Mike Oldfield - Heaven's Open

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Free Music Review: "...don't you know we're not virgin..."
Hit: 5 Stars

Mike is a lead singer here - he has got a very good loud and deep voice,i always liked him as a vocalist ("Crises","Five Miles out","Pictures in the dark","On horseback") and here he gives himself an oportunity to shine...

The arrangents are more simplier and catchy than on "dicsovery" or "Five miles out"...and the pop songs are really good.
"Make Make" is a very funny parody of eighties pop music with Tina Turner styled vocal part and amusing synth effects...Still Vocals and lyrics are superb.this is a Message to Virgin, the company that Mike didn't liked much because they tried to tamed his style and wanted to make a pop star from him...
while "Mr.shame","Gimme back" and the title track (that is well known from his compilations and radio) are a nice early nineties pop-rock tunes,"No dream" is one of the most haunting and personal rock ballads that Mike ever created...it features moving lyrics,one of the best that he has written..."there's a face in the window,someone who you know or who you used to be, could that somebody be me?" Guitar solo is really wonderfull.

but hte most interesting track is "Music from the balcony" - 20 minutes long chaotic piece of music, simmilar to "Amarok"...it has got some interesting sound experiments (Many funny samples)
it is different from everything that Mike did later and before...

the whole album is the last one recorded for VIRGIN company...and this is the last typical pop-experimental album.
after his next album "Tubular bells 2" he joined hte new-age and ambient music.Anyway - this can be a shock for an Average music and Oldfield fan if you know only "Moonlight shadow" or "tubular bells"...
But trust me,it is one of his best albums,not only one of the most interesting ones...

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