qjamesfloyd
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Posted: May 04 2012, 08:22 |
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It has always amazed me that in the sequence of Mike's albums you have in 1989 Earth Moving, the often least liked of his albums, and an album very unlike him, to 1990 Amarok, viewed by many fans the pinnacle of Mike Oldfield powers, and totally like him. I know about the ending of the Virgin contract stuff, but it is going from one extreme to the other, Earth Moving to Amarok. Now I adore Amarok, and I'm not one of those people who hate Earth Moving, I think it has some nice moments, I really like Blue Night, great acoustic solo in that, but was it a case of Mike having a lot of songs laying around he didn't think much of, so put them on Earth Moving, or were they all written for that album? Because Amarok has so much in it, that surely he was thinking about/working on it around the same time as Earth Moving.
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