ImAFoolAndImLaughing
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Posted: Aug. 15 2007, 17:42 |
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Quote (Alan D @ Aug. 15 2007, 16:39) | [to Wagner] Still banging on about that bloody gold ring are we, Richard? How many years is that, then? Yawn .... [to Monet] What's the next one then Claude? Oh, yeah ... more waterlilies, eh? Yawn .... |
Some more...
[to Van Gogh] Oh, please, Vincent! Not more swirly things! [to Ted Hughes] That bloody crow again! Can't you do some poems about pigeons, or hummingbirds, or lesser-spotted tits or something... [to Philip Glass] Oh God! Not those notes again....!
I personally don't have a problem with Mike using a Bellish motif to "em-Bell-ish" (haha) his work, provided they're different enough to distinguish them from his earlier works, and aurally interesting enough to keep me intrigued. To me, his "hammers" (as he insists on calling them) are akin to his signature embedded within his work - you hear it, you think "Ah - Mike Oldfield!", and you keep listening, not because you want to hear the similarities, but because you're keen to spot the differences.
Mike, more than any artist I know, has endeavoured to experiment with different forms and techniques throughout his discography, even when those experiments have been less successful (or at least, been less well-received) than others. Sure, TubularBells-is-TubularBellsTwo-is-TubularBellsThree, but that's why he named them as he did - they're a sequence of sequels along similar themes. But Ommadawn-isn't-Incantations-isn't-TheWindChimes-isn't-Amarok-isn't-TheKillingFields.
In the end, if you want to hear a totally different piece of music, every single time, buy an album by a different artist every single time. If you don't mind hearing a musician playing with - and building on - the musical ideas that have lasted throughout his career, then stick with Mike!
-------------- "I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach."
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