Mike Oldfield

The Platinum Collection

Album
The Platinum Collection
Release
March 13, 2006
Label
Virgin
Producer
Mike Oldfield
Genre
Progressive Rock

This compilation contains most of Oldfield's best known work, and some rare mixes of songs that had previously only been available as B-sides to singles. Disc 1 & 2 are from Oldfield's Virgin albums, disc 3 has pieces under licence from Warner.

  1. Tubular Bells (Openings Theme 1973)
  2. Tubular Bells (Excerpt 1973)
  3. Sailor's Hornpipe (1973)
  4. Hergest Ridge (Excerpt 1974)
  5. Ommadawn (Excerpt 1975)
  6. Ommadawn (Excerpt 1975)
  7. In Dulci Jubilo (1975)
  8. Don Alfonso (1975)
  9. Portsmouth (1976)
10. William Tell Overture (1976)
11. Cuckoo Song (1977)
12. Incantations - Part 4 (Excerpt 1978)
13. Platinum - Part 4 (1979)
14. Woodhenge (1979)
  1. Moonlight Shadow (Extended Version 1983)
  2. Blue Peter (1979)
  3. Guilty (Long Version 1979)
  4. Arrival (1980)
  5. Wonderful Land (1980)
  6. Sheba (1980)
  7. Five Miles Out (1982)
  8. Family Man (1982)
  9. Mistake (1982)
10. Shadow on the Wall (Extended Verion 1983)
11. Foreign Affair (1983)
12. In High Places (1983)
13. Crime of Passion (1983)
14. Tricks of the Light (Extended Version 1984)
15. To France (Extended Version 1984)
16. Étude (1984)
17. Evacuation (1984)
  1. Sentinel (1992)
  2. Pictures in the Dark (1985)
  3. Shine (Extended Version 1986)
  4. Islands (12" mix 1987)
  5. Flying Start (12" version 1987)
  6. The Time Has Come (12" version 1987)
  7. Innocent (12" mix 1989)
  8. Earth Moving (Club Version 1989)
  9. Amarok (Excerpt 1990)
10. Heaven's Open (12" version 1991)
11. Hibernaculum (1994)
12. Women Of Ireland (1996)
13. Far Above the Clouds (1998)
14. The Millennium Bell (1999)
15. To Be Free (2002)