The Complete Mike Oldfield is a compilation album by Mike Oldfield. The double album is subdivided into four sections, with The instrumental section and The Vocal section containing shorter pieces, and The Complex section and The Live section containing excerpts from Oldfield's longer pieces.
Appearing in '85, this compilation remains one of the best available to those of who believe in the strength of his earlier work, when compared to the weak 'Earth Moving', for example. Spread over two CD's as opposed to the flabby 'Elements' package, you get the classic short instrumentals ('Blue Peter', 'Guilty' etc), the best songs ('Moonlight Shadow', 'Crime of Passion' etc) on CD 1. CD2 brings generous snippets of the early full-length works - 'Tubular Bells' & the seminal 'Ommadawn', but these are supplemented by four live tracks, from a 4-year period ending in '84. Listen to 'Mount Teide' - LOUD - and tell me straight you don't believe in the power of live music - even in a recording - to move the soul and send shivers down the spine. Awesome. A genuine Five-Stars. - amazon.com
DISC 1:
The Instrumental Section
01. Arrival
02. William Tell Overture
03. Cuckoo Song
04. In Dulci Jubilo
05. Portsmouth
06. Jungle Gardenia
07. Guilty
08. Blue Peter
09. Waldberg (The Peak)
10. Wonderful Land
11. Etude (Theme from The Killing Fields)
The Vocal Section
12. Moonlight Shadow
13. Family Man
14. Mistake
15. Five Miles Out
16. Crime Of Passion
17. To France
18. Shadow On The Wall
DISC 2:
The Complex Section
01. Excerpt from Ommadawn
02. Excerpt from Tubular Bells
03. Excerpt from Hergest Ridge
04. Excerpt from Incantations
05. Excerpt from The Killing Fields (Evacuation)
The Live Section
06. Sheba
07. Mirage
08. Platinum
09. Mount Teide http://www.fileserve.com/file/cs3QPRy
