The Platinum Collection

Album by Mike Oldfield

The Platinum Collection is a compilation album by English multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, released in 2006. Spanning material from across his career, it showcases his blend of progressive rock, folk and ambient electronic textures, pairing long-form instrumental pieces with shorter compositions and tracing the evolution of his compositional approach and sonic palette.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Tubular Bells: Opening Theme
    4:18
  2. 2.
    Tubular Bells (excerpt)
    8:00
  3. 3.
    Sailor’s Hornpipe
    1:36
  4. 4.
    Hergest Ridge (excerpt)
    9:32
  5. 5.
    Ommadawn (excerpt)
    3:41
  6. 6.
    Ommadawn (excerpt)
    6:58
  7. 7.
    In Dulci Jubilo
    2:51
  8. 8.
    Don Alfonso
    4:22
  9. 9.
    Portsmouth
    2:03
  10. 10.
    William Tell Overture
    3:55
  11. 11.
    Cuckoo Song
    3:14
  12. 12.
    Incantations, Part 4 (excerpt)
    4:40
  13. 13.
    Platinum, Part 4
    4:46
  14. 14.
    Woodhenge
    4:08

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Moonlight Shadow (extended version)
    5:18
  2. 3.
    Blue Peter
    2:08
  3. 4.
    Guilty (long version)
    6:45
  4. 5.
    Arrival
    2:47
  5. 6.
    Wonderful Land
    3:40
  6. 7.
    Sheba
    3:34
  7. 8.
    Five Miles Out
    4:19
  8. 9.
    Family Man
    3:47
  9. 10.
    Mistake
    2:56
  10. 11.
    Shadow on the Wall (extended version)
    5:09
  11. 12.
    Foreign Affair
    3:56
  12. 13.
    In High Places
    3:31
  13. 14.
    Crime of Passion
    3:39
  14. 15.
    Tricks of the Light
    3:55
  15. 16.
    To France (extended version)
    5:35
  16. 17.
    Etude
    4:39
  17. 18.
    Evacuation
    7:37

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Sentinel
    3:58
  2. 4.
    Pictures in the Dark
    5:59
  3. 5.
    Shine (extended version)
    5:12
  4. 6.
    Islands (12″ mix)
    5:36
  5. 7.
    Flying Start (12″ version)
    4:52
  6. 8.
    The Time Has Come (12″ version)
    4:26
  7. 9.
    Innocent (12″ mix)
    5:33
  8. 10.
    Earth Moving (club version)
    4:01
  9. 11.
    Amarok (excerpt)
    6:18
  10. 12.
    Heaven’s Open (12″ version)
    4:28
  11. 13.
    Hibernaculum
    3:37
  12. 14.
    Women of Ireland
    6:30
  13. 15.
    Far Above the Clouds
    4:49
  14. 16.
    The Millennium Bell
    3:44
  15. 17.
    To Be Free
    3:57

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