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Review title: Horrible, but maybe it seemed OK at the time
Product review: The instrumental track is OK, but nothing special compared to the brilliance of "Amarok", "Five Miles Out", or even "QE2". It's the only thing that saves this album from getting 1 star, though.The pop songs exhibit the worst of the mid-80s, with bombastic power pop cheesiness and overwrought ethereal ballads. "Magic Touch" is so awful and formulaic it makes me cringe to hear it. "The Time Has Come" could be an old ABBA song put through too much reverb, and is the best song on the album, so that should give you an idea what the rest is like.Fortunately, Mike Oldfield seemed to start to drag himself back from the mire with the next release, "Earth Moving". If you want Oldfield pop songs, get that album first.
