Oldfield is one of those musicians you can't pass by. He's a man of different colours and moods, but always a man of taste. A great player and a great composer. I especially like the different guitar sounds on this album.
Fantastico ,questo pezzo ti porta in dimensioni ultraterrene.....gli ultimi 10 min poi sono superbi,un capolavoro.....è come se facessi una cavalcata su una spiaggia della Provenza al tramonto,il cavallo procede lentamente, poi decido che è ora di galoppare ,di andare , di sentire il vento fra i capelli, l'odore salmastro degli schizzi d'acqua sul fianco del cavallo,sento il fremito del corpo dell'animale che vibra all'unisono con il mio cuore....x poi arrivare al climax finale (e che climax!!!)....grazie Mike x tutto questo!!!
@@paoloziviani4137 grazie Paolo.....sono consapevole che il mio commento può risultare un pò "ambiguo/allusivo " (soprattutto alla fine...)ma così è x me....mi fa piacere però che qualcuno apprezzi e soprattutto capisca quello che intendo esprimere a proposito di questa meraviglia musicale....se fosse musicoterapia la inserirei nel gruppo "stimolanti " (x lei e x lui😅) .....grazie ancora e buona serata 🙏👋
12:56 Thats the way, synthesizers and drumcomputers should be used. 16:58 LET IT ROLL!! The first time i heared Mike Oldfield i was 15 years old. His album Tubular Bells was such fascinating. Now i am over 60, but the fascination of this music has never stopped. For me, Mike Oldfield is the Mozart of our century.
For me the magic starts at 10:01. The key change at 19:47 also gets me for some reason. In '83 I was on a school residential field trip and we had a massive electrical storm one night. I remember listening to Crises - on tape with earphones - with the dorm window wide open, watching the lightning fork and feeling, rather than hearing, the thunder because I had the volume cranked up. How could that possibly be 37 years ago!!
Same with me... got intrigued by MO when Platinum came out. Then i discovered his "lenghty" stuff as student in Kaiserslautern. I am a big fan ever since😂❤
Recuerdo cuando salió este album de Crises, solía escuchárselo a mi vecino y me encantaba. Ahora y después de 40 años sigo escuchándolo como el primer día, es más, lo disfruto más porque me trae unos recuerdos indescriptibles, es uno de los discos que más me gusta y sin duda Mike es uno de mis músicos favoritos. Gracias Mike por toda tu obra!!
Musica vera. Uno dei migliori lavori dell'immenso Mike, l'album che mi permise di scoprirlo a 17 anni. Mai più lasciato, una droga, vera soddisfazione per orecchie e cervello
Yes they do because being ignorant sheeple they take what is force fed to them without questioning or searching. In music and in each and every part/sector/facet of life. As I always say "mangiate merda! 5 miliardi di mosche non possono avere tutte torto allo stesso momento" (eat feces! 5 billions flies can't be all wrong at the same time)
each time I listen to this album, I remember when I was 20, a year after the release of Crises, I had a girl, a special one...she was my girl, but in fact she wasn't, she was married to one of my friends. I was totaly in love with her, and I think she was in love with me too, at least a little. And if you listen, at 10 minutes, you'll hear me pleading, you'll hear her teasing and finally us crying in each other's arms while making love. Shorts but extraodinary stolen moments, moments I'll never forget. Almost 40 years after, the memory is still vivid, her face, her smile, her eyes, and her body too. The way she looked at me, the way a girl could be in 1983, jeans, leather and running shoes, so smart, so cool, so beautiful...great times!
Mike Oldfield l'ho scoperto nel 1983 e da allora è sempre stato il mio musicista preferito. Mike è un genio assoluto e la sua musica mi ha tenuto compagnia per tutta la vita, è una parte di me (una delle migliori). Grazie di tutto, Mike...
Hola a todos, creo que NO me equivoco cuando digo que éste es uno de los MEJORES 👏👏👏 álbumes del GRAN maestro MIKE OLDFIELD, desde ésta MAGNÍFICA INSTRUMENTAL, hasta la canciones cantadas, es un álbum perfecto, FANTÁSTICO, APOTEÓSICO, con fuerza, con dulzura, todo directo al CORAZÓN 💖🎶🎸🎼🎹🎶🎤, GRACIAS por compartir éste DISCAZO 👏👏👏 y un CORDIAL SALUDO desde MADRID 🍻🙋 a todos los AMANTES de la BUENA MÚSICA, porque esto SI que es BUENA MÚSICA 💖🎧🎶.
This is brilliant and timeless 💜💜💜💜. My dream is seeing Mike Oldfield live. If he does that I will be there no matter the place no matter the costs. I payed 200 e some time ago to see Genesis. Music 💜. Mike is only 67...many artists of that age and even older still tour. But it is not about the age I suppose but other things.
i Remember this Album and the artist I know every song. but I don't know why nor do I remember when. l feel emotions of despair, grief, loss and very sad, So it must have been available during a really horrible situation when circumstances weren't in my favour. I cant' recall. I remember loving this album greatly. I'm thinking it must have been my comfort through a difficult time. I'm thrilled I can now listen to a forgotten memory. Accidents from the past can steal a memory unless research provides accidental clues. I feel great comfort listening to this album. Thank you so very much for this. I could cry I'm so happy and shivers up my spine.
I too remember this album when it first came out and at that time my life was difficult and I was lost. At that time the music gave me solace from my crisis . .
This came out in 1983. At the time, the music scene was pretty dark and in the doldrums in the aftermath of the disco revolution. Music like this stood out against all the gloom. I felt lonely and abandoned at the time and this music just accentuated that feeling for me, even though I knew it was superb music.
Amazing. I have always loved Mike Oldfield (mainly thanks to Maggie) but as I discovered THIS, I think I like him even more. I’ve never known his music tracks were so good.
Maybe ur right..Ommadawn is great, it could be my number1 too. It's a question of personal taste. As for his Return to Ommadawn, let's pretend it never happened...😊
My first real introduction to Mike Oldfield. A flatmate at university had the album and played it (he had the best stereo, a huge boom-box thing) and my first reaction was bemusement. Who sounds like this??!! No music sounds like this. But that was the start of a lifetime of being mad for prog of all kinds, but especially Mike's epic instrumentals. To this day, no-one else sounds like him.
Without moving away from his deepest essence, as he did later when he experimented with techno, he was able to create atmospheres that could well come from other worlds, or maybe from the future, or maybe from another place that doesn't exist yet. Dive into it carefully because you may not want to return to this world.
The themes explored seem so prophetic in England 2021. "And you can't get away" Glorious album....never dates, timeless, like if Handel had composed a progressive synth/rock piece.
@@selenerakel Yes it is ! With a very "spatial" feeling ! This part refers to the painting of the album's booklet. The next part (that sounds a bit like an intro of "To France" melody, is quite beautiful too), in fact I love all the parts except the rock part in the beginning with vocals"Crises, crises you can't get away...". But all the rest is superb.
Yes Mike is always respectful of the talent of others and happy to let them do their thing. As long as it fits the composition, which Mike ensures it does.
To a certain degree, this is a forgotten MO album. Not by me though. It got me through my late teens. I used to sing it full pelt whilst walking the dogs in the woods! LOL!
Hey Johnny Shook from Skokie Illinois are you out there? We talked about Oldfield in 1984 and how we at 25 had seen so much change. And how we perceived the world around us. Now here we are in the crises that is not personal but throughout the whole world my childhood friend. I pray you are alright. Remember I called you several years earlier...or you called me and I said I am reading the gospel of John....and you said so am I. My long lost childhood friend we are in THEE crisis. I hope you are saved and that your love, out shared love or music and our similar tastes gets you to read this. From ST. Joan of Arc grade school through all of the crazy stuff to where we are now. Hope to see you in the rapture beyond the crisis. Through the ether your friend of old Richard Briggs.
Valamikor réges rég..Azt hittem hogy Oldfield és kortársaik szintetitzátor zenészek ezt mind szintetizátoron csinálják. Engem ez nem érdekelt ,de sokan azt mondták ez mű zene.. de tudjuk hogy ehhez nagyon komoly klasszikus zenei tudás és rutin kellet..
Curious fact: I read and read and read Crisis on Infinite Earths listening to this and Tubolar Bells in a loop, when it came out (1985-86). I had a glorious youth, I experienced the works of artists with the talents of gods
Es muy bueno este album a veces hay que dejar que pase un tiempo para volver a escuchar lo que te gusta y asi nunca te vas a dejar de sentir esa emoción como la primera vez en lo personal es mi criterio
The "holophonic" techniques used in the recording of this album are pure genius, I can see Branson asking for credit info, and mike responding every listener? because thats what the brain does to any "missing" musical notes ..etc, Branson being the business vulture he is would have only seen missing POUND notes!!