Olivier
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Posted: May 17 2008, 21:20 |
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It was in 1992, my university roomate had one album from Mike Oldfield, and it was Earth Moving. I think his sister gave it to him, which is not surprising, it's a girlish album, men listen to Amarok It's the year I was becoming a fan, thanks to Tubular Bells II (which I bought a while after it was released). Before that I had Tubular Bells and Amarok (the warning made me buy it when I noticed it in the new releases), which I listened in the background, Amarok much more often than Tubular Bells. So it's weird he had Earth Moving, it didn't really fit with the rest of his albums: Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Dire Straits, but again, I think I remember it's his sister who got rid of the album. I never managed to convert him to Mike Oldfield during this year. The next year, it only took me a few days to convert my new roomate, just using Amarok. Interstingly at first he found the Blue Peter, Portmousth kind of tunes childish and embarassing, and after a while, I was embarassed when he played them so loud that the whole building could hear it. I kind of lost contact, but knowing him he must be horrified by The Millennium Bell and what followed. So yeah, my first reaction to Earth Moving: I can't remember exactly, I think I was bothering him with my instrumental Mike Oldfield albums I was freshly in love with, and one day he played Earth Moving, trying to trick me to make me say it sucks (I was like "MO is God" all day long), but I recognized the guitar on Holy! I didn't like it a lot though, but thought that it showed that Mike could make tunes in any style. I did have a lot of albums to discover so I kind of forgot about it, until now actually. My best first reaction was for TSODE, second Tubular Bells II. I made the mistake to get The Complete way too early, it kind of ruined my discovery of Platinum, Omadawn, Hergest Ridge and Incantations.
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