AMAROK - Mike Oldfield Discography: Elements 1973-1991

Disc 1:
1: Tubular Bells Part One (25:28)
2: Tubular Bells Part Two (23:19)
3: Extract from Hergest Ridge Part One (9:30)
4: In Dulci Jubilo (2:49)
5: Portsmouth (2:00)
6: Vivaldi Concerto In C (3:52)

Disc 2:
1: Ommadawn Part One (19:12)
2: On Horseback (3:22)
3: William Tell Overture (3:52)
4: Argiers (3:57)
5: First Excursion (5:53)
6: Sailors Hornpipe (1:31)
7: Incantations Part Two excerpt (12:15)
8: Guilty (4:00)
9: The Path (3:27)
10 Blue Peter (2:05)
11: Woodhenge 4:06
12: Punkadiddle - live (5:33)
13: Polka - live (3:28)

Disc 3:
1: Platinum Parts Three and Four (7:59)
2: Arrival (2:46)
3: Taurus 1 (10:15)
4: QE2 (7:38)
5: Wonderful Land (2:48)
6: Sheba (3:33)
7: Five Miles Out (4:15)
8: Taurus II excerpt (7:57)
9: Family Man (3:44)
10: Mount Teide (4:09)
11: Waldberg (The Peak) (3:22)
12: Crises excerpt (5:25)
13: Moonlight Shadow (3:36)
14: Foreign Affair (3:53)

Disc 4:
1: Shadow On The Wall (5:05)
2: Taurus III (2:24)
3: Crime Of Passion (3:37)
4: Jungle Gardenia (2:41)
5: To France (4:41)
6: Afghan (2:38)
7: Tricks Of The Light - Instrumental (3:53)
8: Etude - single edit (3:03)
9: Evacuation (5:10)
10: Legend (2:20)
11: Islands (4:16)
12: The Wind Chimes Part One (2:26)
13: Flying Start (3:34)
14: Magic Touch (4:10)
15: Earth Moving - single version (3:59)
16: Far Country (4:24)
17: One Glance Is Holy - Single Remix (3:42)
18: Amarok excerpt (6:16)
19: Heaven's Open (4:28)

The original release (10th November 1993)
The 4 CDs were packaged in a tall box, which also contained a booklet with a biography of Mike, and his Virgin discography.

Repackaged album (26th November 2001)
This version is packaged in a slimline case.

Elements was originally intended to be a collection of rarities (while the single-disc version of Elements would contain more familiar material, aimed at the casual buyer). With this in mind, a large part of Mike's Virgin catalogue was remastered specifically for this compilation, although the finished album contained only a few tracks that were rare or previously unreleased.

Mike Oldfield's Single (Theme From Tubular Bells)
Don Alfonso
Don Alfonso (German version)
Spanish Tune
In Dulci Jubilo (For Maureen)
All Right Now
Five Miles Out - demo
Family Man - demo
Mount Teide - demo
Music For The Video Wall

An updated track list was published in The Mike Oldfield Information Service magazine in July 1993. The tracks were presented in chronological order, which created difficulties for the compilers. The Path (released in 1986) would have appeared on Disc 4, until David Porter informed them that it was recorded in the late 1970s, and should therefore be moved to the appropriate position on Disc 2.

Thanks to his insistence, the previously unreleased Vivaldi Concerto In C (which had previously been dropped from the mail-order album Impressions) was also retained.

The tracklist had to be revised with the capacity of audio CDs in mind: Incantations Part 4 was replaced by an extract from Part 2; Foreign Affair and Far Country were added. From this revised list, several tracks were also dropped and/or replaced. These were:

Disc 1:
Froggy Went A-Courting
Don Alfonso
In Dulci Jubilo (For Maureen) - replaced by the later version

Disc 2:
Speak (Tho’ You Only Say Farewell)
Cuckoo Song
Pipe Tune
Wrekorder Wrondo

Disc 3:
Mistake
Rite of Man

Disc 4:
Bones
In the Pool
Islands (Extended Version) - replaced by single/album version
Wind Chimes Pt 2 extract - (from 18:37 - 21.47)
One Glance Is Holy (Hard and Holy Mix) - replaced by Single Remix (although incorrectly listed as Hard And Holy Mix)
Amarok extract - reduced by 3 mins (was 44:46 - 54:23)
Gimme Back

Bones and In The Pool were, however, included on the Moonlight Shadow CD single, which was released to promote Elements.

It is believed that Mike vetoed tracks with Anita Hegerland on vocals (such as Pictures In The Dark and Innocent, which would have been obvious choices for inclusion), because they had recently split at the time of the album's compilation.

Credit: David Porter of The Mike Oldfield Information Service, Rainer Münz.