The Platinum Collection

Compilation by Mike Oldfield

Released 14 March 2006

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Tubular Bells: Opening Theme
    4:18
    4.2 ★
  • 2
    Tubular Bells (excerpt)
    8:00
  • 3
    Sailor’s Hornpipe
    1:36
  • 4
    Hergest Ridge (excerpt)
    9:32
  • 5
    Ommadawn (excerpt)
    3:41
    4.0 ★
  • 6
    Ommadawn (excerpt)
    6:58
  • 7
    In Dulci Jubilo
    2:51
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    Don Alfonso
    4:22
  • 9
    Portsmouth
    2:03
    4.0 ★
  • 10
    William Tell Overture
    3:55
    3.0 ★
  • 11
    Cuckoo Song
    3:14
  • 12
    Incantations, Part 4 (excerpt)
    4:40
  • 13
    Platinum, Part 4
    4:46
    4.6 ★
  • 14
    Woodhenge
    4:08
    3.0 ★
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Moonlight Shadow (extended version)
    5:18
  • 2
    Blue Peter
    2:08
  • 3
    Guilty (long version)
    6:45
  • 4
    Arrival
    2:47
    4.0 ★
  • 5
    Wonderful Land
    3:40
    5.0 ★
  • 6
    Sheba
    3:34
    3.4 ★
  • 7
    Five Miles Out
    4:19
    3.6 ★
  • 8
    Family Man
    3:47
    2.5 ★
  • 9
    Mistake
    2:56
    3.0 ★
  • 10
    Shadow on the Wall (extended version)
    5:09
    4.5 ★
  • 11
    Foreign Affair
    3:56
    3.1 ★
  • 12
    In High Places
    3:31
    3.4 ★
  • 13
    Crime of Passion
    3:39
  • 14
    Tricks of the Light
    3:55
    3.0 ★
  • 15
    To France (extended version)
    5:35
  • 16
    Etude
    4:39
    4.0 ★
  • 17
    Evacuation
    7:37
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Sentinel
    3:58
  • 2
    Pictures in the Dark
    5:59
  • 3
    Shine (extended version)
    5:12
  • 4
    Islands (12″ mix)
    5:36
  • 5
    Flying Start (12″ version)
    4:52
  • 6
    The Time Has Come (12″ version)
    4:26
  • 7
    Innocent (12″ mix)
    5:33
  • 8
    Earth Moving (club version)
    4:01
  • 9
    Amarok (excerpt)
    6:18
  • 10
    Heaven’s Open (12″ version)
    4:28
    4.0 ★
  • 11
    Hibernaculum
    3:37
    3.6 ★
  • 12
    Women of Ireland
    6:30
    4.0 ★
  • 13
    Far Above the Clouds
    4:49
  • 14
    The Millennium Bell
    3:44
  • 15
    To Be Free
    3:57
    3.0 ★

More by Mike Oldfield

Release credits

  • guest [13-14], lead vocals [13]
  • performing orchestra [16]
  • mix [7]
  • additional [5], strings [4]
  • audio [9], drum machine [5], drums (drum set) [4], guest [4, 4-5], producer [4, 6, 9], synthesizer [4-5]
  • conductor [16]
  • sound [16]
  • drums (drum set) [7], guest [7]
  • assistant [12]
  • additional [12]
  • vocal [12]
  • lead vocals [15]
  • foot stomps [9], kortholt [9], recorder [9]
  • guest [4, 6-8, 14], lead vocals [7-9], vocal [11]
  • additional [7]
  • accordion [9], acoustic guitar [1.7, 1.9-10, 2.13], arranger [3.12, 2.2, 2.16, 1.3, 1.7, 1.9, 1.13], audio [9], bass guitar [4-6, 13], bodhrán [9-10], bouzouki [10], classical guitar [4-5], drum machine [6], drums (drum set) [4-6], electric guitar [1.7, 1.10, 2.4-6, 2.13], engineer [1.7, 3.11-12, 2.7-8, 2.13-14, 2.16], guitar [12, 16], harp [4], mandolin [2.4-5, 1.9], marimba [5], organ [10], other instruments [6], percussion [4, 6], performer [14], phonographic copyright [1, 9-12], producer [1.3, 1.7, 1.9, 1.11, 3.3, 3.11-12, 2.4, 2.6-9, 2.11-14, 2.16], shaken idiophone [10], synthesizer [1.7, 1.9, 2.4-6, 2.11-13, 2.16], timpani [9], vibraphone [5], vocal [4], vocoder [4, 6], xylophone [10]
  • guest [16], percussion [16], strings [7]
  • drums (drum set) [13], engineer [11-12]
  • engineer [9]
  • drums (drum set) [6], guest [6]
  • engineer [7]
  • vibraphone [12]
  • guest [4-5], strings [4-5]
  • guest [10], lead vocals [10], performer [10]
  • producer [3]
  • drums (drum set) [11-14], engineer [14], percussion [14], producer [11-12, 14], shakers [11]
  • choir vocals [4], guest [4]
  • assistant [12], engineer [7], producer [1.3, 2.7]
  • snare drum [7]

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