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Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: May 05 2005, 21:59 We all know that the summer is near.. And i must say that mike is typical summer music.. He is a good known summer music in norway with Moonlight shadow. But i think its more than that!!! Forexample:My favorite must be "in the pool"!! I never get borred with this beautiful piece of guitar! This is  what i will hear more from mike. He also have "To france" that gives me summer feelings.. Maybe the hole Discovery album is summer for me. Its good to hear on hot summer days and they make me happy too. Another album that always (or two albums) gives me summer feeling is Crises and five miles out.. Crises have the good feeling with it ( the 80's feeling that make me happy) And five miles out have taurus and orabidoo   maybe its should be a mike summer album with his best cut from his albums... I certanly personally take mike as summer music. Both Crises and five miles out remains be about long hot summer days. Maybe because i bought them on summer 2001?? I cant imagine moonlight shadow on winter screen.. I see a night in summer. (because the summer have the mystic nights and the warm moon up on the sky thats play upon the water) Forexample: i cant imagine Ommadawn in summer.. i see winter feelings in this album.. -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

familyjules Group: Members Posts: 1190 Joined: May 2004 Posted: May 06 2005, 06:11 Summer music, eh? Well last Summer, Incantations worked for me, especially the oft-criticised Part Two - very nice on a Summer's afternoon. I'll also be playing the Waterboys' Irish folk-inspired Room To Roam album, because that is my #1 Summer record. Sinead O'Connor will also get a look in, as will some long sprawling electric jamming Neil Young and Crazy Horse for when I'm feeling more boogie-fied. Summer's my favourite season for music - it just begs to be played in celebration of the longer hours of daylight and the sunshine. Jules -------------- I like beer and I like cheese Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: May 06 2005, 06:48 I would count Hergest Ridge as summer music, as well as possably Incantations and Amarok. Don't ask what makes me think this though, it's just a slight feeling more than anything else. I do, however, very much consider Tubular Bells to be a wintery album, because I strongly associate it with the time I was listening to it and watching rain fall on my window. That was when I first started to really love the album. Great memory. -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: May 06 2005, 09:33 Quote (raven4x4x @ May 06 2005, 06:48) I would count Hergest Ridge as summer music, as well as possably Incantations and Amarok. Yet, isn't much of Incantations Side 4 also "wintery" to you? -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Jammer Group: Members Posts: 641 Joined: April 2000 Posted: May 06 2005, 13:57 It must depend more on when you first heard the albums that what the music suggests. But I do agree that Incantations Part 2 evokes the summer. One of the early websites that introduced me to Mike's albums consisted of lots of users' comments. I remember someone thought Incantations reminded them of the four seasons. Part 4 was agreed to represent winter with the vibraphone parts resembling iceicles! Other summery bits of music for me are Mont St Michel, most of  Five Miles Out the album and, I guess, Summit Day. I associate Crises with its album cover, so more to do with night Back to top

Baggiesfaninessex Group: Members Posts: 682 Joined: Mar. 2002 Posted: May 06 2005, 15:34 Quote (raven4x4x @ May 06 2005, 06:48) I do, however, very much consider Tubular Bells to be a wintery album, because I strongly associate it with the time I was listening to it and watching rain fall on my window. That was when I first started to really love the album. Great memory. That's a very good point. I think a lot of how we perceive the feel/ambience of an album is determined by the surroundings we are in and what is happening around us. For me, 'Tubular Bells' is a warm summers day with storm clouds approaching; 'Hergest Ridge' is Spring in the English countryside - very pastoral; 'Ommadawn' is a hot summer's day on Side 1 and a wet summer's day on Side 2. 'Incantations' is autumn through to winter as you progress through the 4 parts, culminating in a manic Christmas Day on Part 4 - the vibes give a lovely yuletide feeling. These first four albums were true tone poems, giving the imagination free rein to lose itself in other places, worlds and situations. I don't get the same artistic impression from the shorter pop songs and straightforward rock - although 'Platinum' side 1 is worthy of mention for simply being so upbeat and happy - another track which reminds me of Christmas. -------------- “A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by its own farts.” - Frank Skinner Back to top

Rileman Group: Members Posts: 93 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: May 10 2005, 07:46 I associate the Tr3s Lunas album with the summer, because I bought it last summer. It was (almost) the only cd I played then. It's a good album with warm music.   -------------- It's not easy going where no-one goes, and no-one knows... Back to top

Incantations2085 Group: Members Posts: 150 Joined: Aug. 2002 Posted: Mar. 15 2006, 11:03 The BEST MIKE'S SUMMER MUSIC IS Tr3s Lunas! Absolutely Perfect my friend Kay -------------- Reaching through the dark, do you have to go?? Back to top

arron11196 Group: Members Posts: 826 Joined: April 2005 Posted: Mar. 15 2006, 13:44 I agree. I have this image associated with the track Tr3s Lunas - of having it loudly blaring out of an old American 60's Thunderbird or other big car, rolling along the flat roads of Texas in all the dry heat, with a beautiful cloudless blue sky. Lovely. The second music dream like this I've had - the first being Fields Of Gold, Sting. I actually want to stand in a field with Barley as far as the eye can see in all directions now. -------------- Arron J Eagling Everyone's interpretation is different, and everyone has a right to that opinion. There is no "right" one, I am adding this post to communicate my thoughts to share them with like-minded souls who will be able to comment in good nature. (insert the last 5 mins of Crises here) Back to top

Craig Evans Group: Members Posts: 253 Joined: Sep. 2004 Posted: Mar. 15 2006, 16:53 Quote (hiawatha @ May 06 2005, 09:33) Yet, isn't much of Incantations Side 4 also "wintery" to you? Great point there Hiawatha.  On a similier note just as "Incantations" contains both wintry and summer pieces of music.  "Tubular Bells" and "Hergest Ridge" also contain both summer and wintry pieces in my honest opinon of course. I feel that the first three quarters of "Hergest Ridge Part 1" and "Hergest Ridge Part 2" before and after the "Thunderstorm" remind me of a calm, sunny and warm summers day.  I also feel that the "Latin", "A Minor Chord", "Blues" and the closing acoustic guitar sections from "Tubular Bells Part 1" together with "Harmonics", "Peace" and "The Sailor's Hornpipe" from "Tubular Bells Part 2" remind me of a happy, peacefull and sunny summers day. However I also feel that most of "Tubular Bells Part 1" and "Guitars Sounding Like Bagpipes" and "Piltdown Man" from "Tubular Bells Part 2" together with the "Thunderstorm" from "Hergest Ridge Part 2" remind me of a dramatc Winter Blizzard and a Spring Thunderstorm. The "sleigh bells" section followed by the choir towards the end of "Hergest Ridge Part 1" is also wintry because it reminds me of Christmas and "Ambient Guitars" from "Tubular Bells Part 2" reminds me of calm and sunny but crisp, misty and frosty winters day.     -------------- "It is good to be on Horseback" - Mike Oldfield "On Horseback" "(Insert "The Thunderstorm" here)" Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Mar. 15 2006, 18:36 A real summery sound through a whole album, laid back, lazy & relaxed, is Jack Johnson's In Between Dreams. As for Mike Oldfield albums, definitely Tres Lunas, and the song Froggy!! And parts of Tubular Bells. Interesting way of looking at music, I'm thinking on. -------------- ....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

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Mar. 16 2006, 08:45 Tubular Bells is very full of heat. To me, it's one of his, um... "summeriest" albums. Amarok too. Also possibly QE2. -------------- 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

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Mar. 16 2006, 11:17 Summer is about heat, and also light and colour and open doors and a warm breeze and exploration. Yes, Tubular Bells really is a summer album. Known it and loved it for thirty years and I understand something else new about it today. Marvelous! bee -------------- ....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

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Mar. 18 2006, 23:12 Quote (hiawatha @ May 06 2005, 08:33) Yet, isn't much of Incantations Side 4 also "wintery" to you? I vascillate in my thinking about this. I associate most of Inc with early summer (well....sort of hard not to with part 2..."in the early summer morning" and the other imagery) but since dancing to part of part IV at Brid's Jam (Imbolc--February), I do associate it with winter at the same time. Tres Lunas is as summery as summery gets for me. As I've mentioned in the past, even typing these words I feel the wet sand squishing between my toes, I smell the salty sea air mixed with bain de soleil sunscreen, and almost hear seagulls. Hergest Ridge is sort of summery, but more Spring, with the greening Earth. Arron--you mentioned "Fields of Gold"--in the last month, that has become my most-played iPOD song--am on sort of a kick with it. I've been in those fields before.  I find the first part of Tubular Bells very autumnal, but.....the second part takes me to those same fields....of sweet fields in late July, beginning of August. -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

The Voyager Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: Jan. 2006 Posted: April 18 2006, 15:58 I think all Oldfield albums fits for every season of the year:p Back to top

Wayfarer Group: Members Posts: 308 Joined: June 2002 Posted: April 18 2006, 19:19 Summer music? Oh, well... In Spain, speaking about summer music is speaking about Georgie Dann (FLASH plugin and speaker up loud needed) -- Wayfarer -------------- My homepage - www.thewayfarer.info My search - www.cannotbefound.com My community - www.taurusiv.net My luthier - www.artluthier.com Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: April 18 2006, 22:01 Quote (Incantations2085 @ Mar. 15 2006, 17:03) The BEST MIKE'S SUMMER MUSIC IS Tr3s Lunas! Absolutely Perfect my friend Kay Yes! Tres lunas indeed!! Hergest ridge is perfect to play when it is spring,... like now!!   Amarok is 24t all the year album. I play it all times! Islands is a summer album, also earth moving include Five mile out and Crises. Must be a reason and that could be becuase i bought them right before travelling to crete! Tubular bells orginal is winter Tubular bells 2 is warm summer music (maya gold) Tubular bells 3 is icecold november music (bare trees   ) Tubular bells 2003 is 100% summer music, thanks to the introduction version and video! -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Ray Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: Jan. 2000 Posted: April 19 2006, 17:02 Er sorry for being so late in to this but..... TubbyMan!! How can you get a shadow from the moon in Norway in summer - the Sun never goes down!!??  Ray   -------------- Looking out over the harbour in Peel....... Back to top

Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: Oct. 11 2007, 17:49 The NUMBER ONE summer album ever made is called 'Five Miles Out'. 'Taurus II' is for me the essence of summer. Fun, lighthearted, joyful and positive. Very warm and changing. Other summer albums: Discovery, Tres Lunas, Amarok, Heaven's Open, Tubular Bells 2003. Winter albums: Tubular Bells II, Millennium Bell, Crises, Songs of Distant Earth, Islands, Guitars. Spring albums: Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, The Complete, Platinum. Autumn albums: Incantations, QE2, The Killing Fields, Voyager, Earth Moving, Tubular Bells III, Light and Shade, Ommadawn. -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Oct. 16 2007, 03:28 I consider Ommadawn Autumnal and QE2 Summery. -------------- "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

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