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    Mike Oldfield's 'Discovery' expanded with an 28 minute suite!

    Extended version of 1984 album arrives in January
    Mike Oldfield’s 1984 album Discovery is to be re-released in an extended format.

    The remastered title, which includes classic tracks The Lake and To France, will arrive on January 29.

    The 3-disc edition includes 28-minute piece The 1984 Suite, based on tracks from Discovery and The Killing Fields, a new version of Poison Arrows – renamed Zombies – a 5.1 mix and three promo videos.

    It will also be available in vinyl, standard digital and HD digital editions. It’s available for pre-order now.

    Tracklist
    CD1: remastered album
    1.To France
    2.Poison Arrows
    3.Crystal Gazing
    4.Tricks Of The light
    5.Discovery
    6.Talk About Your Life
    7.Saved By A Bell
    8.The Lake
    Bonus tracks
    1.To France (extended version)
    2.In The Pool
    3.Bones
    4.Afghan
    5.Tricks Of The Light (instrumental)
    CD2: The 1984 Suite
    To France / The Lake / The Killing Fields (Main theme) / Etude / The Royal Mile (Rediscovered track) / Zombies (Halloween Special) / Discovery

    DVD
    The 1984 Suite
    5.1 Surround Sound Mix by Mike Oldfield
    Stereo Mix by Mike Oldfield
    To France video
    Tricks Of The Light video
    Etude video

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    Will probably buy it
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    That new version of Poison Arrows is horrible...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kcrimso View Post
    That new version of Poison Arrows is horrible...
    Wow, you're not kidding.



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    I asked about this a few weeks back - the consensus seemed to be that Discovery is not likely to appeal to people who hear Ommadawn and Incantations (i.e. Me) as the very best of Mike.

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    If "Zombies" is part of the said 28-minute- suite this won't be an autobuy from me! I love "the lake" but I'm only lukewarm to the rest of the original album.

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    yeah the album is okay - I like the pop stuff fine but it's not very substantial. I kinda admire Oldfield's ability to take a pop hook and just drill it as hard as he can ("Saved by a bell....WAUUUUGHHHHH!!!")

    Oreb - if you're curious, maybe try Crises instead? I think that one's great - at least check the first side out.
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    This may be my least favorite MO album. I just played it the other day & was amazed that I continued buying his music after that one.

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    Pleasant pop album with some prog leanings, not for people looking for more Tubular Bells / Hergest Ridge / Ommadawn kind of stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ombasan View Post
    If "Zombies" is part of the said 28-minute- suite this won't be an autobuy from me! I love "the lake" but I'm only lukewarm to the rest of the original album.
    Honestly! I don't want to ever hear it again. Maybe I should take down the video of it that I embedded above. Nah, you will all suffer as I have!

    I gave Discovery a listen yesterday to purge "Zombies" out of my mind. "The Lake" is a great track in the spirit of his other 80's instrumentals. The rest is pretty hit and miss, although overall I like it well enough. The previous two albums, on the other hand, are both wonderful. Not too much later he also came out with Amarok and Tubular Bells II, both of which I really like.
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    I'm a TB/Hergest/Ommadawn/Incantations fan. I can find things to like in Crises, 5 Miles Out, QE2 & Platinum. I only have a few isolated albums after that (TB2, TB3, Amarok, Distant Earth). I'm not expecting to like this one but I trying to find the point at which I jump off the train as I haven't owned any of those later albums previously.
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    I guess I am one of the few who enjoys this album and will probably pick up the re-release. Barry Palmer (of Triumvirat fame) and Maggie Reilly are two of my favorite vocalists, which added alot to why I like this one. The Lake is excellent, and I adore "To France" - Maggie's vocals are perfect (to my ears) on that one. It definitely has that '80s tinge to it, but I dig it. That Zombie thing is horrendous though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JAMOOL View Post
    Oreb - if you're curious, maybe try Crises instead? I think that one's great - at least check the first side out.
    Cheers Jamool - I do like Crises, but it's pretty much where I hopped the bus. As you say, the first side's good and I like "In High Places" and "Taurus 3", but the other songs are nothing much IMO. They are OK, but if they weren't on an Oldfield album I'd own none of them. Of the later releases I've only heard Amorak which was ruined for me by the "funny" bits. In answer to Frank Zappa, sure, humour belongs in music - but only if it's humourous!

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    The Lake saves this album and is one of my fav Oldfield pieces... but it's not enough to buy this reissue
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    His best pop album, together with Crises.

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    His best pop album, together with Crises.
    Meh, Five Miles Out is better than both of them and Platinum for sure is better than Discovery. But his standards didn't really fall off a cliff until after Amarok.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sordel View Post
    Meh, Five Miles Out is better than both of them and Platinum for sure is better than Discovery. But his standards didn't really fall off a cliff until after Amarok.
    Five Miles Out is brilliant but is it a pop album like Discovery? I don' think so.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kcrimso View Post
    Five Miles Out is brilliant but is it a pop album like Discovery? I don' think so.
    For the purposes of this thread, I'd say that 5MO is pop. Oldfield's solo career seems to me split into three phases: the 'classic' phase ended with Incantations; the 'pop' phase ended with Islands(?); then came the 'Ibiza' phase with all those Tubular Bells reinventions etc. Amarok is the one that doesn't fit into any phase really.

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    Oh yeah, "Five Miles Out" (the song) is great - forgot about that one!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sordel View Post
    For the purposes of this thread, I'd say that 5MO is pop.
    I think the only track that fits a "pop" definition is "Family Man". The title track is actually a musical continuation of Taurus themes and the other tracks don't go close to "pop songs" in the way Oldfield was soon to move.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oreb View Post
    I think the only track that fits a "pop" definition is "Family Man". The title track is actually a musical continuation of Taurus themes and the other tracks don't go close to "pop songs" in the way Oldfield was soon to move.
    I agree. Family Man is only 100% pop song on Five Miles Out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oreb View Post
    I think the only track that fits a "pop" definition is "Family Man". The title track is actually a musical continuation of Taurus themes and the other tracks don't go close to "pop songs" in the way Oldfield was soon to move.
    I think it would be news to Oldfield himself that "Five Miles Out" isn't a pop song (it's clearly aimed at the singles market) but, okay, these things are a matter of degree and I'm more than happy to admit that Five Miles Out taken as whole has more on it that ties into the longer instrumentals of his early career than it has "songs" per se. You mention Taurus though: and "Taurus 3" is of course on Crises, which definitely(?) a pop album.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sordel View Post
    I think it would be news to Oldfield himself that "Five Miles Out" isn't a pop song (it's clearly aimed at the singles market)
    I would personally call it a rock song
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sordel View Post
    You mention Taurus though: and "Taurus 3" is of course on Crises, which definitely(?) a pop album.
    Agreed at least as far as side 2 goes.

    Taurus 3, as you know, continues a suite from QE2 and Five Miles Out. It re-works some of the same material and I hear it as a coda (a pretty lovely one) to the earlier parts.

    Five Miles Out was a mildly successful single here in Oz, but it still doesn't sound poppy to me - the fractured vocal lines and sudden changes in tone put it in a somewhat different category, at least to my ears.

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