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XXV: The Essential

April 10, 2024

XXV: The Essential is a compilation album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield and released in 1997. The Roman numerals XXV are to represent that this is a compilation of pieces of the first 25 years of Oldfield's work.

XXV: The Essential
Greatest hits album by
Mike Oldfield
Released11 November 1997 (1997-11-11)
Recorded1972 – 1997
GenreProgressive rock, new-age
Length58:19
LabelWarner Music UK / Virgin
ProducerMike Oldfield and others
Mike Oldfield chronology
Elements Box
(1993) 		XXV: The Essential
(1997) 		The Best of Tubular Bells
(2001)

Background edit

The 14-track album features songs from the first 25 years of Oldfield's career, when he was on the Virgin Records and Warner Music labels.

Oldfield's version of "Women of Ireland" although from his previous album of new material, "Voyager", was released as a single from this compilation album in 1997 and titled "Women of Ireland XXV".

The track "Tubular Bells III" is an early version of the main introduction theme ("Source of Secrets") from Oldfield's then forthcoming album, Tubular Bells III. The differences between this version and the album version are there is a male vocal instead of a female vocal and there is different instrumentation.

Track listing edit

  1. "Tubular Bells" (Excerpt) – 4:16
  2. "Hergest Ridge" (Excerpt) – 4:54
  3. "Ommadawn" (Excerpt) – 6:57
  4. "Incantations" (Excerpt) – 4:38
  5. "Moonlight Shadow" – 3:35
  6. "Portsmouth" – 2:00
  7. "Good News" (from The Killing Fields) – 1:44
  8. "Sentinel" (Single remix) (from Tubular Bells II) – 3:56
  9. "The Bell" (Remix) – 3:06
  10. "Let There Be Light" – 4:19
  11. "Only Time Will Tell" – 4:25
  12. "The Voyager" – 4:22
  13. "Women of Ireland" – 6:27
  14. "Tubular Bells III" (Excerpt) – 3:40

Certifications edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Poland (ZPAV)[1] Gold 50,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[2] Gold 50,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References edit

  1. ^ "Wyróżnienia – Złote płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 1998 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  2. ^ Salaverrie, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (PDF) (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Madrid: Fundación Autor/SGAE. p. 944. ISBN 84-8048-639-2. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

External links edit

  • Mike Oldfield discography - XXV at Tubular.net

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