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Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Oct. 15 2005, 07:56 I saw that there are already many pages of topics in the Light + Shade forum, so I thought I'd rather cluster up three new topics into one. Tracklist: Before I actually got the album, I saw at least three different tracklists for Light on the WWW. Does a version of Light with a different tracklist from the one I got (Angelique, Blackbird, The Gate, First Steps, Closer, Our Father, Rocky, Sunset; U-MYX: Quicksilver, Our Father, Slipstream, Angelique) actually exist? Artwork: 1) Does anyone think that the distorted pictures of Mike on the CDs (not on the covers, on the CD labels) are supposed to represent anything? The Shade label looks to me a little bit like the wings of an angel... maybe the one shedding tears? 2) Do the two covers use two different pictures of Mike? To me it looks like they do. By the way, congratulations to Hans Claesson for being credited twice in a row on an official Oldfield booklet. Will he become one day the official M.O. cover designer? Our Father: Is it my impression, or does this tune have no bass (meant as bass guitar) ? To me it's a great piece, but the bass part is soooooooo elementary... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Navaira Group: Members Posts: 481 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: Oct. 15 2005, 08:01 Quote (Ugo @ Oct. 15 2005, 07:56) Quote Tracklist: Before I actually got the album, I saw at least three different tracklists for Light on the WWW. Does a version of Light with a different tracklist from the one I got (Angelique, Blackbird, The Gate, First Steps, Closer, Our Father, Rocky, Sunset; U-MYX: Quicksilver, Our Father, Slipstream, Angelique) actually exist? Yes, a version with Pres de toi as a bonus track. Quote 1) Does anyone think that the distorted pictures of Mike on the CDs (not on the covers, on the CD labels) are supposed to represent anything? The Shade label looks to me a little bit like the wings of an angel... maybe the one shedding tears? Um, I think it basically represents lack of ideas from the designers :] Quote 2) Do the two covers use two different pictures of Mike? To me it looks like they do. Yup, same here. -------------- http://www.raygrant.com :: My album 'Exorcism' is out on iTunes now Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Oct. 15 2005, 08:27 I wasn't referring to bonus tracks... Just as an example, the tracklist on the Discography page on this very website lists Light as Angelique, Blackbird, Closer, First Steps, Our Father, Rocky, Sunset and The Gate. I was just wondering whether a version with such a tracklist does actually exist... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Alan D Group: Members Posts: 3670 Joined: Aug. 2004 Posted: Oct. 15 2005, 09:51 I thought the designs on both CDs were supposed to convey the idea of angelic wings - and it's only now you point it out, Ugo, that I've seen the faces. Certainly it fits nicely with the Tears of an Angel track, and I like to tinker with the idea of the sky/water pictures in the booklet having something to do with 'faces in my skies' from Surfing also. But I wouldn't be confident that any of it is what Mike intended. Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Oct. 15 2005, 10:28 Quote (Ugo @ Oct. 15 2005, 13:56) 1) Does anyone think that the distorted pictures of Mike on the CDs (not on the covers, on the CD labels) are supposed to represent anything? The Shade label looks to me a little bit like the wings of an angel... maybe the one shedding tears? To me they look like body parts.   Quote 2) Do the two covers use two different pictures of Mike? To me it looks like they do. Definitely, and I think they're the same two photos that appear in the booklet. Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: Oct. 15 2005, 11:08 Some-one else in one of these many L+S threads mentioned that the cd labels were distorted pictures, and that a tube or cone of reflective material would show the original image. I've seen soemthing similar as a jigsaw. -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Oct. 15 2005, 11:34 Quote (olracUK @ Oct. 15 2005, 17:08) Some-one else in one of these many L+S threads mentioned that the cd labels were distorted pictures, and that a tube or cone of reflective material would show the original image. I've seen soemthing similar as a jigsaw. Ah, right... there's an old Rick Wakeman album with the same trick, though I'll be damned if I can remember the title. Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Oct. 15 2005, 13:38 Quote (Holger @ Oct. 15 2005, 12:34) Quote (olracUK @ Oct. 15 2005, 17:08) Some-one else in one of these many L+S threads mentioned that the cd labels were distorted pictures, and that a tube or cone of reflective material would show the original image. I've seen soemthing similar as a jigsaw. Ah, right... there's an old Rick Wakeman album with the same trick, though I'll be damned if I can remember the title. No Earthly Connection. -------------- "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: Oct. 15 2005, 18:15 That 'trick' is an old pictorial device known as anamorphosis (check out http://www.anamorphosis.com). However, I don't think that the anamorphically-distorted pics on the L&S labels need a great un-distorting job to be viewed as what they really are... they're just reflected versions of Mike's pics in the booklet... again! Apart from this: Is there anyone who noticed the elementary bassness of Our Father, even more evident in U-Myx? -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

tamas Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Oct. 15 2005, 23:45 Actually, anamorphoses work if you insert a mirror of a shape of a cylinder or a pyramid in the centre of the distorted  image ( in this case in the middle of the cd).  that would be really fun, if they would put a flexible mirror in the cd case! Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Oct. 16 2005, 05:19 Quote (tamas @ Oct. 16 2005, 05:45) Actually, anamorphoses work if you insert a mirror of a shape of a cylinder or a pyramid in the centre of the distorted image Yes, but as I said above, I think that the L&S pictures are very easy to decipher. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

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