The Killing Fields [Soundtrack]

Mike Oldfield | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 29, 1992)
• Original Release Date: November 2, 1984
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Virgin Records
• ASIN: B00000DR4X
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #252,297 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prain's Theme

2. Requiem For A City

3. Evacuation

4. Pran's Theme 2

5. Capture

6. Execution

7. Bad News

8. Pran's Departure

9. Worksite

10. The Year Zero

11. Blood Sucking

12. The Year Zero 2

13. Pran's Escape/The Killing Fields

14. The Trek

15. The Boy's Burial/Pran Sees The Red Cross

16. Good News

17. Etude

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Different Kind of Mike Oldfield, January 27, 2004

By 

shr nfr "silver944" (Newton, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Killing Fields (Audio CD)

For those folks who think that Mike Oldfield is nothing more than one more way to play "Tubular Bells" have a surprise in store if they get this album. It is a truely different sort of Mike Oldfield than we have been exposed to of recent. In many ways, it is a shame that he did not continue to fully develop this side of himself in his later work. Make no mistake, I own and enjoy everything he has produced on disc, but this album is special.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Original, as always, February 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Killing Fields (Audio CD)

This album is an emotional experience -- and a work of audio art. From beginning to the finale, Etude, is the theme of the war in sound, with all of its emotional impact. War has been done so many times you'd think (hope!!) it would get old, but Mike Oldfield's music is as new and wonderful as ever. With Mike Oldfield's always-original music, you're always taking a chance -- but I'd place my money on this one!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully Sad and Haunting, January 28, 2005

By 

B. W. Wilson "Rocker since birth" (Boylston,Nova Scotia,Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Killing Fields (Audio CD)

I have just finished listening to this album in it's entirety, on a snowy night in Nova Scotia, Canada. It has been years since I listened to this, but have to agree with the reviewer that called this a "diamond" in Oldfield's long list of albums. When placed in the context of the movie, the music on this cd could not be more on the mark of the emotions that the movie evokes. When you consider the horrors and sadness that the main character of the movie lived through, the music Oldfield composed for this film fits these two themes almost as if he had lived through it himself. The title of my review seems to be the two main themes that the tracks bring out in the listener, and sort of vary back and forth within the cd. It takes a while for this album to grow on you, but once it does, it is with you for good.

And if you are a perceptive listener, you will notice that the album ends on a note of hope and of better things to come, even though the cut itself starts out with the sadness theme.

Also, for those who know a bit about the context and the main character of the movie, how ironic is it that he was to live through all that he did only to be murdered by a mugger in a major American city? Defies logic..still, his memory and his story survive as an inspiration for those who would take the time to examine it.

Highly recommended, but do not expect typical Mike Oldfield. You're not going to get it. And depending on what album you are talking about..(Guitars, the Millenium Bell, and some others), that's a good thing. It's really too bad that he hadn't done more soundtracks, if this one is any indicator of his potential for them.