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The Complete Mike Oldfield

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Recorded
  
1972 – 1984

Artist
  
Mike Oldfield

Label
  
Virgin Records

Length
  
1:57:45

Release date
  
1 October 1985

Genre
  
Progressive rock

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Released
  
1 October 1985 (1985-10-01)

The Complete Mike Oldfield (1985)
  
A Virgin Compilation (1987)

Producers
  
Mike Oldfield, David Hentschel, Simon Phillips, Tom Newman

Similar
  
Tubular Bells II, Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfi, Tubular Bells III, The Killing Fields, Crises

The Complete Mike Oldfield is a compilation album by Mike Oldfield, released on Virgin Records on 1 October 1985. The double album is subdivided into four sections, with The instrumental section and The Vocal section containing shorter pieces, and The Complex section and The Live section containing excerpts from Oldfield's longer pieces.

Contents

Some versions of the vinyl have fewer or different tracks, with "The Instrumental Section" missing "In Dulci Jubilo" and "Portsmouth", while other versions replaced "Mistake" with "Pictures in the Dark".

Side 1 - The Instrumental Section

  1. "Arrival" – 2:47
  2. "William Tell Overture" – 3:55
  3. "Cuckoo Song" – 3:13
  4. "In Dulci Jubilo" – 2:50
  5. "Portsmouth" – 2:02
  6. "Jungle Gardenia" – 2:37
  7. "Guilty" – 4:04
  8. "Blue Peter" – 2:07
  9. "Waldberg" (The Peak) – 3:24
  10. "Wonderful Land" – 3:39
  11. "Etude" (Theme from The Killing Fields) – 3:07

Side 2 - The Vocal Section

  1. "Moonlight Shadow" – 3:36
  2. "Family Man" – 3:47
  3. "Mistake" – 2:55
  4. "Five Miles Out" – 4:19
  5. "Crime of Passion" – 3:37
  6. "To France" – 4:33
  7. "Shadow on the Wall" (12" Version) – 5:08

Side 3 - The Complex Section

  1. "Excerpt from Ommadawn" – 6:59
  2. "Excerpt from Tubular Bells" – 7:59
  3. "Excerpt from Hergest Ridge" – 4:20
  4. "Excerpt from Incantations" – 4:41
  5. "Evacuation" (Excerpt from The Killing Fields) – 4:11

Side 4 - The Live Section

  1. "Sheba" (Live) – 3:30
  2. "Mirage" (Live) – 5:12
  3. "Platinum" (Live) – 14:28
  4. "Mount Teide" (Live) – 4:34

Songs

1Arrival2:48
2William Tell Overture3:55
3Cuckoo Song3:14

References

The Complete Mike Oldfield Wikipedia
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