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Recorded
  
1972 – 2002

Artist
  
Mike Oldfield

Producer
  
Mike Oldfield

Genre
  
Progressive rock

Length
  
3:30:22

Release date
  
13 March 2006

Label
  
Virgin Records

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Released
  
13 March 2006 (2006-03-13)

The Platinum Collection (2006)
  
The Mike Oldfield Collection 1974–1983 (2009)

Similar
  
Mike Oldfield albums, Progressive rock albums

The Platinum Collection is a 2006 Virgin Records compilation album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It contains most of Oldfield's best known work, and some rare mixes of songs that had previously only been available as B-sides to singles.

Contents

The first two discs are entirely made up from content Oldfield's Virgin albums, whereas some pieces on disc three are under licence from Warner.

Charts

It charted at number 36 in the UK Albums Chart but left the charts after only three weeks. It also peaked at number 12 in the Spanish Album Charts.

Disc one

  1. "Tubular Bells" (Opening theme)
  2. "Tubular Bells" (Part 1) (Final excerpt)
  3. "The Sailor's Hornpipe"
  4. "Hergest Ridge" (Part 1) (Intro excerpt)
  5. "Ommadawn" (Part 1) (Intro excerpt)
  6. "Ommadawn" (Part 1) (Final excerpt)
  7. "In Dulci Jubilo"
  8. "Don Alfonso"
  9. "Portsmouth"
  10. "William Tell Overture"
  11. "Cuckoo Song"
  12. "Incantations" (Part 4) (Final excerpt)
  13. "Platinum" (Part 4)
  14. "Woodhenge"

Disc two

  1. "Moonlight Shadow" (Extended version)
  2. "Blue Peter"
  3. "Guilty" (Long version)
  4. "Arrival"
  5. "Wonderful Land"
  6. "Sheba"
  7. "Five Miles Out"
  8. "Family Man"
  9. "Mistake"
  10. "Shadow on the Wall" (Extended version)
  11. "Foreign Affair"
  12. "In High Places"
  13. "Crime of Passion"
  14. "Tricks of the Light"
  15. "To France" (Extended version)
  16. "Étude"
  17. "Evacuation" (Also includes the hidden track "Legend")

Disc three

  1. "Sentinel" (Single restructure)
  2. "Pictures in the Dark" (Extended version)
  3. "Shine" (Extended version)
  4. "Islands" (12" mix)
  5. "Flying Start" (12" version)
  6. "The Time Has Come" (12" version)
  7. "Innocent" (12" mix)
  8. "Earth Moving" (Club version)
  9. "Amarok" (Africa I)
  10. "Heaven's Open" (Mistitled as the 12" version, although it is the album version)
  11. "Hibernaculum" (Single edit)
  12. "Women of Ireland"
  13. "Far Above the Clouds" (Single edit)
  14. "The Millennium Bell" (Remix)
  15. "To Be Free" (Radio edit)

Songs

Tubular Bells4:17
Tubular Bells (excerpt)8:01
Sailor's Hornpipe1:34

References

The Platinum Collection (Mike Oldfield album) Wikipedia
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