Posts Tagged Mike Oldfield
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June 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 106
Mike Oldfield, Platinum (1979) I was so into Mike Oldfield – and to think it all came from an album I can no longer listen to. But when you’re young and just learning about things with music you can be dazzled by something that’s actually not really even ever there. Oldfield’s multi-instrumental prowess and arranging […]Archive
April 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 25 – Mike Oldfield, “Tubular Bells II”
Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells II, 1992 Mike Oldfield has made a few Crap Albums I Love but I’m choosing this because it catches him in a lie – previously whinging about how people expected a volume two and that’s what he would never give them…it also meant, after giving in and giving this to The […]Archive
January 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 190
Mike Oldfield, Exposed (1979) I used to be so into Mike Oldfield – and now it’s a chore. At best. Be careful though, when you say something like that – especially when it comes to guilty-pleasures…I dug out this double-live album and played it right through, as if to prove to myself that I was […]Archive
August 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 31 – Sustained Creepy Moods…
I like movie soundtracks – score. I like ambient music. I like heavy metal. I particularly love when two or three of those things can come together to create a sinister, creeping – creepy – mood. A sustained sinister creeping – creepy – mood, even. So I wanted to explore that today via five favourites. Five Songs For Friday has […]Archive
March 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Nudge: Dark Arts
The Nudge Dark Arts Keen For A Nudge LTD. This is album number two for Wellington trio The Nudge. I’ve admired this band’s musicianship – all great players individually, and collectively – without ever being hugely connected to/engaged with their music. By that I mean I never actually heard the debut album but I was […]Archive
July 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Woo: Awaawaa
Woo Awaawaa New General Catalogue/Palto Flats Renewed interest in the buried catalogue of British brothers, Mark and Clive Ives – recording under the name Woo, has seen a dig through the archives as well as the reissuing of the albums. Following on from the wonderful When The Past Arrives – a collection that’s still on […]Archive
August 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 837
Mike Oldfield, Hergest Ridge (1974) I never thought all that much of this one when I was buying up Mike Oldfield albums. I wanted to check out whatever he’d done, but this one never really stuck. Funny, because now I’d rather listen to it than Tubular Bells; totally (over) done. Strange how that works sometimes. […]Archive
May 22, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 76 – Soweto String Quartet, Wellington, 1997
Once I was moneybags! Once. It probably ended on this night actually – I remember shouting two friends to this gig, on a whim really. I had one of the albums by the Soweto String Quartet and I was into it enough to want to see the show – it was also at a time […]Archive
January 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Jonathan Snipes & William Hutson: Room 237 [OST]
Jonathan Snipes & William Hutson Room 237 [OST] Death Waltz Recordings The documentary film Room 237 was wonderful – absurd, of course, but so well put together. And such a wonderful mood, tapping into the spirit of Kubrick (you get the feeling he woulda chuckled) – and a big part, instantly, of framing that mood, […]Archive
October 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1017
V/A, The Exorcist [OST] (1974) People think of Tubular Bells when they think of The Exorcist (music-wise, anyway). But to me what makes that work – and I’d rather listen to the bits of Tubular Bells that dot in and around the rest of the Exorcist soundtrack than I would listen to it as a […]Archive
October 1, 2014 by Simon Sweetman