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Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Aug. 13 2010, 08:42 Quote (nightspore @ Aug. 13 2010, 01:43) I'm not going to enter into any debate about "prog", as I consider it pointless; but "Music from the Balcony" is actually quite structured/formal, with regard to its overall architecture: for example, you get that ten-note melody I've mentioned before; it returns with variations, and then finally it's recapitulated in its original form just before the end. And the same applies with the other main themes. I think it's the chaotic-sounding jungle noises etc that tend to fool people into thinking "Balcony" is unstructured. Yes, there are recapitulations and variations, but they don't always seem very logical -- like that recurring fast section with saxophones and the guitar wailing on top, which appears at the most unexpected places. And the breaking in of sounds and pseudo-jazz/pseudo-blues intrusions are all quite subversive, not necessarily in form, but in content. -------------- 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

Jesse Group: Members Posts: 394 Joined: Aug. 2007 Posted: Aug. 13 2010, 11:30 No. It's not the greatest album of all time. Back to top

Incantations Group: Members Posts: 157 Joined: May 2010 Posted: Aug. 15 2010, 05:12 ^ Hmm... That was very direct. And quite right if you ask me. (Incantations, you mustn't forget   ) -------------- Hmm... Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4761 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Aug. 15 2010, 06:44 Quote (Incantations @ Aug. 15 2010, 05:12) ^ Hmm... That was very direct. I can imagine someone with a sultry expressing saying it!   Back to top

Olly Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: April 2009 Posted: Aug. 16 2010, 16:39 Well I think that Ommadawn IS the greatest album of all time Hergest Ridge is the second best and Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is the third Back to top

Jesse Group: Members Posts: 394 Joined: Aug. 2007 Posted: Aug. 17 2010, 13:26 Quote (nightspore @ Aug. 15 2010, 06:44) Quote (Incantations @ Aug. 15 2010, 05:12) ^ Hmm... That was very direct. I can imagine someone with a sultry expressing saying it!   it's not the greatest album of all time....the sound of love my darling...is the greatest music there is. Something like that? Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Aug. 17 2010, 14:36   -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Jesse Group: Members Posts: 394 Joined: Aug. 2007 Posted: Aug. 17 2010, 16:27 in pepe le pew's voice Back to top

Incantations Group: Members Posts: 157 Joined: May 2010 Posted: Aug. 19 2010, 04:05 *facepalm* -------------- Hmm... Back to top

HR lover Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Sep. 2010 Posted: Oct. 08 2010, 14:14 Yes for me it is the best. There is more variety than in HR . It is an extremely powerful piece of music. I feel a lot of pain in the music, I can feel the pain. It reminds me of my (not so happy) childhood. Ommadawn is sometimes too much for me. On horseback is absolutely fantastic to me as well.I just can't understand why On Horseback never was a hit. I really love to see both pain in music as love and the way they sometimes mix together is something which can't be heard in pop music IMO. A lot of MO albums display life in a frank and earnest way. I've read someone stating Ommadawn was on the verge of brilliance. For me this is not true. there is something in both HR and Ommadawn that simply outrun brilliance or geniality. There is something so divine in them and yet so down to earth that makes it hard to tell how I feel about them. but for me HR is more beautiful than Ommadawn, and beauty beats skill to me ( not that Ommadawn isn't beautiful). -------------- Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Back to top

Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: Oct. 08 2010, 19:40 Tubular Bells 2oo3. -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

Chris Ibberson Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: Aug. 2011 Posted: Aug. 08 2011, 06:29 Ommadawn was my favourite album of all time, until the release of Bjork-Vesperatine 2001. Bjork has yet to collaberate with Mike (To the best of my knowledge?) Nearly every track utilises an Innuit Choir. Stand out tracks would be Unison, Pagan Poetry, Aurora, Heirloom and Harm Of Will.It is the only other album besides Ommadawn that cherishes the female voice and finds a way to give prominance to it.       -------------- Diana Luna Lucina Back to top

knife edge Group: Members Posts: 77 Joined: May 2003 Posted: Mar. 15 2014, 12:22 Impossible to determine what is the greatest album of all time but... Ommadawn is (imho) the best album of Oldfield "classic" era (i.e. the first four albums), and this era is contains probably some of the most peculiar, poetical and beautiful music ever written.   Back to top

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