mike Oldfield, as well as regular support from fellow Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper—and, bound to the studio, he invented the next phase of his career...
Mike Oldfield Just one month after John Fogerty’s solo effort came the prog epicTubular Bells, from England’sMike Oldfield. On the album, Oldfield played a remarkable array of instruments, including acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar; Farfisa, Hammond, and Lowrey organs; flageolet,...
Mike Oldfield, Extract From "Ommadawn" (6:58) Disc 3 (75:25) Dune, Who Wants To Live Forever (3:56) Celtus, Strange Day In The Country (6:04) Secret Garden, Prayer (4:35) Stone Age, Maribrengaël (3:46) Mychael & Jeff Danna, Hills of Ireland (4:18) Bill Douglas, The Clo...
Mike Oldfield - Pran's Departure Four Tet - Circling Thundercat - Uh Uh (Image credit: Brainfeeder, Thundercat) To test bass control Massive show-off Thundercat (Stephen Bruner) delivered one of the more critically acclaimed albums of 2017 with Drunk. And on Uh Uh (a brief but exhausting ex...