bennyboy
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Joined: July 2000 |
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Posted: Aug. 05 2000, 00:44 |
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PLEASE NOTE ALL OF YOU:
I was only JOKING when I suggested going around converting everyone to Mikey Boy's music. Although my musical tastes are different to some other peoples, and I do think that Mike perhaps doesn't get the recognition he deserves, I can respect other peoples opinions. Which is why you don't see me flaming those on this forum who like "Heaven's Open" and dislike "Earth Moving". I have no wish to enforce my opinions upon others, only to share them.
Anyway, back to the main topic of conversation, how I found out about Mike Oldfield. My parents have a very, VERY, large cd collection, and I remember when I was nine or ten I used to rat through it and pick things out at random to see "whatever made them tick back then", or something. This was how I came across some of my all time favourite albums including Paul Simon's "Graceland", Jeff Wayne's "War Of The Worlds", Robbie Robertson's "Storyville" and Bob Dylans "Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid". It is also how I came across Terry Oldfield's (MO's brother) album "Spirit Of Africa", which I found surprisingly good. I was telling my Dad, who isn't really into new age, and he said something like "If you liked that then you should try this..." That was how I found out about "Tubular Bells". I sat back awestruck when I heard the sound that came out of the stereo, it was like nothing else I had ever heard before in my life. After "Tubular Bells" I became much more interested in music in genreal, especially classical music. This was when I was nine. I didn't find out about Mike's other work until I was around 15 when, cruising through a cd shop I bought "The Songs Of Distant Earth" on a whim, and because I noticed it was by "that Tubular Bells guy" (who as far as I knew had disappeared of the face of the earth after the bells). This completely blew me away, I was expecting something more like "the bells" but this was different, and managed to be "atmospheric" without being boring (like a lot of new age atmosphere music out there, Terry O. excepted...). Afterthat I bought "Tubular Bells 2" and "XXV: The Essential Mike Oldfield". "XXV" astounded me by showing the variety in this guys music, and since then I've gradually built up my collection of Oldfield stuff (I now have all the "official" albums except "QE2" and "Exposed") I like Mikey Boy because his music has such a unique flavour and diversity of styles.
Any other teens out there with a "How I got turned on to Mikey Boy" story...
| Quote | Originally posted by 2distortedguitars:
I got into Mike's music in a way that was quite lucky. My Dad never bought any of his records and he has only just heard of TB, HR and Ommadawn when they were released
I found a copy of TB on an offer on the internet. I thought I might get it my parents who just know a tiny bit about it said that it was in the UK album charts for a long time, and I also saw that the tracklist only had two tracks and they were both around 20 minutes. Very strange and different for me
So I decided to get it. I wanted to find out a bit more about it so I looked on the net for MO sites and found a list of all his albums - a very big list, and I only thought he wrote TB and In Dulci Jubilo (which you always hear in shops around Christmas time). I managed to find the LP of HR as everybody in the know knows that you should get this instead of the CD. And here I am now willing to collect every album he's done (except perhaps the compilations).
I'm repeating myself from another message which I posted. I wouldn't have to repeat myself if anybody read it :-(
I'd like to hear from other people how they got into Mike's music. Even though it's written on your info you could write a bit more here |
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