My favourite album. I think he is the most underrated musician nowadays

@j.mendez6822

6 ай бұрын

Desconocido diria yo.

One of the finest musicians ever, period.

Mike is one of the best music composers of all times …one able to raise the deepest emotions anytime you listen to him. His music combines chaos and order in an unbelievable way. Unique playing techniques and sound signature specific to him Only!!! One of the legends alive❤

@bobin1973

5 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

Ommadawn is simply sublime. Astonishing piece of music

So soothing and calm to begin with. The end of side 1 is literally orgasmic. Then the heartbeats tailing off. Absolutely love this album.

@goytabr

7 ай бұрын

Spot on. One critic's review I read called them "post-coital heartbeats"...

Mike is one of the most underated musicians ever, i have a lot of his albums and this is up there in my top 3, very underated guitarist too.

Hi John! The first time I listened to Ommadawn I had tears in my eyes, multiple times. This was, is, and always will be sheer beauty. Mike was years ahead of his time. I see him as the founder of New Age/New World music. I love the way you react to his music. You do him honor. New subscriber here. Kind regards from the Dutch Mountains.

Another great reaction, John - thank you! As for Mike Oldfield becoming "big", he was indeed a musical giant of the 70s, 80s and 90s, with a string of hit albums and singles, four of the singles reaching the Top 10 in the UK. The 80s saw him moving in a more pop-oriented direction, with shorter, more commercial songs climbing the charts, but still keeping his unique musical vision. In the 90s, commercial success began to elude him as the musical landscape changed and long, complex instrumental pieces had fallen out of favour with the public. Just when we were were starting to write his creative force off as spent, in 1994 he released an album called "The Songs of Distant Earth", based on the ideas from the book of the same name by legendary SF author Arthur C. Clarke, which was absolutely stunning and for my money one of the very best albums of the 1990s by anybody. You should most definitely check it out, John! Also in the 1990s, Oldfield released Tubular Bells 2, an amazing, more modern re-imagining of the original and which he premiered live at Edinburgh Castle complete with the Scots Guards (the video is on KZread), and then Tubular Bells 3 in 1998 (if memory serves) which reflected the dance scene Oldfield had embraced when living for a while on the island of Ibiza, which is home to the European clubbing scene. It was a fantastic fusion of modern beats and Oldfield's never-ending beautiful creativity, and he got to premiere it live at Horseguard's Parade in London (video also on KZread). As a mark of how much Oldfield is loved, respected and admired as an example of British musical innovation and creativity at its best, he was asked to perform at the opening ceremony (or it might have been the closing ceremony, I cannot quite remember) of the London 2012 Olympics, turning in a mesmerising performance with his band. Oldfield's music speaks to me of the rolling landscapes and ancient cultures of the UK, for it is quintessentially and unmistakably English. Ancient forests, stone circles, the voices of ancestors , rolling hills and sparkling rivers....those are the things I see and hear when listening with eyes shut. I see my country of England. Indeed, Oldfield started out, when a young teenager, in a folk group along with his sister Sally (who is a singer and who also had some commercial success in the 80s: Oldfield's brother Terry is also an instrumental composer and has written a few soundtracks for TV). It's those folk beginnings, playing traditional English music, that one clearly hears the echoes of in Oldfield's music. Music rooted in the deep past, but looking to the future. Other notable works include the album "Incantations", which is a wonderfully innovative piece from 1978 and quite unlike anything he'd done before (and whose main themes take us on an unexpected journey around the whole circle of fifths, incidentally!) and "Amarok" from 1990, which is, at first listen, just *strange*, but which really does reward repeated listenings (and which many cite as his best work, although I've never quite "got it"). I also should say that Oldfield's approach to music has greatly influenced my own compositions. Not the sounds, not the actual music, but just the way he uses dynamics, tension, harmony and melody to stunning effect. I will never be even a tiny bit of the musician that he is, but with Oldfield I feel a kindred spirit in what I try to achieve in music. Well that lot should keep you going for a while, John. I really love your laid-back, perceptive reactions, so thank you, and the best of luck with the channel! All the best. Andy.

Mike is a genius

I congratulate you for having listened to and analyzed this fantastic instrumental by Mike Oldfield. It's my favorite album of all time. It should be world famous. I feel sorry for those who have never heard it and never will. A shame. Thanks for your contribution

I thought you would enjoy this John, it's an amazing piece. Mike Oldfield is big, he is widely recognised as one of the greatest and most unique composers and guitarists ever. He just does things completely his own way. His life story and music are very complex, Ommadawn Pt 2 is great too. He has made 26 albums and performed at the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony.

My most favourite album ever, side 2 makes me cry there's so much emotion in it. Was lucky enough to hear him play it live.

listened to mikes music for years and even now the melodies bring me to tears when I recall different moments

Mike Oldfield a beautiful musical mind. Thank you for sharing.👍👍👍

Mike Oldfield is pretty much partly responsible for Richard Branson becoming one of the wealthiest men on the planet. Tubular Bells was the first release on Virgin Records. Should Mike Oldfield be more popular, of course. But he did go on to write some great music and has continued to release albums to this day. He wrote the sound track to the 1984 film, The Killing Fields. Glad to see that you have taken the time to check out his music. Thank you for these entertaining reactions. As a Gen X'er it is great to see a Millennial seeking out fantastic music that my generation grew up listening to. Rock on!

I love this album as much now as when I first heard it back in the 70s. It has a wonderful Celtic hippy vibe in parts and the African drum section sends me into a state of sheer ecstasy. Utterly sensational music.

This is my favourite Mike Oldfield album. I'm really looking forward to Part 2. Thanks so much for doing this, John!

Hergest Ridge is awesome too. I don't understand all the negativity around it. Give it a go... I think you'll love it too.

@jameswarner5809

7 ай бұрын

Agreed, but listen to the original recording. There are some remixes and remasters and one of them is appalling with all the background synths removed and the lead instruments brought into harsh relief.

@noeliarecioy2174

7 ай бұрын

And Incantations...amazing too

@attilahorvath9902

6 ай бұрын

Agree! Hergest Ridge is one of my favorite album from Oldfield! Heavenly and wonderful! Best wishes from Hungary!

@rechtschreib-exorzist8936

5 ай бұрын

One could think it´s already forgotten, that it also reached Nr.1 in the UK album charts! And obviously it was appreciated also, ´cause his former album 'Tubular Bells' reached after for the second time peak position, what happened only very few time elsewher in charts history!

@james9789

4 ай бұрын

​@@jameswarner5809what version /mix do you prefer?

Hergest Ridge is my favourite of all his albums. I think that it didn't do so well at the time was because it was slower paced than Tubular Bells but it does ger better with every listen.

@alanmatthews9945

6 ай бұрын

I love HR too. I was surprised to learn that Oldfield himself dislikes the piece. To me it's a beautiful new age pastoral opus. A couple of years ago I went on a specific musical pilgrimage; walking Hergest Ridge itself and visiting The Beacon, Oldfield's nearby house in which he later set up a recording studio where he recorded 'Ommadawn'.

Great review of Ommadawn. I remember seeing this album in a local record store in 1975 after already owning Tubular Bells and Hergest Ridge. Bought it "sound unheard" like "sight unseen." Fell in love with it on the first play and have listened to it (part 1) thousands of times. I am NOT exaggerating. Listened to it as late as yesterday. Also, it is pronounced Ah-madawn, not Oh-madawn. Listen to the chanting. It was enjoyable to watch someone's expressions when they listened to it for the very first time. Excellent review. Your descriptions of specific parts were very close to how I interpreted it. This album is my all time favorite of Mike Oldfield's work. Again, great review!!

Lovely to hear this record fresh through your ears, after hearing it hundreds of times! Hergest Ridge is my personal favourite, it's glorious. Give it a whirl!

Awesome John! Great choice. Mike Oldfield got big enough, but not that big. Mostly because his music is just light years beyond most people's mindsets. I absolutely fell in love with Mike's music way back in '73 after i heard The Exorcist soundtrack, which used a small portion of the first movement of Tubular Bells. I have many of his albums. I saw him live in Chicago in like 1985 and it was unbelievably good. He had a band of several many people, at least a dozen, playing all manner of instruments. Mike himself played guitar and conducted. But this song is otherworldly. He just knows what instruments go together. He is a phenomenal arranger as well as composer and guitarist extraordinaire. And his engineering is top notch. I loved watching your reaction, seeing your face as you listened to this incredible music. You get it, you absolutely do. And how did you like that ending part? He got a band of African drummers to do those epic rolling drums. The original master tape started shedding its oxide not because it was bad tape, but because it had been run through the tape machine so many times because of all the overdubs. You know because he did most of the instruments himself and so had to record layers upon layers. Can't wait for Part 2!

I was at senior school, in the 70's and if you had a vinyl of either Tubular bells or Ommadawn it certainly made you popular. We played it at school, at break time and we were all mesmerised. Mike Oldfield was ahead of his time. Fantastic reaction!!

Ommadawn was a huge hit on this side of the Atlantic and also included of one of Irelands finest Uileann Pipe Players Paddy Moloney. Also despite Hergest Ridge negective reaction from the critics it sold over 2.5 Million copies worldwide,a sizeable commercial success. Make sure you listen to the Original 1974 Mix.👍

By Oldfield, I also recommend: Hergest Ridge (sounds like The Shire or like childhood); Incantations (magical hypnosis); Platinum (the turn into rock/pop); QE2 (short rock mixed with celt music); Amarok (a break, a rebirth, the most experimental); The Songs of Distant Earth (sci-fi ambient); Tubular Bells 2 (auto-plagio); Music of the Spheres (like a fantasy film sountrack); Return to Ommadawn (return to the roots). Then, some single songs: -"Taurus 1" , "Taurus 2" and "Crises" (long instrumental songs from his rock albums) -Taurus 3 (short catchy guitar song) -"The Source of Secrets" and "Far Above the Clouds" (electronic version of the Tubular Bells intro, being the intro and ending of Tubular Bells 3) -"The Doge's Palace" and "The Millenium Bell" (catchy orchestral and electronic melody) -"Daydream" and "Rocky" (short piano pieces) -"Turtle Island" and "To Be Free" (single songs i like from Tr3s Lunas).

He was a true musician. Most teenagers now have a problem with this kind of music... They can't just put it on and close their eyes for half an hour...

Another example of English Pastoral would be Virginia Astley's "From Gardens Where We Feel Secure'. Released 1983, it's a beautiful thing

THANK YOU JOHN. THERE'S NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE THIS MASTERPIECE.

A true genius 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 once saw him live when I was young

A great reaction, - thank you for sharing it with us. Its a great validation that this WAS great music when I first heard it back in my teenage years. Now approaching 70, it still evokes great emotions. Its also good to see that young people such as you can appreciate the experience John. (Hergest Ridge is definitely worth a listen too in my opinion). Thank you once again for this John.

I've been listening to "Ommadawn" for almost half a century and it only gets better with age - with YOUR age, as your perception and your emotions change. Most die-hard Mike Oldfield fans consider the choice of his best album to be a tie between two of them: "Ommadawn" and "Amarok", recorded 15 years later and paradoxically at the same time very different and with a lot in common with "Ommadawn" (especially the air of childish innocence permeating a highly intricate adult's work - BARELY adult, I should say, as he was still 22 when he recorded "Ommadawn"!). You haven't listened to my favorite section of "Ommadawn" yet because it's in part 2. It's actually one of the few parts not played by Oldfield himself (the flutes you heard were by Mike's brother Terry, one of the female voices was his sister Sally - try to listen to her beautiful album "Water Bearer" -, the timpani were by Pierre Moerlen, leader of the awesome French prog rock band Gong, and those hypnotic drums were by a South African percussion group called Jabula). Well, my favorite part is a bagpipe section - but not just any bagpipes, *uilleann pipes* (Irish, pronounced approximately "EE-lan"). Irish bagpipes are played differently and sound also very different from the better-known Scottish bagpipes (there is also a third version, Northumbrian bagpipes, from far northern England, bordering on Scotland). All bagpipes are extremely hard instruments to master, but the Irish version is said to be the hardest. It's somewhat lower-pitched and more melodic than the Scottish version, and it sounds absolutely beautiful! In "Ommadawn", they were played by the late Paddy Moloney, widely reputed to have been Ireland's greatest uilleann pipe player ever. And that section moves me to tears with its sheer beauty! Also when you come to part 2 (which I'm sure you will!), I challenge you to identify what instrument is played in the initial section. NO ONE I asked ever got it right, and I only know what it is because I read the information in a critic's review. It will sound somewhat like a synth, but it is NOT a synth! It's a rather trivial instrument, but played in such an unusual way that it sounds totally different. Mike's genius is even greater than you thought! And yes, he's still alive and well at 70, but retired for a few years now.

@goytabr

3 ай бұрын

@@darrenbutler93, I am split about "Incantations". On the one hand, it contains some of the most beautiful passages in Mike's work (especially the finale, with the "Hymn to Cynthia" revisited) and the flute section that introduces the "Hymn to Diana" in part 2. But on the other hand, it's way too long and you have to be in the right mood for it. Sometimes I think that it didn't need to be a double album with 70+ minutes, but then I listen to the very abridged version from "Exposed" and something is missing, so I don't know what to think.

Sublime piece of music that at times is pure heaven.

At same level that Requiem from Mozart, EARGASMIC !!!, GOD, thanks dad, thanks.....

Of old Celtic rituals, the sun rising over Stonehenge surrounded in mist, dancing to the old river and tree gods. That is what Ommadawn conjures up to me. A masterpiece.

Great reaction, I love how you express your visualisations generated by the music. Ommadawn is an extraordinary piece of work - it gets better and better every time you hear it. I think you'd love both Hergest Ridge and particularly Incantations as well...

It's great that you're continuing with MO, I haven't heard his albums for about 10 years. Of course, there are often similar instrumental timbres and his unmistakable guitar. However, his three initial albums create different moods and images for me. I'll take the CD's into the car; is it my age and the changed traffic situation that I need less "aggressively awakening" music while driving. For me, Ommadawn is more "open, far-sighted landscape with folkloristic, partly catchy fragments", less spiritual, mystically unique like Tubular Bells. I'm happy about your sequel, because MO has been somewhat forgotten; would be good for today's restless world.

this is the best album from Mike. With this album i startet at the age of 17 to explore Mikes music

i was 7 , 1973 when i got into mike. you should check out , tubular bells 2 live at edinburgh castle /scotland, wont let you down

This is one of my favourite albums of all time. I grew up in the eighties and nineties with a rich grounding in music from my dad, including Mike Oldfield, David Bowie, ELO, OMD, Wizzard, Genesis, etc. I am blessed to have heard all this incredible music, and I'm thrilled to see youtubers like yourself discovering it all. :) Sometimes, I look at what we have now, and I wonder if music is a dying art, with all the formulaic, sanitary nothing-tunes.

cet album est simplement MAGNIFIQUE

His highlight in his discography.

back in 75 heard this album and i swear it transported me beyond time and space through an open door previously unknown

Story at the is that the mood he got into playing the guitar at the end was so intense he scared himself and couldn’t sleep a few nights.

My favorite song by my favorite artist. My friend and I used to smoke weed and listen to Mike. I have never experienced anything like it since. My favorite part of Ommadawn is the end, the choir (shout out to his sister, who was one of the vocalists) plus the guitar that just sounds so desperate to me. The way he mixes folk music with synth/electric guitar is just bliss. And I can agree Hergest ridge is one of his weakest albums. I think another song worth analyzing is the live performance of Platinum 4, montreux 1981. The rhythm guitar he plays is just fascinating and extremely complicated. And there are literally 100+ other songs that are absolute genius: Far above the clouds, The millennium bell (the violins and the guitar at the end!), argiers, moonlight shadow (the solo..!), Return to ommadawn. to name a few. End of essay P.S worth mentioning he plays most of the instruments himself on the recordings

I really enjoyed tour Tubular Bells reaction and now Ommadawn. I was lucky enough to see him in 1982 on his only Australian tour. Ommadawn pt 1 was on the setlist. I would to see you have a listen to the title track from Mikes Crisis album. Quintessential early 80s prog

Please listen to Hergest Ridge! It is completely different but no less genius. MO here shows as a classical composer. HR is intricate, soothing, just beautiful. Make sure to choose the 1974 version. MOs long pieces are all wonderful, all different. Beware. You‘ll get hooked 😅

Mike wrote this after his mother died. She was Irish hence the celtic influences. Its so good. (Sorry i jumped ahead 😊)

Amazing album, and ewesone too.... Incantations, hergest rigde, tubular bells. Four albums 😮😮

❤Es un disco que contiene una música muy hermosa, es uno de mis favoritos, es un gran compositor el guapo Mike Oldfield. Saludos.

His greatest work is "SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH", far by way the most awesome creation by this musical genius, period?

@germanlaguer8257

7 ай бұрын

Short reply: NO WAY.

@briankidney2043

7 ай бұрын

Songs of Distant Earth is vastly underrated

@goytabr

7 ай бұрын

I disagree. It's a nice record to listen, "Let There Be Light" is beautiful, but it definitely doesn't have the grandeur, the creativity, the complexity, and the genius of his first four albums and of "Amarok". (And that's appropriate enough, as the book that inspired it is exactly the same thing: a nice read, but far from being one of the best by Arthur C. Clarke, nowhere near the nobility of the "Rama" and "2001" series or of "Childhood's End", for example.) Even "Crises", from Mike's otherwise relatively bland pop phase during the 1980s, is FAR better than "Songs of Distant Earth".

@halldorvagn

6 ай бұрын

I find it brilliant, and it's probably my most listened to album by Oldfield. But... I find Ommadawn and Amarok the greatest pieces.

Hergest Ridge is probably one of my favourites of Mike Oldfield's works but I would highly urge you to specifically make sure you listen to the 1974 Stereo Mix rather than the 2010 mix. The 1974 mix is a lot more refined, coherent and has a better balance between the instruments.

A little history- I was djing in 1975 and there were some stations that allowed for stretched and freer formats.. but it started to change around then ( rise of Frampton et al and the commodification of rock) and I wound up leaving- everything was short format. I was going to a rural college and living in a mostly student trailer park. My tastes were not close to mainstream but I loved most stuff on ( early) Virgin and the Caroline label subsidiary- and it seemed like Oldfield was on most of their releases that I liked- Pekka Pohljola, Robert Wyatt , David Bedford ( apparently Oldfield lived for a time at the Virgin studio)- so When a Mike Oldfield record came out in the States ( which often took a year or more- no internet) I would snatch it up! Interestingly I had numerous friends living in the park with me and several of them heard me blasting this one- many asked to borrow it, most were overwhelmed by it. But there was no other format for exposure to this sort of thing. If there HAD been my view is his guitar work alone would have brought him much attention. By the time my favorite Oldfield came out ("Incantations") it was not even released in the US initially- I picked it up on a sojourn to Canada. Everyone I played it for was almost struck dumb by how good it was. But more than his effects chain, his unique sound and guitar virtuosity, and his ability to play many instruments was how good a composer he was and is. Although he was huge in England, the US did give him short shrift. There is a rather stunning performance of Incantations on KZread. Among the musicians on that tour were Pierre Morelan of Gong, Finnish bassist Pekka Pohjola , and Steeleye Span's Maddy Prior ( who performs on of the best vocal solos you will ever be privileged to hear and see). After Incantations he released Platinum with shorter songs but still magnificent. It contains one of the first covers of the then-young and maverick composer- Philip Glass. Much to love . His sister and brother have also carved out stellar music careers . Terry Oldfield is well- known in the "new age" genre and Sally Oldfield's "Water Bearer" is a classic of Celtic folk. AS a sideman, some of his most divine work is on Robert Wyatt's "Rock Bottom" ( ignored in the states then) and David Bedford's "Instructions For Angels" ( same). I blame, at least partially, the shift to shorter , simpler songs on the radio and the slow death of anything that sounded remotely "progressive" occurring around then. We here in the states are all the worse for it IMO. Glad to see younger people recognizing the unique greatness of such music.

How big is Mike Oldfield, he is the Mozart, the Beethoven of modern music, he is to new wave what the Beatles were to Pop. Taylor Swift has a long way to go to catch up to Mike Oldfield in popularity.

Great choice. I have this as a quad mix on SACD I think. Maybe check out "Return To Ommadawn", a more recent album?

I just listened to Amarok. It's simply amazing. Have to buy it.

@amarok9097

7 ай бұрын

Amarok is genius. Controlled madness coupled with sheer beauty 😍

27:45 "you don't actually have to tell the audience what's going on... just give them the sounds" well said... and welcome to the amazing world of Mike Oldfield sounds.

Paesaggi incantati,elfi, foreste vergini,cori russi,chitarre classiche,arpe celtiche,viaggi interstellari,magia.......MIKE OLDFIELD ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌲🌴🌵🌋🏞️🌌🛸

an amazing work.

This album and Rick Wakeman’s “Six Wives..” were my introduction to a more serious appreciation of the amazing music that now contributes to my discography. Good reaction.

The founder of House music as well -20.30-23.20-

(Edit: this information got read out shortly after this point) 31:13 A recording of this original version from the disintegrating tape, which I never expected to ever hear, eventually surfaced on a 2010 deluxe reissue of the album as a track titled “Ommadawn (Lost Version)”, or possibly “1975 demo”. It’s a fascinating listen in its own right, not least because it has a couple of musical ideas that in the finished version wouldn’t appear until side B of the album, but - and I do feel bad saying this knowing how delicate Mike was at the time and how stressful it must have been to have to start all over again -for us, the listener, I think it’s the best thing that could have happened since it left us with this highly polished jewel to enjoy.

@CJJC

4 ай бұрын

(Other famous tales of overdubs destroying tape include Bohemian Rhapsody and the masters of Def Leppard’s Hysteria album)

Around this time, he was doing concert tours and the live versions are amazing too. Different sounding as well. Sometimes just a handful of musicians, sometimes well over a dozen.

No existe nadie como Mike oldfield hoy día.

To understand this album u have to understand Mike's life. That's s album is for his Mum, died few months later completly dumb. He did not see her so much. First side is about the first meeting between his mother and his father until Mike' childbirth. The second side his about Mike's good times reminding with his mother. A bit melancolic and dancy because the mother liked dancing. On horseback (last track) is about ridinng horses, new Mike's passion that time and helping him finding out depression.

Do Hergest Ridge please, it's brilliant.

@goytabr

7 ай бұрын

I love it, too, but the problem is finding and choosing the right version. Mike got so traumatized with the negative critiques to it that he made a VERY DESTRUCTIVE remix that for decades was the ONLY available version of "Hergest Ridge". I find the original version far superior and much richer, but only those who had heard the original 1970s vinyl edition (which became a collector's item) knew it. Only in 2010 or so a deluxe CD box edition was released that contained the original version again, and that's still hard to find.

@Mannizilla

7 ай бұрын

@@goytabrThat's true. I have the Deluxe Edition wich also includes the demo versions wich is very cool.

If you liked Tubular Bells and Ommadawn, Hergest Ridge Part 2 will blow you away. Trust me. I've been listening to MO since 1978.

Mike Oldfield's first three albums were all good, although Hergest Ridge was panned but side 2 of that will knock your socks off.

My all time favourites; Apostrophe' - Frank Zappa Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield Vol.4 - Black Sabbath Hergest Ridge is also up there

Hergest Ridge reached number 1 in the album charts, so it was successful.

I have two albums: TB and this one. Apart from that I also love the more commercial single "To France" with singer Maggie Reilly - which was a hit in 1984.

It’s epic and Mike was so pleased with the ending of that. He’d lost his mum who had suffered serious mental problems and he was suffering too. It’s so emotional and passionate, he put everything into it. I find it can be a hard listen because it’s so visceral. Part 2 is more in repose and much easier to listen to.

I would also suggest a listen to some Kitaro, you can find his compositions on youtube

bless you. I've been listening to Mike for 30 years. My favourite album is Amarok, be warned it is a 60 minute single track. Very experimental with a great story behind its creation.

Interesting anologies... I heard the complete Ommadawn, together with Oldifields Incantations and James Horners Krull Soundtrack, while reading The Lord of the Rings a couple of decades ago. And it fits wonderfully.

Один из 3 любимых альбомов Олдфилда наряду с Amarok и The Songs of Distant Earth. Спасибо за реакцию!

You should check out crisis everyone does the songs on side 2 but the concept side " the Track' crisis is a masterpiece. Proberly the genisis of the celtic rock fusion.

He is GOD !!!

It sounds like you were listening to the 2010 remix. Try and dig out an original 1975 mix if you can, preferably vinyl. It’s less distinct with the solo parts less spotlit but, boy, do you feel that Celtic mist slowly wreathing around your ears ❤❤

Incantations,the Best for me.😊

Ommadawn is Irish Gaelic for Fool

Please for the love of Bob's holy trousers, listen to the title track from Mike's album, QE2

My favoured part? Hmm ...well, my MOST favoured part is probably the climax at the end eventually - ´cause for just take of for somewhere out of this world! It certainly once wourld have gained to be taken on that 'Voyager space orbiter´s golden record' to represent human mankind to the alien outworld

To really blow your mind have a listen to Amarok by Mike Oldfield

lisen to INCANTATION my friend !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!of course The master Mike Oldfield

Soundtrack to The Lord of the Rings. His masterpiece.

It's Omm-a dawn, not Oh-madawn

I don't know if this is obvious but he still makes albums NOW. He just never made it in the USA in any major way. It's NOT "rock n roll" it's either progressive or simply orchestral. It's not a gig you go to to dance about. :)

ne može biti cijeli ako slušaš samo jednu stranu...

not meaning to minimize the transcendental, overarchingly touching experiences other listeners have pinpointed, but I was high af on lsd when I heard this record. I liked it a lot, but other stuff distracted me.

DUDE! pausing is a SIN.

Underrated ?? But by who? 😂

U ask what we're thinking, well ***EARth, fire, wind & water, *** where we & he plus U too are there setting off upon a life long mus(E)icall journey on a voYage of DisC cOverY across the OLD OLD OLD C0LD Fields, be sure to also listen to OMMADAWN II or (MOamDAWN number twOO which =ed, AMARROKK or MOAARRKK, Oh hARK MO ARK ARK, then end this trip in also listening to his last album in the trig ology, RETURN TO OMADAWN , B4 U disembark from his hOly ark,,, then u'll all begin to StarT to understand whY MichaeL GOrDOn OLDfieLD created the meSSage he has 4 U 2 hEAR here fOlK. So now go make the DisC cOverY of a life time which there awaits 4 U all, bon voYage !!!

The lyrics are just phonetics, by the way. They have no meaning. "Ommadawn" is like the Irish word "amadan" and here comes the mythology you crave :) "A figure in Irish and Scottish Gaelic folklore who may assume both benevolent and malevolent roles. Amadán Mór, the Great Fool, is the Perceval-like hero of several Irish folk narratives and a sometime leader of the fairy host in narrative and poetry."