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''Five Miles Out'' is the seventh record album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1982, at a time when his music was moving away from large-scale symphonic pieces towards a more accessible pop style. It is one of the very few albums on which Oldfield sings lead vocals, as he is noted for not having any confidence in his voice's qualities. The album produced two singles. == Album analysis == The first track, "Taurus II", is a long-form piece with changing melodies and instrumental settings. It features many familiar sounds from his earlier albums, such as uilleann pipes and female chorus. During the vocal section (called "The Deep Deep Sound") the music quotes a theme from "Taurus I", a song from Oldfield's previous album, ''QE2''. Immediately after the vocal section the main theme from "Taurus I" is also quoted. In 1981 Oldfield was commissioned to write and perform a piece for the Royal Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer, titled "Royal Wedding Anthem"; the piece has similarities to "Taurus II" released the following year. "Family Man" - with Maggie Reilly on vocals - was Oldfield's first real rock song. It was released as a single. Hall & Oates covered the song in 1982 for their album ''H2O'', with their version reaching No. 6 on the US pop charts and No. 15 in the UK. It thus became one of the very few songs penned by Oldfield to chart in the United States. "Orabidoo" is another long and changing tune. It features vocals sung by Oldfield and Reilly, both through a vocoder. At the end of the track, there is a song, "Ireland's Eye", sung by Reilly and accompanied by acoustic guitar. The beginning of the tune quotes "Conflict" from Oldfield's previous album, ''QE2''. The song also features segments from "Taurus II" played in counterpoint and changing scales. "Mount Teidi" is a shorter instrumental piece, named after Mount Teide, a mountain on the Spanish island of Tenerife which Oldfield has climbed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview with Mike Oldfield discussing the making of ''Man on the Rocks'' )〕 According to Oldfield some of the music for "Mount Teidi" was originally scribed on a sheet of cigarette rolling paper so that he would not forget the idea.〔 "Five Miles Out" was also released as a single. Despite being less than five minutes long, it has an unusually complex structure, with multiple vocal parts. The lyrics concern Oldfield's experience of a near-fatal aeroplane flight. Reilly sings with a clean voice while Oldfield uses vocoder most of time himself. The song features the same guitar riff that appears in the beginning of "Taurus II". ''Five Miles Out'', the album, was more popular than Oldfield's previous few releases. It charted at No. 7 in the UK, whereas both ''QE2'' (1980) and ''Platinum'' (1979) had failed to reach the top twenty. Oldfield's commercial revival would continue with subsequent albums ''Crises'' (1983) and ''Discovery'' (1984). The album was recorded in Buckinghamshire in 1981 and 1982, and the ''Five Miles Out'' World Tour 1982 was in promotion of the album. In "Orabidoo", at 9'12" there can be heard a sample from near the climax of Alfred Hitchcock's 1937 ''Young and Innocent'', when the conductor of a dance band criticises the drummer: "Don't come in again like that. It isn't funny and I pay someone else to make the orchestrations!" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Five Miles Out」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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