The 1984 Suite

The 1984 Suite is a remix/compilation album by the British musician, Mike Oldfield released in 2016. The compilation pulls together tracks from his two 1984 studio albums; Discovery and The Killing Fields. The album is available as part of the Discovery deluxe edition or as a standalone vinyl LP but not as a standalone CD. It has also been released in 5.1 Surround Sound as part of the Discovery deluxe set.[1]

The 1984 Suite
Compilation album by Mike Oldfield
Released	29 January 2016 (2016-01-29)
Recorded	1983–1984
Genre	Pop rock, progressive rock
Producer	Mike Oldfield, Simon Phillips
Mike Oldfield chronology
Man on the Rocks (2014) The 1984 Suite (2016) Return to Ommadawn (2017)

The album features two previously unreleased tracks: "The Royal Mile", which is labelled as a newly rediscovered track from the 1984 period, but is in fact a re-worked version of "Afghan", a B-side of "Tricks of the Light"; and "Zombies (Halloween Special)", a reworking of the song "Poison Arrows" with the original vocals replaced by robotic "Stephen Hawking" style vocals with the lines "Somebody's out to get you" replaced with "Zombies are out to get you". The album also contains a slightly longer version of "The Lake" than the version on Discovery. All tracks were newly re-mixed from the original multitrack tapes.

The track "Zombies (Halloween Special)" was released as a digital single on 31 October 2015 with a new promotional video.[2]

Track listing

1. "To France"
2. "The Lake"
3. "The Killing Fields" (Main Theme)
4. "Étude"
5. "The Royal Mile" (Re-discovered track)
6. "Zombies" (Halloween Special)
7. "Discovery"

References

1. http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/mike-oldfield-revisits-1984-with-reissues-and-new-rarities-set/
2. http://www.vevo.com/watch/GBUV71501486