@@Zyborggian this will be 50 years old and people still listen it as we are here all! so sure people will listen it, this album released 75 and I was born in 87
@@tamasbalassa3267 Im VERY excited to celebrate this masterpiece of all masterpieces' 50th anniv next year! I hope you're right people will still listen to it in the next century from now because thats not a bad point lol
I am 60 now My father introduced me to this musik I made love with my first boyfriend on this artpiece I gave birth on tubular bells I am in new york right now ,and still listen in special momentts for myselv to it..Thank you sooo much mike oldfield🥰☀️
I'm 63 (male) and didn't do the first things you did on Mike Oldfields music. ;-)), but I very often still listen during my work as an embedded soft-and hardware engineer. This music helps me solving the most difficult problems when the Oldfield-flow comes over me. I join u and say ... thank you Mike! Owww btw i live in the southern part of Holland very close to Belgium.
I was lucky enough to meet Mike outside the Guildhall in Portsmouth on his 5 miles out tour. I asked a bouncer for his autograph and he said he will see what he can do. five minutes later, Mike appears so I ask him to sign my album cover with which he said, "can you hold my guitar whilst I sign it for you ?" I put his guitar around my neck whilst he signed. he then said "thank you for coming to see me" and gave me his plectrum before going back inside. I was stunned and I was the only person there as it was only around 5 o'clock.......A real gentleman and artist. Thank you mike and if you ever read this, i'm forever grateful that you took the time to say hello to me......
Lucky you, wish I had gone to see him live, but I was young then (born 1969). To be able to say you held his guitar, wow ;- ) You should have run off with it! hehe
Comparing Ommadawn to Tubular Bells is like comparing green grapes to red grapes. May your mind joyfully take in both masterpieces as I devour both grapes! ;-)
And then came Return to Ommadawn that finished the journey and very conveniently was just enough in length to burn on a CD together with what is now known as Part 1.
I agree. I bought Return to Ommadawn expecting somethin as beautiful as the original. I was so disapointed that I gave it to recycling after three listenings.
I am an ICU doctor during the COVID pandemic I use to listen to Mike s music since i was 13 : then it was the escape Now it is for mind healing,,,,, Thank you Mike Be all safe
Lost my best pal when he was 23. Used to travel up to the Highlands with my brother and a couple of others, listening to Tubular Bells, Ommadawn, The Moody Blues etc. The day he died I was sat at home, listening to Ommadawn, and the part on here, (26.25) reduced me to tears. Sat in the dark, I realised the great adventures would never be the same again. The power of Mike's compositions touches one's soul.
When i was a rebel kid, jagger & richards were my neighbours in Hide Park, London. Sex, drugs and rock'n' roll!!! I was 15 years old...what a lucky guy!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤟🤟🤟🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
Hello, did you ever meet Sally his sister or Terry the brother? My Grandparents lived next door the Keith from the Prodigy band and his family they were very normal nice people, anyway hope your ok and have fun and a lovely summer x
@@redcalx9568 Yes i recall on one occasion Sally coming into my mum's house as we had a piano for sale. I did see Terry often, who looked a lot like Mike. I also used to catch the same bus as Mike's mum in the morning
On of the best pieces of music ever made. Ommadawn has been a huge part of my life for over 35 years. If it's something I can control,, it will be the last thing I listen to before I die.
I was born in the 90's, but my parents still listened to Mike Oldfield at home often. I grew up with many of his albums, but there's something special about Ommadawn... this music brings me back to the most intense memories of my childhood like no other. Each time I listen is an epic voyage back in time, I can't describe it
C'est un pure bonheur de réécouter un vieil album qu'on a aimé et qu'on a pas écouté depuis très longtemps ... Il faut le vivre pour comprendre Combien de vieilles musiques ont été retrouvées grâce à internet ?
merci merci je l ai fait ecouter a des pas vieux ami mais amie de longue date reunis dans la maison familiale avec certain connaisseur et le plaisir de redecouvrir ommadawn et partager cette musique qui apaise nos vie et memoire
je l'ai réécouté car mon fils de 22 ans qui fait de la musique etait en train d'en composer certains accords sans le connaitre 😂cela m'a permit de lui faire découvrir ,un album que je n'ai pas réécouter depuis.....il n'etais pas né
I was born in 1977 and grew up listening to this. My dad would play The Horse Song for me when I was little and when I had my own kids, I would sing it to them as babies. I hope they will pass it on as well. Such a magical album.
@@holgerneuman8684 At Ommadawn he played many instruments himself, except for the uilleann pipes which were played by Paddy Moloney. Because there weren't any inexpensive multi-track devices back then, Oldfield rebuilt the heads of stereo devices so he had at least four tracks available.
The first record I ever bought in my life was Tubular Bells. I still have that record today. My father bought me a Mike Oldfield "Boxed" with Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn and Collaborations. It was a collection of wonderful music. Then I saw him live as the second concert in my life on 14 October 1982 in the Cologne Sporthalle. I love his early music and still enjoy listening to it today.
Mike's true masterpiece, an American once asked me what is it about that island of yours that's produced so much incredi ble music. I said its the ancient cultures , bronze age,Celt, Anglo Saxon ,Norse etc that's still there in our folk memory it permeates our DNA .Mike with Ommadawn captured that essence like no one else, the music would have been relevant to the people of Stonehenge as it is to we British now.
you also make most abusive hools and terrible plane passengers, i would be ashamed to be a brit abroad, planes have to go back because of drunk brits spewing abuse and harassing other passengers
Der erste Satz, die erste Seite von "Ommadawn" ist meiner Meinung nach das beste "produzierte" Album der Welt. Es gehört für mich in eine Reihe mit den Beethoven-Sinfonien. Es ist ein großes Wort, aber hier war glaube ich tatsächlich ein Genie am Werk.
Love all these comments very! And it brings me back to the time when I was 15 y old. Ommadawn is just a great record and one of my faves together with Hergest Ridge and Incantations. Also Tubular Bells II is one of my favourites! After I heard Tubular Bells in 1973-74, and played that record to grey.... I felt the need of buying more of Oldfield's work. I'm now 63 and love this music so much that I listen to it on a regular base. This is far the best music I know. When I was 14 or 15 y old and listening every day to Tubular Bells, my parents asked me if I was going to be a priest .......;-) Fan forever
Just got back from a stay in a friend's cottage in Kington, Herefordshire, with a view of Mike Oldfield's old house, The Beacon, from our living room window! (just five minute's walk up the hill). Also made our way to the top of nearby Hergest Ridge with its stunning panoramic views of the Brecon Beacons and the Malverns. It's so peaceful and remote around here you can see how it inspired him to create this lovely work (and 'Hergest Ridge' of course). Not a big fan of his later stuff to be honest but I can listen to this timeless classic again and again.
Meisterklasse, habe nicht umsonst soviele Alben von Ihm. Das ist für mich einer der besten Künstler überhaubt, dann folgt Vangelis und Pink Floyd. Es lebe Mike Oldifeld, ich danke für die schöne Werke.
Mi dear friend Ignacio, a beautiful soul who died too young, introduce me to the genius of Mike Oldfield, when we met doing the military service in Madrid. It was 50 years ago this month. Thank you my friend. Still sounds as fresh and mind-blowing as ever. ( This was
When I was 12 years old I listened and dreamed on Ommadawn almost 200 times. I couldn't stopped to listen this real piece of art (chef d'oeuvre en français) again and again and again. I'm almost 60 now. Gods (yes, GODS) bless this gorgeous Man and Artist.
yes we were spoilt for choice with brilliant Musicians and song writers. The fact we are still listening to them today says a lot, i can't see people listening to the likes of Ed Sheering in 50 yrs time and thinking he was brilliant
incredible. One of the best pieces of music ever composed. Absolutely fantastic. This and Hergest Ridge belong to my all time favourites and go along with Mozart and Tchaikobsky and Grieg.
That's laying it on a bit thick....really can't compare this composition with the genius of the Masters like Mozart. Mike himself would say as much. It s a nice pieces of music and I do prefer it to Tubular Bells.
@@wtc175 What other rock composers would compare to their like, if not Mike Oldfield? He doesn't use a classical orchestra or anything, but in a philosophical sense he's the continuation of the work of those masters, surely.
This is so beautifully English, and a really folky, personal listen. All about melody, everything else to follow the melody. If you are 6, or 76, you'll get this. I agree that this and 'Tubular Bells' are Oldfield's finest outings. Paving stones laid here for world music crossover and the 'aah aah' vocal sound sounds as if Oldfield had a CMI Fairlight years before it's invention. The Orchestration is watchmaker precise. Great hearing this again.
I think, honestly, his music appeals to those who are old souls. Young souls haven't accrued enough lifetimes to appreciate the depth of his music, and it is deep, primal and insanely beautiful. Hope that doesn't sound sound pretentious...just how I feel and those few I know who do know of listen to him, and there's not that many.
I know people who just don't take to what you might describe as 'instrumental' music. And then only like any of his songs that include singing/lyrics. I think the Chemical Brothers are mind-blowing but some people only prefer their pieces that include lyrics.
@@Coasterdude02149 There's not such a depth here and appreciation of depth and age of soul surely don't correlate either. The love for music of this sort is rather simple in fact, you wear it on your chest or you don't. The exact reasons for it are very complex, but there's not much else to it that is worth talking about. Certainly not if it's to erect hierarchies of superiority. A bit of feel good melodrama to stimulate the imagination and the emotion of the mundane. It is the same force as narrative. No one is special for feeling music, only blessed.
He escuchado más de 40 años, Ommadawn y creo yo que es la joya, esencial y pura de su música, con esos arreglos que me trasladan a unos sonidos místicos increíbles y naturales, sin tanta tecnología de mezclas. Para mí la obra maestra y punta de lanza de su capacidad musical Gracias Mike Oldfield por éste regalo.
Es un terrible trabajo, de los mejores que se hayan hecho en la historia de la música. Sinceramente, yo me quedo con la segunda parte. Me levanta el ánimo 💪, me da una pizca de felicidad, ganas de usar su música para videos o imágenes. Para mí, es espectacular la segunda parte!
Oldfield' Masterpiece. His TB became a Clasical, but OMD reaches the top of the emotional sounds of the ancient Ireland, it represents the unic Celtic Simphony never composed in the musical world. Oldfield for ever.🎸😎
Huge and belated thanks to Mr Walker. He was a teacher of mine at primary school in Woodlesford (near Leeds) and got me into Mike Oldfield. I've been a fan ever since.
There was a Community Radio Station in Toowoomba Australia that played this entire album every Saturday morning in the early 80's at 5 am, my alarm was set to wake up to this magnificent piece every Saturday morning.
Dear Karl, my brother lived in Toowoomba at that time. Meantime I was listening to this in London but it made me decide to come and live in Norfolk. Special place. I have always felt this music links you to where you feel grounded. Very spiritual and I'm an atheist!
Some music never seems to age and you get older it seems to mean more and more to you , this Album will stay with me forever it's been more than 45 years since I first heard it and it talks to me now just as strongly as ever it did .
Anoche dormí escuchándolo, y empecé a soñar que estaba en un santuario con muchos animalitos muy bello, y veía a uno de mis perritos que murió recién, me veía felíz él pero alguien a quien yo no podía ver me decía que podía sólo mirarlo pero no abrazarlo, todo era como un lugar como me lo imagino siempre que escucho este disco, y entonces en mi sueño estaba oyendo el disco, como que se mezcló y fue un sueño muy real y muy mágico por la música de fondo. 🌈❤️🐾
Escuché este tema cuando tenía 10 años. Me dejó una huella que perdura hasta la fecha. Ya lo conocí con Tubular Bells y Hergest Ridge. Era un niño pero desde que escuche la primera nota ya supe que sería mi músico favoríto hasta la eternidad. Este tema es para mí una obra maestra y Return to Ommadawn no se queda rezagada. Lo fuí a ver en directo en Barcelona año 1992 y ojalá pudiera volver a disfrutar de escucharlo en directo una vez más. RESPETO GRANDE. Solo de pensar que se fue a las montañas solo, a componer, producir, tocar instrumento por instrumento y hacer esta maravilla ya lo dice todo de él. GENIO
Like the first light of twilight, this music opens your eyes to old promises and to all the anomalies of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract nostalgia and awaken regrets, flayed lives and the torpor of tormented watchers 🌺🕊️
I always felt this piece of music was like the voice of the ignored and misunderstood. A cry from the heart. It has an honesty and depth which is so rare. Start of Part 2, oh wow! The sweetest music ever.
Revisiting some Mike Oldfield with bottle of vino, and a fire burning, this evening, remembering my late brother, who passed away aged 9 this day in 1992 (exactly 30 years ago) from Reye's Syndrome (I was 14)... Our dad was a huge Mike Oldfield fan, and while, like all big sisters and little brothers, we had our moments, we were very close, and Ommadawn was one of our mutual favourite albums... R.I.P. Seth, keep the fire burning wherever you are now... Your big sister Beth xxx
I've probably played this a thousand times since the 70s and in fact I could play it every single day and never tire of it. I want the second part played at my funeral.☺️
Una Obra Maestra de un joven de 22 años y que cuando escuché por vez primera por allá 1976, recién yo de trece años me llena todavía de emoción y maravillado que tocará todos los instrumentos en el ya famoso sello Virgin de sir Richard Branson… genial y bella melodía…
This was always great I had cool uncles who introduced me to cool music before most kids my age ever heard of half the great bands Mike Oldfield is the greatest intramentlest ever
Reminds me of my late brother and father and always will. Driving in the dark of night up north to see relatives.. late seventies .. . Brilliant. Brings lump to my throat and I appear to have something in my eye 😪 always when I hear it. Love you and miss you two so very much.. 🙏♥️
I first found this album in 1987 aged 17and have always loved it. It helped me win a 15 year battle in 2014 which I hope none of you ever have to fight.
I'm 55 and I discovered Mike Oldfield music through a friend who was listening Tubular Bells oftentimes. He was so enamored with it, I decided to by it for myself. Since that time, every new album I have discovered made me realize how deep and complex his music is. It's now an aquirred taste and when you embrace his style of music, like a good wine, it only gets better with age!
@@tonyrobles2696 I totally get that mate ....I listened to the pistols...boomtown rats...omd...oldfield..motorhead and on occasion tangerine dream when drunk
This album is magical. From 2nd song (24:10) onwards on side B you're in Heaven after many fascinating tranquilities, trials and tribulations. Probably my favorite Mike Oldfield musical creation of all time.
@@gilessteve i would not recemend to much his 80s stuf but don't not hear them a few times but he came back to form in 1990 with Amarock wich is the greatest Prog rock album ever made and should be an album every one should hear and has something no outher has
@@timothywait9457 Amarok has too many funny noises for me. There's some great stuff on it, but that Thatcher section is unlistenable IMO. Ommadawn every time for me.
I've been listening to this album for 42 years and I'm increasingly moved. How crazy! I can't say if he's beautiful or not, I just know that he's essential to me --- a very important part of my life is linked to Ommadawn and that's wonderful!
I've been listening to this for many years and never tire of it' it's an absolute masterpiece I've never heard anything to top it! When Mike oldfield made this it was his best in my opinion I just love the way it's passages change throughout, magic!
Oldfield' Masterpiece. His TB became a Clasical, but OMD reaches the top of the emotional sounds of the ancient Ireland, it represents the unic Celtic Simphony never composed in the musical world. Oldfield for ever.
It's almost 40 years since I've been listening to this arrangement gem, a composition like the size of a beast.. It's traveling, magic, analogue recording heaven, inspiration, footprint of a genius and a great adventure. Remains unique after all these years. Thank you very, very much.
Cuando escuché por primera vez esta grandiosa obra musical, hace más de cuarenta años, sentí todo un mundo de sensaciones dentro de mí. Nunca podré olvidar el momento y la persona que me dio a conocer tanta maravilla con esta música. Sentí los momentos infantiles en muchas de sus notas, las cuatro estaciones de Vivaldi, la fuerza de los guerreros en batalla, luchando por su tribu. Los tambores y voces femeninas cantantes, me trasladaban a nuestros ancestros, cantando y cuidando a sus amados hombres guerreros e hijos. Las voces y cánticos al final de esta inmensa obra, me hizo sentir la tranquila sensación de una batalla ganada. Celebración junto con la familia, amigos y una tribu, mucho más unida. Nunca me cansaré de escuchar a Mike Oldfield, sobre todo, esta maravillosa composición musical. Siempre que la escucho, siento vida, fuerza y fuego en la sangre. Gracias por el vídeo 💖
Es sublime, junto a tubulars bells, no hay músico y música que supere el sobrealiento que genera el espíritu. En concreto, omnadawn, toca ese límite vibracional. ua-cam.com/video/GvNt4D2eB9I/v-deo.htmlsi=4rMSgXI2pOfP1AJb, Quedo sin palabras…
Toda mi alma está contenida en esta música. Mi soledad impuesta desde pequeña. Supongo que somos esos niños siempre. Con ésta dulzura que no experimentamos y que encontramos en la música que nos traslada a la belleza del amor no correspondido. Gracias, gracias, gracias 🙏⚛️
My dad Introduced me to Ommadawn when I was 8years old and I still play this on vinyl,absolute genius and still makes my hair stand up on end when I hear it.
This is the first I've listened to this since it was given to me as a Christmas present 45 years ago...And it's still a stunner!! Merry Christmas everyone.
Beautiful indeed! I am in tears now. I haven't listen to this awesome album since 15+ years or so. I do have the CD but due life I didn't find the time to listen it again. AWESOME!
The images and memories conjured up by the first notes will remain with me till the day I die. If I ever get Alzheimer's somebody please play this to me.
My British friend gave me this album in early 80's. I still can't get the first tune out of my head, I hear it at odd moments. Speaks of how amazing the music is. I think it is rather primal.
Many decades ago, the ABC TV station in Australia, would occasionally play "good taste" music videos to fill in progamme gaps. In 1978, I was 15, living in a small country town in north western NSW and watched Portsmouth and was amazed firstly by the music, then by the skill when I realized just how many instruments he was playing in that clip. Two days later I saw "blue peter" and I was hooked. luckily I was able to see Mike Oldfields name for that clip. I went to our town library and requested anything in music for him and a week later heard tubular bells for the first time. As an adult I own all his music, firstly on vinyl, then everything again on CD and I never tire of listening to any of it. My favourite part starts at 26:25 - I love the long slow violin notes
Great story, amazing how this music reached us back in the day and continues to do so today. I was a kid listening clandestinely under the bed clothes when supposed to asleep! The section you love is not a violin but Irish bagpipes.
I'm 54 and heard Ommadawn first time at age 5 in '75. Child of war, heritage in four countries, and five armed conflicts, through last three generations of my family..... Also served as a soldier and most likely have raving PTSD, but I always become gentle when listening to Ommadawn. To top things, I'm part irish, and cherish my self chosen nickname, which is Ommadawn. Ommadawn = the fool ;-) Thank you Mike, for a grand album.
This is the first song my goddaughter heard me sing. She was a few months old, not falling asleep, screaming and crying. I took her in my arms, I started humming and she fell into a deep sleep all of a sudden 🕌
I'm 67 and I've been listening to Mike oldfield since the early 70s. Brilliant still. ❤ l also love Jean Michelle Jarr.and Vanessa. But also listen to pink floid, Phil Collins and lodes more also like new artists.
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People will still be listening to
His Music a hundred years from now. Just like all the
Classic Musicians.
True that mate, it's more than a classic
Itll be Tubular Bells and not this. Oh how I wish it would be this though.
@@Zyborggian this will be 50 years old and people still listen it as we are here all! so sure people will listen it, this album released 75 and I was born in 87
@@tamasbalassa3267 Im VERY excited to celebrate this masterpiece of all masterpieces' 50th anniv next year! I hope you're right people will still listen to it in the next century from now because thats not a bad point lol
I am 60 now
My father introduced me to this musik
I made love with my first boyfriend on this artpiece
I gave birth on tubular bells
I am in new york right now ,and still listen in special momentts for myselv to it..Thank you sooo much mike oldfield🥰☀️
Ha! Me too , I was making love to this with my first boyfriend ... back in 77 ...
I'm 63 (male) and didn't do the first things you did on Mike Oldfields music. ;-)), but I very often still listen during my work as an embedded soft-and hardware engineer. This music helps me solving the most difficult problems when the Oldfield-flow comes over me. I join u and say ... thank you Mike!
Owww btw i live in the southern part of Holland very close to Belgium.
Omg exorcist lmao😊
I hope you cleaned the record, afterwards! 😄
@@jtlampsu2 Vinyl does make for a nice landing platform.
The best álbum of Mike Oldfield.....year 75....good memories. Then 20 years old,now 67
I was 13 62 now still love this album..still listening
❤
Same here,…."now 65.😊
71😊
Why I'm still listening this fantastic music
I was lucky enough to meet Mike outside the Guildhall in Portsmouth on his 5 miles out tour. I asked a bouncer for his autograph and he said he will see what he can do. five minutes later, Mike appears so I ask him to sign my album cover with which he said, "can you hold my guitar whilst I sign it for you ?"
I put his guitar around my neck whilst he signed. he then said "thank you for coming to see me" and gave me his plectrum before going back inside.
I was stunned and I was the only person there as it was only around 5 o'clock.......A real gentleman and artist. Thank you mike and if you ever read this, i'm forever grateful that you took the time to say hello to me......
Just a good guy. Great to hear your story.
You are very lucky ...
Lucky you, wish I had gone to see him live, but I was young then (born 1969). To be able to say you held his guitar, wow ;- ) You should have run off with it! hehe
what a great story...will stay with you forever....Thank you for sharing....
Wow you lucky lucky man 💕😉
Headphones on, lights off, just flames flickering from the fire, pure bliss!!!
....And nobody calling you so you´ll cut their heads off. ;)
Hear, hear I always come back to MO even after all these years
I'm there...
Been exactly there many times.. fantastic to know what bliss you are going through.
He doesn't date. He was/is a musical genius
Together with Tubular Bells , they are two best albums Oldfield recorded up to date. Listen to both albums since i was 16. Now i am 60.
Comparing Ommadawn to Tubular Bells is like comparing green grapes to red grapes. May your mind joyfully take in both masterpieces as I devour both grapes! ;-)
Incantations + Amarok nice too
I will have to give each a listen!
Hergest Ridge
As well as Songs from Distant Earth
I have a lot of Mike Oldfield Records but nothing touches me as much as Ommadawn. It's truly a masterpiece.
And then came Return to Ommadawn that finished the journey and very conveniently was just enough in length to burn on a CD together with what is now known as Part 1.
I love it
It calms my soul
I think you might be right about that. This is indeed a masterpiece.
I agree. I bought Return to Ommadawn expecting somethin as beautiful as the original. I was so disapointed that I gave it to recycling after three listenings.
Oldfield keeps me alive.
I feel the same
It is the only reason that I am alive
@@scottstangeland2878 Oldfield and 'Clannad' - more i don´t really need in music!
Me too mate
Hey, I discovered Mike Oldfield's music in 1974 with Tubular Bells when I was 15 years old. Then Ommadawn in 1975. Still amazing music today.
I am an ICU doctor during the COVID pandemic
I use to listen to Mike s music since i was 13 : then it was the escape
Now it is for mind healing,,,,, Thank you Mike
Be all safe
thankyou for your service to us all. i too have listened to mike since 13 or 14 im 59 now. .
Thanks a lot dear Doctor! Try to be safe too!!
Greetings from Yannina, Hellas!
it gets me back on my feet also time and time again, it never gets old.
Mike's music has always been a door for escape. For him and many others.
Musicians
Mike Oldfield - electric and acoustic guitars and basses (including 12-string guitar and classical guitar), mandolin, bouzouki, banjo, harp, spinet, grand piano, Farfisa & Lowrey organs, Solina string ensemble, ARP 2600 synthesizer, glockenspiel, bodhran, assorted percussion[citation needed]
Herbie (Christopher Herbert) - Northumbrian smallpipes
Leslie Penning - recorders, The Hereford City Band conductor
Terry Oldfield - panpipes
Pierre Moerlen - timpani
David Strange - cello
Don Blakeson - trumpet
Julian Bahula - African drums
Ernest Mothle - African drums
Lucky Ranku - African drums
Eddie Tatane - African drums
Clodagh Simonds - vocals
Bridget St John - vocals
Sally Oldfield - vocals
The Penrhos Kids (Abigail, Briony, Ivan, and Jason Griffiths) - vocals on "On Horseback"
The Hereford City Band - brass section
William Murray - percussion
Paddy Moloney - Uilleann pipes
Lost my best pal when he was 23. Used to travel up to the Highlands with my brother and a couple of others, listening to Tubular Bells, Ommadawn, The Moody Blues etc. The day he died I was sat at home, listening to Ommadawn, and the part on here, (26.25) reduced me to tears. Sat in the dark, I realised the great adventures would never be the same again. The power of Mike's compositions touches one's soul.
Mike and his family were my neighbours. I recall waiting for the same bus with his dear mum. God rest her soul
I recall seeing him about a lot in Denham/ Slough/ Gerrards x , Bucks..
When i was a rebel kid, jagger & richards were my neighbours in Hide Park, London. Sex, drugs and rock'n' roll!!! I was 15 years old...what a lucky guy!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤟🤟🤟🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
Hello, did you ever meet Sally his sister or Terry the brother? My Grandparents lived next door the Keith from the Prodigy band and his family they were very normal nice people, anyway hope your ok and have fun and a lovely summer x
@@redcalx9568 Yes i recall on one occasion Sally coming into my mum's house as we had a piano for sale. I did see Terry often, who looked a lot like Mike. I also used to catch the same bus as Mike's mum in the morning
When making an album was an art form, this is a masterpiece
Die Musik von Mike Oldfield ist unsterblich. Einer der größten Künstler unserer Zeit.
On of the best pieces of music ever made. Ommadawn has been a huge part of my life for over 35 years. If it's something I can control,, it will be the last thing I listen to before I die.
It’s a truly potent special album.
Interesting that you said that, Chelfyn, because I said the same thing about Selling England By The Pound, and have said it for about 40 years.
That's deep but what a wonderful spiritual piece to send you on your way. Good luck on your journey through the universe.
thats a beautiful thing to say xx
Don't worry . You will hear it in heaven even more clearer then now .
I was born in the 90's, but my parents still listened to Mike Oldfield at home often. I grew up with many of his albums, but there's something special about Ommadawn... this music brings me back to the most intense memories of my childhood like no other. Each time I listen is an epic voyage back in time, I can't describe it
You can not describe this ..this is ABSOLUTE MUSIC
C joli ce que tu dis
La musique de Mike
T'es parents
Et toi enfant
Magnifique
Same here, except for the album Five Miles Out. Been discovering the other albums like this one, and they’re great as well
Oldfield's music is timeless, like Bach and Beethoven. Good job you had parents knowing good music, but it has nothing to do with nostalgia.
I first listened to this album back when it was released in 1975. I'm 74 this year and I never get tired of listening to this Mike Oldfield classic.
Me too!
Das ist einfach nur eines....das ist pure Musik. Sie packt Dich und lässt Dich micht mehr los....bis zum Ende!
Je n'avais pas réécouté Ommadawn depuis une trentaine d'années. C'est un voyage, une quête à travers des âges perdus. Un véritable chef-d'œuvre.
C'est un pure bonheur de réécouter un vieil album qu'on a aimé et qu'on a pas écouté depuis très longtemps ... Il faut le vivre pour comprendre
Combien de vieilles musiques ont été retrouvées grâce à internet ?
merci merci je l ai fait ecouter a des pas vieux ami mais amie de longue date reunis dans la maison familiale avec certain connaisseur et le plaisir de redecouvrir ommadawn et partager cette musique qui apaise nos vie et memoire
je l'ai réécouté car mon fils de 22 ans qui fait de la musique etait en train d'en composer certains accords sans le connaitre 😂cela m'a permit de lui faire découvrir ,un album que je n'ai pas réécouter depuis.....il n'etais pas né
Première écoute et j'ai 60 ans!!!😮
@@uniquekanku
Alors écoute également retour of ommadawn.
60 ans sans écouter ommadawn 😢 je ne dirai pas que t as loupé ta vie mais un peu qd mm 😅
I bought the album at the age of 14 in 1977 and love it until today. If you listen to Ommadawn you can fly into another sphere.
I bought it too when I was 14, in 1978.
I was born in 1977 and grew up listening to this. My dad would play The Horse Song for me when I was little and when I had my own kids, I would sing it to them as babies. I hope they will pass it on as well. Such a magical album.
Well, must have been a good year, because at 60 I'm still listening to him
You are so right, one of his best albums, i think..i don't know if i am right, he played every instrument by his own, or was it Tubular Bells?
@@holgerneuman8684 At Ommadawn he played many instruments himself, except for the uilleann pipes which were played by Paddy Moloney. Because there weren't any inexpensive multi-track devices back then, Oldfield rebuilt the heads of stereo devices so he had at least four tracks available.
That's a perfect symphony for our souls ❤. God bless you, Mike! Thank you for all your precious creations!
The first record I ever bought in my life was Tubular Bells. I still have that record today. My father bought me a Mike Oldfield "Boxed" with Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn and Collaborations. It was a collection of wonderful music. Then I saw him live as the second concert in my life on 14 October 1982 in the Cologne Sporthalle. I love his early music and still enjoy listening to it today.
An Excellent Album.
A True Masterpiece
I take my hat off ❤❤.
One of the most extraordinary masterpieces ever made.
Mike's true masterpiece, an American once asked me what is it about that island of yours that's produced so much incredi ble music. I said its the ancient cultures , bronze age,Celt, Anglo Saxon ,Norse etc that's still there in our folk memory it permeates our DNA .Mike with Ommadawn captured that essence like no one else, the music would have been relevant to the people of Stonehenge as it is to we British now.
v true and our contribution to the worlds music is a source of intense pride for me, and yes this is his masterpiece.
@@mikewray6387 You folks make the best actors as well. You also make American music better
Actually most of our cultural heritage in Ireland comes from regions around what is now southern Russia. Scythia etc.
what a bunch of bs
you also make most abusive hools and terrible plane passengers, i would be ashamed to be a brit abroad, planes have to go back because of drunk brits spewing abuse and harassing other passengers
Der erste Satz, die erste Seite von "Ommadawn" ist meiner Meinung nach das beste "produzierte" Album der Welt. Es gehört für mich in eine Reihe mit den Beethoven-Sinfonien. Es ist ein großes Wort, aber hier war glaube ich tatsächlich ein Genie am Werk.
Love all these comments very! And it brings me back to the time when I was 15 y old. Ommadawn is just a great record and one of my faves together with Hergest Ridge and Incantations. Also Tubular Bells II is one of my favourites! After I heard Tubular Bells in 1973-74, and played that record to grey.... I felt the need of buying more of Oldfield's work. I'm now 63 and love this music so much that I listen to it on a regular base. This is far the best music I know. When I was 14 or 15 y old and listening every day to Tubular Bells, my parents asked me if I was going to be a priest .......;-) Fan forever
I'm the same age as you Sir and it seems that we have both been on the same journey, as far as Mr Oldfield is concerned. Great comment!!
このアルバムは、僕が聞いた中で生涯最高傑作です。アルバム全体を聞き終えたあとに、自然と涙が流れます。
不思議なアルバムです。
このアルバムが発売された直後すぐに購入しました。50年間聴いています。
大学を卒業する時に２か月間、ヨーロッパ鉄道一人旅をしました。
英国に一週間滞在し、その間発売されたばかりのSONYのウォークマンでずっとこの曲を聴いていました。
イギリスの緩やかな丘陵地帯、パストラルな風景はまさにこの曲そのものでした。
その後、ドイツを旅行中にレコード店でその晩にマイクのコンサートが近くの都市で開催されることを偶然知りました。
運よく現地でライブを観ることができました。名盤だと思います。
特に後半の英国の家屋の床をステップするような民族音楽部分が好みです。
@@文彦斉藤-d4i 丁寧なコメントありがとうございます。チューブラ、バージェスリッジと続く三目のマイク作品。生コンサートを聞かれたとか、羨ましい限りです。生で再現は難しいと思うのですが、スタジオ版での再現映像は見ました。やはり一人では難しいらしく、複数のアーティストの競演でした。
何度聞いても素晴らしいです。当初はプログレッシブな扱いでしたが、なかなかどうして100年後に聞いても変わらぬ情感に感動を呼ぶものと思います。
I'm so grateful to have grown up with this kind of music...
Just got back from a stay in a friend's cottage in Kington, Herefordshire, with a view of Mike Oldfield's old house, The Beacon, from our living room window! (just five minute's walk up the hill). Also made our way to the top of nearby Hergest Ridge with its stunning panoramic views of the Brecon Beacons and the Malverns. It's so peaceful and remote around here you can see how it inspired him to create this lovely work (and 'Hergest Ridge' of course). Not a big fan of his later stuff to be honest but I can listen to this timeless classic again and again.
Meisterklasse, habe nicht umsonst soviele Alben von Ihm. Das ist für mich einer der besten Künstler überhaubt, dann folgt Vangelis und Pink Floyd. Es lebe Mike Oldifeld, ich danke für die schöne Werke.
This album is absolutely beautiful.
ITSAGGGGHOST Correct
Mi dear friend Ignacio, a beautiful soul who died too young, introduce me to the genius of Mike Oldfield, when we met doing the military service in Madrid.
It was 50 years ago this month.
Thank you my friend. Still sounds as fresh and mind-blowing as ever.
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This was
When I was 12 years old I listened and dreamed on Ommadawn almost 200 times. I couldn't stopped to listen this real piece of art (chef d'oeuvre en français) again and again and again. I'm almost 60 now. Gods (yes, GODS) bless this gorgeous Man and Artist.
Eνας είναι ο θεός επί της γης Ιησούς Χριστός
IT was my best Time of my Live with Genie Mike Oldfield and many Others of this wonderful Time .
yes we were spoilt for choice with brilliant Musicians and song writers. The fact we are still listening to them today says a lot, i can't see people listening to the likes of Ed Sheering in 50 yrs time and thinking he was brilliant
This music somehow feels so pure and innocent. Like childhood. It’s as lovely now as it was all those years ago. Thanks Mike!
incredible. One of the best pieces of music ever composed. Absolutely fantastic. This and Hergest Ridge belong to my all time favourites and go along with Mozart and Tchaikobsky and Grieg.
That's laying it on a bit thick....really can't compare this composition with the genius of the Masters like Mozart. Mike himself would say as much. It s a nice pieces of music and I do prefer it to Tubular Bells.
@@wtc175 What other rock composers would compare to their like, if not Mike Oldfield? He doesn't use a classical orchestra or anything, but in a philosophical sense he's the continuation of the work of those masters, surely.
Κορυφαίος the TOP Litsa
The BEST of the Planet After Jesus Is Mike Litsa
Hergest Ridge is the paradigm of what an eighteenth century classical composer would have written today.
I was lessening to this song when I was 21, years old in Iran year was 1975 and left to USA 1976 I am 69 now , I still love this song.
I don't think you wanted to lessen it...
This is so beautifully English, and a really folky, personal listen. All about melody, everything else to follow the melody. If you are 6, or 76, you'll get this. I agree that this and 'Tubular Bells' are Oldfield's finest outings. Paving stones laid here for world music crossover and the 'aah aah' vocal sound sounds as if Oldfield had a CMI Fairlight years before it's invention. The Orchestration is watchmaker precise. Great hearing this again.
a bit of Irish in there too if you knew
Not sure how anyone can actually dislike this music...It is so beautiful and haunting and thrilling...
You should consider that they dislike it ..Just bacause it's insanely beatiful!!!!
@@HermanVelilla Hahaha!!! Once I read that famous sentence: "There are two kind of people: those who enjoy Mike Oldfield music, and deaf people"🤣
I think, honestly, his music appeals to those who are old souls. Young souls haven't accrued enough lifetimes to appreciate the depth of his music, and it is deep, primal and insanely beautiful. Hope that doesn't sound sound pretentious...just how I feel and those few I know who do know of listen to him, and there's not that many.
I know people who just don't take to what you might describe as 'instrumental' music. And then only like any of his songs that include singing/lyrics. I think the Chemical Brothers are mind-blowing but some people only prefer their pieces that include lyrics.
@@Coasterdude02149 There's not such a depth here and appreciation of depth and age of soul surely don't correlate either. The love for music of this sort is rather simple in fact, you wear it on your chest or you don't. The exact reasons for it are very complex, but there's not much else to it that is worth talking about. Certainly not if it's to erect hierarchies of superiority. A bit of feel good melodrama to stimulate the imagination and the emotion of the mundane. It is the same force as narrative. No one is special for feeling music, only blessed.
He escuchado más de 40 años, Ommadawn y creo yo que es la joya, esencial y pura de su música, con esos arreglos que me trasladan a unos sonidos místicos increíbles y naturales, sin tanta tecnología de mezclas.
Para mí la obra maestra y punta de lanza de su capacidad musical
Gracias Mike Oldfield por éste regalo.
Buen comentario.
Ud. lo ha dicho... la joya de una artista en estado de gracia!
Es un terrible trabajo, de los mejores que se hayan hecho en la historia de la música. Sinceramente, yo me quedo con la segunda parte. Me levanta el ánimo 💪, me da una pizca de felicidad, ganas de usar su música para videos o imágenes. Para mí, es espectacular la segunda parte!
this makes the quarantine less painfulll... thanks Mike Oldfield!!!
Oldfield' Masterpiece. His TB became a Clasical, but OMD reaches the top of the emotional sounds of the ancient Ireland, it represents the unic Celtic Simphony never composed in the musical world. Oldfield for ever.🎸😎
Huge and belated thanks to Mr Walker. He was a teacher of mine at primary school in Woodlesford (near Leeds) and got me into Mike Oldfield. I've been a fan ever since.
It was a magical moment when i listen this album .... winter, night, cold, solitude, silence ...
At the end, pleasure
Unforgettable. Perfect beautiful music.
It's a journey around the planet, through cultures and time.
It returned to me tonight and I'm almost in tears ❤
Exactly
This.Is. Music.
There was a Community Radio Station in Toowoomba Australia that played this entire album every Saturday morning in the early 80's at 5 am, my alarm was set to wake up to this magnificent piece every Saturday morning.
Dear Karl, my brother lived in Toowoomba at that time. Meantime I was listening to this in London but it made me decide to come and live in Norfolk. Special place. I have always felt this music links you to where you feel grounded. Very spiritual and I'm an atheist!
@@jansmith286 How can you be an atheist and use the word spiritual
'What do you mean by it?
Love dat situation man x
@@Andy-yo3hd Probabaly Agnostic... but listen to the music and you won't really care anyway... :)
A work of tremendous spiritual value. Eternal, thank you Mike.
The best instrumental álbum of XX Century.Agree?
+AMAROK ❗❗❗
Nothing more to say than thank you.
I am one of many, who have recognised this as the work of a genius. Thank You Mike Oldfield!!
Happy birthday mister Oldfield. Your music was a part of my youth a long time ago. Thank you!
Some music never seems to age and you get older it seems to mean more and more to you , this Album will stay with me forever it's been more than 45 years since I first heard it and it talks to me now just as strongly as ever it did .
This is just so insanely good. No words can discribe how masterful this work of art is!
In my opinion I think this beats tubular bells hands down .
No true words can say🙏 my first love bought me the album and signed it with her love for me.🙏
@@colinclarke4285 Definitely, Colin.
and so it is....
Yes! It's indiscribable!
Anoche dormí escuchándolo, y empecé a soñar que estaba en un santuario con muchos animalitos muy bello, y veía a uno de mis perritos que murió recién, me veía felíz él pero alguien a quien yo no podía ver me decía que podía sólo mirarlo pero no abrazarlo, todo era como un lugar como me lo imagino siempre que escucho este disco, y entonces en mi sueño estaba oyendo el disco, como que se mezcló y fue un sueño muy real y muy mágico por la música de fondo. 🌈❤️🐾
Escuché este tema cuando tenía 10 años. Me dejó una huella que perdura hasta la fecha. Ya lo conocí con Tubular Bells y Hergest Ridge. Era un niño pero desde que escuche la primera nota ya supe que sería mi músico favoríto hasta la eternidad. Este tema es para mí una obra maestra y Return to Ommadawn no se queda rezagada. Lo fuí a ver en directo en Barcelona año 1992 y ojalá pudiera volver a disfrutar de escucharlo en directo una vez más. RESPETO GRANDE. Solo de pensar que se fue a las montañas solo, a componer, producir, tocar instrumento por instrumento y hacer esta maravilla ya lo dice todo de él. GENIO
Like the first light of twilight, this music opens your eyes to old promises and to all the anomalies of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract
nostalgia and awaken regrets, flayed lives and the torpor of tormented watchers 🌺🕊️
my precious.... for sooooo long and always. Thank you for this tender and bombastic sounds, Mr. Mike Oldfield.
I always felt this piece of music was like the voice of the ignored and misunderstood. A cry from the heart. It has an honesty and depth which is so rare. Start of Part 2, oh wow! The sweetest music ever.
And the ending little tune has to be the sweetest song ever made. Makes me shiver and smile and tear up...
I always thought it was a horse running
Dwelling on his mother's passing, he explored the most candid and lightful sides of his heart in order to fight his sadness and anger.
Boxed ? Three Masterpieces in a Row, Not Bad Coneman ... 👍👍👏👏👏👏🎶🎶....
coneman its a very sad album its about the comedown of physodelics in the 2nd part
It was SUPERLATIVE when I was 19.
Now I am 60,
It is still there...
Along with INCANTATIONS
😛
Oh blimey... Listening to it now... How beautiful... How many years ago?... I'm now 63... I'm still in orr of the whole album...
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Just turned 61 and this album was never off my turntable back in the day. A real work of genius that is timeless
Eggs
Revisiting some Mike Oldfield with bottle of vino, and a fire burning, this evening, remembering my late brother, who passed away aged 9 this day in 1992 (exactly 30 years ago) from Reye's Syndrome (I was 14)... Our dad was a huge Mike Oldfield fan, and while, like all big sisters and little brothers, we had our moments, we were very close, and Ommadawn was one of our mutual favourite albums... R.I.P. Seth, keep the fire burning wherever you are now... Your big sister Beth xxx
This is my favourite Mike Oldfield album always has been
Me too x
My absolute favourite Mike Oldfield album. Never mind 5 stars, this is worth ten!
What a finale and thenHoseback. Exquisite.
I've probably played this a thousand times since the 70s and in fact I could play it every single day and never tire of it. I want the second part played at my funeral.☺️
Una Obra Maestra de un joven de 22 años y que cuando escuché por vez primera por allá 1976, recién yo de trece años me llena todavía de emoción y maravillado que tocará todos los instrumentos en el ya famoso sello Virgin de sir Richard Branson… genial y bella melodía…
This was always great I had cool uncles who introduced me to cool music before most kids my age ever heard of half the great bands Mike Oldfield is the greatest intramentlest ever
Reminds me of my late brother and father and always will. Driving in the dark of night up north to see relatives.. late seventies .. . Brilliant. Brings lump to my throat and I appear to have something in my eye 😪 always when I hear it. Love you and miss you two so very much.. 🙏♥️
I've just, today listened to Ommadawn, on UA-cam, not heard it for 40 year's. Still sends a shiver down my spine.
I first found this album in 1987 aged 17and have always loved it. It helped me win a 15 year battle in 2014 which I hope none of you ever have to fight.
Glad you made it bro!
2022 and it’s still helping but in a different way, heals the soul.
@@massimogiuntini1 thank you my friend
I'm 55 and I discovered Mike Oldfield music through a friend who was listening Tubular Bells oftentimes. He was so enamored with it, I decided to by it for myself. Since that time, every new album I have discovered made me realize how deep and complex his music is. It's now an aquirred taste and when you embrace his style of music, like a good wine, it only gets better with age!
This has been my top album by any artist ever for a very long time, and will probably remain so.
I think the same!!..best LP from the human be....
Tonight, Ommadawn, 3 weeks and again I listen the whole record! Love it till I'm dead.
I was a punk rocker when I also was secretly listening to this masterpiece……please forgive me all you punk rockers.
i was a total heavy rocker ....but................me too.
There is more punk in that album than inside the whole Sex Pistol discography.
So was Sheena.
Hahaaaaaaa
What are you talking about Punks dont have a Style of music
We listen to everything💓💓💓💓💓💓💓
@@tonyrobles2696 I totally get that mate ....I listened to the pistols...boomtown rats...omd...oldfield..motorhead and on occasion tangerine dream when drunk
En mi opinión el mejor lp de mike oldfield es una auténtica obra maestra esta lleno de espiritualidad
Most excellent. I am in awe, have been for 45 years.
Same here ever since I discovered this great man & musician back in the 70's ! ! !
This album is magical.
From 2nd song (24:10) onwards on side B you're in Heaven after many fascinating tranquilities, trials and tribulations.
Probably my favorite Mike Oldfield musical creation of all time.
_Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Incantations,_ ...then what?
I was in the Air Force 1975 Lackland - put this album on every night to go to sleep.
@@gilessteve i would not recemend to much his 80s stuf but don't not hear them a few times but he came back to form in 1990 with Amarock wich is the greatest Prog rock album ever made and should be an album every one should hear and has something no outher has
@@okrafeet correct with the indica
@@timothywait9457 Amarok has too many funny noises for me. There's some great stuff on it, but that Thatcher section is unlistenable IMO. Ommadawn every time for me.
I've been listening to this album for 42 years and I'm increasingly moved. How crazy! I can't say if he's beautiful or not, I just know that he's essential to me --- a very important part of my life is linked to Ommadawn and that's wonderful!
I've been listening to this for many years and never tire of it' it's an absolute masterpiece I've never heard anything to top it!
When Mike oldfield made this it was his best in my opinion I just love the way it's passages change throughout, magic!
Oldfield' Masterpiece. His TB became a Clasical, but OMD reaches the top of the emotional sounds of the ancient Ireland, it represents the unic Celtic Simphony never composed in the musical world. Oldfield for ever.
For a second I thought you were referring to Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark OMD. ;-)
It's almost 40 years since I've been listening to this arrangement gem, a composition like the size of a beast.. It's traveling, magic, analogue recording heaven, inspiration, footprint of a genius and a great adventure. Remains unique after all these years. Thank you very, very much.
Cuando escuché por primera vez esta grandiosa obra musical, hace más de cuarenta años, sentí todo un mundo de sensaciones dentro de mí. Nunca podré olvidar el momento y la persona que me dio a conocer tanta maravilla con esta música. Sentí los momentos infantiles en muchas de sus notas, las cuatro estaciones de Vivaldi, la fuerza de los guerreros en batalla, luchando por su tribu. Los tambores y voces femeninas cantantes, me trasladaban a nuestros ancestros, cantando y cuidando a sus amados hombres guerreros e hijos. Las voces y cánticos al final de esta inmensa obra, me hizo sentir la tranquila sensación de una batalla ganada. Celebración junto con la familia, amigos y una tribu, mucho más unida.
Nunca me cansaré de escuchar a Mike Oldfield, sobre todo, esta maravillosa composición musical. Siempre que la escucho, siento vida, fuerza y fuego en la sangre.
Gracias por el vídeo 💖
No puedo imaginarme, nunca a nadie, grabar un disco tan especial y que evoque tanto...no hay palabras 😊
Es sublime, junto a tubulars bells, no hay músico y música que supere el sobrealiento que genera el espíritu. En concreto, omnadawn, toca ese límite vibracional. ua-cam.com/video/GvNt4D2eB9I/v-deo.htmlsi=4rMSgXI2pOfP1AJb, Quedo sin palabras…
Toda mi alma está contenida en esta música. Mi soledad impuesta desde pequeña. Supongo que somos esos niños siempre. Con ésta dulzura que no experimentamos y que encontramos en la música que nos traslada a la belleza del amor no correspondido. Gracias, gracias, gracias 🙏⚛️
My dad Introduced me to Ommadawn when I was 8years old and I still play this on vinyl,absolute genius and still makes my hair stand up on end when I hear it.
good reply, i know music can do that happens to me when i here something really moving :-)
My dad introduced me (only) to James Last :-/
@SteppenWolff100 That´s indeed true!
Un chef-d'œuvre que l'on écoute toujours avec le même plaisir après autant d'années...
Haven’t listened to this for years. Bought it on vinyl back in the seventies. I’d forgotten how heart warming and inspiring it was!
what a great, chilled way to start the weekend!
This is the first I've listened to this since it was given to me as a Christmas present 45 years ago...And it's still a stunner!! Merry Christmas everyone.
And Merry Christmas to you.
Ahh , my youth
Tubular Bells
Hergest Ridge and
Ommadawn
Life was simpler
Beautiful indeed! I am in tears now. I haven't listen to this awesome album since 15+ years or so. I do have the CD but due life I didn't find the time to listen it again. AWESOME!
Melodía espiritual para acariciar mi alma en tiempos difíciles hace sanar mis pensamientos 🛐
My go to album when I'd had a bad day at work.
Lie on the floor, turn the sound up & breathe.
WHAT A REAL MONSTER. The guitar around 20 minutes is majestic. Pain and joy at the same time. How is it posible.
The images and memories conjured up by the first notes will remain with me till the day I die. If I ever get Alzheimer's somebody please play this to me.
totally understand. i'm gonna have to tell this to my future children
My British friend gave me this album in early 80's. I still can't get the first tune out of my head, I hear it at odd moments. Speaks of how amazing the music is. I think it is rather primal.
It's very earthly and ancient, I agree.
Many decades ago, the ABC TV station in Australia, would occasionally play "good taste" music videos to fill in progamme gaps. In 1978, I was 15, living in a small country town in north western NSW and watched Portsmouth and was amazed firstly by the music, then by the skill when I realized just how many instruments he was playing in that clip. Two days later I saw "blue peter" and I was hooked. luckily I was able to see Mike Oldfields name for that clip. I went to our town library and requested anything in music for him and a week later heard tubular bells for the first time. As an adult I own all his music, firstly on vinyl, then everything again on CD and I never tire of listening to any of it. My favourite part starts at 26:25 - I love the long slow violin notes
Great story, amazing how this music reached us back in the day and continues to do so today. I was a kid listening clandestinely under the bed clothes when supposed to asleep! The section you love is not a violin but Irish bagpipes.
Ich liebe diese Musik über 35 Jahren schon.Sie beruhigt mich und lässt mich im Kopf 15 /20.....wieder sein 😉😍😎
I'm 54 and heard Ommadawn first time at age 5 in '75.
Child of war, heritage in four countries, and five armed conflicts, through last three generations of my family.....
Also served as a soldier and most likely have raving PTSD, but I always become gentle when listening to Ommadawn.
To top things, I'm part irish, and cherish my self chosen nickname, which is Ommadawn.
Ommadawn = the fool ;-)
Thank you Mike, for a grand album.
I'm 55 and I use to listen to this masterpiece with my dad I was only five but I loved Mike Oldfeld. Miss you dad, till we meet again .🎵
This is the first song my goddaughter heard me sing. She was a few months old, not falling asleep, screaming and crying. I took her in my arms, I started humming and she fell into a deep sleep all of a sudden 🕌
Good vibes passing through you onto her. Beautiful moment. Gave me one of those genuine instant smile.
I'm 67 and I've been listening to Mike oldfield since the early 70s. Brilliant still. ❤ l also love Jean Michelle Jarr.and Vanessa. But also listen to pink floid, Phil Collins and lodes more also like new artists.