Mike Oldfield - Earth Moving
- Holy (4:37)
- Hostage (4:09)
- Far Country (4:25)
- Innocent (3:30)
- Runaway Son (4:07)
- See The Light (3:59)
- Earth Moving (4:04)
- Blue Night (3:48)
- Nothing But / Bridge To Paradise (8:41)
Virgin, 1989
also by Mike Oldfield:
- Tubular Bells (Boxed)
(1973)
- Hergest Ridge (Boxed)
(1974)
- Ommadawn (Boxed)
(1975)
- Incantations
(1978)
- Platinum
(1979)
- Exposed
(1979)
- QE2
(1980)
- Five Miles Out
(1982)
- Crises
(1983)
- Discovery
(1984)
- The Killing Fields
(1984)
- Islands
(1987)
- Amarok
(1990)
- Heaven's Open
(1991)
- Tubular Bells II
(1992)
- The Songs of Distant Earth
(1996)
- Tubular Bells III
(1998)
Mike Oldfield's first album entirely filled with four-minute pop songs gets a lot of stick, and I have to say that it's mostly deserved. The uncharacteristically flat singing by Adrian Belew on "Holy" sets the tone for some earnest hand-wringing ballads such as "Far Country" and "Earth Moving", and some unremarkable soft-rock like "See the Light" and "Hostage". It's almost like the soundtrack to a straight-to-TV action movie. There's also a feel of happy-clappy, Christian inspirationalness running though it. Apart from the demented "Innocent", which sounds like Bananarama. It's all slickly computer-produced, and these songs aren't really irritating, just overwhelmingly mediocre. Oldfield is certainly capable of writing decent and interesting pop music, such as "Moonlight Shadow" or "Family Man" but he wasted a lot of opportunities on "Earth Moving".
August 3, 2004
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