brings me back to 1976 when i visited england {yorkshire) and listened to this album while crossing the moors by car and watching the superb english coutryside a very special and delightful sensation
I was listening to the album again and again when I was nineteen and twenty years old in the rural town of Japan. Ommadawn saved me and that is best I can describe about the masterpiece.
i was born in 1975... and my early teenage years i always fond music boring... 80s pop ... pfff... when i was 14 i heard this music and was enthralled instantly... i wasnt aware music like this exists. and it opened a door to a whole new world of music i am still exploring to this very day.
It feels like some of his melodies are tapping into my subconscious, into ancestral memories. Sounds that my mind somehow already knew, despite being a relative newcomer to this genius' compositions.
Well some people have no sense in music as in the thumbs down..shame on each and every one of you. This is a superb album by the Mozart of today. If you don't get it just leave it but don't give it a thumbs down.
Pour moi aussi, comme vous tous, les meilleurs moments de ma jeunesse, saisis dans leur élan par cette musique incroyable, énorme, sensible, visionnaire, subtile. Merci Mike.
Tout à fait d'accord, Mike est un génie, rien n'a été fait de semblable de nos jours. Ses morceaux sont de l'art majeur comme du baroque ou classique. Je l'ai connu avec Maggie Reilly, Foreign Affair, To France, Familly Man... Quand j'ai découvert Omadown, Taurus, Tubular Bells... Je suis restée toutes oreilles tendues vers ce monde magique, il est un compositeur d'exception ! Merci pour ton commentaire in french, ça fait du bien car les français que je connais n'ont jamais entendu son nom, même avec Moonlight Shadows qu'on a pourtant souvent entendu à l'époque. Temperence
On en parle du climax de fin de notre chère Mike qui reste juste incroyable même encore aujourd'hui, je m'en lasse pas si il y a bien quelques chose que je regrette quand j'écoute ce morceau, c'est que j'ai pas connu l'âge d'or de ommadown j'était pas né mais ça n'empêche pas d'apprécier cette musique incroyable.
When I was a young single man, I would decorate my flat for Christmas, and once the tree was up and fully adorned, I turn out the lights and listen to this bathed in the glow of the Christmas lights. Beautiful memory for me, surpassed only by watching my kids growing up.
Als ich 15 Jahre alt war, kam das Album raus als 4-fach- Schallplattenalbum "Boxed" mit unter anderem Ommadawn Part one and two. Weil es damals für mein Taschengeld zu teuer war nahm ich es von meinem besten Freund mit Kassettenrecorder auf. Die Songs hörte ich abends und nachts unter meiner Bettdecke. Immer dann, wenn ich Stress mit meinen Eltern oder Freundin hatte hörte ich Ommadawn und heulte mich aus. Heute höre ich Ommadawn über spotify... ...aber heulen tu ich immer noch. Und jetzt bin ich 60!
Oh ja! Das kenn ich! Bei mir fing es mit Tubular Bells an, als ich 17 war. Heute bin ich 65, und mindestens 3x die Woche versuche ich, die Parts auf meiner Klampfe hin zu kriegen und schreibe immer noch an Geschichten , die in Landschaften spielen, zu denen mich die Musik inspiriert hat.
I put a thumbs down just to see what happened. Don't know why it didn't come up . Who could give a stuff about people who disliked this. Its as beautiful as it was when I heard it in the 70s. Sublime. Saw it live too. Unbelievable.and a showman to boot.♥️
Best of his music. My brothers friend died and when we heard the news ommadawn was playing on the radio. It's such deep memories the music suited the time I heard it again in my teens and bought the album. Timeless and beautiful. Music for the soul
I totally agree with you, for me too, it's the best instrumental music by Mike, it's major art as classical music. I like Taurus, The Lake and all music sing by Maggie Reilly, To France, Foreign Affair, Familly Man, don't you like too ? I'm french and my english is limited but enough to be understand I hope... Thanks Lolilo
I am 84 yeara old, an arch Conservative, an unreconstructed MCP. old fashioned as hell, proudly wearing the coat that my Victorian father wore by being critical of everything that the young did and every idea that they had but happily own up to Ommadawn being the only CD that I have ever bought. I live in Thailand and when I go upcountry on one of my regular visits to visit family members the CD is always in the glove box. Soon after my arrival, the word goes around the village that Papa Farang (foreigner) has arrived and the village kids gather around the pick-up and patiently wait as I open the doors and windows of my little truck and insert the CD into the player. They gyrate and jump up and down when the music commences their movements hardly qualifying to be called a dance . Lately some of the village ladies have attended and it is some sight to see the well upholstered ones shuffling around is a sight to behold. Next time I intend to bring some Pink Floyd for them to sample.
Thanks for your interesting comment ! You should be 86 today, I hope you feel good in Thailand ? There is no age to love this master piece and all Mike Oldfield music, it's major art like classical music, magnifique (in french). I love Pink Floyd too, it's huge ! I was 18 when I knew Mike with Maggie Reilly first, I love to France, today I'm 59 and it's still my favorite music, Tubular Bells, Taurus, The Lake...Love too Baroque, Bach, Vivaldi... Temperence
My older brother first introduced me to the wonderful Mike Oldfield when I was in my early teens,I love all of his music,but Ommadawn is my favourite,listening to it now as I type this,amazing is all I can say 😊
without question one mike,s best albums I have purchased my copy many many years ago and still enjoy it to the max as for his knighthood yes I whole heartedly agree .
The first Mike Oldfield album I bought and played to destruction on an old record player that did it no justice whatsoever. Absolutely sublime.I love it dearly and still regard it as the point my musical taste grew up.
So beautifully crafted I'm speechless... breathless. Thanks so much for sharing, I lost my LP album long ago. After 20 long painful years filled by noises, this is music to my ears, oxygen to my lungs.
I don't think it was ahead of his time. It was what 1970s prog-rock sounds like. It sounds very 1970s which is good because Oldfield never made better albums since "Incantations" (maybe with the exception of "Five Miles Out" and "Amarok").
i went to mikes concert in adelaide in the late 70's and this was my all time favourite for so many years, it still stops me in my tracks , every time it comes on
MO touched the sublime here, and stayed there. Much of his other work gets very close to this level - not sure any of it surpasses this in purity or beauty. Thank you.
I used to love this when I was 14 in the early 80s. Since then I cannot get into it the same (still like it but it was like so intense when I was younger) but part 2 I can. I think you have to be living in pain to really appreciate it, but maybe that's just me, then. Part 2 is like a different piece to me, the start of part 2 is one of my favourite pieces ever. It feels like Mike is putting everything on the line in the hope of being understood, anyone else feel the same? Like a primal cry from the heart, very little music is as intense.
Mike was in a great deal of mental anguish during the time he composed this album. Side 1 is a reflection of that while side 2 is him coming out of the darkness and finding joy in life ❤
Sublime, magistral, una joya, obra maestra musical, un genio de esos que salen de vez en cuando, Mike Oldfield, un extraordinario músico, un genio que nos ha deleitado con obras inolvidables y que son cada día más hermosas.
In this photography, Mike is the pure replica of the Jesus that i imagine... And in his youth, he was a scorched alive ! I love his appearing in Robert Wyatt Rock bottom album, he makes the day !
As I row old and deaf, I gave my vynils collection to a younger guy, but they miss me sometimes, like this one. So, thanks for sharing ! '(The final of this part, sounds for me, growing crescendo, and finally, an "auditive orgasm") .
I was 14 listening back in 1975 on my older brothers record player. Oddly enough right now back in his old bedroom listening again aged 62. He's long gone and my parents but this is some kind of time travel. Back then it felt both old and futuristic at the same time and that feeling still persists. Forwards backwards forwards backwards.
Happy to hear M.O. again after four decades, it brings me to happy tears. How the years have flown by, when i look back it seemed like a dream. When you're still young, live you life as consciously as possible and respect you dear ones.
One of only 4 albums I ever spent the fortune to buy the master lp's of (2 were his). Pure perfection...this one especially always transports my mind, evokes images of early man, greeting ,dancing & worshipping the sun
Still his best work and it almost never saw the light of day. The source tape was starting to crumble due the number of overdubs but he got there in the end.
I bought this, Tubular Bells, and Hergest Ridge in the 70s on vinyl. Now I haven't got a cartridge I'd trust to set down on any of my records and can't afford to buy a decent one right now. Someone ganked my Ommadawn CD at a party and I never got around to ripping it, so thanks for putting this up, because now I can listen to it today. "This stereo record cannot be played on old tin boxes no matter what they are fitted with. If you are in possession of such equipment please hand it into the nearest police station." ^_^
Brig me Back too ,in the World of wonderful Times ,I was 20 ty jears old ,and the Girls was fantastic and the Sound was fantastic ,the live was wonderful .
Cuando en nuestra adolescencia somos más puros. Cuando la costra de nuestros pecados no aturde la respuesta tuve la fortuna de oírte. De sentir tu alma cristalina en Ommadawn en Hergest Ridge. Aquí es donde fuiste más limpio y donde tu genio afloraba...
El ensimismamiento en el milagro de la lluvia. Asistir a la bendición que el océano derrama en las tierras. Su cuerpo de agua y sales.Cómo Gaia repite el entero ciclo y tu alma asiste a compartir todo ello vibrando incansable ante tanta belleza y amor.Gracias Miguel Campoviejo. Gracias Mike Olfield. Nunca te olvidaremos porque formas parte de nosotr@s
Corrado Argiolas...Sono d'accordo con il tuo giudizio, ma, forse, potresti rendere onore anche a Mike Oldfield, scrivendo in un italiano corretto...scusami !
You should know a thing or two about the guitar with your name! The whole second half is amazing for the guitar work, the riddling bit in the middle is brilliant. But that final guitar solo - just WOW!!!
Mike Oldield’music was a happy discovery at the hands of some good friends there in the 1990s, there Is a before and after. Thanks Mike for your talent, am so happy whit your music.
Klasyka ,którą mało kto rozumie. Słucham i jestem w lepszym świecie. Genialne zmiany klimatu , mimo wszystko jest to muzyka radosna z cieniem niepokoju żeby nie było nudno...Pozdrawiam Was wszystkich fanów
The pied piper calling & leading us to his enchanted forest with eerie & strange singing and disquieting laughter afar with winds of whispers of fair voices calling our names to return and remember as if a distant memory were falling from a great height.
