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Question: MotS is better than... :: Total Votes:33 Poll choices Votes Statistics Tubular Bells (1973) 1  [3.03%] Tubular Bells II 1  [3.03%] Tubular Bells III 2  [6.06%] Hergest Ridge 0  [0.00%] Ommadawn 1  [3.03%] Platinum 4  [12.12%] Amarok 4  [12.12%] Light + Shade 8  [24.24%] Tr3s Lunas 6  [18.18%] None of these (please specify below) 6  [18.18%] Guests cannot vote

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Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 14 2008, 14:28 There seems to be a fairly general agreement, here, about Music of the Spheres being a good album. So I'd like to ask you: if you were to compile a chart of your favourite Mike Oldfield albums, which album would you put straight after Music of the Spheres? You don't need to tell me which album (if any) would you put before it, and you also don't need to tell me the placement of other albums in your own personal chart - just tell me the Mike O. album that, in your opinion, comes straight after MotS. The albums I listed above are the ones which seem to be considered, again according to common opinions of most people here , Mike's best ones. If your vote goes to an album which is not on the list, please specify it here. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1759 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Jan. 14 2008, 14:38 I would say MoTS is better than all the post-Amarok albums but not quite as good any album up to and including discovery. So therefore it's better than TBII. Or something like that...it's kind of complicated really. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: Jan. 14 2008, 16:12 Nice idea Ugo but I wonder if the presentation should be different? maybe have a poll of "best album since ...." and list his other albums in order? Then again, as lanrstangmark says, it isn't even that simple! -------------- "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

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 14 2008, 16:36 Well, I didn't put it as "best album since..." because I thought that people may have different opinions about what are (or have been) the 'high points' and 'low points' of Mike's career, and I'm not sure whether MotS represents a high point for everyone here, or not.  To make it less complicated than it seems, try to think of it as a chart, as I said above - i.e. list your favourite M.O. albums, include MotS in the list and then tell me just what album did you put right after MotS. If you think of it in this way, IMHO it becomes much less complicated. It doesn't work, of course, if MotS is your least favourite M.O. album, but I seriously doubt that anyone here would endow it with this sort of 'prize'... EDIT: On second thoughts, if it still doesn't work, just answer Matt's question above: "Music of the Spheres is the best Mike Oldfield album since... [put album title here]." -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

zeit Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Jan. 14 2008, 21:37 I would say : Music of the Spheres is the best Mike Oldfield album since M.O.T.S., but don't get me wrong : I mean it's a very different album than the previous ones, impossible for me to answer your poll... it's very coherent, fluid and touching... a huge and amazing score..... very inspired music it seems.... the lively acoustic instruments are definitively the sweetest to listen to, we are miles away from the computerized music and from the production point of view this is one of the best albums from Mike, personally I think the best music can be achieved with a symphonic orchestra providing it's not about classical stuff and I'm very happy that Mike explores this new territory ... I miss a bit the electric guitar, just that, but it's really worth the wait... Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1759 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Jan. 15 2008, 05:41 OK then. MoTS is the best MO album since Discovery. From what I've heard it's better than Amarok, but only just. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: Jan. 15 2008, 20:39 This is purely subjective, personal to me, but ...## MoTS is better than.. Guitars, TMB, TL ( despite my love of the games), Incantations, Earth Moving, Heavens Open, and about level with Killing Fields. But then he may have "tweaked" the final release version, and it may improve with the usual "Mike Many Plays" syndrome. -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

Jesse Group: Members Posts: 394 Joined: Aug. 2007 Posted: Jan. 17 2008, 17:52 i heard ommadawn and mots after eachother and on the same day a couple of times...and i love both. But I prefer mots. so it has to be real good! it's next to TB2, TSODE...yes, but probably it stands at no 3. TB2003/1 and amarok, TB3, Ommadawn are all very contestants for spot 4. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 17 2008, 18:05 Hey, now wait a minute, Jesse and Andy... are you telling me, by any chance, that you think MotS is one of the best Mike Oldfield albums ever? If it's so, well, I cannot believe what my (somewhat tired) eyes are reading, but I'm very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very pleased about it. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: Jan. 17 2008, 20:01 Quote (Ugo @ Jan. 17 2008, 23:05) Hey, now wait a minute, Jesse and Andy... are you telling me, by any chance, that you think MotS is one of the best Mike Oldfield albums ever? If it's so, well, I cannot believe what my (somewhat tired) eyes are reading, but I'm very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very pleased about it. Well... in my post I quoted MoTS as being better than 7 albums. Let's see, that makes it worse than, oohhhh, quite a few. But MoTS is on my car's CD player every day, so I like it. -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Jan. 18 2008, 08:22 The Millennum Bell,where the orchestrated parts make me   -------------- "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

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 18 2008, 17:03 Quote (olracUK @ Jan. 18 2008, 02:01) Well... in my post I quoted MoTS as being better than 7 albums. Let's see, that makes it worse than, oohhhh, quite a few. Ah, OK. My eyes were definitely tired when I wrote that previous post. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Moz Group: Musicians Posts: 600 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Jan. 18 2008, 21:11 Better than Amarok.  At the moment my order of preference is something like this: Hergest Ridge Incantations Ommadawn Tubular Bells MOTS Amarok -------------- Twitter: @benbarden Back to top

Jesse Group: Members Posts: 394 Joined: Aug. 2007 Posted: Jan. 19 2008, 10:58 one of his best? yes! Amarok is great musically but there's never a chance to go indepth into the music itself...it stays on the surface. Mots is so nice and rich sounding....one of his nicer ones. The only flaw is that there's few standout tunes. because it all is so good Back to top

MusicallyInspired Group: Musicians Posts: 1445 Joined: June 2001 Posted: Jan. 20 2008, 12:20 So is this out yet? I still have to grab it.... -------------- BrandonBlume.com "The beauty in life is in the embracing of the variety of things. If all the world was blue there would be no colour blue." Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 20 2008, 18:52 Quote (MusicallyInspired @ Jan. 20 2008, 18:20) So is this out yet? Nope. But discussing it here isn't forbidden, as far as I know. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

RICHARDGORMLIE Group: Members Posts: 98 Joined: Nov. 2004 Posted: Jan. 23 2008, 18:08 MOTS IS BETTER THAN TUBULAR BELLS 3, BUT NOT BETTER THAN HERGEST RIDGE OR PLATINUM! Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Jan. 23 2008, 21:19 Difficult to say... better than Tres lunas! Not that i hate Tres lunas, but god how many shivers MOTS gives me. That is the + on MOTS. Music of the spheres never stops suprising me. Everytime i hear it, some lovely details pleasure me. The album is much/more solid. The cheerful, dramatic, emotional atmosphere really makes this great. Tres lunas dont have that bit at all.. (no harm feelings, ) Light and shade (This album is weak, but my god of many lovely songs and melodies. L+S have too much of genres. Trance, ambient, celtic, new age, almost like a best of album. Because of "Surfing", Tres lunas is the looser About the other albums.. (i dont have MOTS in perfect quality, no cd! ) I wait for the orginal work and lets see what this album really do with me then -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Mark Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Jan. 24 2008, 04:10 It's the best reworking of Tubular Bells since the last reworking of Tubular Bells. Back to top

New Incantation Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: May 23 2009, 16:57 I haven't voted yet as I haven't really given it enough playtime to justify one at present. But even at this early stage it is ranks way ahead of anything since TSODE. The orchestral pieces alone, along with the odd nodding glance towards Phillip Glass and even Howard Shore, has really impressed me with Oldfield's new musical direction. Back to top

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