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Recorded
  
1972–1992

Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield (1993)
  
Elements Box (1993)

Release date
  
25 May 1993

Label
  
Virgin TV

Length
  
63:22

Artist
  
Mike Oldfield

Producer
  
Mike Oldfield

Genre
  
Progressive rock

Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenaa9Mik

Released
  
13 September 1993 (1993-09-13)

Similar
  
Mike Oldfield albums, Progressive rock albums

Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield is a compilation album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1993 by Virgin Records.

Contents

The compilation was first released as a single CD album, which is most commonly available form today. It was later released alongside the original Tubular Bells, as a double CD album. Other related releases include a 4-CD box set and a video album.

This compilation was released by Virgin after Oldfield had left the label, but includes "Sentinel" from Tubular Bells II courtesy of the Warner label.

Two of Oldfield's previous hits, "In Dulci Jubilo" and "Moonlight Shadow", were reissued alongside the album.

Track listing

All tracks by Mike Oldfield except where noted.

  1. "Tubular Bells (Opening theme)" – 4:19
  2. "Family Man" (feat. Maggie Reilly) (Tim Cross, Rick Fenn, Mike Frye, Mike Oldfield, Morris Pert, Maggie Reilly) – 3:45
  3. "Moonlight Shadow" (feat. Maggie Reilly) – 3:36
  4. "Heaven's Open" – 4:27
  5. "Five Miles Out" – 4:15
  6. "To France" (feat. Maggie Reilly) – 4:43
  7. "Foreign Affair" (feat. Maggie Reilly) (Oldfield, Reilly) – 3:54
  8. "In Dulci Jubilo" (Pearsall) – 2:50
  9. "Shadow on the Wall" (feat. Roger Chapman) – 5:07 (12" version)
  10. "Islands" (feat. Bonnie Tyler) – 4:17
  11. "Etude" (Francisco Tárrega) – 3:07
  12. "Sentinel" – 3:56 (Single version)
  13. "Ommadawn (Excerpt)" – 3:38
  14. "Incantations part four (Excerpt)" – 4:39
  15. "Amarok (Excerpt)" – 4:43
  16. "Portsmouth" – 2:00

Musical Scores

  • Oldfield, Mike (1994). Elements. The Best of Mike Oldfield. Piano/Vocal/Guitar. IMP International Music Publications Limited. ISBN 1-85909-157-1. 

    • Other Elements albums

  • Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield (video), video/DVD edition
  • Elements Box, by Mike Oldfield, four CD edition

    • Songs

    1Tubular Bells4:17
    2Family Man3:46
    3Moonlight Shadow3:37

    References

    Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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