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Question: How Does Amarok Make You Feel? :: Total Votes:47 Poll choices Votes Statistics Happy 19  [40.43%] Exhilarated 11  [23.40%] Awed 7  [14.89%] Bored 3  [6.38%] Confused 3  [6.38%] Sad 1  [2.13%] Frightened 1  [2.13%] Angry 0  [0.00%] Annoyed 2  [4.26%] Aroused 0  [0.00%] Guests cannot vote

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basify Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Jan. 26 2009, 06:06 I answered the poll with 'annoyed'.  I played Amorok the other day and I just wanted it to end.  However I must add I've not had it long and this was only the 2nd time I've played the whole thing through. I listened to Ommadawn for some relief. -------------- Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way... Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4761 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Jan. 26 2009, 06:54 Out, Demon, Out! Back to top

basify Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Jan. 26 2009, 08:06 Lol! I feel really guilty now. -------------- Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way... Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 26 2009, 17:21 Quote (Sweetpea @ Dec. 14 2008, 10:24) I don't think it's so fa fetched [...] @ Sweetpea: was this a typo? Considering that we're talking about Amarok (So Fa So... Fa Soo Fa So... So Fa So... etc.) I'd very much like to think that it wasn't, and that it was intentional -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Jan. 27 2009, 20:49 My first thought was thrilled b4 reading the choices so I went with exhilarated. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

basify Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Jan. 28 2009, 10:24 So many people really like it, so maybe it'll grow on me with time. -------------- Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way... Back to top

Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: Jan. 28 2009, 16:12 Quote (basify @ Jan. 28 2009, 15:24) So many people really like it, so maybe it'll grow on me with time. Not so sure about that. moonchildhippy for instance doesn't really dig amarok either and I think has had the same thought for a few years (others love it, therefore it might grow on me). I think it is just one of those things you either get or don't get. Me, I'm fortunate enough to "get it" with amarok, but then I'm unfortunate enough to not "get" ommadawn! Go figure... -------------- "I say I say I say I say, what's got three bottles and five eyes and no legs and two wheels" Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4761 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Jan. 28 2009, 17:53 Quote (Matt @ Jan. 28 2009, 16:12) Me, I'm fortunate enough to "get it" with amarok, but then I'm unfortunate enough to not "get" ommadawn! These are my feelings too, Matt. To me Ommadawn is Amarok -1 rather than that Amarok is Ommadawn 2. I don't think it's a "go figure" situation; it's more aligned with the Exegesis phenomenon, and whether one's own emotions are more aligned pre- or post-. Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Jan. 28 2009, 21:58 I never got this connection between Ommadawn and Amarok, because ignoring Mike's own motivations and influences, both albums are only as similar as they are similar to every other Mike Oldfield album. I think that's what spoils some people's fun: wrong expectations. I never tried to figure out what's listening to music devoid of ANY expectation. It might not be easy, but trying isn't hard either. A bias can be a hard thing to defeat. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: Jan. 29 2009, 06:04 Quote (nightspore @ Jan. 28 2009, 22:53) .....it's more aligned with the Exegesis phenomenon, and whether one's own emotions are more aligned pre- or post-. Hmmm, I don't think that is the case for me, my favourites are Hergest Ridge, TB and Amarok which are both pre and post. I just never quite got the hang of Ommadawn for some reason. Quote (Sir Mustapha @ Jan. 29 2009, 02:58) I never got this connection between Ommadawn and Amarok From the man himself in article here Amarok started off life as Ommadawn II but then "went off a little in it's own direction". I also don't see a particular connection between the end results. What I do find interesting is the number of people who love one but not the other. What is it that is somehow mutually exclusive between those two pieces! -------------- "I say I say I say I say, what's got three bottles and five eyes and no legs and two wheels" Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Jan. 29 2009, 09:39 Quote (Matt @ Jan. 29 2009, 06:04) Amarok started off life as Ommadawn II but then "went off a little in it's own direction". When I first read that I thought no way is there any similarity, but actually in the first few bars of each piece I hear a commonality. Deedle-de-de-de-de-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee- (the start of Ommadawn) Ba-ba-ba-baa-Ba-ba-ba-baa-Baa-Baa-Baa-Baa (the start of Amarok) Do you hear the commonality ? -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 29 2009, 18:37 Quote (wiga @ Jan. 29 2009, 15:39) Deedle-de-de-de-de-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee- (the start of Ommadawn) Ba-ba-ba-baa-Ba-ba-ba-baa-Baa-Baa-Baa-Baa (the start of Amarok) Do you hear the commonality ? Apart from the fact that Baa-Baa reminds me a lot of Mike Singing "Baa Baa black sheep, have you any wool?" from the end of "Branches" (on the Sallyangie bonus disc) , yes, I do hear the resemblance. However, O is in straight four-four, A is 5/4. That added quarter beat matters. A lot. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Jan. 30 2009, 00:33 (Maybe "Bah" is better) What is that resemblance? - not the timing - is it the chord ? -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 30 2009, 09:51 Quote (wiga @ Jan. 30 2009, 06:33) What is that resemblance? - not the timing - is it the chord ? It's the timing of the single notes. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Jan. 30 2009, 14:59 Rubbish !!   -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Jan. 31 2009, 05:30 hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhaaahappy Amarok most be the must strange album in the world. One track of all you wish to hear. Superb ending at the album, many strange sounds, millions of great guitar solo's and riffs. Amazing!!!! -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Jan. 31 2009, 10:02 Reading the title to this thread todaybrought up a silly thought about Star Trek IV (one of my favorite movies) in which the computer asks Spock, "How do you feel?"  Being a Vulcan, he was confused by the question. ("I do not understand the question."  "Spock, the computer knows you're half-human," said his mother). I thought about how Spock would react to Amarok, maybe raising one eyebrow.  Then I wondered how Worf would react to it (not that it bears much resemblance to Klingon opera) and wondered if Mike would be hailed as an honorary Terran member of the Klingon House of Musicians or if he'd be banned. -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

smillsoid Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Dec. 2008 Posted: April 10 2009, 14:37 Happy to be alive.  Also happy to think that human beings are capable of such musical genius as Amarok. -------------- http://www.reverbnation.com/simonjmills Back to top

New Incantation Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: Mar. 19 2010, 08:33 Really sorry about this, but I went for "bored" (ducks under table to avoid missiles from disgruntled Amarokies   ) Try as I might - and boy have I tried and tried - but I still can't get this album without wanting to pull my nails or just atrophy into a coma. I wouldn't say it was Mike's weakest of albums because clearly it has a legion of fans. But it just doesn't appeal to my mind or ears regrettably   Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Mar. 19 2010, 09:55 God this album is devisive!I love it.Always have,always will.But then i don't like TMB,L&S or Tres Lunas and a lot of people love them.  It just goes to show the diversity of Oldfield's back catalogue i think.  Perhaps the ads should have had the tag line "Amarok-the new Marmite album by Mike Oldfield" -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

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