Mike Oldfield.
Mike Oldfield (born 1953)
English New Age musician, using multiple overdubs, playing extended instrumentals. Also some
songs.
(Mike Oldfield has also recorded with Sallyangie)
(The movie "The Exorcist" used music from "Tubular Bells")
Albums.
Title. | year. | Label.
| Number |
---|
Tubular Bells | 1973 | Virgin
| V 2001 |
Hergest Ridge | 1974 |
Virgin | V 2013 |
The Orchestral Tubular Bells |
1975 | Virgin
| V 2026 |
Ommadawn | 1975 |
Virgin | V 2043 |
Incantations | 1978 |
Virgin | VDT 101 |
Incantations Exposed (live) | 1979 |
Virgin | VD 2511 |
Platinum | 1979 |
Virgin | V 2141 |
QE2 | 1980 |
Virgin | V 2181 |
Five Miles Out | 1982 |
Virgin | V 2222 |
Crises | 1983 |
Virgin | V 2262 |
Discovery | 1984 |
Virgin | V 2308 |
The Killing Fields (soundtrack) | 1984 |
Virgin | |
Islands | 1987 |
Virgin | |
Earthmoving | 1989 |
Virgin | |
Amarok | 1990 |
Virgin | |
Heaven's Open | 1991 |
Virgin | |
Tubular Bells II | 1992 |
Warner | |
The Songs of Distant Earth | 1994 |
Reprise/ Warner
| |
Voyager (*) | 1996 |
Warner | |
Tubular Bells III | 1998 |
Warner | |
Guitars | 1999 |
Warner | |
Millennium Bells | 1999 |
Warner | |
Tres Lunas
(TR4s Lunas) | 2002 | Warner | |
Tubular Bells 2003 | 2003 |
Warner | |
Light and Shade | 2005 |
Universal | |
Music of the Spheres |
2008 | Mercury | |
(*) Contains several traditional songs.
Multi-volume Albums.
Title | Year. | Label. | number.
|
---|
Collector's Edition (*) | 1990 |
? | ? |
Collector's Edition (**) |
1990 | | |
(* Contains "The Orchestra Tubular Bells" + "Ommadawn" +
"Hergest Ridge")
(** Contains "QE2" + "Platinum" + "Five Miles Out").
Compilations.
Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
---|
Best of Tubular Bells | 1975 | |
|
Boxed | 1976 |
Virgin | V BOX 1
|
Wonderful World | 1984 | |
|
The Complete Mike Oldfield | 1985 | |
|
Elements: the Best of Mike Oldfield | 1993 | |
|
Elements - Mike Oldfield 1973 - 1991 | 1993 | |
|
XXV (The Best of Mike Oldfield) | 1997 | |
|
The Best of Tubular Bells | 2001 | |
|
Live Albums.
Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
---|
Incantations Live |
1978 | |
|
The Art in Heaven Concert (Live) (CD +DVD) (Recorded
2000) | 2008 | Warner Music
Entertainment | |
Best albums(*).
Title. | year. | Label.
|
---|
Tubular Bells |
1973 | Virgin
|
Hergest Ridge |
1974 |
|
Ommadawn | 1975 |
|
Five Miles Out | 1982 |
|
Voyager | 1996 |
|
Incantations | 1978 |
|
Orchestral Tubular Bells | 1975 |
|
The Songs of Distant Earth | 1994 | |
QE2 | 1980 |
|
Crises | 1983 |
|
Tubular Bells II | 1992 |
|
(*)According to critical opinion.
DVDs.
Title | year. | Label.
|
---|
Elements
| 2004 | Virgin
|
The Art in Heaven Concert - Live In Berlin ( CD +
DVDs) | 2008 | |
Singles.
Title. | year. | Label.
| Number |
---|
Tubular Bells (edit)/ Tubular Bells (excerpt) | 1974 |
| |
Mike Oldfield's Single (theme from Tubular Bells)/ Froggy Went A-Courtin' | 1974 |
Virgin | VS 101 |
Don Alfonso/ In Dulce Jubilo | 1975 | Virgin
| |
In Dulce Jubilo/ On Horseback | 1975 |
Virgin | VS 131 |
Portsmouth/ Speak (Tho' You Only Say Farewell) | 1976 | Virgin
| VS 163 |
The William Tell Overture/ Algiers | 1976 |
| |
The Cuckoo Songs/ Pipe Tune | 1977 |
| |
Take 4 (EP) | 1978 |
Virgin | VS 238 |
Guilty/ Incantations | 1979 | Virgin
| VS 245 |
Blue Peter/ Woodhenge | 1979 | Virgin
| |
Arrival/ Polka | 1980 |
| |
Sheba/ Wonderful Land | 1980 |
| |
Five Miles Out/ Live Punkadiddle
| 1982
| Virgin
| |
Family Man/ Mount Teidi
| 1982
| Virgin
| |
Mistake/ Waldberg (The Peak)
| 1982
|
| |
Moonlight Shadow (*)/ Rite of Man
| 1983
|
| |
Shadow on the Wall/ Tarsus III
| 1983
| Virgin
| |
Crime of Passion/ Jungle Gardenia
| 1984
| Virgin
| |
To France / In the Pool
| 1984
| Virgin
| |
Tricks of the Light/ Apeman
| 1984
| Virgin
| |
Etude/ Evacuation
| 1984
|
| |
Pictures In The Dark/ Legend
| 1985
| Virgin
| |
Shine (**)/ The Path
| 1986
| Virgin
| |
In High Places/ Poison Arrows
| 1987
|
| |
Islands/ The Wind Chimes (part one)
| 1987
|
| |
The Time Has Come/ (final excerpt from) The Wind Chimes
| 1987
|
| |
Magic Touch/ The Wind Chimes (part 1)
| 1987
|
| |
Flying Start/ The Wind Chimes (part 2)
| 1988
|
| |
Earthmoving/ Bridge to Paradise
| 1989
|
| |
Innocent/ Earthmoving (club mix)
| 1989
|
| |
Heaven's Open/ Excerpt From Amarok
| 1991
|
| |
Sentinel/ Early Stages
| 1992
|
| |
Tattoo/ Silent Night/ Sentinel (live)
| 1992
|
| |
The Bell/ Sentinel
| 1993
|
| |
Hibernaculum/ Moonshine
| 1994
|
| |
Let There Be Light (Indian Lake Mix)/ Let There Be Light
(BT's entropic dub)
| 1995
|
| |
Women of Ireland/ Women of Ireland ('A' mix)
| 1997
|
| |
Man in the Rain/ The Inner Child
| 1998
|
| |
Far Above the Clouds
| 1999
|
| |
(* vocals by Maggie Reilly)
(**) by Mike Oldfield and Jon Anderson.
Hit Singles.
Title
| Year.
| Highest position.
|
Mike Oldfield's Single (theme from Tubular Bells)/ Froggy
Went A-Courtin'
| 1974
| 31
|
In Dulce Jubilo/ On Horseback
| 1975
| 4
|
Guilty/ Incantations
| 1979
| 22
|
Blue Peter/ Woodhenge
| 1979
| 19
|
Five Miles Out/ Live Punkadiddle
| 1982
| 43
|
Family Man/ Mount Teidi
| 1982
| 45
|
Moonlight Shadow/ Rite of Man
| 1983
| 4
|
Crime of Passion/ Jungle Gardenia
| 1984
| 61
|
To France / In the Pool
| 1984
| 48
|
Pictures In The Dark/ Legend
| 1985
| 50
|
Sentinel/ Early Stages
| 1992
| 10
|
Tattoo/ Silent Night/ Sentinel (live)
| 1992
| 33
|
The Bell/ Sentinel
| 1993
| 50
|
Hibernaculum/ Moonshine
| 1994
| 47
|
Let There Be Light (Indian Lake Mix)/ Let There Be Light
(BT's entropic dub)
| 1995
| 51
|
Far Above the Clouds
| 1999
| 53
|
Hit Albums.
Title
| Year.
| Highest position.
|
Tubular Bells | 1973 | 1
|
Hergest Ridge | 1974 | 1
|
The Orchestral Tubular Bells |
1975 | 17
|
Ommadawn | 1975 | 4
|
Incantations | 1978 | 14
|
Incantations Exposed (live) | 1979 | 16
|
Platinum | 1979 | 24
|
Five Miles Out | 1982 | 7
|
Crises | 1983 | 6
|
Discovery | 1984 | 15
|
The Killing Fields (soundtrack) | 1984 | 97
|
Islands | 1987 | 29
|
Earthmoving | 1989 | 30
|
Amarok | 1990 | 49
|
Tubular Bells II | 1992 | 1
|
The Songs of Distant Earth | 1994 | 24
(*)
|
Voyager (*) | 1996 | 12
|
Tubular Bells III | 1998 | 4
|
Guitars | 1999 | 40
|
Tubular Bells 2003 | 2003 | 51
|
(* not a hit until 1996).
Popular downloads.
Title. |
---|
Moonlight Shadow |
To France |
Foreign Affair |
Shadow On The Wall |
In Dulci
Jubilo |
Family Man |
Five Miles Out |
Man In he Rain |
Let There Be Light |
Last updated on 30/08/2010