Five Miles Out
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| Studio album by Mike Oldfield | ||||
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| Label (s) | Virgin Records | |||
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Progressive rock |
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5 |
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49 min 59 s |
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Mike Oldfield |
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Five Miles Out is a studio album by British musician Mike Oldfield from 1982. Five Miles Out is also the title of a song on the album .
On his promotion tour for his album QE2 (see also Live at Montreux 1981 ), Oldfield was so impressed by his band that he recorded the album Five Miles Out with them - Maggie Reilly in particular became famous through this collaboration with Oldfield and had with him then in 1983 the huge hit Moonlight Shadow .
On the original LP version, the entire front was taken up by the 25-minute long instrumental piece Taurus II ; the reverse was dedicated to a short instrumental piece and three songs with text. Because of the great success of Five Miles Out , Oldfield used the same structure on the follow-up album Crises and also on Islands . In contrast to earlier works, Oldfield relied more on percussion for Five Miles Out and got the support of four musicians (Mike Frye, Morris Pert, Carl Palmer and Graham Broad); The first approaches for this can already be found on QE2.
The album gives a well-rounded impression, as the main theme of Taurus II , which is played in several variations within the 25 minutes, is resumed by the final title Five Miles Out . Oldfield linked this album through a trilogy called Taurus with the predecessor QE2 and the successor Crises - on Five Miles Out you can find Taurus II , which is thematically but not structurally related to Taurus 1 of QE2 . The themes from Taurus II are taken up again in Orabidoo and Five Miles Out .
The lyrics have a variety of topics; in Family Man , a married man is tempted by a prostitute ; Orabidoo is a 13-minute piece in which the last few minutes sing the praises of Ireland's Eye . As an instrumental piece, Mount Teidi draws its inspiration from Pico del Teide on the Canary Island of Tenerife and musically picks up a passage from Taurus I at a much slower pace. Finally, in Five Miles Out , the passionate pilot Oldfield reports on a bad weather emergency he got through with the plane (the album cover shows a Lockheed Electra between cloud towers). The album heralded a new phase in Oldfield's work, as from 1982 onwards several better commercially marketed (because sung) songs could be found on the albums. It was not until 1990 that Oldfield presented a purely instrumental album with Amarok , and all albums from Tubular Bells II (1992) to Return to Ommadawn (2017) contain at most short sung passages or isolated songs (except for Man on the Rocks from 2014) .
In the booklet for Crises , Oldfield writes: “One side is very commercial (…) while the other is more the material I want to do for personal satisfaction. It's a case of keeping everybody happy. "(" One side is very commercial (...) while the other contains more of the material I create for personal satisfaction. It is a case of "making both sides happy". ")
Track list
- Taurus II - 24:43 (instrumental)
- Family Man - 3:45 (sung by Maggie Reilly)
- Orabidoo - 13:03 (The End sung by Maggie Reilly)
- Mount Teidi - 4:10 (Instrumental)
- Five Miles Out - 4:16 (sung by Maggie Reilly and Mike Oldfield)
Charts
UK # 7, D # 7, A # 10, S # 5, N # 16, USA # 164