XXV - The Essential Mike Oldfield

Track listing
1. Tubular Bells excerpt (4:16)
2. Hergest Ridge excerpt (4:57)
3. Ommadawn excerpt (7:00)
4. Incantations excerpt (4:40)
5. Moonlight Shadow (3:38)
6. Portsmouth (2:00)
7. Good News (1:47)
8. Sentinel - single restructure (3:56)
9. The Bell - MC Viv Stanshall (3:09)
10. Let There Be Light - single version (4:21)
11. Only Time Will Tell (4:36)
12. The Voyager (4:26)
13. Women Of Ireland (6:30)
14. Tubular Bells III excerpt (3:41)

Total Time:58:57

出品:WEA #021218

演奏:
- Mike Oldfield / guitars, basses, pianos, organs, synths, drums, various percussions

Bob McBeath 回复:

—  Personally, I would have said that the “essential” Mike Oldfield would include “Tubular Bells”, “Ommadawn”, and “The songs of distant earth” in full. Let’s however take the title with a pinch of salt, and see this as “An introduction to Mike Oldfield”.
    On that basis, it’s pretty good. The selected excerpts from the early albums have appeared before on other compilations (“Elements” or “The Complete..”) in exactly the same format. On the other hand, as this album was released before “Tubular Bells III”, the last track is a working version of the section that became “The source of secrets”.

    就个人而言,我认为Mike Oldfield的精华全包含在"Tubular Bells","Ommadawn"和"The songs of distant earth"这几张专辑里,我们很风趣的称之为"Mike Oldfield制造".
    在以上原则中选择出来的片段是最棒的.选自他以前的作品集.另外一方面,此作最后放弃了于之前Tubular Bells III中最后一首的片段接壤,使得这张专辑为更神秘.


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