Aug 15 2022
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Naming the first track on your record “Set Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis” is statement. Of what, I’m not entirely sure, but it’s cool that he got Austin Powers to do a guest vocal.
If you like the electronic lounge-pop of bands like Air and Stereolab, but wish they did it with a less deft touch, Oedipus Schmoedipus’ first few tracks might be for you.
Perhaps you prefer Lynchian horror soundscapes, might I direct you to “It’s Business as Usual” or “Dirty Barry”? Coincidentally, “Something Wicked This Way Comes” appears in “Lost Highway” - it took me a minute to figure where I had heard it before.
Speaking of David Lynch, the overtly digital jazz on “Miles” could’ve earned a spot in Mulholland Drive, perhaps as the soundtrack for the dance sequence on the soundstage of “The Sylvia North Story”.
I’m doing my best with this one, but fuck me, it’s taxing. I mean, I could talk about David Lynch all day, but he’s not the focus here.
A few days ago, in a review of Red Snapper’s “Our Aim is to Satisfy”, I bemoaned the list maker’s inclusion of albums for the late 90’s and early aughts that haven’t aged particularly well. Add this record to that pile.
Not that this record doesn’t have its moments, but I suspect having a high tolerance for film noir-cheese is a requirement for full enjoyment. If you spend your evenings skulking around dimly lit alleys in a trench coat…boy, have I got an album for you.
If you’re still reading this after all my shit-talk, let me recommend 3 records that occupy a similar musical space to Oedipus Schmoedipus, that have held up well and are actually worth hearing before you die. Two of the three, shockingly, are not included on the 1001 albums list:
Air - The Virgin Suicides
Stereolab - Dots & Loops (possibly the most egregious exclusion from the list)
Tortoise - TNT (another glaring omission, imo)
Or, you could just watch a David Lynch film or two.
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May 09 2021
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Cool! Then weird.. Then cool! Then scary
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May 09 2021
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What a fun, weird ride.
Some great sax work here.
Business as Usual was miserable to listen to.
The whole project was strange, but at least he was trying something. At least it's not another "Debut album by British pop band" like 500+ of the albums on here.
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Aug 25 2022
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Nice enough background music. In a list of 1001 albums I must listen to before I die, though? Let's let "background music" be a disqualifier, shall we?
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Sep 26 2022
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It's like if Tom Waits was mediocre.
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Jun 14 2021
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A brilliant surreal genre defying album. Part sleazy lounge music, part funk, part jazz - will be back for more
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Oct 15 2020
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Soundtrack for a movie that doesn't exist
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Dec 03 2021
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wowwwww!!! I had never heard of this artist, album, or any of these tracks before. This is most definitely an Elaine album. Weird, sometimes MJQ, sometimes frightening. Eclectic. Spotify played Badalamenti’s Dance of the Dream Man (from Twin Peaks) right after. All you really need to know.
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May 12 2021
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Very atmospheric album, some great compositions, and also lots of crazy weird stuff. I enjoy the variety while still maintaining a sort of mysterious vibe throughout.
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Jun 21 2024
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Making another soundtrack to an imagined film because nobody will let me make a soundtrack to a real film
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Aug 15 2022
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I was not expecting this on the list.
I thought this was an underrated oddity that no one actually listened to aside from anal music geeks. I had assumed that no one really cared about an album from that fella from Magazine that isn't the main fella from Magazine, clearly not. It's the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist, featuring Nick Cave, Billy Mackenzie and Jarvis Cocker, and it's every bit as quirky, sleazy and kitsch as the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist, featuring Nick Cave, Billy Mackenzie and Jarvis Cocker, should be. If the movie was real, it would for sure be directed by David Lynch. I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting this gem.
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Dec 15 2021
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So glad this popped up. Never heard of the guy before, now this album is in my playlists. Brilliant stuff
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May 07 2021
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Simultaneously groovy, clever, funny, surreal, and odd. Super interesting!
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Apr 30 2021
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Haven't you heard, my name rhymes with Elvis
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Mar 02 2023
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What's that cover? Am I listening to black metal today?
Oedipus Schmoedipus? This must be weird AF. Maybe weird for the sake of being weird.
Oh. Experimental music. I'm excited. I expect to hear some bells and electric drills and shit.
A soundtrack to an imaginary movie? I heard something like that before...
Was that a Barrett-era Pink Floyd cover? Wow. Wait a minute. It says... pelvis.
So it's trip hop but it's actually trippy.
A Miles Davis impression? Daring.
A bit scary sometimes, ngl.
Lol.
I've never had an album that constantly surprises me for a while. What an experience. What a treat.
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Feb 15 2024
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had to listen to it like 4 times to make up my mind and it got better each time
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Nov 19 2021
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A brilliant surreal genre defying album. Part sleazy lounge music, part funk, part jazz - will be back for more
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Sep 26 2022
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Some cool stuff in this album. But mainly instrumental and weird. He is trying to make something different and that he achieved.
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Sep 23 2022
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Struggling to get through this one. Every time one of these songs starts to develop into something good, he introduces something cheesy and it all comes crashing down. If the idea is to be the soundtrack to an imaginary film, I keep thinking it's a disappointing sequel to The Saint (which to be clear is already a pale imitation). The strongest feeling I get from this is that I'd much rather listen its influences (blaxploitation soundtracks, Madchester/electronica). Calling it a 2, but that's generous.
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Jun 26 2024
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As with Moss Side Story, I loved this. It's amazing, I think. Each track paints such a picture. I'm going to listen to Soul Murder now because I want more Barry Adamson!
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Feb 15 2023
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with an name like Oedipus Shmoedipus this album had high standards to live up to and it did it so well. absolutely crazy from start to finish. from truly uncomfortable techno/spoken word to melancholic piano led orchestral arrangements. crazy. so good
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Jun 08 2022
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very good album - enjoyed it - a hidden gem and want to listen to more.
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Jul 04 2024
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Hands up who has owned this for nigh-on 30 years?
Just me then?!
Surprised to see such an obscurity here, still play it quite regularly for the vibes (literally). I really enjoy its "cinematic" style even though this has its detractors in the peanut gallery here; also features one of Nick Cave's finer tunes and the fabulous voice of Billy Mackenzie. Funny how I knew Barry Adamson from this but not Magazine until recently! Hope you all enjoyed it
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Oct 12 2023
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So ... what is this ?! The album seems to be all over the place in terms of tone and genre. I think it starts on "psychadelic 70's summer of love" then goes to "light goth" with some "trance 80's" and I just can't work out if I like it or not.
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Feb 04 2022
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Dit doet me aan Air denken. Beetje film-achtige muziek. Heel interessant project.
Ik vind de melodietjes soms een beetje lift-muziek maar in combinatie met film-geluiden of een relaxte beat heeft het toch iets speciaals.
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Mar 17 2021
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Interesting album; some nice Primal Scream esque grooves and abstract storytelling. Favourite song is 'The Sweetest Embrace' sung by Nick Cave.
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Jun 04 2024
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From the other reviews on here, I was expecting some sort of hellishly unlistenable soundscape, but that wasn't too bad. At least it was trying something. It would have scored higher but one of my least favourite things in music is a horny Jarvis Cocker
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Feb 18 2024
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Entirely too much moaning. Adamson’s album, styled as a soundtrack to an imaginary movie, works well when it leans into the instrumental aspects of a score. The spy/noir jazz is smooth, deadly, and bombastic, and definitely worth listening to again. However, some of the more experimental tracks are too avant garde for the casual listen, and are deeply creepy and/or sexual. Overall, a tongue-in-cheek, darkly comedic noir soundtrack that lands in some places and misses in disturbing ways.
Stand out tracks include “The Vibes Ain’t Nothing But The Vibes”, “In A Moment of Clarity”, “Vermillion Kisses”, “The Big Bamboozle”, and “The Sweetest Embrace”.
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Nov 15 2023
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Like a lot of others, I’m intrigued at this albums inclusion on the list. Another reviewer made the point that most of these odd picks are late 90’s, early naughties, usually British albums that have not been vindicated by history. I am left wondering whether or not this was nixed from later editions.
As music, this is mostly enjoyable. The weirder tracks worked well at telling what little story is discernible and the more regular tracks were mostly fun little cod-Jazz, although I could have done without the version of Miles, the only actual Jazz standard on here, which Adamson has misnamed, intentionally or not, I can’t tell.
My biggest problem is with the concept rather than the music. Making a soundtrack to a fake movie is unique, or would be if Adamson hadn’t done it four or five times by this point. But it doesn’t actually sound like any film scores I’ve ever sat down to. It’s supposed to be a Noir I guess, but so much of the songs sound so un-Noir-ish that it took me a couple of tracks to get that concept. Although, I praised the use of weirder tracks to tell the story, thinking specifically about the tracks with narration, I’m not sure they actually work as either music to be listened to independently of the album’s context, or as incidental music for a film. It’d be a little weird to have scenes from a film just pasted over the soundtrack with little rhyme or reason.
The only album I can think to compare Oedipus Schmoedipus to is the other late 90’s British mostly instrumental music I’ve had the chance to listen to recently, Fatboy Slim’s Better Living Through Chemistry. And I think the difference is ultimately down to personality. I get more of Norman Cook in his music than I do Barry Adamson. The only thing that we have to base Adamson’s personality on is the concept, which is just a bit weird, and the titles, which are just a bit weird. And I’m not even sure he wrote all of the titles himself, because Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Pelvis is 100% a Jarvis Cocker line. It just doesn’t feel as if Barry Adamson puts much of himself into his music, and for that I’m not sure how I feel about the album as a whole. I’m gonna go 3 stars out of five, because I enjoyed it more than I didn’t, but this is the instance so far that I most wish we could give half rankings, cos this is definitely a 2.5 if ever there was one
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Mar 17 2021
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Some great jams counterbalanced by some absolutely bat shit ones. Best track: Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Pelvis
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Oct 04 2024
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A concept album I really didn't enjoy. It's really trying to act like it is saying something. Disliked the spoke word stuff (like really, making me listen to a 4 minute 30 second creepy voice message?) Redeemable only by the instrumental tracks.
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Oct 02 2024
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Self indulgent garbage. Might have been cheaper than therapy.
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Jul 04 2024
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I respect Adamson - especially for Magazine - and admire the craft in this, and understand how this might work well as a film soundtrack. The words I caught are funny and entertaining; Jarvis Cocker’s opening turn is a grabber.
Those elements aside, this left no more impression on me than passing air.
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Sep 27 2024
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Electronic-avant-garde-jazz fusion? The answer to a question I never would have asked.
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Sep 24 2024
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Well, once again I have to say, this just isn’t my thing. I’m not sure whose thing this would be, and I am not too sure that I would want to meet them either. I only listened to a minute or two of most of the songs, with the exception of “it’s Business As Usual”. I was intrigued by this disturbing track, and had to see how the voice message ended. For me, the best thing about this album was its title. I’ll be trying to forget about this album.
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Dec 03 2021
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Strange mix of songs. I'm also mortified that a bass player would try to make a bass sound like it. It sounds like General Midi on Miles(tones). Jarvis, while a national treasure is a creepy man. I don't like him ejaculating out of my headphones.
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Nov 29 2024
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Very good. Never heard of this record before
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Oct 18 2024
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I spent my entire time listening to this album completely at a loss trying to figure it out. It is very much all over the map. It's in one moment blissful, then funky in the next, then sinister, then depressed, then cheery. At times it feels like there's an unspoken narrative and at time there's a very explicit narrative. But the narratives, said or unsaid, don't seem to match.
Is it meant to be a collection of stories or one very winding road telling all the stops of one person's story? I really don't know. I don't know how to put this album into words. All I know is that it is by far one of the most interesting albums I've received on this album generator project. For that I really enjoyed it.
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Sep 30 2024
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Before we talk about this album we need to talk about movies. David Lynch is probably my all time favorite director, and I just watched Lost Highway for the first time about a month ago. Such a weird and creepy movie, highly recommend if you like weird art films. Something Wicked This Way Comes plays in the scene where the mystery man is first introduced (great scene!). I can see why Lynch likes this album and if I had to guess Lynch's favorite song from this album it would probably be Business As Usual.
Ok, now the album. First off, Oedipus Schmoedipus is such a funny title. I think this is the only time I've ever actually laughed at an album title. Not really sure why I am seeing so many 1's and 2's this is just a chill little trip hop album. Never mind some of these songs are not so chill (still very good though).
I don't want to be a contrarian, but I did really enjoy this album. It is really weird and it is something you will never forget. I wish this list had more stuff like this album.
I am definitely going to need to check this one out again.
Low 5.
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Jun 26 2024
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I am totally diggin’ what this Barry Adamson cat is puttin’ down!
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Jun 26 2024
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Wowee!
Whatever I was missing in Adamson's Moss Side Story, I have found in spades in Oedipus Schmoedipus. A compelling listen from start to finish.
Hands down, this is a thumbs up!!
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Jun 26 2024
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No idea what I was getting into, but Set Controls For the Heart of the Pelvis came out of the gate with such a groove that pegged my ranking needle on a 5. Incredible!
Then that familiar Spooky sample opened Something Wicked This Way Comes and I added that to my favorite Halloween songs playlist in the first thirty seconds.
Really nice, atmospheric, right up my alley. Barry Adamson was sorely missing from my consciousness. Terrific!!!!
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May 15 2024
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Wow. Front to back I've never been able to feel a story through music as vividly as this album. Set the Controls as the front and ending credits does a great job. Something Wicked feels like a character introduction. It's business as Usual introduces conflict and dirty Barry turns it up a notch. The track is noisy, claustrophobic, sinister, and kinetic. Achieved in the Valley of Dolls is clever and triumphant. Vermillion Kisses is a worthwhile interlude. The big bamboozle is big and boisterous. The Sweetest Embrace is the finale and mourns the ending of the story and the death of innocence. Then the album ends with a well-timed credits track, it doesn't overstay it's welcome and leaves the listener on a positive note.
I think that the three songs with lyrics were all excellent. The album gives enough space that it isn't a 50-minute assault. It builds things up and the transitions, like that between the smooth tracks like Miles or a moment of Clarity, feel organic. Rather than a roller coaster with twists and turns, it feels like a lifetime with ups and downs, fasts and slows.
This album surprised and impressed me over and over again. I won't be listening to it often, but I will certainly revisit in whole when I want to experience the rich soundscape that it is. As a concept and as it is executed, I believe that it is near perfect.
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Apr 10 2024
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Very very cool
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Mar 14 2024
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So groovy. Loved learning the history behind this record and the strange context it came from
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Feb 26 2024
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I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Barry Adamson before. I’m not entirely sure what to expect of this album. The name Oedipus Schmoedipus makes me a little wary. Oedipus was a bit of an odd fellow, wasn’t he.
Songs I already knew: none
Favourites: Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Sweetest Embrace
This was a really pleasant album. It felt alt-rock at times, and instrumental jazz at others but somehow it works really well. It even has tracks that sound closer to an orchestral soundtrack. The lack of vocals in a lot of the songs really helps the music shine, and the tracks that do include singing can be appreciated all the more for it. This album is so versatile, spanning many genres yet tying together fantastically. This surprised me, and I like it a lot.
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Feb 11 2024
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This was not my first taste of Adamson, but wow is this one incredible. He mixes so many different styles on this one. There is a DJ Shadow like quality to this, only more in the "art rock" vein. Not his best, but an excellent part of his catalog 9.1/10
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Feb 04 2024
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A lot of fun listening to this one.
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Jan 10 2024
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Can't believe I'd never heard of this guy before now. Had to look him up and see more of his works. Saw this came out early 90s. Sorry I missed it then, it would have been a staple of my more drug-addled days.
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Jan 04 2024
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Great discovery. He also listened to Massive Attack
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Dec 20 2023
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кино ебаное. буквально. Барри Адамсон рил гений, сделать альбом как фильм это надо уметь. я в целом люблю такую кинематографичную музыку, арт рок или вроде того, под которую закрываешь глаза и музыка визуализируется у тебя в голове. а концепция этих альбомов вообще заключается в том, что это саундтрек к несуществуещему фильму. тут блин в альбоме скримеры есть, саспенс какой то. я реально пару раз шуганулся. очень сильная атмсофера, погружает шо пиздец. ещё и музыка на некоторых треках разрыв ебала. но только как же сложно послушать этот альбом. я не нашёл его ни на одном стриминге, на ютубе он забанен, даже блин в перезаливе в вк, где у него 2 прослушивания (реально 2), и то заблокирован второй трек альбома. но в целом остался прям под впечатлением. короче пизда
оценка - 9/10
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Nov 24 2023
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Fabulous album of potential movie soundtracks, a complete surprise to me as no idea who Barry Adamson was. Now I can't get tracks like Miles out of my head. It's not just the memorability of the tunes, it is their diversity and the imaginative arrangements. Instantly likeable
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Nov 23 2023
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Eeeeeediupis. Smeeedipus
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Nov 17 2023
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burner!
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Oct 13 2023
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Experimental music. Brit oscuro.
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Sep 15 2023
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Hey, this is surprisingly good. I even knew a couple of the tracks.
Also fun to hear Jarvis Cocker.
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Sep 08 2023
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Kinda all over the place but . . . very much not bad!
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Mar 23 2023
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This album is terrifying.
It's been a long while since we had an album so shocking, disturbing and well... surprising. This album was a mystery, I'd never heard of it before, and after it was finished, I wasn't sure what I had listened to.
Some of it I really liked, no questions asked. But, other tracks sounded as if they were hanging on the precipice of madness and horror... and were inviting me in.
Taken as a whole, it gave me goosebumps, it was a moving and a wholly unsettling experience.
Highly recommend.
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Aug 19 2022
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That was strange and surreal. From dark to jaunty and upbeat at the drop of a hat. I’ve never heard anything like this. Great album.
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Jul 14 2022
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Damn, Adamson is a beast. What a strange, yet cohesive album.
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Jun 09 2022
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Oh this is awesome - one of my fave discoveries from this project so far! Starts off sounding like it's going to be a "Screamadelica"-era Primal Scream knock off, and then gets properly weird, I love it.
Proto doom jazz! 💀
Fave track - "The Vibes Ain't Nothin' But The Vibes" and "It's Business As Usual" for being that one two punch that lets you know this album is not what you thought it was. "Dirty Barry" is awesome too. And I love a bit of Nick Cave, so "The Sweetest Embrace" is another highlight....
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May 12 2022
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Way way way better than Moss Side Story, despite this one having now Dave Graney input. Can see a lot of these being perfect soundtrack tunes
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Apr 30 2022
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Experimental music. Brit oscuro.
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Apr 29 2022
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very cool
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Jan 23 2022
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i want this to play in the background of my life 24/7
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Dec 27 2021
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Emotional rollercoaster.
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Holy shit this is one unique album. I love it. Though some songs give me that bad 90s film feeling that I also get when seeing that DVD-ad: "You wouldn't download a car", I think it more than makes up for it with eeriness and diversity.
"Vermillion Kisses" hit me like a train.
5
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Dec 27 2021
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10/10 album full of so many different moods, it can be dark and tense or fun and upbeat
just such a great work of art overall
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Dec 09 2021
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1996 - Genre: Alternative/Indie (jazz, beat, hip-hop)
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Nov 29 2024
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Oh, interesting, another Nick Cave connection. My expectations were low going into this, but it's a pretty cool album. It's thematic but tonally diverse. The avart garde tracks are engaging and fun, but I have to admit the jazzy tracks are my faves. Miles in general was such a fun little song. Overall, it's a fun album but another in a long list on this site that are more fun to talk about than to listen to.
3.5 / 5
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Nov 28 2024
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Funfunfun, mit em Barry siinere Musig fühlt mer sich ja automatisch wie imene Film. I ganz vielne Film. bi ganz, ganz durchmischte Genres. Das er viel Soundtrack für de David Lynch gmacht het findi au sehr sympatisch. De Albumname Oedipus Schmoedipus chönt au guet vo eus sii bevor mer en DJ gig hend und no ganz schnell en Name bruchet.
will sini kompositione hald doch durchs Band mal alli Film und Musig Genres duregönd, und ich s album biz han müsse durerushe, gits "nur" 4 Oedipus Puentipus, eimal gschüttlet und ned grüehrt.
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Nov 28 2024
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Ah man, mis review isch au lost, i feel you Tbone.
Has i drü tranche gschriebe, isch na güet gsi.
Und ez mussis im laufe und im rege schriebe: bääh
Kurz: name geilo.
Barry=fun
Adamson=protomale?
Oedipus schmoedipus=fucking legend album name
Song näme au mal was ifallsrichs.
Und vlt s wichtigste glatt zum lose isches au. Sehr sogar.
4 griechischi mythe für de barry
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Nov 28 2024
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intressant schmintressant
weiss nöd öb de fall bi eu au scho ihtroffe isch aber bi mir isch hüt en klassische fall gsi vo: wow tönt eigentli sehr spannend und guet aber ich han irgendwie meh luscht uf mini komfort schmomfort lieder woni scho känne und bin gad nöd so explorefreudig, trotzdem losi aber s‘ganze album schmalbum
das isch aber gar nöd am barry sini schuld, morn vilicht… ich han 4-5 lieder ufjedefall mal gspeicheret woni s‘gfühl han chöntet durchus wiedermal de weg zu mine ohre schmohre finde
wege überraschigseffekt gids also 4 pünkt schmünkt
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Nov 25 2024
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Ik kan de broeiende, groezelige gekte van Barry Adamson goed hebben. Ik herken dan ook een aantal nummers van zijn verzamelaar The murky world of. Jazz, big band, beats, rare verhaaltjes, een gastoptreden van Nick Cave, kortom: laat ome Barry maar schuiven in zijn sfeervolle fantasiewereldje.
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Nov 24 2024
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Had every music style in a kind of kaleidoscope of sound
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Nov 22 2024
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Interesting album
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Nov 22 2024
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Distilled 90’s at that sweet spot between post modern camp and pure self indulgence.
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Nov 20 2024
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Kinda soundtrack-ey, very atmospheric/ethereal
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Nov 07 2024
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This album is *wild* and feels timeless/genreless.
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Nov 03 2024
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Gear: Abyss DIANA MR
Artwork: ⬛👩👦👹
Production: 🎧😐...🤯😍
Music: 💻⌨️🖲️🎷🎹💿🍦😎😱
Rating: 👩👦👩👦👩👦👩👦/5
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Nov 01 2024
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At first I was a little put off by how weird it was... and then I started to get it. It's experimental for sure, but I kind of dig it!
Weird dark jazzy trip hop stuff... kind of a noir fever dream journey that I'm really starting to like.
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Oct 24 2024
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Really cool acid jazz album.
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Oct 21 2024
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Very diverse within the soundscape/ambience realm with some elements of jazz and some gospel. Really liked it but i dont know if i would listen to it, if i wasnt studying.
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Oct 02 2024
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A remarkably cool and eclectic album, which shows Adamson's ability to blend genres from across the spectrum in to one cohesive piece. There are elements of jazz, ambient, big band, electronica, and hip hop present across the whole album, and even single tracks. Vocals from Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave, and Billy Mackenzie add a more accessible element to this (at times) rather avant-garde record. You'll even be treated to some trumpet parts written by Miles Davis, in the standout track of the album.
It's conception as the soundtrack to an imaginary film encourages the listener to imagine the scenes to which the music is set. And with ambiguity and number of layers to each track, it's hard to think that each listen will evoke the same images.
Highlights:
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis
Miles
The Sweetest Embrace
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Oct 01 2024
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Erittäin kiinnostava, kokeellinen ja miellyttävän jazzahtava levy. En ollut aiemmin kuullut, joten en ihan uskalla antaa vitosta mutta lähellä ollaan.
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Sep 30 2024
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Good!
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Sep 19 2024
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cool moments
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Sep 18 2024
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Unfortunately I actually really enjoyed this album HOWEVER I do fear this guy wants to fuck his mom
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Aug 30 2024
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This is a wild, wild ride. I never knew what was coming next. Big band? Film soundtrack? Audio book? Honestly there was not once where I’d label this album boring. It is an acquired taste, though. I happened to enjoy it immensely but could just as easily understand if someone else found it utterly baffling. 4/5
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Aug 30 2024
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this one was really strange, with some truly bizarre cameos (atticus ross???). i laughed at the review that called it "a soundtrack for a movie that doesn't exist." true! while i didn't love all of it, and i can't really see myself regularly listening to it - especially the really bizarre spoke word tracks - it was certainly fresh and different, which i appreciated.
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Aug 28 2024
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Had not heard of this artist before, but did enjoy this album. So much is happening in it that is will probably take a few listens to really appreciate it. Lots of different styles melded together, such as jazz, trip-hop, French 60s style pop etc. A couple of tracks include Atticus Ross, Trent Reznor's regular collaborator. 4/5
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Aug 28 2024
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This one was wild. Started absurd, then descended into terrifying madness, with lounge jazz interludes. This makes sense as a soundtrack, but it is most realized as a soundtrack into a schizophrenic oedipal breakdown.
There were some cool tracks, but this is mostly just background music I'd put on for someone to leave. Although I might stick around with a cocktail and keep listening...
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Aug 26 2024
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Najs, fyra starka
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Aug 22 2024
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As an American, this was one of those albums where, at the start, I was thinking to myself, "Who?". But once I sat down to listen to it, I really dug this one, asides from the darker tracks, but those help with the overall theme of "Music for a film that doesn't exist", so I'll give them a pass. 4.5 down to 4.
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Aug 21 2024
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This one was another surprise! Had never heard of this artist but loved how all over this place this was.
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Aug 21 2024
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There's a lot to like about this album. It certainly beats the pants off Nilsson Schmilsson, which was recommended last week. There's a diverse range of music on offer that holds together as a singular work well. I enjoyed the contributions from Jarvis Cocker and Nick Cave too.
My instinct, after a few listens, is to give it a 4. There's not much that stops it from getting a 5. Vermillion Kisses being the only duff track - a faintly misogynistic and twee story that adds nothing and deserves skipping on every listen after the first.
I'll definitely be adding this to my rotation of albums and look for more by Barry.
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Aug 04 2024
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Interesting listen, appreciate hearing different stuff from this list.
Will I listen to again: 50%
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Jul 30 2024
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Wow - I’d never heard about this before today. I must confess that it’s really appealing. I love the textures, moods, rhythms, feelings in this album. Thank you for expanding my music knowledge!
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Jul 24 2024
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Octopus Schadenfreude or something
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Jul 22 2024
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Never heard of this artist or album but what an interesting collection of music. So diverse throughout. Ranging from buttery cocktail jazz to monologue to an intriguing poisoned fairy tale ending with Last Embrace. Written as a soundtrack for an imaginary film. Very creative. I really enjoyed it
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Jul 15 2024
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This was great, but I think a couple of the more trip hoppy numbers kind of made it drag a little. Otherwise, it was challenging, disturbing, and moody.
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