The Best Instrumental Music of Mike Oldfield (Plus Songs)

Tubular Bells
1. Tubular Bells, Part One     VERY GOOD
2. Tubular Bells, Part Two

Hergest Ridge
1. Hergest Ridge (Part One)
2. Hergest Ridge (Part Two)

Ommadawn
1. Ommadawn (Part One)
2. Ommadawn (Part Two)

Incantations
1. Incantations (Part One)
2. Incantations (Part Two)
3. Incantations (Part Three)
4. Incantations (Part Four)     VERY GOOD

Platinum
1. Platinum Part One: Airborne     VERY GOOD
2. Platinum Part Two: Platinum     VERY GOOD
3. Platinum Part Three: Charleston
4. Platinum Part Four: North Star/Platinum Finale     EXCELLENT
5. Woodhenge
6. Into Wonderland
7. Punkadiddle
8. I Got Rhythm

QE2
1. Taurus I
2. Sheba     VERY GOOD
3. Conflict
4. Arrival     EXCELLENT
5. Wonderful Land     VERY GOOD
6. Mirage
7. QE2
8. Celt
9. Molly

Five Miles Out
1. Taurus II
2. Family Man     VERY GOOD
3. Orabidoo
4. Mount Teidi     EXCELLENT
5. Five Miles Out     VERY GOOD

Crises
1. Crises     VERY GOOD
2. Moonlight Shadow     EXCELLENT
3. In High Places
4. Foreign Affair     VERY GOOD
5. Taurus 3     VERY GOOD
6. Shadow on the Wall     VERY GOOD

Discovery
1. To France     VERY GOOD
2. Poison Arrows
3. Crystal Gazing
4. Tricks of the Light
5. Discovery
6. Talk About Your Life     VERY GOOD
7. Saved by a Bell
8. The Lake

The Killing Fields
1. Pran's Theme
2. Requiem for a City
3. Evacuation
4. Pran's Theme 2
5. Capture
6. Execution
7. Bad News
8. Pran's Departure
9. Worksite
10. The Year Zero
11. Blood Sucking
12. The Year Zero 2
13. Pran's Escape / The Killing Fields
14. The Trek
15. The Boy's Burial / Pran Sees the Red Cross
16. Good News
17. Étude     EXCELLENT

Islands
1. The Wind Chimes (Part One and Part Two)
2. Islands     EXCELLENT
3. Flying Start
4. North Point
5. Magic Touch
6. The Time Has Come
7. When the Night's on Fire

Earth Moving
1. Holy
2. Hostage
3. Far Country
4. Innocent
5. Runaway Son
6. See the Light
7. Earth Moving
8. Blue Night
9. Nothing But / Bridge to Paradise

Amarok
1. Amarok

Heaven's Open
1. Make Make
2. No Dream
3. Mr. Shame
4. Gimme Back
5. Heaven's Open     EXCELLENT
6. Music from the Balcony

Tubular Bells II
Part One:     EXCELLENT
1. Sentinel
2. Dark Star
3. Clear Light
4. Blue Saloon
5. Sunjammer
6. Red Dawn
7. The Bell
Part Two:     VERY GOOD
8. Weightless
9. The Great Plain
10. Sunset Door
11. Tattoo
12. Altered State
13. Maya Gold
14. Moonshine

The Songs of Distant Earth
1. In the Beginning
2. Let There Be Light     VERY GOOD
3. Supernova
4. Magellan     VERY GOOD
5. First Landing
6. Oceania     VERY GOOD
7. Only Time Will Tell     VERY GOOD
8. Prayer for the Earth
9. Lament for Atlantis     VERY GOOD
10. The Chamber
11. Hibernaculum     EXCELLENT
12. Tubular World     VERY GOOD
13. The Shining Ones     VERY GOOD
14. Crystal Clear     VERY GOOD
15. The Sunken Forest
16. Ascension     EXCELLENT
17. A New Beginning

Voyager
1. The Song of the Sun     EXCELLENT
2. Celtic Rain     EXCELLENT
3. The Hero     EXCELLENT
4. Women of Ireland     EXCELLENT
5. The Voyager     VERY GOOD
6. She Moves Through the Fair     VERY GOOD
7. Dark Island     EXCELLENT
8. Wild Goose Flaps Its Wings     EXCELLENT
9. Flowers of the Forest     VERY GOOD
10. Mont St Michel     VERY GOOD

Tubular Bells III
1. The Source of Secrets
2. The Watchful Eye
3. Jewel in the Crown
4. Outcast
5. Serpent Dream     VERY GOOD
6. The Inner Child
7. Man in the Rain     EXCELLENT
8. The Top of the Morning     VERY GOOD
9. Moonwatch
10. Secrets
11. Far Above the Clouds

Guitars
1. Muse     VERY GOOD
2. Cochise     VERY GOOD
3. Embers
4. Summit Day
5. Out of Sight
6. B. Blues
7. Four Winds
8. Enigmatism     VERY GOOD
9. Out of Mind
10. From the Ashes

The Millennium Bell
1. Peace on Earth
2. Pacha Mama     VERY GOOD
3. Santa Maria
4. Sunlight Shining Through Cloud
5. The Doge's Palace     VERY GOOD
6. Lake Constance
7. Mastermind
8. Broad Sunlit Uplands
9. Liberation
10. Amber Light
11. The Millennium Bell

Tr3s Lunas
1. Misty
2. No Mans Land
3. Return to the Origin     VERY GOOD
4. Landfall
5. Viper
6. Turtle Island
7. To Be Free
8. Fire Fly
9. Tr3s Lunas
10. Daydream
11. Thou Art in Heaven
12. Sirius
13. No Mans Land (Reprise)

Tubular Bells 2003
Part One:     VERY GOOD
1. Introduction
2. Fast Guitars
3. Basses
4. Latin
5. A Minor Tune
6. Blues     
7. Thrash
8. Jazz
9. Ghost Bells
10. Russian
11. Finale
Part Two:
12. Harmonics
13. Peace
14. Bagpipe Guitars
15. Caveman
16. Ambient Guitars
17. The Sailor's Hornpipe

Light + Shade
Light
1. Angelique
2. Blackbird
3. The Gate
4. First Steps
5. Closer
6. Our Father
7. Rocky
8. Sunset
Shade
1. Quicksilver
2. Resolution
3. Slipstream
4. Surfing
5. Tears of an Angel
6. Romance
7. Ringscape
8. Nightshade

Music of the Spheres
1. Harbinger     VERY GOOD
2. Animus
3. Silhouette
4. Shabda
5. The Tempest
6. Harbinger (Reprise)
7. On My Heart
8. Aurora
9. Prophecy
10. On My Heart (Reprise)
11. Harmonia Mundi
12. The Other Side
13. Empyrean
14. Musica Universalis

Elements (The Best of Mike Oldfield)
Tracks with no album referenced are different than the corresponding album version or they don't appear on any album. That's why the compilation Elements is treated here as an album.
1. Tubular Bells (Opening Theme)     EXCELLENT
2. Family Man     VERY GOOD (Album: Five Miles Out)
3. Moonlight Shadow     EXCELLENT (Album: Crises)
4. Heaven's Open     EXCELLENT (Album: Heaven's Open)
5. Five Miles Out     VERY GOOD (Album: Five Miles Out)
6. To France     VERY GOOD (Album: Discovery)
7. Foreign Affair     VERY GOOD (Album: Crises)
8. In Dulci Jubilo     EXCELLENT
9. Shadow on the Wall     VERY GOOD (Album: Crises)
10. Islands     EXCELLENT (Album: Islands)
11. Etude     EXCELLENT (Album: The Killing Fields)
12. Sentinel *     EXCELLENT
13. Ommadawn (Excerpt)     VERY GOOD
14. Incantations Part Four (Excerpt)     EXCELLENT
15. Amarok (Excerpt)     VERY GOOD
16. Portsmouth     EXCELLENT
* different version of the one on the album Tubular Bells II



The Best Singles

1. Jungle Gardenia     VERY GOOD
2. Cuckoo Song     VERY GOOD
3. Guilty     VERY GOOD
4. Blue Peter     VERY GOOD

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