Boxed (Mike Oldfield album)

Infobox Album | Name = Boxed
Type = box
Artist = Mike Oldfield


Released = start date|1976|10|29|df=yes
Recorded = 1972ndashAugust 1976
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 162:21
Label = Virgin
Producer = Mike Oldfield
Peter Jenner
David Bedford
Tom Newman
Reviews =
Last album = "Ommadawn"
(1975)
This album = "Boxed"
(1976)
Next album = "Incantations"
(1978)

"Boxed" is a compilation album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music). It features quadraphonic remixed versions of his first three albums ("Tubular Bells", "Hergest Ridge" and "Ommadawn") and some collaborations.

Oldfield later explained that instead of being true 4 channel sound, the initial quad remix of "Tubular Bells", released few months after the stereo version, was a "strange fake out-of-phase system", because it was so complex a mix without automation [cite web |url=http://tubular.net/articles/07_03.shtml |title=Craft: Mike Oldfield |publisher=Resolution Magazine (Tubular.net) |date=2007-03 |accessdate=2008-05-08] . The quad remix of "Tubular Bells" on "Boxed" was entirely different and true 4 channel sound (later released on "SACD"). The "Boxed"-CD version still contains the "SQ"-encoded quad mixes and plays as normal stereo without a quad decoder. The SQ quad remix "Hergest Ridge" is the only version of the album available on CD, as Oldfield disliked the original vinyl mix.

"The Sailor's Hornpipe" finale from "Tubular Bells" has an extended speech from Viv Stanshall, which is from the recording sessions at The Manor Studio (see "Tubular Bells" original ending).

Track listing

Vinyl

LP one - "Tubular Bells"

# "Tubular Bells" Part One (Mike Oldfield) - 25:30
# "Tubular Bells" Part Two (Oldfield except Sailor's Hornpipe (Traditional)) - 23:20

LP two - "Hergest Ridge"

# "Hergest Ridge" Part One (Oldfield) - 21:24
# "Hergest Ridge" Part Two (Oldfield) - 18:46

LP three - "Ommadawn"

# "Ommadawn" Part One (Oldfield) - 20:06
# "Ommadawn" Part Two (Oldfield) - 17:22

LP four - "Collaborations"

# "Phaeacian Games" (David Bedford) - 3:59
# "Extract from "Star's End" (Featuring David Bedford, Chris Cutler and The Royal Philharmoic Orchestra) (Bedford) - 7:33
# "The Rio Grande" (Bedford) - 6:34
# "First Excursion" (Oldfield, Bedford) - 5:57
# "Argiers" (Traditional, arrangement Oldfield) - 3:59
# "Portsmouth" (Featuring Leslie Penning) (Traditional, arrangement Oldfield) - 2:04
# "In Dulci Jubilo" (Featuring Leslie Penning and William Murray) (Traditional, arrangement Oldfield) - 2:51
# "Speak Tho' You Only Say Farewell" (Featuring Bedford) (Ray Morello, Horatio Nicholls) - 2:56

CD

Disc 1

# "Tubular Bells" Part One (Mike Oldfield) 25:30
# "Tubular Bells" Part Two (Oldfield except Sailor's Hornpipe (Traditional)) - 23:20
# "The Rio Grande" (Bedford) - 6:34
# "Portsmouth" (Featuring Leslie Penning) (Traditional, arrangement Oldfield) - 2:04
# "In Dulci Jubilo" (Featuring Leslie Penning and William Murray) (Traditional, arrangement Oldfield) - 2:51

Disc 2

# "Hergest Ridge" Part One (Oldfield) - 21:24
# "Hergest Ridge" Part Two (Oldfield) - 18:46
# "Extract from "Star's End" (Featuring David Bedford, Chris Cutler and The Royal Philharmoic Orchestra) (Bedford) - 7:33
# "Argiers" (Traditional, arrangement Oldfield) - 3:59
# "Speak Tho' You Only Say Farewell" (Featuring Bedford) (Ray Morello, Horatio Nicholls) - 2:56

Disc 3

# "Ommadawn" Part One (Oldfield) - 20:06
# "Ommadawn" Part Two (Oldfield) - 17:22
# "Phaeacian Games" (David Bedford) - 3:59
# "First Excursion" (Oldfield, Bedford) - 5:57

References

External links

* [http://tubular.net/discography/Boxed.shtml Mike Oldfield Discography - "Boxed"] at Tubular.net