Moss Side Story

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They never made the movie to go with this soundtrack just in case the movie sucked as badly as this garbage.

An album I couldn’t muster feeling one way or another. Late 80’s electronica.

Interesting. I read a little bit about the album before listening so I knew that it was created to be a soundtrack to a film that didn't exist. Pretty cool concept and the music had a dramatic flair to it, but i can't see myself listening to it in my free time.

Nope

Note taste

Favorite song: The Man With The Golden Arm.

Oh how very silly! There is no reason I should have to listen to this before I die.

I mean I like concept albums, however I wouldn't listen to a soundtrack of a film that did exist let alone has been made up for this. Tried to follow the story along but it's mostly background jazz. I mean at times I thought this would be a cool car chase soundtrack, but so what? In terms of an actual album I want to listen to it's not there.

I love field recordings and ambient weird shit, but this was not my cuppa.

I have to say, this was an interesting listen - but not necessarily always a very fun one. I appreciate the effort though.

It's just a bit boring. Well put together but just like film soundtrack without any of the emotional association attached. It did nothing for me. It had a few moments. The discordant flare ups, the occasional bits of clash between jaunty and sinister.

very cool

Not something I'd listen to everyday, but a very cool instrumental album. Bordering on avant garde.

Well that was a pleasant surprise. I wasn't expecting much from reading the Wiki page, but I got the much - and some more. And now I'd like someone to make the film, please.

I think it's a cool concept, but for what reason is this album on the list?

Not my cup of tea.

Bizarre

As something that should be looked at as more of cinematic piece of music that has no partner in film, I think it's an interesting work of art. Perhaps the artist envisioned took inspiration from such idea that it would be featured as a soundtrack. Although it seems to be just that, I do think it is harder to pick out what "scenes" it would have had because there were no actual situations to imagine. I'm impressed with it, but in terms of replay value it's difficult to think about whether I'd like to give it a 3 or 4. But I'll give it a 4, because I believe it deserves at least some credit. Highlights: -

Very weird choice for this list. It was unique and interesting, but not in a melodic way. I guess it's a concept album? But not creating anything new. Really not sure why it was in this list.

Nonsense.

Interesting

Very odd. Certainly interesting but not exactly music, or at least not the variety I’d choose to sit down and listen too.

What the heck even IS this music? A very odd one to have made the list.

I don't know what to make of this album. It isn't good. It felt more like a score to a movie but a movie that does not exist. There were a couple of songs that were bad and I absolutely wanted to skip them. Someone of the other songs were way too long.

At first I was like why is this? but then read the Wikipedia article. Cool concept and therefore +1 star

This fellow's schtick is so odd, but I think the "soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist" idea works much better here than on Oedipus. The back half of this album is straight up full of jams. Disappointed it's not an album about Maurice Moss.

A concept soundtrack album to a non-existent crime film. Alright, I'm in. The song titles are descriptors for a film noir outline. Adamson recorded this for his film noir fascination and as a sort of a resume to film directors to hire him for their soundtracks. Well, it worked and he was hired for film soundtracks including David Lynch's The Blue Highway soundtrack. As strange as this sounds, I thought this album and concept completely worked. All instrumental as you would expect, except for some women screams (obviously needed). The songs are pretty cool, somewhat creepy at times like they should be and most importantly they do a great job portraying the actions I think they are trying to portray. By the way, Moss Side is a neighborhood in Manchester, England. Some song highlights: the first song "On the Wrong Side of Relaxation" - A nice creepy, proper way to start and has a woman panting, "Central Control" - you need a song with a xylophone in a film noir and "Autodestruction" - my favorite song on the album sounding like vintage Nine Inch Nails. No wonder Trent Reznor has had a lot of success with soundtracks. Overall, a fun and different experience with this soundtrack music for a film never made.

5/5 dope ass soundscapes!!! amazing in surround sound. Very eerie

Imagine a dark, inner-city street. Hear the keys enter the ignition and turn the car on. Now the car is rolling, making it's way to nowhere in particular. The radio comes to life, but it's all scattered voices and static. Follow the car for a little before stopping by a shady alleyway. There's a woman there, muttering strange things to herself. Who is she? Is she alright? Footsteps on the pavement, getting closer and closer as the woman's deranged words get more feverish. Tension builds until suddenly, a scream from the woman! She's been murdered! We have a case on our hands. Barry Adamson is determined to tell you a story. He takes the idea of a concept album and completely commits to a narrative focus. This is a soundtrack to a film that doesn't exist. Vibes are noir, dirty, and cold. I can't help but be reminded of Roman Polanski or David Lynch, as Adamson weaves familiar scenes into each song. To say this album is ambitious would be an understatement. Adamson is banking on listeners being open to the idea of an imaginary film in addition to experimental elements in the songwriting. The Swinging Detective is easily my favorite song on here, but the whole album is really something to behold. Certainly one of the most unique albums on the list, though it can suffer from being sort of boring and narratively vague (likely on purpose, though i still personally struggled with it. Worth listening to once for the novelty, then never again.

Well…. It’s a record. Of sounds. And it’s ok, but on this list?!

Wierd

Horror movie meets Pink Panther, which made sense when I went back and looked at the title of the album. So, well done.

A bunch of well-done and cool-sounding cinematic audio vignettes, but I am simply not high enough for this.

The soundtrack for an imagined movie: quite cool noir music, but on re-listening to the album, it has too many passages of very low ambience (but not ambient on the level of e.g. Talk Talk) so overall I am not completely invested. Overall, a pretty decent album.

No actual songs on it, only a variete of soundscapes. I do not get it. Would perhaps had worked well as a movie soundtrack, but then there is not a movie..

Today sucks and this album sucks. There’s some decent sounding stuff on it but it’s not enjoyable to listen to. But maybe it’s just the headspace I’m in

Pretty odd album. Basically just instrumentals and ambiance type music. Never really felt worthwhile or enjoyable. 2.0/10

First song is just noise. Weird album, not very musical.

Moss Side Story by Barry Adamson is what makes me question the worthiness of an entry on a list 1,000 albums to hear before you die. Why? WhyTheFuq is an album that some guy made to get noticed as a cinematic composer worthy of such an entry? On the whole, the album is…okay, so I'll leave my critiques of Adamson's bland compositions that don't stray from a 4/4 time and take issue Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen of Iceland who wrote the entry for this album in the first printing of the book (and what I would guess is the entries for the reprinting). If you wanted to see a post-punk-avant-garde soundtrack (but I beg of you to tell me what the connection this album has to post-punk other than the artist having been in two post-punk UK bans, but I digress), I'm sure Yoko Ono has something for you and I can guarantee, her view of Avant Gard music is spot on and as a matter of fact, I feel you are blocking her a slot on this list. Congratulations to Barry Adamson for turning a demo into the career you wanted, I'm not sure that I'm for the better after listening to this. 2/5 for the entry on the list | 3/5 for the musicality.

Weird. Different.

Based on the cover I'm expecting something political. Based on the name I'm expecting show tunes. Diving in, I couldn't be more wrong. The name of the first song, On the Wrong Side of Relaxation, is super evocative. The song itself is very tense, sounds like the opening to a scary sci fi thriller. Panning over a cold alien landscape into a lab with knocked over beakers and other troubling signs of something gone wrong. No people in sight just whispering in the distance getting louder as we move more and more quickly through the facility to finally arrive at a yawning hole in the floor. Suddenly we cut to a shot fading in like we are opening our eyes and our vision clears to see a lovely nurse talking to us lying on the floor. This music super sounds like a film score. The song titles imply a crime drama, possibly gritty, or even, as the album cover implies, black and white and raining, maybe in the style of Sin City. The second song sounds somewhat mod so maybe set in the early 70's. I've never heard of the movie though does it exist? ...Wikipedia explains no, this is the soundtrack to an imaginary movie. Which is fantastic. Love the premise. Loving the music. Tracks 6 and 7 are particularly lovely. 10 is a great mood piece. 2 and 11 and 13 are so fun. 15 makes me think of James Bond. Overall a little weird, but in a good way. I like it.

Spooky lil freak

Pretty good for an album with no words lol, but other that pretty meh 😑

For the most part, this was a pretty solid experiment. I like that it was a soundtrack for a movie that doesn't exist. That makes it more like a soundtrack for life. Like when Peter Griffin had his own theme music. I tried to picture what was going on in his life by the music he wrote. It isn't something I'd just listen to for shits but it was certainly entertaining for the time I listened to it.

Nous avons ici malheureusement affaire à un hors-sujet total : ce film policier d'entrée de gamme n'a en aucun cas sa place dans la liste des 1001.

Un mot pour définir cet album: incompréhension.

Verging on hints of The Avalanches, what would be perfectly acceptable background music to a moody train ride is elevated to a straight up five star rating purely due to the involvement of Dave Graney in writing the accompanying short story in the liner notes of the album. Hell yeah Dave so happy to see your new pop up in this list.

Pfoe

Zonder de David Lynch link had ik er misschien wat sneller overheen geluisterd, maar het intrigeert me wel ergens. Niet voor herhaling vatbaar, toch aardig.

Weird!

Niet iets wat even lekker wegluisterd. Ik was wel benieuwd omdat hij ook de Soundtrack van de David Lynch film Lost Highway heeft gedaan. En die Lynch 'weirdness' zit dus ook in zijn andere albums, hoor ik nu. Maar ik werd er echt onrustig van op een gegeven moment.

Ik was hier benieuwd naar, maar het kon me niet bekoren.

Weird album. Weird in the best way though. I might not revisit this album in a long time but it definitely left an impression on me. That is a big contrast from other albums on this list that I forget about after I click on the 3 stars.

Strange - but interesting

03/12/2022 Not for me. At all.

What is this? - I don’t even feel like it is worth the research..

Liked it

This particular album stressed me out because of the horror theme. was a great gateway to a bunch of stuff i like better like jazzier music so raised a star.

Tried it twice. Worse the second time. A movie score for an imaginary movie seems interesting in theory, but in practice? Nonsensical. Moreover, "themes" means something. Listening to Shiffrin's "Bullit", you'll hear a melody repeated throughout the score - it's the THEME. It's the musical thread we follow from scene-to-scene. In Moss Side Story, there is no theme and worse, there's no context. In "Bullit", you know what "Music to Interrogate By" is referring to. In "Moss Side", it's just random pieces poorly welded together. I listened to it twice, on consecutive days. Didn't enjoy, at all.

Spooky

Pretty wild album. Definitely a trip. Had a lot of Frances the Mute vibes.

this is really really cool - never heard anything like it

I was partway through the album, thinking it sounded like a movie soundtrack, before I googled the album and found it was soundtrack music to a nonexistent movie!

Trippy, spooky, more vibraphone and it would be the Twin Peaks soundtrack.

Wenn man derlei angelegte Musik macht, muss man auch komponieren wollen und nicht bloß Töne aneinanderreihen. Ich bin 45 Minuten drangeblieben um zu hören, ob das Album doch noch irgendwie in die Gänge kommt und habe dann leidenschaftslos abgebrochen. 2 Sterne für gewollt aber nicht gekonnt.

It does sound like a soundtrack to a film noir, but it takes some time to take of as an album. "Sounds from The Big House" is a great track, though.

What an insanely stupid idea. Is there seriously anyone out there who actively listens to this? I can't imagine willingly devoting an hour of your life listening to a soundtrack to a movie that does not exist. Waste of time, space and energy. The most baffling addition to this list so far. The only good song is "The Man With The Golden Arm" and it's just a bonus cover.

When I first looked at what this album was about, I was initially skeptical. I mean, a man holding an umbrella with the words, "In a black and white world murder brings a touch of colour..." a) who would write that on an umbrella and b) who spells color like that. It's still color without u. And as Sinead says, nothing compares to u. Except v. It's awfully close to u. Turns out I was right about my initial skepticism. If I recorded an "album" that was the sound of every point that Rafa Nadal has played, it would be truly inventive. But does it deserve to be listened to? I would say "yes", because whoever voted for this list of 1001 albums that you should listen to before you die might be thinking the same thing. I would call the first song, "Losing builds the man"... then work my way through "Clay court king", etc. etc. It would be genius. Not like all the rambling in this review. Or the rambling of this album.

Seems like a lost soundtrack to a 1970's alfred hitchcock movie about a carnival serial killer.

Interesting instrumental type horror movie suspense shit

not great

Great soundtrack to no movie. Does sound like it could easily fit a mike mann movie.

A polarising album - but I like soundtracks and I like the concept

Don’t know what I just listened to but I liked it

So he wrote a sound track to a movie that was a figment of his imagination. imo,  that means he should go on a vacation to a place where all the people he talks with will be wearing lab coats. 

I have to say that this does indeed sound like a soundtrack of an actual film. He certainly nailed that, especially the ambient parts with background noises. It reminfs me a bit of United Future Organization, who were always keen to break into a Bond-like jam. 1001 gives greater credence to this LP than Barry Adamson seems to, since his Wikipedia (artist) page barely mentions it.

I don't get all the hate for this, I found it to be quite good, but then again I'm a big fan of film scores/soundtracks. A really good soundtrack can elevate a crappy movie eg Gladiator. Some of my favourite albums of all-time are by the OG of film scores his-self, Ennio Morricone, and Hans Zimmer also made quite a few epic soundtracks in his early days, before he started turning out rubbish like Batman, Inception, Interstellar etc. When listening to Moss Side Story I can almost see a noirish detective movie with lots of shadows, wet streets and tension filled chases down dark alleys and stairs. Its too bad the film never got made.

Speciale sfeer, maar geslaagd in zijn opzet

Brilliant. Gets a bit saxy about halfway through.

I liked the imaginary end credits best.

Pretty good, easy background music. The radio static at the start of the album reminded me of 'Songs for the Deaf', maybe Queens of the Stone Age took some inspiration there, maybe not

A movie soundtrack for a movie that doesn’t exist. This was really cool! Not something I would listen to again (unless I got some wicked headphones or something) but a fun experience. The sound was awesome

very different to most things on here, extra star for innovation

OK, so this is apparently meant to be a soundtrack for a fictional film noir movie. Makes sense knowing that - it gets an extra ⭐️ 👏 Bit too experimental for me, though. Fav new track: Under Wraps

Why has nobody made the film?

Not much to grab onto for me here. Very cinematic in nature. Seemed .more classical than rock. 2 stars

En algún momento me topé con la música de Barry Adamson hace muchos mucho años y desde el inicio quedé enganchado. Creo que cualquier persona que tenga alguna apreciación por la música ambiental/instrumental/soundtracks puede encontrar cosas interesantes aquí, incluso si no se le hace brillante. En mi caso siempre me ha fascinado la manera en que trabaja y el tino que tiene en crear historias y narrativas enteras aun cuando los guiones e historias no existan. Este tipo de trabajo de hacer una banda sonora de una película inexistente, aunque no es lo único que hace, lo ha realizado un par de ocasiones y siempre con efectos en mi opinión espectaculares. Todo un arco, desarrollos, elipsis, un climax y una resolución totalmente imaginarios y en perfecta sintonía con la temática.

Gran disco en la forma del soundtrack de una película inexistente. Las atmósferas que crea te permiten imaginar la escena y las piezas tienen coherencia. Creo que logra transmitir una historia como lo haría un soundtrack.

Muy raro e inesperado. Creo que musicalmente es excelente, lleno de juegos con los sonidos que logran el objetivo de Barry Adamson: transportarte a escenas de películas de detectives. Sin embargo, es algo que me costaría trabajo escuchar así, voluntariamente, pero si me deja la curiosidad de checar sus otros discos.

Soundtracks aren't my thing. Interesting concept, but that's where my enjoyment for this project ends.

A soundtrack to a movie that was never made, which is a win for modern day society since it sounds like a movie no one in their right mind would want to watch.

It is considered one of the most important movie soundtracks without a movie and is an absolutely delightful instrumental music listening experience. If you got time for that (6/10) FT: The Man With The Golden Arm

interesting concept, interesting execution

Pretty cool album.

Cool album, fun to imagine the story behind the music. Not something I would listen to alot though

Love this album, possibly his best. Evoking a cinematic universe of danger, love and shadows.

This is the album I have been most excited about until now. I love everything about the album cover and it makes me so intrigued! Is this som dark noir crooner with an 80's production? What is it? I'm so excited and I'm really setting myself up to be severely disappointed. But I'm not! It's quite good. A trippy homage to neo noir soundtracks. And actually some accidental dungeon synth sprinkled in there.

No. I get it's a fake soundtrack and it's moody, but really!?

A bit of a revelation - I'd never heard of this. It's interesting & intriguing.

I'd like to image I hadn't wasted 54 minutes of my life listening to this soundtrack to an imaginary film. Unfortunately I did and I regret that. It has no redeeming qualities at all and completing it was a chore. It sounds like a music student's composition project. And not a good one. Never again.

I like concept albums. I like the idea of creating a score for a movie that doesn't exist. I love Danger Mouse's Rome. This just wasn't quite as good for me. Still enjoyable.

I wanted to love this but couldn't quite get my head around it.

2/5 It's ok. Background music at best. Why?

I found this really exciting and ambitious

Interesting idea for an album. That being said, I'm not sure that this needs to be on the 1001 list. In fact a few of these songs gave me a headache.

What the hell is this?

This is intriguing! A soundtrack to a crime movie that does not exist. This concept isn't new anymore, but maybe Bazza was the first to ever do it. Moss Side Story is at its best when it doesn't feel like a straight film soundtrack, when instead it takes the tropes and upends them. Like "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" with its pizzicato strings turned up to 11, evoking such stresses of emotion, before turning into flowing streams of love - but that's flowing like hot lava. You know what I mean? This soundtrack doesn't need a film - it creates plenty of cinematic drama on its own.

Didn't really "get" it. Sure, nice enough concept, but one of the best 1001 albums ever?

Very interesting album if you're going for the crime movie vibe. Otherwise doesn't quite fit.

Nice music, although not really good album 2.5/5

"Finally, some good fucking food." Memes aside, this is the type of album that gets me on concept alone: imaginary score to a noir thriller set in Manchester. Love the idea, let's see how the execution goes... UPDATE: Loved it.

Interesting. Wouldn’t listen again but had some cool parts.

It's just a fake film score. I'm sure it would fit a film very well, but why must we hear it without the pictures? Who curated this list?

I really like the thumping industrial drums on Sounds from the big house.

👎

Conceito muito bem executado. Quando não precisa tero filme para fazer a trilha sonora.

Soundscape … filmic … some great passages

First album I didn’t finish. I thought I would enjoy this going in as it was instrumental but I did not find it enjoyable

This was a wild ride. Not crazy about it but found a great song. Cool concept album

nice jazzy bluesy film music

This was a really cool idea for an album, but we could have gotten the concept in one song. The individual tracks were sort of repetitive for the most part and did not stand up on their own with one or two exceptions.

Would watch this movie in a heartbeat. Started out creepy on the wrong side of relaxation and settled into classic Hollywood scores. Interesting listen.

What is this? Why is this? It's so confusing and so expansive across music styles. It sounds like video game soundtrack music sometimes

Första låten var jobbig, sen blev den riktigt cool

I have neither the time nor the inclination to listen to the soundtracks of movies that do exist, let alone ones that don’t. An absolute chore.

Ну я не большой фанат саундтреков, тбх. Вообще хз как это оценивать. Первая песня в наушниках реально немного стрема нагнала. Вероятно, это комплимент как для триллер-саундтрека. В остальном ну. Ничего особо не отвращает, но и слушать просто так не стал бы. Бэкграунд нойз/10

Вроде похоже на нормальную музыку. Формат саундтрека для нихуя - звучит как какой-то кал. И во многом им и является. Но тут содержание удобоваримое хотя бы. Можно воспринимать как арт- и прог- какой-нить, интересные решения относительно структуры композиции и выбора инструментов. Но возвращаться, конечно, не стану.

I did not even remotely like this. It is a concept album of a soundtrack for a crime movie that doesn't exist. "Almost completely instrumental except for occasional screams, vocal samples and a choir"...I was anxious the entire time. This is a serious case of "no one stopped to ask if they should". It's clearly well executed, but not something I would ever listen to again.

my thoughts exactly samwise; this was more of a score for a tasteful and suspenseful cinema but i didn't enjoy it as an album

Didn’t really get it

As a movie soundtrack, pretty cool. As an hour long album, ehhh The Swinging Detective was pretty dope, however

Saved Prior: None Saved Off Rip: Under Wraps, The Most Beautiful Girl In The World Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: I wanted to be a hater so bad but it wont me over. An album I never would've listened to if it weren't for this site and though it's not for casual listening, as an album experience it was actually super cool. Differed from Nick Cave in that I didn't get tired of his voice after a while because there was no voice, the narrative is carried through the music, song titles, and my imagination. Sounds super pretentious when I put it that way but this was super cool. Almost gave it a 5 lowkey.

Pretty banging for an album with no words

Ok. Didn't really grab me, but fine for a background listen.

Buena instrumental

Good for a one stop listen

Strong commitment to a bit.

Really enjoyed the weirdness.

Way too experimental for me

Scary. Very scary

Will listen to this again

Dumb

Pues si, parece una banda sonora. Pero lo veo a años luz de ser un imprescindible. Mas bien es un experimento o incluso un disco de piloto automático

too artsy for me

Casi paso de este disco y me alegro de no haberlo hecho porque tiene un rollo súper guay. Ya tengo la banda sonora, sólo me queda montarme la película.

This sounds like what it is, a soundtrack for a film that doesn't exist. Some nice bits but fairly pointless

Pretty good! Noir soundtrack with some contemporary sounds at points, worth listening to again for sure.

Detective soundtrack

3.5 - A fun concept - soundtrack to an imaginary film. Tracks seem to narrate a noir detective story in a seemingly chronological order such that I can almost see the film unfold in my mind. Best to know the song titles as you listen because they give a sense for the "scene." This was a fun listen. Highly cinematic, interest sounds and loops, cool reverb effects.

Absolutely amazing

“Score for a made up movie” 0/10

Con una radio vieja y unas latas vacías yo podría hacer mejor música

Started off good, then sadly it got weird in a bit great way.

Pretty excellent background/soundtrack music, Jazz devil is great!

ihan jees, mutta vähän taustamusaa

Moss Side Story is the debut album of British musician Barry Adamson released in 1989. The album is a concept album, a soundtrack album to a non-existent crime film. The music is almost completely instrumental except for occasional screams, vocal samples and a choir. To achieve the soundtrack effect, the song titles are descriptive of a film noir plot outline. The inner sleeve came with a short story written by Dave Graney which added to the concept. This complemented outer sleeve which displays the tag line: "In a black and white world, murder brings a touch of colour...". In a 2017 interview, Adamson reported that he recorded Moss Side Story due to his fascination with film music and as "a calling card [to] send it around to people" in hopes of being hired to write music for actual films.[2] The NME review of the albums describes it as a "Grand filmic suite intended as the soundtrack to a "provocative film thriller set in Manchester's Moss Side" and that Moss Side Story is "one of the best soundtracks ever, the fact that it has no accompanying movie is a trifling irrelevance."[4]

Very weird - listened while trying to finish up ERRS requests and it feels hectic. I do think it'd be a good as a film soundtrack as intended, and it's an interesting concept, but not my cup of tea.

This was an interesting concept album. It made for decent background music, but not really something I’d want to listen to multiple times.

This was actually kind of interesting, so it blew Daft Punk away in that regard.

I was surprised and very much enjoyed this film noirish album.

A mess

Who is this for? Who is sitting around listening to this? People who listen to this need to be on a registry.

Some odd moments. Some interesting moments.

I don't know, is this pulled from a clips of a movie or something. It doesn't belong here, it belongs at a 20 year old art students weed party

Weirdly, I never knew of the existence of this before (despite knowing Adamson's work). Some interesting ambience. Disturbing and creepy, but sometimes becomes a bit hackneyed. Some amazing production work. A bit like a classic noir / Hitchcock soundtrack as presented in the mind of someone genuinely disturbed.

Terrible as a listening album - nervous, and grinding - like "bad jazz" - might be very fitting as a score or such but not to listen to it

Very unexpected listen. I quite enjoyed it at times, will have to relisten to it.

My initial reaction to this was 'why haven't I ever heard of this?' closely followed by 'what the hell am I listening to?' The longer it went on, the more I enjoyed it. This album is like nothing I've ever heard. 'A soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist' as one article put it. It's probably no coincidence that upon further exploration I discovered this guy used to be in the Bad Seeds, who I love. I'm not sure I understand this album. It's definitely something you could only listen to as a complete album, it would make no sense at all to pick out individual tracks. It's more like an hour-long soundscape than music. I'm not sure why, but I think I love it.

Weird eclectic mix. A bit too much background / OST for me.

Great instrumental concept album

a soundtrack to a nonexistant movie.. PASS

Quite a stupendous piece of work here. First song was huh? But everything afterwards is *chefs kiss*

Good but difficult

Koncept album, soundtrack til film som ikke findes, mord, spænding, sjovt, instrumentalt

It's a demo reel for a guy who wanted to make movie soundtracks. My best theory for why this is on the list is that it's the closest they could get to breaking their own rule about not including soundtracks. Best track: The Swinging Detective

Really interesting concept and surprisingly modern sounding for a 30 year old album

Loved the idea of an album created as a film soundtrack

1/20 3.5/5. Love the concept for the album, very well executed soundtrack, although I don't see myself replaying much. Standout Tracks: On The Wrong Side Of Relaxation, Sounds From The Big House, The Swinging Detective, The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, The Man With The Golden Arm

Incredibly unique album. I lovet the concept. On personal enjoyment, its more like a 3, but Im giving a 4 just for how unique the concept is

Concept album. Neat

Bit weird and disjointed... reckon there’s a good album in their; just needs more attention!

This was quite quirky and fun, and I suppose was a bit of a trailblazer in proving that instrumental soundscapes could be popular. But I feel this genre has come on so much in recent years, and while this wasn't at all bad, I can't see myself choosing it over some of my recent favourites, such as Andrew Wasylyk.