10 Essential Mike Oldfield Albums and the story of Tubular Bells. Mike Oldfield is the The 11th Icon of Echoes so tonight we explore his music and hear the story behind Tubular Bells. And we've also got a list of his 10 essential albums plus, all six iterations of Tubular Bells ranked, just for kicks. See it here. Hear it tonight on Echoes from PRX. https://wp.me/p4ZE0X-jjJ
My immersion in Oldfield's music, which I've lived with from the beginning, was one of the most wonderful experiences I've had in a while. He is a grossly underrated artist.
If you don't want to be bothered with my reasoning/critiques, here's just the list:
1-Incantions
2-Ommadawn
3-The Songs of Distant Earth
4-Tubular Bells
5-Voyager
6-Hergest Ridge
7-Guitars
8-Return to Ommadawn
9-Tres Lunas
10- Tubular Bells II
PS-The TB story will be in the Echoss Podcast Tomorrow
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