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great, new order has been one of my biggest favourites since 1981.

i wish they'd release a remaster from this, with 12" versions etc as bonus tracks. great album!

Still playing Sideways and From Trash in the car. Doesn't quite sound the same now that there are fragments of broken glass in the speaker cones...

Grr..

Playing Fenton/Numan in the office. The guys are making me wear headphones.
Unfortunately for them, that just means I can hum along without having to hear my own voice. (No NerveJam music has un-messed-with vocals on it..)

Jarre: Aero.

'Oxygene 2' remains not only mt favourite JMJ track, but my all-time favourite piece of music. It was the first Jarre track I ever heard (aged about 3), and it's stuck with me ever since. There's something so special, so magical about this track.... it takes you somewhere... somewhere special that only that piece of music can do.

When Aero came out I was curious to hear how a newly recorded version of the song would sound. I liked it, but at the time I thought "Nah, he'll never better the original..." But over time, I have gradually realised what he brought to the new version and how he has realised the full potential of the original piece.

Just when I thought that track was a masterpiece of perfection, I now believe the Aero version is actually better than the original! And I never thought I'd say that!!

Today, it's been a mixture of the Quad Version of Tubular Bells - the alternate ending to Side Two is excellent - and The Very Best of The Durutti Column.

Rob

What's the Quad Version?

Quadrophonic - the first three albums were re-issued in a box set (imaginitively titled Mike Oldfield Boxed) featuring the quadrophonic mixes of Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn which were made around 1975.

Rob

Ah, Boxed!

Right. I know of it, but I've never heard those versions.

I'm looking forward to "Changeling", his autobiography which should be out in May. That will be an interesting read.

I've also heard his new orchestral/classical album is out in October. He's allegedly gone back to creating an album that it just one huge piece of music or a suite.

Apparently it's using musical and lyrical themes associated with the ancient festival of Hallowe’en.

Here's a link if you feel the inclination to check it out...

Rob

Thanks... nice sleeve. Don't remember seeing that one before.

I saw the Daily Mail or the D. Express was giving away Tubular Bells 1 the other day ..Sunday? Is Mr. Oldfield reduced to this?