Audio CD review:
Mike Oldfield - The Millennium Bell

Mike Oldfield - The Millennium Bell

Band: Mike Oldfield Title: The Millennium Bell Rating: Release Date: 06 December, 1999 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Peace On Earth 2: Pacha Mama 3: Santa Maria 4: Sunlight Shining Through Cloud 5: The Doge's Palace 6: Lake Constance 7: Mastermind 8: Broad Sunlit Uplands 9: Liberation 10: Amber Light 11: The Millennium Bell

Customer Reviews Not much new here I have Tubular Bells 1, 2, and 3, and just like the cover shows (I should have seen it coming), this is Tubular Bells 4. I was really looking forward to something new from Oldfield. Some of the same guitar licks, sounds, beats. I was expecting it to move forward, but really, it's a retrospective, so my expectations were incorrectly set. So, get this for its own sake - the music will sound really familiar. There are many spoken and chanted parts, which sometimes help and sometimes make one cringe. In fact, I may have to drop my other Oldfield items from my wish lists. Maybe the library has them to borrow?. The only good thing....... The melody to that one is truly beautiful. The only good thing I found about this album was that I transposed "Santa Maria" onto acoustic and electric guitar and recorded it on my 4 track. The rest of this is not that good, and the excitment that I felt when I first spied it was deflated after the 5th or 6th listen. Definitley for the collector only. Encore! I wasn't disappointed in this Cd, and don't mind at all recommending it. I'm a forever Mike Oldfield fan - "Tubular Bells" being my all-time favorite. I wouldn't not have it in my Oldfield collection. I especially like the track "Sunlight Shining Through Cloud". . . You can see a complete list of all Mike Oldfield discography, or go back to the Mike Oldfield tabs