The Best of Mike Oldfield: Elements

Album by Mike Oldfield

The Best of Mike Oldfield: Elements is a compilation album by English multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, released in 1993. The collection presents Oldfield's fusion of progressive rock, folk and ambient textures with prominent layered guitars, synthesiser arrangements and extended instrumental passages, and serves as a career-spanning retrospective that summarises the evolution of his compositional approach up to that time.

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  1. 1.
    Tubular Bells (opening theme)
    4:19
  2. 2.
    Family Man
    3:45
  3. 3.
    Moonlight Shadow
    3:36
  4. 4.
    Heaven’s Open
    4:27
  5. 5.
    Five Miles Out
    4:15
  6. 6.
    To France
    4:43
  7. 7.
    Foreign Affair
    3:54
  8. 8.
    In dulci jubilo
    2:50
  9. 9.
    Shadow on the Wall
    5:07
  10. 10.
    Islands
    4:17
  11. 11.
    Etude
    3:07
  12. 12.
    Sentinel
    3:56
  13. 13.
    Ommadawn (excerpt)
    3:38
  14. 14.
    Incantations, Part Four (excerpt)
    4:39
  15. 15.
    Amarok (excerpt)
    4:43
  16. 16.
    Portsmouth
    2:00

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