― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
hey wait, Tubular Bells, that's one of his isn't it? that's GREAT, or the bit in the Omen is.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 21:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 21:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― David (David), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 21:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
oboe!
― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
it's all over the exorcist
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 21:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 22:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 22:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
I see Nicole is covering for Dan's absence today.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 September 2002 03:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 26 September 2002 07:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have been watching Beavis and Butthead, I am feeling inspired.
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 26 September 2002 09:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
I got the album for Christmas, in 1976 & for years thought that the listing on each side was the actual tracklist.
― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
Whenever I hear the track "Blue Peter," I immediately think of the Stonehenge/dwarf bit in This is Spinal Tap. Tubular balls...blue peter...good lord people. I think we have a hit off-Broadway show on our hands.
― Ernest P., Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 26 September 2002 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyone had a go at his computer game thingy yet? Is it worth downloading?
― Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Friday, 27 September 2002 09:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 8 June 2003 12:54 (twenty years ago) link
I do actually rather like "To France".
that song just soars. 'discovery' is a bit dull overall but worth it for that one song.
When he's bad, he's very very bad, the egomaniacal aspects poison everything, can't blame anyone for finding it to be a permanent turn off. Everything changed when I heard 'Hergest Ridge' though, it's a humble, beautiful record. I also like Ommadawn / Incantations (especially the ending) / Amarok. And if you're already having a cheesepool day then Five Miles Out is fun.
His multitracked guitars on the last track of Robert Wyatt's 'Rock Bottom' are one of my favorite moments of recorded sound in the entire world. My heart's still in my throat every time I hear it.
― jl, Monday, 9 June 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
― jl, Monday, 9 June 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
http://nevergetoutoftheboat.blogspot.com/2009/02/mike-oldfield.html
BBC4 video of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells," recorded November 30, 1973
MIKE OLDFIELD (bass, guitar)MICK TAYLOR - Rolling Stones (guitar)STEVE HILLAGE - Gong (guitar)PIERRE MOERLEN - Gong (percussion)FRED FRITH - Henry Cow (bass, guitar)JOHN GREAVES - Henry Cow (keyboards, bass)TIM HODGKINSON - Henry Cow (keyboards)GEOFF LEIGH - Henry Cow (flute)MIKE RATLEDGE - Soft Machine (keyboards)KARL JENKINS - Soft Machine (oboe)TED SPEIGHT - Kilburn & The High Roads (guitar, bass)JOHN FIELD (flute)TERRY OLDFIELD (flute)TOM NEWMAN (voice)"
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/Sprad/MikePlaylist.jpg
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Hergest Ridge is awesome.
Yes, after yesterday's Baroque Psych-Folk binge, today is all about album side long prog noodling.
(Yes, I also blame yesterday's Daily Note's article on "English Kosmische albums")
― There's Always Been A Dance Element To (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 4 March 2010 11:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Is it wrong to find a young Mike Oldfield kind of.... erm... hott?
http://festive50.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/20080713195401mike_oldfield.jpg
http://www.intuitivemusic.com/images/C-mike-oldfield-1.jpg
Just shoot me now. It would be kinder. Really.
― There's Always Been A Dance Element To (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 4 March 2010 11:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I read that at first as Daily Mail's article on Kos..
― Mark G, Thursday, 4 March 2010 12:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha ha, erm, no. That would be hilarious, but no. Daily Note. It's some weird thing sponsored by the Red Bull Music Academy whatever that is, but it's this free daily paper that's been handed out on the tube every day for the past few weeks, with strangely really high quality writing for a free sheet. Like yesterday they had a special issue about the BBC Radiophonic workshop, and before that they had Richard Norris and Pete Fowler writing about 60s psych. It's mostly dance oriented - still surprisingly good.
Not to mention the cognitive dissonance of those kind of newspaper touts who usually push London Lite on you handing out primers on krautrock. I'm so used to dodging them that it's odd to see "Hang on - YES PLEASE."
Anyway this is nothing to do with Mike Oldfield. Sorry. The last half of side two of Hergest Ridge with all the spikey over-portamentoed organ is utterly amazing.
― There's Always Been A Dance Element To (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 4 March 2010 12:08 (fourteen years ago) link
that kosmische music, coming here and taking our prog musicians...
I hadn't noticed that Mike Oldfield played on 'Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road'. And I'm still not entirely sure why that means it shows up in Milton's Oldfield filter up there (but then I know something between 0 and jack shit about itunes).
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 4 March 2010 12:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, you can play a KAyers CD, and that fairly distinctive guitar line makes you check the musician list.
(I always knew he played with Kev, more wondering if it was him being obvious, or someone else copying his lines like they did with Syd's "Religious Experience" bits)
― Mark G, Thursday, 4 March 2010 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Did not like Ommadawn - it was way too jaunty and hey nonny-no and all that piping was giving me a headache. Is there anything else that's like Hergest or is that a one-off?
― There's Always Been A Dance Element To (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 4 March 2010 12:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno, I got TBells played at me on a fairly reg basis back then, so when I got a copy of Herg, it sort of left no real impression.
Then Punk happened, and so on.
― Mark G, Thursday, 4 March 2010 12:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Exposure (the double live album) is kinda good.
― You Weaked It! (MaresNest), Thursday, 4 March 2010 12:38 (fourteen years ago) link
For album-side prog noodling I can recommend Side 3 of Incantations. I wasn't too keen on this album when I was a Oldfield-mad 13 year old but in retrospect it has some brilliant bits in it. I'm still not as keen on the vocal stuff which is a little bit hey-nonny-nonny (Maddy Prior and Sally Oldfield say no more) but is avoidable if that bothers you, since it's mostly on side 2 and 4. The good bits (for me) are the lengthy rhythm build-ups using xylophones, "tribal" drums etc while Mike flails away on his slightly distorted guitar. Compared to TB, the huge repetitive rhythms are really quite audacious.
― everything, Thursday, 4 March 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Exhibit B:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-O-WXcLuM0
― everything, Thursday, 4 March 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
He's 28 there.
― everything, Thursday, 4 March 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
And I'm still not entirely sure why that means it shows up in Milton's Oldfield filter up there (but then I know something between 0 and jack shit about itunes).
I have Mike tagged as co-composer for that track, which is pushing it, but his solo kills (& that one riff that comes in under 'Can't you see them' is pretty clearly his)
I'm not too big on Tubular Bells or most of Ommadawn either (though I ripped it because mp3's finally make it easy to just skip right to the ending of side 1). Hergest is best, and the other two you probably want to go to after that are Incantations and Amarok. And if you can handle hilariously stiff post-Trevor Horn Fairlight cheese rock, you want Five Miles Out.
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 4 March 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
ha ha oh god Punkadiddle
I have successfully hurt people's feelings by playing that track before. all of those people were british
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 4 March 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I know. Punkadiddle is pure LOL.
Amarok is cool. There's Fairlight on it too, but used tastefully rather than "BANG HERE"S THE FAIRLIGHT BIT". To me it's the purest form of Oldfield avaiable - more so than TB. It's just relentlessly varied, continually changing with a million little bits all over the place, all recorded and performed in his trademarked style. And lots of surprising turns along the way, which is really what you want with Mike.
― everything, Thursday, 4 March 2010 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
ha ha 'tastefully', I agree but it's relative with this guy. But yeah more people should know about Amarok, it is over the top, totally untouched by any notions of restraint or good taste. and that main guitar melody that keeps coming back, it's one of those things that can make you happy in under two seconds, it's like ABBA-level irresistable.
& to be fair a lot of the production tricks Mike got up to on Five Miles Out (alternating real guitar tracks with samples, huge dramatic shifts in dynamic range with sample stabs, proggy song subsections) actually pre-date what Trevor Horn did w/ Yes 90125 & the Art of Noise. but less interested in modernism than rocking out like a 14 year old
he just didn't care! later on with the 80's pop attempts and the autopilot 90's TB sequels, he obviously cared a little too much. But how can you not love this guy going platinum with Tubular Bells then following up with "Don Alfonso", not even Aphex could have come up with that
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 4 March 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
and though some of the pop goes too far for me, there are a few I'm totally grateful for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-1WfkM1qso
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 4 March 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
his solo on "May I?" on that Kevin Ayers-Nico-John Cale-Eno June 1, 1974 live album is one of my very favorite moments in all music
― iago g., Thursday, 4 March 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Mike Oldfield is cool. Sure, some of the stuff totally lacks any credibility, but the best stuff is totally iconic. He’s like Iggy Pop – there’s a grounding philosophy (heavily featuring his own personality and abilities) which informs everything he does, good or bad, and although the albums have their own idiosyncrasies and concepts, or are influenced by who he’s working with or new technologies, he’s staggered through all the cultural changes of the last 4 decades with that philosophy totally intact. There’s not too many people who you can say that about.
― everything, Thursday, 4 March 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Oddly, sweaty and shirtless is really doing NOTHING for me. Plus, I think his fingernails are really disturbing to look at (even if they sound nice).
I'll give Incantations a try tomorrow and see where I get with it. I don't even like Tubular Bells as much as Hergest Ridge but that might be because I've heard TB before just enough to have bad associations with it but not enough to really appreciate it.
― There's Always Been A Dance Element To (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 4 March 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
(It really is just that one pic where he's kind of looking out from under his hair and looks like a young Chris Cunningham that I'm perving over.)
― There's Always Been A Dance Element To (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 4 March 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Five Miles Out (the song) is hilariously batshit *and* it was a single.
― You Weaked It! (MaresNest), Thursday, 4 March 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh and that live album is called Exposed (getting my guitarists mixed up) and IIRC the versions of Incantations are better than the studio album, and you get 'Guilty' as an appetiser.
― You Weaked It! (MaresNest), Thursday, 4 March 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
You're really not selling me on this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNYuuPEio4A
― There's Always Been A Dance Element To (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 4 March 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, true!
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 7 June 2013 09:15 (ten years ago) link
Just watched the BBC4 TB doc, did not expect to be quite so moved by it at all, good grief. Definitely worth watching. Watching the follow on programme now, which is the 1973 BBC Second House performance of TB. I recognise Fred Frith and Steve Hillage and Mick Taylor, but has anyone got a complete listing of who plays on that?
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Friday, 11 October 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
No Viv Stanshall in the studio, whch is a great shame, but I understand now that he might not have been the most polished of performers.
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Friday, 11 October 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
Is it wrong to want to be Mike Oldfield?
http://tmr-web.co.uk/robreedsancturay/Blank.html
― MaresNest, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
his version of "All Right Now" is really bad
― swae lee is the sremmurd for rae dad (crüt), Thursday, 26 March 2015 01:29 (nine years ago) link
His playing with Kevin Ayers in the early 70s is fucking incredible...I rewind those solos over and over
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 26 March 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fPo5JsPtY
Hideo Kojima used this song in some trailers for his upcoming game, thought I would see it on this page but didn't. Mmaybe I missed it. Cool song...
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 26 March 2015 02:33 (nine years ago) link
the 1976 record is more about texture, it's more elegant, flows and builds more slowly, it's dreamier. it also anticipates minimalism in the way it is content to just keep cycling & repeating. the 1974/2010 mixes are trying harder not to be boring, changes the balances of the instruments more often, and pushes the stringed instruments & drums higher in the mix. some of the brass textures really go over the top in a way I personally find to be a bit too much. it's a pretty good demonstration of how a remix of a record constitutes a completely different performance of the piece; all the tracks are the same performances, but the result of the orchestration has a completely different result
1976 mix all the way for me, but granted it's the one I grew up with
I have listened to 'Tubular Bells' maybe 3 times in my life but have lost track of the number of times I've listened to 'Hergest'
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, August 9, 2011 2:00 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This record is fucking great! Thanks for talking about this you guys. Where does one find the 1976 mix? Is it only on the LP? I see there's an 'orchestral hergest ridge' which was recorded that year and suppressed but I assume that's not it.
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 March 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
apparently the original cds have the 1976 version (though presumably pared back to stereo, as the '76 remixes were done for a quadrophonic box set he put out), but the new ones have the '74 mix.
― rushomancy, Friday, 27 March 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
ok, local charity shop as TBII.is it shit and full of crap like that sea shanty crap on TB1, or, worthy of my coin and time ?
― mark e, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 22:23 (eight years ago) link
It's Trevor horn producing iirc, but idk what that amounts to in 1992
― Corn on the macabre (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 03:53 (eight years ago) link
incantations tho
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 05:26 (eight years ago) link
http:/www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=0tF6nmOhVxE
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 06:04 (eight years ago) link
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=0tF6nmOhVxE
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 06:06 (eight years ago) link
Such a jam
Loved his autobiography - which is less about the music, than his struggles with depression.
― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 07:40 (eight years ago) link
One thing I like about that song is way the solo switches up from a knopfler-ish twangathon into that kind of screaming eagle mac attack
― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 07:47 (eight years ago) link
Am also a fan of the distinctly less pleasant follow up 'shadow on the wall' with Roger Chapman as the timbral opposite of Maggie reilly.
― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 08:02 (eight years ago) link
Singing it through in my head and it keeps morphing into the guitar bit from Hocus Pocus
― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 08:03 (eight years ago) link
Roger chapman is the roger wootton to Maggie reilly's bobbie Watson; someone please tell me the rest of Crisis plays out like an aor First Utterance
― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 08:18 (eight years ago) link
Listened to a chunk of Crises on my ride in and no it's not like Comus FM at all, it's all a bit stranger than that. Overlong title track goes a bit Battles in places, and then after Moonlight Shadow you get these two reggae-ish numbers - first one with Jon Anderson is like a skank-prog follow-up to State Of Independence, second one is an ambient dub pop song five years before The Orb got there. Weird.
― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 09:15 (eight years ago) link
There was a live in the studio take on Tubular Bells that featured several underground people including most of Henry Cow. I think it should be pretty good but I haven't heard it recently.Kind of funny that hard leftist people are working ion a musical project with a future Tory like Oldfield.
I liked him in the Whole Wide World with Kevin Ayers too. & possibly Sallyangie
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 09:36 (eight years ago) link
I bought Crises because I love "Moonlight Shadow" and "Foreign Affair" so much, and decided to give the rest of the record a chance. Lord almighty is the sidelong title track terrible. It's like every tasteless, tacky, bad idea of the late 1970s crammed into 20 minutes. I'm sticking with the early stuff from now on (though I will still rep for "Foreign Affair" till the day I die).
― Wimmels, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 21:37 (seven years ago) link
Also, surely some hip-hop producer has sampled the first four bars of "Foreign Affair" by now, right? I mean, it sounds straight up early Def Jux to me
― Wimmels, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link
Ha, I actually like "Crises".
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 23:10 (seven years ago) link
Somehow, I only just realised that Kanye West sampled "In High Places" in "Dark Fantasy" (maybe because I never liked that KW album). Does he have a thing for prog rock? There was the King Crimson sample on that album too.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
In High Places was previously sampled by others though.
I also like Crises - it was the album that came out during my high school Mike Oldfield craze, so I'm down for life basically.
― everything, Thursday, 28 April 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link
Crises and Five Miles Out are both really good, I like 'em as much as anything he's done.
Supposedly the next album is a sequel to Ommadawn - guess I'll hold my breath
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 April 2016 00:55 (seven years ago) link
In High Places and Foreign Affair make this worthy imo. Five Miles Out has the title track and Family Man. I'm not a massive fan of the side-long suites but there are nice bits and tons of cool sounds and textures (assuming one has already accepted Oldfield's whole "thing" that is).
― everything, Thursday, 28 April 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link
Discovery got re-released recently, after which I got off the bus, this is a kinda sweet little track with a hilariously over the top chorus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvzG9siO704
― MaresNest, Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
Hergest Ridge became a favorite record of mine last year, magical album
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
i walked up the irl hergest ridge once partly because of mike o. it is a nice spot tbh
http://www.tgos.co.uk/contentAsset/image/6ca321bf-1cbb-40d0-9fdb-51fa5f7653b5/firstImage
― real orgone kid (NickB), Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
Discovery got re-released recently, after which I got off the bus, this is a kinda sweet little track with a hilariously over the top chorus.🎥
🎥
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 03:21 (seven years ago) link
"Return to Ommadawn" next week. Maybe I'm not cynical enough but my interest is piqued
Been listening a lot to Amarok this week and lol, such a strange piece. the claim upthread that it's "totally untouched by any notions of restraint or good taste" is so on the money, just "here's a thing, here's another thing, here's another thing, clap clap clap wankadoodle doo!!" for an hour straight, complete with a total "what the fuck" ending. Totally plays to all his strengths too. Too bad he never attempted anything like it again.
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
That's so weird, I just listened to Amarok yesterday! So many moments of "wait NO... ok yes."
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link
First post (hi! hello!) just to add that, inspired by this thread, I put on Incantations yesterday and thought it was great. Leaner and more focused than Tubular Bells (not entirely a good thing) but less flailing than some of his later stuff. Also prompted my wife to walk into the room and say "this is a bit much, even for you".
― bamboohouses, Monday, 16 January 2017 09:24 (seven years ago) link
Do people sleep on that middle period, Crises, Five Miles Out, QE2, Platinum? SO much good stuff right there.
Also the live album Exposed which brings to life some of the pieces from Incantations.
― MaresNest, Monday, 16 January 2017 13:17 (seven years ago) link
I like Incantations a lot, and Platinum too. I don't think I've listened to Crises, 5MO or QE2 though I have them on a hard drive.
Hergest Ridge is my favorite by a long shot, peak instrumental unrock IMO
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Monday, 16 January 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
Crises and 5MO are excellent discs, I probably listen to those more than any of his other stuff. QE2 is plenty enjoyable, but not a whole lotta meat on those bones.
― frogbs, Monday, 16 January 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
i love the guitar solo at the end of side 1 of Ommadawn.
― akm, Monday, 18 February 2019 01:28 (five years ago) link
"moonlight shadow" is my fuckin jam!!!
― brimstead, Monday, 18 February 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
Best pop song ever.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 18 February 2019 12:04 (five years ago) link
Also, "Innocent" from 1989 is a song that hardly gets mentioned. The 12" mix is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMq1gdu8AiE
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 18 February 2019 12:08 (five years ago) link
Crystal Gazing is acehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XI1devNicQ
― PaulTMA, Monday, 18 February 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
Hergest Ridge has been rocking my world of late – I’ve never understood how anyone could compare it to Tubular Bells. To me, they’re night and day.
The opening section of this is so exquisitely arranged – the melody has such a great melancholy series of turns you never want or to end. It’s almost hard to believe that the trumpet (cornet?) part on the original mix in 1974 was played an octave lower with none of the urgency and desperation that makes it so affecting.
The arrangements and production are also special. The echo of the organ and guitar melody in the opening section is disorienting and organic. I’d almost say it’s hard to believe Oldfield was only 21 at the time but then of course there’s the section on side 2 with the dozens of head banging overdubbed guitars – it’s a very 21 year-old moment, indeed.
But really, I love it all. What a record.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 19 April 2019 04:12 (four years ago) link
My favorite as well.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 19 April 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
This last week I’ve bought two copies of Hergest Ridge – the 2010 deluxe issue because I wanted to hear it in surround (it’s great) and now the 2000 CD issue because Milton’s passionate posting has convinced me I needed to hear the 1976 Boxed mix – so I popped for a cheap copy off Discogs.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
His solo on Kevin Ayers' Whatevershebringswesing is one of the most sublime moments in all of recorded music.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 11:41 (four years ago) link
I watched the BBC documentary on the making of Tubular Bells last night ... pretty enjoyable. Oldfield is clearly some kind of prodigy – comping ably along through all the parts as the multitracks play, shifting from bass to guitar to keyboard with ease, not missing a beat. Seeing this sixty year-old in questionable mental health part discuss undergoing Exegesis and the high wearing off after a few years is particularly heartbreaking. It’s hard to hear the rest of his work as much more than various states of depression. It makes one wonder what would’ve become of him had TB not been so sui generis or been released under less ramshackle circumstances.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
How amazing is this video - floral fucking shoppe or what
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7K-pr9ZinY
― Maresn3st, Monday, 20 January 2020 12:29 (four years ago) link