"Graham H Freeman" <gths@mpx.com.au> wrote:
quoted 7 lines (Incidentally, Oldfield's _Tubular Bells 3_ is really quite good, a> (Incidentally, Oldfield's _Tubular Bells 3_ is really quite good, a
> lot better than the first two, once you get over the shock of the
> "Moonlight Shadow" clone. I know, I know, but at least he doesn't put
> great long post-modernist self-analysis rambles over his tunes. Well,
> perhaps except for Amarok, which had that lady going on about
> "endings being just beginnings". Maybe Mike Oldfield was taking the
> piss out of DJ Shadow five years in advance. Hmm. I should stop now.)
I'm surprised to hear that about TB3, since TB2 was really scary.
Amarok, though,
is probably the best thing he's done for a long time, despite the voice
at the end
of the second side being slightly off-putting and a little bit too
cryptic for its
own good. It's clearly meant to be Margaret Thatcher, but I really
can't work out
why.
Anyway, Middle of Nowhere is much much better than Oldfield's average
quality level.
-- Richard