# Elements Box

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Elements Box
| type       = box
| artist     = [Mike Oldfield](/source/Mike_Oldfield)
| cover      = Elements Box.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{start date|1993|11|10|df=yes}}
| recorded   = 1972–1991
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Progressive rock](/source/Progressive_rock)
| length     =
| label      = [Virgin](/source/Virgin_Records)
| producer   = [Mike Oldfield](/source/Mike_Oldfield) and others
| prev_title = [Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield](/source/Elements_%E2%80%93_The_Best_of_Mike_Oldfield)
| prev_year  = 1993
| next_title = [XXV: The Essential](/source/XXV%3A_The_Essential)
| next_year  = 1997
}}

'''''Elements Box''''' is a 4CD [box set](/source/box_set) by [Mike Oldfield](/source/Mike_Oldfield) released in 1993.

== Disc artwork ==
Each CD covers a different period of time in Oldfield's work and has a different cover; disc one's cover is red, depicting fire<!-- could just be molten rock -->, disc two's cover is blue, depicting water, disc three's cover is also blue, depicting the sky (i.e. air) and disc four's cover is green depicting a plant and seeds (i.e. earth) - the [four elements](/source/Classical_element).

== Track listing ==
=== Disc 1 ===
# "[Tubular Bells](/source/Tubular_Bells) Part 1"
# "Tubular Bells Part 2"
# "[Hergest Ridge](/source/Hergest_Ridge_(album))" (Excerpt)
# "[In Dulci Jubilo](/source/In_Dulci_Jubilo_%2F_On_Horseback)"
# "[Portsmouth](/source/Portsmouth_(Mike_Oldfield_instrumental))"
# "[Vivaldi](/source/Antonio_Vivaldi) Concerto in C"

=== Disc 2 ===
# "[Ommadawn](/source/Ommadawn)" (Part 1) 
# "[On Horseback](/source/On_Horseback)"
# "[William Tell Overture](/source/William_Tell_Overture_(Mike_Oldfield_instrumental))"
# "Argiers"
# "First Excursion"
# "[Sailor's Hornpipe](/source/Sailor's_Hornpipe)"
# "Incantations" Part Two (Excerpt, including "The Song of Hiawatha")
# "[Guilty](/source/Guilty_(Mike_Oldfield_instrumental))"
# "The Path"
# "[Blue Peter](/source/Blue_Peter_(Mike_Oldfield_instrumental))"
# "Woodhenge"
# "Punkadiddle" (Live)
# "Polka" (Live)

=== Disc 3 ===
# "[Platinum](/source/Platinum_(Mike_Oldfield_album))" (Parts 3 and 4) – 8:03
# "[Arrival](/source/Arrival_(composition))" – 2:47
# "Taurus I" – 10:18
# "[QE2](/source/QE2_(album))" – 7:39
# "[Wonderful Land](/source/Wonderful_Land)" (single edit) – 2:52
# "[Sheba](/source/Sheba_(song))" – 3:33
# "[Five Miles Out](/source/Five_Miles_Out_(song))" – 4:18
# "Taurus II" (Excerpt) – 8:00
# "[Family Man](/source/Family_Man_(Mike_Oldfield_song))" – 3:47
# "Mount Teide" – 4:13
# "Waldberg (The Peak)" – 3:25
# "Crises" (Excerpt) – 5:25
# "[Moonlight Shadow](/source/Moonlight_Shadow)" – 3:37
# "[Foreign Affair](/source/Foreign_Affair_(Mike_Oldfield_song))" – 3:54

=== Disc 4 ===
# "[Shadow on the Wall](/source/Shadow_on_the_Wall_(song))" (12<nowiki>''</nowiki> single version) – 5:10
# "Taurus 3" – 2:26
# "[Crime of Passion](/source/Crime_of_Passion_(Mike_Oldfield_song))" – 3:38
# "Jungle Gardenia" – 2:45
# "[To France](/source/To_France)" – 4:44
# "Afghan" – 2:46
# "[Tricks of the Light](/source/Tricks_of_the_Light)" ([Instrumental](/source/Instrumental)) – 3:56
# "[Étude](/source/%C3%89tude_(instrumental))" (7<nowiki>''</nowiki> edit) – 3:07
# "Evacuation" – 5:13
# "Legend" – 2:24
# "[Islands](/source/Islands_(Mike_Oldfield_song))" – 4:19
# "[The Wind Chimes](/source/The_Wind_Chimes)" (Part 1) – 2:30
# "[Flying Start](/source/Flying_Start_(song))" – 3:37
# "[Magic Touch](/source/Magic_Touch_(Mike_Oldfield_song))" [Jim Price vocal version] – 4:14
# "[Earth Moving](/source/Earth_Moving_(song))" – 3:59
# "Far Country" – 4:25
# "[(One Glance Is) Holy](/source/(One_Glance_Is)_Holy)" ([Remix](/source/Remix)) – 3:46
# "[Amarok](/source/Amarok_(Mike_Oldfield_album))" (Excerpt, all of "Africa I") – 6:18
# "[Heaven's Open](/source/Heaven's_Open_(song))" – 4:28

== Other ''Elements'' albums ==
* ''[Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield](/source/Elements_%E2%80%93_The_Best_of_Mike_Oldfield)'', single CD edition
* [''Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield'' (video)](/source/Elements_%E2%80%93_The_Best_of_Mike_Oldfield_(video)), video/DVD edition

== References ==
* [http://www.amadian.net/discography3.htm Mike Oldfield discography] at Amadian.net

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Category:Mike Oldfield compilation albums
Category:1993 compilation albums
Category:Virgin Records compilation albums

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