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Not everyone's cup of tea this album but if you have seen the film and can relate to the mood of the scene its brilliant.
Mike Oldfield - You either love him or hate hom. I have all his albums and enjoy the chance to listen to modern music without enhanced vocals to make the singer sound good. I have been meaning to get this album for years but it went off production and became scarce. Now I have the full collection.
Mike Oldfield - You either love him or hate hom. I have all his albums and enjoy the chance to listen to modern music without enhanced vocals to make the singer sound good. I have been meaning to get this album for years but it went off production and became scarce. Now I have the full collection.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A Different Kind of Mike Oldfield
27 Jan 2004
Format: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
Original, as always
10 Feb 2001
Format: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
Beautifully Sad and Haunting
29 Jan 2005
Format: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.
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