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Question: Favorite QE2 Track :: Total Votes:104 Poll choices Votes Statistics Taurus I 30  [28.85%] Sheba 5  [4.81%] Conflict 13  [12.50%] Arrival 6  [5.77%] Wonderful Land 12  [11.54%] Mirage 1  [0.96%] Celt 8  [7.69%] QE2 27  [25.96%] Molly 2  [1.92%] Guests cannot vote

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The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Oct. 25 2005, 08:21 Quote (Holger @ Aug. 20 2004, 09:03) No votes for Mirage? I really am surprised that Mirage has just one vote, and that Celt has more! Nothing against Celt, but I consider them pretty even. QE2 for me, I like to think of it as Portsmouth/sailor's hornpipe extended   -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1545 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Oct. 25 2005, 10:03 Especially the end bit of the QE2 track is just so much fun I've always had a great feeling about this lp. Celt has one of the best guitar solo's ever (oooh, big talk!... But I think I know why not many vote for Mirage; it's I think, because the live version on The Complete is 10 times better! That doesn't mean I don't like the album version of course! Rock on, rockers -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

knife edge Group: Members Posts: 77 Joined: May 2003 Posted: Nov. 17 2005, 03:37 I was in doubt between Qe2 and Wonderful Land, but I ended voting Wonderful Land, because I love the acoustic guitar here. bye Andrea Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Nov. 18 2005, 08:00 Taurus I does little for me, really, I much prefer the second! If Molly was a few minutes longer, it would have at least one vote!   QE2 is fantabulous   -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

Sonilink Group: Members Posts: 393 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: Nov. 29 2005, 03:50 I voted for wonderful land but now I prefer conflict -------------- Take the Time Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Dec. 15 2005, 15:16 I voted for Conflict, really like it's pace, the drums are superb, a bit of Bach ( I think) and that wonderful, wonderful shuddery bit near the end. It is quite perfect. Would like to see more of that sort of thing in the future. -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

Moz Group: Musicians Posts: 600 Joined: July 2005 Posted: May 14 2007, 09:30 Conflict for the reasons mentioned above!   -------------- Twitter: @benbarden Back to top

Chicular Group: Members Posts: 240 Joined: Sep. 2004 Posted: May 14 2007, 10:10 Taurus 1 for me, closely followed by QE2. Back to top

imhotep Group: Members Posts: 92 Joined: Jan. 2007 Posted: May 14 2007, 12:30 Poor Molly I voted Taurus 1. Have yet to get this on CD. Back to top

SoimSandheaver Group: Members Posts: 325 Joined: May 2006 Posted: May 15 2007, 07:38 I had to say Conflict, but I'm a little surprised that Molly has no votes. Conflict because it is such a compelling and chaotic composition, it is very exciting and yet such a sea-faring feel to it. Taurus 1 is probably my second favourite track, because I love the way it builds up the music to the emotional finalé. Molly is also another one of my favourite tracks, it's like a soothing little lullaby and is a perfect way to end the Album in my opinion. -------------- "Three blokes go into a pub, one of them's a little bit stupid, then the whole scene unfolds, with a tedious inevitability." Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: May 15 2007, 09:20 I just love Taurus I ! -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: May 18 2007, 02:48 I like ktran's description of "QE2" as "shiny and bouncy".   I've been listening to QE2 for a little over a week, and this is my list: LOVE... 1) QE2 2) Sheba 3) Wonderful Land 4) Taurus 1 REALLY LIKE... 5) Conflict 6) Mirage 7) Celt 8) Arrival LIKE... 9) Molly -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1759 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: May 18 2007, 06:59 I think the whole album suffers from the short-song format. The two longs tracks are the ones that really work, and I like Taurus I best. It has a tremendous "build up". "Conflict" squeezes to much music into a tight suit. "Mirage" is really just Mike soloing over a chord sequence. I think all the little bits and pieces could have been arranged together to form two fantastic longs tracks. Great stuff on this album, but Mike did better music before and after this album. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Navaira Group: Members Posts: 481 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: May 18 2007, 08:38 QE2 is the only Oldfield album I don't have :$ -------------- http://www.raygrant.com :: My album 'Exorcism' is out on iTunes now Back to top

SunkenForest Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: Jan. 2010 Posted: Jan. 23 2010, 01:19 Arrival is catchy, Taurus 1 is the start of something really great, and the rest of the album is solid, but the best has to be QE2.  When that beat kicks in at 2:43 or thereabouts, it's impossible not to move in time to the beat, and then at the 4 minute mark, the song really just takes off. Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4761 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Jan. 23 2010, 19:13 Yes, that bouncy section in QE2 has to be one of the few genuinely happy moments in MO's music. Most of the rest have tinges of sadness in them somewhere. Incidentally, whenever I read your name, Sunkenforest, I simultaneously think of "Flowers of the Forest" from Voyager and "Underwater Castle" from Tr3s Lunas II. Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Jan. 25 2010, 12:57 Molly.Simple as you like but bloody lovely. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4761 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Jan. 25 2010, 18:42 Quote (The Caveman @ Jan. 25 2010, 12:57) Molly.Simple as you like but bloody lovely. Wot? Not "Celt"? Just for that I'm going to tell you that The Wiggles have just won an Order of Australia! (Hot potato, hot potato....) Back to top

smillsoid Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Dec. 2008 Posted: Jan. 25 2010, 22:06 The title track always manages to lift my mood, no matter how low I have sunk. -------------- http://www.reverbnation.com/simonjmills Back to top

SunkenForest Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: Jan. 2010 Posted: Jan. 25 2010, 23:35 Quote (The Caveman @ Jan. 25 2010, 12:57) Molly.Simple as you like but bloody lovely. After reading this, I listened to Molly out of the context of the rest of the album.  I did like it quite a bit, but I was left feeling slightly unfulfilled.  I feel like it could have benefited from a slightly more extended cut, or maybe a variation on theme. I feel like I would like to hear a MO album in the vein of this song - a simple, creative, well-played collection of guitar lullabies.  It wouldn't be the most unique or memorable work of his, but I feel like it would be well-received... even if there would be a lot of initial complaining. Back to top

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