Reviews (page 7 of 7)
No
I don't hate this but don't particularly love it either...It feels like a disjointed soundtrack to a non-existant film...and then reading further about it, almost seems like that was the intent...so getting an extra star for succeeding in the goal...but I don't think I would love this movie either....
Seemed like this was going to be a decent album at first, but it quickly descended into a self-indulgent "art project." A look at Wiki shows me that "Something Wicked This Way Comes" was featured in David Lynch's "Lost Highway," and that pairing seems perfect: two guys who spend way too much energy trying to be different rather than just getting on with things and entertaining people.
A few songs were chill & melodic, then it got creepy & off kilter. I did not enjoy this.
Parts of it I liked. Parts of it I hated. Usually a part I'd hate right after I'd heard a few things I liked, which would then put me off.
This was basically just elevator music
Herkende een nummer van de Lost Highway Soundtrack, maar verder is er eigenlijk niets blijven hangen. Ook niet irritant of specifiek slecht, 2 sterren!
Dit was met recht 'eens iets anders'. Maar niet bepaald een prettige luisterervaring.
De helft vond ik geen muziek.
Fine I guess. Getting real tired of these albums that are all about how people mash up samples to create soundscapes
Probably would have gone three stars if it hadn’t been for business as usual
Not nearly as interesting as the first one I got from him.
291225 10:21 2.5
A soundtrack to a film that doesn't exist. Not sure I'd want to watch it - you just know it would be all arty farty, just like this album. Best Tracks: Something Wicked This Way Comes; The Vibes Ain't Nothing But Vibes; The Big Bamboozle
This album was all over the place. The style of music changed from song to song. There are little to no words and the songs themself are eccentric. Now I looked up the intent of the album, and it was supposed to be music for a movie that does not exist. Knowing that, it explains the different tones of the songs and is inventive in that way. Not sure I would want to see the movie though. I enjoy movie scores and I will relisten to them; however, at no point in time did I think that I absolutely needed to hear this album. I won't be listening again.
Nomas para saber
Jep jep
Hmmm. Good, then bad. Good, then bad. Sometimes jazzy, funky. Then noise. Interesting I guess, but would never listen again. 2
Cheesy ersatz soundtrack music. Cool at its best (set the control, something wicked this way comes), aimless in middle (dirty barry), just pointless jazz-lite noodling at worst (Miles). Nick Cave's cameo stands out as an actual song with charisma and presence.
A lot of weird artistic expression... vermillion kisses is a weird interlude and others just don't seem like tracks that i'd want to listen to again. Bamboozle is the closest to something cool, but it's a big slog to get to that one nugget. An interesting adventure, but not very enjoyable.
Meh kinda lame
🤔 It was interesting.
Its true what they say... don't judge a book by its cover. For some reason I had high hopes for this and it was the opposite of my expectation. Despite a couple good jazz vibes, my ears want an hour of their life back.
2/5
Jeff Goldblum talking over elevator jazz, interspersed with audio recordings from Silent Hill. Interesting, bit too weird.
Lacks any sort of identity or coherence... which is a shame as some solid music in there, but just no sort of flow...
Lost 4 stars off the bat with Jarvis Cocker in full sex pest mode. Music is catchy in spots so redeems it slightly.
Nice and annoying in equal measures
Pretty weird. The instrumental stuff was fine but the singing parts were a little too much for me
Thank you 1001 albums generator for answering the question, "What is worse than listening to jazz?" "Hold my beer, John Cage, I've got to compose the soundtrack to Fear and Loathing in Dystopian Web 1.0." The spoken word stuff was alright, though.
Not my jam
Felt like elevator music to me.
Weird in not in good way
Opening 3 tracks are good and groovy but then it descends into an assortment of tracks for film soundtracks with no connecting threads. Glad I stuck with it as Nick Cave popped up on 'the sweetest embrace'. No idea who Barry Adamson is/was but what a career he's had.
The vocals were very weird, but overall the music was good
A confusing album. Some nice electro jazz mixed with some weird conversational rants and letters. The Jarvis Cocker, heavy breathing, opening track was also not what was needed at 7:15am. Best track: Miles.
Like his other album, it's a great concept that still feels out of place to me on this list. I enjoyed listening to this, but definitely rated his first album too low - that one was better Saved: The Big Bamboozle
Lipsahti taiteellisen puolelle. Instrumentaalit oli oikein hyviä, mutta se tarinankerronta vähän rikkoi flowta. Sinänsä mielenkiintoinen levy tai pitäisikö sanoa taideteos, mutta ei kuitenkaan ihan omaan makuun.
Strange as fuck
I liked the music but the talk-sing was making me anxious when I listened to this and I had to turn it off. Maybe I'll give it another go another time.
weeeeeird
A bit too weird modern jazz for me
Such an uneven album.
experimental jazz is a tough thing to pull off. I'd say there's some cool bits here but some don't hit the mark.
It's ok but it's also kinda artsy Gen-X nonsense at the same time. Like it's kinda funky, jazzy, vaguely rock-y "organic drum & bass" or something. Style shifts from song to song. Saxophones and shit at times, no real singing but occasional vocals doing background chants and spoken word stuff. I will probably never listen to it again but it definitely doesn't suck. I reckon old mate knew what he was doing, it just so happens that I don't care about what he was doing haha.
No.
any man that uses the word 'voluptuous' is a tool bag
Creepy AF
Nope.
geeezus fuck you brits stop giving me this shit
:\\\\\\\ Miles is SO good, and has to be a reference to Miles Davis, but the rest of this was soooooo creepy and I had to skip a bunch part way through.
One of the albums of all time.
So strange. 1st song really set the mood.
No thanks.
Notable Textzeile: I don't like it I don't fucking like it Got me? Das netteste was mir einfällt wäre zu sagen, dass das langweilig ist.
This is awful.
Crappus schrappius.
Thought Atticus finch being on it would make it interesting, I hated it
Weird.
Quite a long album. Really abstract, not for me. I’m not a fan of instrumental stuff. Fav song is ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’.
Pero para mi gusto es medio raro y muy instrumental. Además muy largas las canciones. Hay muchas canciones que literal es puro ruido y sonidos raros.
No es para escuchar por ocio, es puro soundtrack demasiado específico.
First thought: I have no idea what is going on. Maybe you had to be there? The music is fine...love the groove, love the tone set in songs like 'The Vibes Ain't Nothin' But The Vibes'. And then the 'singing' sets in, and the sound effects, and it's just...this doesn't work. Sounds like an album specifically made because we had this new technology called 'CDs' and specifically made for pretentious bastards who just got new 'sound systems' for their 'entertainment centers'. It's a 1.
Meh!!
Nobody needs to hear this pointless guff.
What the fuck
hated it
This is the album version of "Tell me you're pretentious without saying you're pretentious."
As I said for the other Barry Adamson album, and I can't believe there's more than one on the list, unlistenable.
The difference in-between the other project I covered from Barry Adamson to the now unpronounceable Oedipus Schmoedipus is quite frankly insane. The fact that there are coherent compositions here and some pretty solid vocals to go on top of it all is utterly shocking to myself as I had called some of his previous music empty and hollow and without purpose. The Massive Attack sample on Something Wicked This Way Comes is the perfect touch of paying homage while also creating something completely original with a very simple yet catchy snippet from the track Blue Lines. Even though I just praised this album for being much more thoughtful in presentation it does pain me to say that Barry also throws quite a bit at the wall here as well with some very "experimental" tracks that really keep the listener on their toes and slightly annoyed during the entire runtime. There is a lot of hits and misses here with a majority of the album feeling very plain and not quite as inspired as some of the more memorable tracks. Also doesn't help this album has a lot of super uneccesary audio snippets that do nothing but bloat the runtime so it just barely hits over 50 minutes total. I get you want to fill your CD or whatever format to the maximum, but wasting a listener's time is not a good reason to do such a thing. As much as I want to like Oedipus Schmoedipus I sadly couldn't get around how inconsistent and all over the place the presentation is...
Weird
YGTBFKM! More Brit electronic bullshit. zero.
First song I get Jarvis Cocker moaning in my ear and then I get this jazzy lounge acid jazz thing. What. Ugh. One star get this out my ears. There’s nothing redeeming here. Kind of feels like DJ Shadow and indeed when reviewing Endtroducing I noticed it didn’t age that well and didn’t feel as fresh as it did. This is similar just with a much weaker starting point.
Nope
This is interesting (for a bit). A one time listen really. Production is good but none of the songs or compositions stick in the mind at all.
Lounge aber dann sowas?
Not a useful album. Not good, but not extremely bad either.
music jeremy from peep show would make/listen to
Promising start then Jarvis Cocker comes in literally to gross everyone out. Wtf is this.
Ich hatte zwischendurch überlegt, ob es aufgrund der ab und zu aufkommenden immerhin erträglichen Warteschlangenvibes für einen zweiten Stern reicht, aber in Summe ist das einfach zu viel Quatsch und vor allem der "Dialog" Richtung Ende war ein kompletter Fiebertraum im negativen Sinn.
Catcht mich gar nicht. Den (nicht vorhandenen - ha, jetzt recherchiert) Film kann ich mir nicht so gut vorstellen/reinfühlen.
Why another Barry Adamson snooze-fest?! Why?! Soundtrack for a film that, yet again, doesn't exist. Nothing to say about this album other than it's a load of nonsense. Highlight was track 1 with Jarvis Cocker impersonating Austin Powers.
wow. Why exactly did I need to hear this?
An even mix of music I really don't like and music I like even less. 1 star or F.
Was this jazz? Was this electronica? Was this spoken word? I don't know. I do know that I did not enjoy it one bit.
This is wildly forgettable at best. It's not interesting musically, even though it's trying desperately to be.
Schrott
I was alive and listening to other Mute records when this came out but I don’t know what this is and it’s not anything I want to hear again.
Weird elevator music, couldn't finish the full album
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis
This guy needs a new line of work. Fake soundtracks to fake films can’t possibly pay the bills.
Absolument aucun intérêt.
got moss side story few months ago, and now again with this imaginary soundtrack bullshit? really? i can only hope one would not mention him anymore while i am alive, or dead.
What in the world did I just listen to??????
this shit blows chunks.
Oh my! In Business as usual he seemed like a stalker, but then Miles was upbeat, so bipolar. I can't say that I liked it, but I liked certain songs.
This record seems filled with angst. Oftentimes leaving me at the corner of "what was that?" And "what could possibly be next?" A bit too slow and moody for me. 1 outta 5
You know that scene in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia where they’re doing an induction ceremony for Schmitty and they play that Gregorian chant that breaks into a dance beat and they start swaying from side to side and grinning? The first 20 seconds of this album felt exactly like that and unfortunately it never recovered.
Seems to have all the right ingredients for the kind of upbeat mid-90s indie-dance thing it is aiming for - funky 60s samples, strings, choirs, hammond organs, random pieces of newsreel dialogue, Jarvis Cocker... - but somehow comes across as totally lacking in charm, personality or any sense of cool. Lots of soul samples, not a lot of soul. Compared to it's numerous peers in this field, it's all a bit uninspired and flat.
Enfermizo 0/5
It’s incredibly rare that I don’t listen to all of an album. I can only think of one other that I’ve skipped a few tracks on. But I didn’t get close to finishing this. It just really bored me. I listened to the first 25 minutes or so but had nothing good to say about it. Skipped a couple of tracks after 30 seconds or so and then decided that I just didn’t want to listen to this. Much preferred Moss Side Story that I scored a 3. I’m sure that if I listened to this enough that it might be a bit less boring. But I really couldn’t get on with it at all. Oh, shit title as well that absolutely doesn’t do what he thinks it does.
not my thing 1/5
Wat kut
Best Song: The Sweetest Embrace I didn't like this. Listening to this reminds me of doing work outside in the yard on a hot Summer day but, for whatever reason, you are unable to shower after and have to sit with the dried sweat covering your body. You feel icky. That's how this album made me feel. 1/5.
Nope.
Ew
I could not stand this. It was just noise and I stopped after 2 songs
Awful
I do not like this!
At times, this felt like this could have been the radio station / soundtrack to an earlier Grand Theft Auto game…before they started using real songs. Then it got weird and turned into more of a film score for a low budget 70’s sci-fi flick. I bailed half way.
It feels like an experiment and I'm not down for that
Aptly named as this is a mother fucking tragedy calling some of the tracks music.
Adamson Schmadamson. Who cares?
Well, as a start, I feel deeply uncomfortable with Jarvis Cockers breathy vocals in the first track 🤮 Feels pretty non-descriptive and unaccomplished. Writing a soundtrack to an imaginary film because no-one will actually let you do it for real. Nothing too impressive or engaging. Not sure how often I’d listen to a film soundtrack in its own right anyway, but either way this is poor, disjointed and boring. This might be my first 1 star :-/ Yeh, this made me angry. A mismatch of genres, done very badly and with no purpose. Just a personally self-indulgent project that makes little sense. Pretty tragic.
Another album where at no point did I know what would come next. The elevator music was alright but then they’d go in to a monologue about a therapist followed by haunted house music. Who listens to this? What was this made for?! I realized half way through that I was listening to this on shuffle. I understand as a soundtrack to a made up film, the order was probably important. However, I don't think it would have made a difference. It was just weird, and I didn't want to have to sit and listen to all the songs all over again.
I quit during track 4. If all of the album was like track 2 then it would be a 5 star, and it would be an album that I listen to all the time. Alas, I'll probably never know because track 4 was so horrible that I had to stop. (didn't like the first one either)
Ugh, deliberate unsettling noise isn't pleasant to listen to.
Just, no. I can't even finish this. It's an instrumental with heavy creepy notes and strange vibes. I could see it as background music for movies but nothing else.
Didn’t we do this already? Boring
Couldn’t finish it. I was excited with the idea of a soundtrack for a made up movie, but it was really uninteresting to me and the first track laid out the concept and really turned me off to it.
Ooooh the mumbling and lines are from the movie that doesn't exist! I couldn't do it. It is the first one in a long time I couldn't finish
Ihan kivat kellopelit välillä. Muuten en löydä tästä kipinää, miten tämä perustelis itsensä muiden matalalla äänellä puhelaulavien ukkojen joukossa (Valley of dollsissa oli ehkä yritystä)
Kuinka uhkarohkeaa. Ei artistin toivomasta syystä. Nick Caven ilmaantuminen kuvioihin tuntuu helpottavalta.
🎧Goddamn there are so many great albums from 90s absent from Dimery’s list, but included are weirdo snoozefests like Oedipus Schmoedipus. We get it Barry, you’re a kinky freak with a penchant for loungey rhythms and Harry Nilsson nods. I did not need to hear this pre-death.
# Album Name: Oedipus Schmoedipus # Artist: Barry Adamson # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: This album should have stayed an imagination in someones head. I have nfi what this is doing on the list. Absolute joke. # Top Tunes: None # Would I listen to it again? No
I have no idea what I just listened to lol
Um... what?
this was mince
Ew
Not for me.
The problem with movie scores is that they enhance the visual experience, but are often incredibly dull without that context. I would say this album falls into that category.
No thank you to this one.
Sorry, no, I just don’t get it. I have a bit of a mental blockage when it comes to movie soundtrack albums anyway. They can be just a jumble of different styles and only mean something to the those that love the movie. This one was a jumble. But, it was an imaginary movie? Why bother? Sorry my brain does not compute. If it was strong musically then I might not have been bothered, but it’s not.
I listened through the first track because it’s included Jarvis Cocker. I made it halfway through the rest of the record before I decided life is too short to listen to this much triphop.
not sure what this guy is up to but I'm happy for him i guess
Uhhh this fucking sucks? Best Song: N/A Rating: 0.5/10 1 Stars
Meh
Seems self-indulgent.
Bleeuckk!
love the name of this album, but simply could not get through it because the vibes were all over the place
Malo. Muy orquestal o aureal,no me gusto la instrumentación. Alguna parte lírica me gustó, pero no es mi onda ni a palos. Sí hay un tena destacado que es el que guardé, pero no me va la onda toda opresiva y gótica, al menos no de este tipo ni Nik Cave.
This album is the least enjoyable one to date. Even if it were a soundtrack to a real movie that movie would be insufferable based purely on this representation. Meandering and annoying.
This album flip flops between pop-y elevator music and weird, creepy, whisper-moaning. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, a single song has both. For the first time in over 200 albums, I am choosing not to finish this one before rating it.
Nah, I didn't like this. Too arty farty - can't have people speaking in monotonous voices over music that mostly goes nowhere
Honestly, I listened to this after the election in 2024, was already in a depressed mode, and this record only made it worse. It's way too avant-garde and pretentious for me to derive any joy from. The moments I did like were so fleeting and brief that it just made me more mad because at least there was a morsel that could have been duplicated but wasn't. Pardon my misplaced anger and hatred, but eat shit and die Barry Adamson. Notable Tracks: - Miles 1.5/10
First album and artist I was 100% unfamiliar with. The entire album sounds like it's half finished or they laid down the backing tracks and forgot to include the leads. Weird but not in an interesting way
Puh. Nicht mein Stil.
Some of these start out kinda cool, but then the shitty drum loop starts and THEN he starts his pseudo-sultry spoken word shit. How in the world does it end up that seemingly 1/3 of alll 1001 albums I must hear before I die were all trip hop albums from the mid 90s? I think I’d rather die tbh
mh nooooope
There’s a reason why I’ve never heard of this album…not good.
What.
Very weird. Why is this in a top 1001 albums list?
3/10. Throughout I went from moments of "a little boring but I can vibe to this" to moments of "what in the hell is this creepy stuff"? Harsh, as I know others may see art in this, but it's overall not my thing.
Bailed early, unlistenable
Too all over the place. Happy marimba music, then creepy soundscape with voicemails. Not worth my time.
Даже не дослушал. Заебало. Пускай дэвид линч слушает это
More 90s britrock bleh
This was not for me. Miles was an ok song, most of this was just sound collages though. And if it was just that it would’ve been better than sound collages with annoying dialogue throughout. I don’t understand this one at all.
Was alright for the first couple. till the jazz shit
"Music" is a stretch. 1/5
Weird not fun just weird and all over the place
Is it Electronic? Is it Rhythm and Blues? Is it Jazz? Is it Experimental? Well.. Er, yes? Maybe? I don't know! I'm so confused! Help! Really interesting album... Do I like it? No. Was it a fun listen? Hell yeah! Such weird lyrics though; Barry, what were you smoking when you made this my friend?
I’ve never heard of him or this album, and I hope to never hear of him again. I was able to listen to a couple of songs without cringing, but most of them were a painful experience. Maybe I’m not at a high enough level of consciousness if so, I hope I never reach whatever level that would take.
Seriously, what the fuck is this doing on a list of albums that everyone should hear? Its not good. 1/5
Interesting for sure. Very weird. Loved one song I’d heard before, but overall just way too weird for me.
Nope. Complete waffle
What, a mashup of Henry Mancini, Marilyn Manson, Barry White monologues and Ye? Soundtrack for an imaginary film - know a dumb idea when you have one - no fun on this one at all.
Disappointed I can't leave negative stars.
I usually enjoy experimental albums, especially if they're written with some over-arching story and them in mind. Unfortunately, I think this album takes the experimental side of things too far. The songs feel so disjointed that the theme/story were lost to me, which made it hard for me to listen to the discordant sounds of some of the songs. I think experimental albums are fun and interesting. But I don't believe at all this is an album someone has to listen to before they die.
Nope
Don’t know why this is here honestly
No like, what the actual fuck?
A few nice jazz tracks interspersed with absolutely horrific noise 1/5
Wow... That was terrible
Listened to the first half, decided it wasn't for me. It's all over the place musically, but with the underlying theme of "background." Reminded me a lot of Muzak in the 70s.
Tandon Scale Rating: 1 Standouts: Something Wicked This Way Comes, Miles, The Big Bamboozle, Set the Controls Again Foot Notes: 1 What a fricking weird project this is “soundtrack for a movie that doesn’t exist” it sounds like a detective movie at times 2 Filled with skippers for me Would I Listen Again: no for me dawg Album Cover Rating: (1-5) 1.5 Album Name Rating: (1-5) 4
Oooff. Yeah I would have turned this album off if I wasnt trying to listen to the whole thing. I understand the move sound track idea, but this doesn't have anything interesting or strong to me to be next to these other albums. Feels like background music.
opet neka soundtrack muzika
I mean... I find this very lightweight musically, doesn't do much, doesn't go anywhere. Grand use of samples and great soundscaping, but very linear. Superficial? Made it half way. Not terrible music, not offensively bad, just a hackneyed waste of time to listen to. Harsh.
Some of this was kind of okay but most of it was terrible. I don’t need to listen to music to make me feel anxious, I’m plenty anxious on my own.
Não sei o que dizer... Só sentir
Just why?? Yeah never heard of this artist and I wish it had stayed that way . If I didn't hear this for a 1000 years, it would still be too soon. Waste of my time
Weird. 2 stars? Maybe 1?
A bit of late 70s sound most rendered as muzac. Filler tracks consist of layers of of bustling random noises that are mostly made from instruments, typical for this period.
Barry Adamson is talented but weird and not my thing at all. The other album we had of his got a 1 because you can't ask me to connect with a fictional soundtrack and the same applies here. Most soundtrack albums are average anyway, fake ones are worse.
I did not finish the album. The first half was so bad imo that I couldn't go any further. I am disappoint.
I have a feeling I’m missing part of the puzzle here. That I haven’t seen the film or gotten the references. As an album, it wasn’t always creepy and unpleasant, but it sometimes was, and I’ve forgotten the rest.
No thank you
In the time I've been doing this list, I've not enjoyed something less than this. I usually give an album two listens and then additional if I am enjoying it or need more clarity. With this one, I barely got through one listen. There was some song with talking over the top which was the absolute low point. The one positive is that track 2 was good. But I will never revisit this album ever again. Didn't enjoy it whatsoever ONE
total crap. very unsettling
Some creepy songs some good background ones. But as another review noted- this list is not for soundtracks and I don’t think this album have been included. Nice concept though- the album song’s were each supposed to be songs for movies.
Woof. 1. Not listening again. It's cool, I guess, in the same way a banana taped to the wall is art. Not for me
There are deaths for worthy concepts: The honorable failure, but also the complete formal let-down. While I didn't come into this listen impressed by Adamson, I expected something much more cohesive, so Oedipus Schmoedipus, title aside, presents the latter pathology. Music is abstract, which is its strength. Kaleidoscopic work always ends as abstraction, too, but we can't forget the thing holding it all together. Refracting elements must be specific enough in isolation. In the album's case, specificity only comes with the words, which end up too divided to contribute to anything but a wish for something better.
shitty background music. the sweetest embrace of all caught me off guard, that was heavy. last of the album was just annoying
This is an absolute wtf kind of album. There are some decent instrumental tracks that are jazzy and classical and then there are tracks of talking and then just noises I suppose. It was jumbled and disorienting and quite terrible at times. Not sure all these songs could be considered music. Puzzling how this made the list. 1.9/10
I was simply bored until it got to "It's Business As Usual," then I actively began to dislike it. As for the concept of being a faux movie soundtrack, this pretense comes across more like a weak way to justify this hodgepodge of half baked musical ideas. The spoken word sections are particularly annoying. It would be one thing if this were all just background music that romanticized the past, but you have these periodic, but extensive, sections that are absolutely jarring to the experience of the music itself. This album is at once both loosely constructed and overdone.
1.5
I’m usually much more forgiving of this style of music than most on this site, but virtually none of these songs ever came together for me in any worthwhile way. It was difficult for me to piece out even the barest fragments of ideas and it just sounded like someone making music just to do it, without any discernable motivation or end-goal.
What the fuck is this shit?? Dated 90s weirdness.
Self indulgent rubbish.
The amount of the album that was like straight answering machine recordings was bizarre. I get they were going for a story of sorts but it didn't work for a casual listener like myself
Doe mij maar Nilsson Schmilsson
What the hell was dit!?
Go bang your mom dude
I really didn't like this album. But I get the impression that that Barry Adamson doesn't want people to like this album. He's clearly capable of creating music that people will genuinely enjoy but, Adamson seems to be of the school of thought that "art" and "entertainment" are mutually exclusive. As such, he's made this album unenjoyable for more than a minute or so at a time by making a point to dial up the "nope" factor any time the album starts to get good. It's no surprise to learn that Nick Cave was attached this project as it has his distinctive stench smeared all over it. Adamson and Cave both seem to be cut from the same, soiled cloth and I just don't have the patience for the feces they try to sell as "art".
shit
This was absolute pants. If I could give it minus stars I would. Minus one thousand stars for sounding like jellied tripe.
What? No.
What? "Set the controls..." sounds like a ripoff of Vogue and the Farm... Too much contrast between different instruments, melodies, Mix of bad jazz interlaced with bad lyrical poetry.
A very experimental kind of jazz music, too experimental.
Badipus Schmobadipus
Barry Adamson's third album released in 1996, is filled with lounge / soul jazz music. It's an interesting album because I have not heard music like this before. It sounded dark and melancholy. One song was literally an audiobook short story. This man is either crazy or a genius, and I guess I would have to listen to more of his music to figure out which he is. However for this album, I don't need to listen to it again.
To much crowd noises.
This album, in particular, reminds me of this group of LoDo nightclubs (not dance clubs but lounges), which opened in the early 2000s, done by this interior designer I was friends with. The designer would proudly invite some friends to attend the grand openings for VIP tables and comped bottle service. I would spend the requisite time there, covering my free yet overpriced vodka drink whilst wondering how much longer I had to listen to the bad music and some Chad in a jewel-toned button down telling me about his struggle to pass the real estate exam or his job in finance while telling me how much he liked the music. This is not a cohesive album, more just a collection of tracks. And the transitions between them are non-existent. Each song is a jarring new sound. Add in the weird talking over the grating electronic sounds followed up by some jazz, this album is a hard no for me.
Struggled a lot to finish this one, skipped within the tracks quite a bit and did not miss anything because in most of the tracks everything has been said by the second 40. Unbearable cringy at times, it fits a lot with so many of the records in the list that are there not for their artistic value but because they're weird. It grabs a second air with “In a Moment of Clarity” but soon sinks again in its repetitiveness and huge self-awareness.
I'm not enjoying this, not really even as background.
I don't really understand what this album is about or for. It is really just free-form art put into a "listenable" state, so most of the songs exist just for the sake of existing.
The most eclectic mix of genres and styles that I've ever heard. Never would I mix spoken word with disco tunes with jazz(?)-like structures. It's not something I'm ever going to listen to again either despite its interesting composition.
Whether I like this or not seems to depend greatly on my mood. In a good mood, I am absolutely willing to put up with this record’s BS. Not so much if I’m annoyed, which is a bad thing for this album because I’ve mostly been listening while driving. It’s a joke album and the joke isn’t funny, really. Favourite track: “The Vibes Ain’t Nothing but the Vibes” (get it, because it’s a vibraphone . . . ugh)
Terrible title. That’s the first thing off the checklist. I think there’s a fine line to be walked with this ‘atmospheric beats’ sort of music, and I can’t quite put my finger on when it does work and when it doesn’t, but… this wasn’t it.
Not for me
It's pleasant. It's unchallenging. It's not even one of the 2,002 albums you must listen to before you die.
refused to finish
Noicdes
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