The Essential Mike Oldfield [Import]

Track Listings

1. Tubular Bells(Excerpt)

2. Hergest Ridge(Excerpt)

3. Ommadawn(Excerpt)

4. Incantations(Excerpts)

5. Moonlight Shadow

6. Portsmouth

7. Good News(From The 'Killing Fields')

8. Sentinel(Tubular Bells II)-Remix

9. The Bell(Remix)

10. Let There Be Light

11. Only Time Will Tell

12. The Voyager

13. Women Of Ireland

14. Tubular Bells III(Excerpt)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
1997 compilation on WEA spanning 25 years of his career, including both WEA & Virgin material. 14 tracks including 'Tubular Bells' (Excerpt), 'Women Of Ireland', 'The Voyager' and 'Let There Be Light'. The full title is 'XXV: The Essential Mike Oldfield'. Standard jewel case.

The Essential Mike Oldfield,Mike Oldfield,Wea International,Pop,Popular Music,Prog-Rock/Art Rock,Progressive Electronic,Rock,Rock/Pop

Tracks:

Tubular Bells(Excerpt)
Hergest Ridge(Excerpt)
Ommadawn(Excerpt)
Incantations(Excerpts)
Moonlight Shadow
Portsmouth
Good News(From The 'Killing Fields')
Sentinel(Tubular Bells II)-Remix
The Bell(Remix)
Let There Be Light
Only Time Will Tell
The Voyager
Women Of Ireland
Tubular Bells III(Excerpt)

Album Description

1997 compilation on WEA spanning 25 years of his career, including both WEA & Virgin material. 14 tracks including 'Tubular Bells' (Excerpt), 'Women Of Ireland', 'The Voyager' and 'Let There Be Light'. The full title is 'XXV: The Essential Mike Oldfield'. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

The commercial Point.......2003-09-14

awfull,pointless commercial compilation.beware of this one - BUY "ELEMENTS"!

This compilation should be banned!.......2003-08-26

do not even look at this - as an Oldfield fan i must say that even "elements" 1 disc edition was better.this is missing almost 30% of his career....where is "five miles out"? where is "family man"? where is "Shadow on the wall"? where is "Islands"?
Mixing New-age stuff from nineties with his old style is a really bad bad bad idea...
I know that this collection was a kind of introduction to his new stuff but warner did it in tragic style.the only good think is the Excerpt from "Tubular bells 3" with Mike's vocals.it is diferent version - but it is not saving whole album...horible compliation!

:((((((.......2001-12-05

The idea of an Oldfield collection is silliness!!!!
If anyone is familiar with their instrumental albums, get them in order!
Mixing the instrumentals with the pop-songs is a terrible idea.
Bad selection, stay far from these kind of collections!
The only Oldfield collection I could imagine is a collection of their pop-songs, but there is no best of like that unfortunately.

Nothing New.......2000-06-10

As is implied in its title, this album features the essential pieces of Oldfield's career up to 1998. Every track is beautiful, but it's really a shame that Mike's longer 'symphonies' (i.e. Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge etc.) had to be crippled to fit on one CD. At least it gives you an impression of what they sound like if you've never haerd them before. I think the other tracks were all chosen well, and they are good examples of the power of Oldfield's genius throughout a quarter of a century.

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