{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = The Complete Mike Oldfield | type = Compilation | artist = Mike Oldfield | cover = Mike Oldfield complete.jpg | alt = | released = {{start date|1985|10|21|df=yes}} | recorded = 1972 – 1984 | venue = | studio = | genre = Progressive rock | length = {{duration|h=1|m=57|s=45}} | label = Virgin | producer = Mike Oldfield<br />David Hentschel<br />Simon Phillips<br />Simon Heyworth<br />Tom Newman | prev_title = Episodes | prev_year = 1981 | next_title = A Virgin Compilation | next_year = 1987 }}
'''''The Complete Mike Oldfield''''' is a compilation album by Mike Oldfield, released on 21 October 1985 by Virgin Records in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |title=British album certifications - Mike Oldfield - The Complete Mike Oldfield |url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/6856-2671-2 |website=British Phonographic Industry |access-date=8 July 2022}}</ref>
The double album is subdivided into four sections, with ''The instrumental'' section and ''The Vocal'' section containing shorter pieces, and ''The Complex'' section and ''The Live'' section containing excerpts from Oldfield's longer pieces.
Some versions of the vinyl have fewer or different tracks, with "The Instrumental Section" missing "In Dulci Jubilo" and "Portsmouth", while other versions replaced "Mistake" with "Pictures in the Dark".
== Track listing ==
=== Side 1 - The Instrumental Section === # "Arrival" – 2:47 # "William Tell Overture" – 3:55 # "Cuckoo Song" – 3:13 # "In Dulci Jubilo" – 2:50 # "Portsmouth" – 2:02 # "Jungle Gardenia" – 2:37 # "Guilty" – 4:04 # "Blue Peter" – 2:07 # "Waldberg" (The Peak) – 3:24 # "Wonderful Land" – 3:39 # "Etude" (Theme from ''The Killing Fields'') – 3:07
=== Side 2 - The Vocal Section === # "Moonlight Shadow" – 3:36 # "Family Man" – 3:47 # "Mistake" – 2:55 # "Five Miles Out" – 4:19 # "Crime of Passion" – 3:37 # "To France" – 4:33 # "Shadow on the Wall" (12" Version) – 5:08
=== Side 3 - The Complex Section === # "Excerpt from ''Ommadawn''" – 6:59 # "Excerpt from ''Tubular Bells''" – 7:59 # "Excerpt from ''Hergest Ridge''" – 4:20 # "Excerpt from ''Incantations''" – 4:41 # "Evacuation" (Excerpt from ''The Killing Fields'') – 4:11
=== Side 4 - The Live Section === # "Sheba" (Live) – 3:30 # "Mirage" (Live) – 5:12 # "Platinum" (Live) – 14:28 # "Mount Teide" (Live) – 4:34
==Certifications== {{certification Table Top}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=France|artist=Mike Oldfield|title=The Complete|type=album|award=Platinum|source=infodisc|relyear=1985|certyear=1992|access-date=November 19, 2021}} {{certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Germany|artist=Michael Oldfield|title=The Complete|award=Gold|certyear=1991|relyear=1985|accessdate=14 May 2019}} {{certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Spain|artist=Mike Oldfield|title=The Complete|award=Gold|certyear=1985|relyear=1984|certref=<ref>{{Citation | title = Sólo Éxitos 1959–2002 Año A Año: Certificados 1979–1990 | url=http://www.mediafire.com/view/x263f6daopkswo8 | publisher=Iberautor Promociones Culturales | language=es | isbn=8480486392|access-date=11 September 2019}}</ref>}} {{certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Switzerland|artist=Michael Oldfield|title=The Complete|award=Gold|certyear=1991|relyear=1985|accessdate=2 May 2019}} {{certification Table Entry|type=album|region=United Kingdom|artist=Michael Oldfield|title=The Complete Mike Oldfield|award=Gold|certyear=1986|relyear=1985|accessdate=12 May 2019|id=6856-2671-2}} {{Certification Table Bottom}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://tubular.net/discography/TheCompleteMikeOldfield.shtml Mike Oldfield discography - ''The Complete Mike Oldfield''] at Tubular.net
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