Platinum Collection [Import, Original recording remastered]

Mike Oldfield | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 20, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000E5KOKM
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #365,854 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Tubular Bells (Opening Theme)

2. Tubular Bells (Excerpt)

3. Sailor's Hornpipe

4. Hergest Ridge (Excerpt)

5. Ommadawn (Excerpt)

6. Ommadawn (Excerpt)

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Moonlight Shadow (Extended Version)

2. Blue Peter

3. Guilty (Long Version)

4. Arrival

5. Wonderful Land

6. Sheba

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Sentinel

2. Pictures In The Dark

3. Shine (Extended Version)

4. Islands (12' Mix)

5. Flying Start (12' Version)

6. The Time Has Come (12' Version)

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oldfield Platinum Collection, January 14, 2007

By 

Peter Franklin (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Platinum Collection (Audio CD)

I play this 3 CD set often. It is a particularly good representation of Oldfields work squeezed onto a compilation.

There are a couple of "extended versions" that will appeal to avid collectors, like me, who may not have come across them before.

It doesn't say that the tracks are remastered, but maybe they are, as the recordings seem bright and "present".

Very worthwhile for anyone that has one or two Oldfield albums and needs to investigate further, or even for a collector that "needs" to have one of every conceivable version!

3 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Smells Like Rheumatalogical Coma, July 12, 2009

By 

Paul Ess. (Holywell, N.Wales,UK.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Platinum Collection (Audio CD)

Mike Oldfield was a dinosaur when I was a kid, so God only knows what he's still doing lumbering around.
Now - and I can hardly type for laughing - he's gone and released a 'collection'; not a greatest hits or bits compilation, mind -- a collection...

Being honest, before I listened to this, I tried to think of any MO hits..
Oh yes, 'Moonlight Shadow', I seem to think that did quite well, but I'm not letting on whether the version included here is the 'extended' one or not.
That'll keep the pot on the boil won't it..?

Anyway, the point of this cd?
To annoy me possibly; when I was a child Mike Oldfield was justifiably regarded as pretty much the worst music it was possible to listen to and the intervening years don't just confirm same, they compound it deep into the open casket of despair.

Let's cast an eye over some of the tracks: there's a frightful one which attracts your attention straight away: 'In Dulci Jubilo' - a desperate pseudo-mediaeval folk tune conjuring redolent images of straw-kempt peasants eating each other while Basil Rathbone looks on. Words cannot describe its badness; it's subversively worth buying the cd just so you can listen to 'In Dulci Jubilo' - and know exactly how Cobain felt seconds before he squeezed...

Of course, there's about six cowardly versions of 'the Exorcist' theme; effective in its setting but a pain elsewhere; the soul-less, God-less 'Ommadawn' is well represented as are hilariously po-faced standards like the 'William Tell Overture' and 'Blue Peter'.
In the nutter-in-the-woods corner we have 'Cuckoo Song' - who's title more than ironically sums up Oldfield's racket as well as his state of mind.

He dabbles in classical, which admittedly I don't know a lot about but am pretty sure doesn't sound like this, and towards the end of this gargantuan leper, he has a disastrous crack at 70's style funk rock - - oh wait, here's another mix of the Exorcist theme (hang on, I should have said here comes another ALBUM of the Exorcist theme!!).

There's a Jethro Tull sound-alike, naval flavoured affairs with murderously annoying hornpipes, a couple of oriental sounding ambient pieces, shambolic Celtic waffling which would have Ivor Cutler spinning in his grave - - then trying to get out and kill Oldfield; and wait 'til you hear 'Women of Ireland', the final offence - you'll be crying for your home long into the night.

Mike Oldfield's retroactive, doleful, retractile music remains pretty much a foul microcosm of everything that's wrong with the world. That he's still peddling this utterly dispensable hum at his age is the only surprise on view, he should be home by the fire reading something.
An aneurism is preferable to this.



COMMENTS

Mr. Billy Bland With No Mates, No Girlfriend and No Life says:

If you don't like Mike Oldfield why did you buy his cd/ he's sold 4 trillion albums in Outer Mongolia so he must be good/ you're only jealous because you have no talent yourself/ this is not a review/ u suck bozo...

Ad infinitum..