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Hergest Ridge by: Mike Oldfield List Price: £8.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £4.47 You Save: £4.52 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724384936822 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Virgin Manufacturer: Virgin Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Virgin Release Date: May 29, 2000 Studio: Virgin Sales Rank: 14134 Disc 1: Related Items: Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
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 Rating:  - music for the soulHearing this composition is only part of the experience as it is a musical adventure that can be felt it in the very soul of anyone who is appreciative and persevering enough to listen. Each time you play it, it becomes more profound... OLDFIELD'S music is addictive. Hergest Ridge is a real place, a wild desolate spot on the Welsh border that is the epitome of everything English. MIKE OLDFIELD, having lived there whilst composing the album, has succeeded in capturing the very essence of the place in a unique piece that has been unsurpassed since its original release in 1974. Happy in places and dirge-like in others, this album is one of OLDFIELD'S finest and in my opinion it places him in the same league as some of the best composers who have ... Read More: Rating:  - Close but no cigarI have the original album and it remains my favorite Oldfield album along side Ommadawn. This mix has the essence of the original but none of the delicacy found on the vinyl version. Where is the guitar work after the intro, the brass and woodwind during the centre sections. Why was it felt nescessary to bring forward the voices at the end instead of leaving a haunting timbre to the finale.It feels harsher and at some points flat and devoid of emotion. I have deep assosiations linked to my past with this album and it brings back good memories of a youth well spent, its a shame that this remastering could not retain the original feel of the album. The CD is just another version and I view it as such in my collection but when so many remastered ... Read More: Rating:  - Rubbish.I used to love this album, but hearing the CD it sounds to me like someone forgot to plug in one of the stereo channels when mixing it. Half of the instruments seem to be missing, all the clarity is gone. Mike, if you're reading this, you or your engineer has ruined a perfectly wonderful album and made it sound very poor indeed. Rating: - great! thts all there is to say!having not been around when the lp or remixed version was released i can not comment on the production of the 'remastered version'. however on the music side it is simply stunning! there is so much depth and meaningfulness in the music. hergest ridge defenantly has a haunting and eerie feel to it, especially the opening few minutes when it sounds so odd and eerie with mainly only a continues drone in the background being heard, however it builds up to a climax on pt 1 with mike doing wht he does best on guitar :). pt 2 initially has a more carm and pieceful side to it but still with the haunting feel to, this is the trend till about 10 mins in when it suddenly completly changes and has mike thrashing about on the guitar again showing ... Read More: Rating: - Missing TracksI originally bought Hergest Ridge in the Virgin 3CDS boxset, which also included Ommadawn. That version had 5 tracks on it, though it only lists Hergest Ridge Parts 1 and 2. The three extra tracks were: 3. An extract from Star's End (7:33) 4. Argiers (3:59) 5. Speak (tho you only say farewell) (2:54) I have been 'upgrading' my cd collection with remasters over the last couple of years, and recently acquired several of the Oldfield remasters. Those Hergest Ridge extra tracks are not on the remastered cd. Damn. The sound quality, however, and if you have a stereo system that can highlight the benefits of remastering, gives more clarity, depth and volume than my original ... Read More: |
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