Oedipus Schmoedipus

lo trovo ripetitivo e a volte noioso, non è il mio stile per niente. C'è anche una punta di jazz che in questo contesto non mi piace molto. Ho apprezzato la canzone "the sweetest embrace"

I didn't really like this much. It was too jarring the different styles of music and the lack of any sort of flow. And I didn't find any of the parts that were decent that compelling, either. Not for me.

not for me

The album got off to a great start. My immediate reaction was that this album was going to be a 4. But as the album dragged on, I became progressively more uninterested and frustrated that is was still playing, counting down the tracks until it was over.

Something I would have played in college. Noise, spoken word... Otherwise unremarkable.

it ok

Kinda cringe.

Man this sucks…. totally hit or miss… first couple were good miles was my favorite. Just eary and creepy

Really strange album. It starts off with some absolute nonsense spoken word stuff, but eventually mixes in some borderline great jazz music. Overall not a fan though. 2/5 Might listen to "Miles" again.

Not really sure what genre this one was. Okay, only really enjoyed the songs with hip-hop inspired drum beats.

я понял, что ничего не понял

Interesting. Diverse. Smooth jazz to Jim Morrison to therapy session. Got thru most of it. Won’t go back.

it's dark and cinematic, very 90s, loads of samples, very gynophobic and sex charged. It feels like you've heard every song before somewhere, but then added a bunch of sex/romance stuff on top of it. It's not for me, I wouldn't want to listen to it again.

Yeah... Maybe I wasn't in the mood for this genre today? Couldn't really enjoy any of the songs.

not my thing but I've listened to it

I liked a couple songs but the vibe was very…. Off putting

Strange.

I thought this sounded like a score! I can see it working in that context, but didn't enjoy it just as an album to listen to.

fine, vermillion kisses was an interesting listen but not revisiting otherwise

Too long, and most of it was uninteresting

That got real weird real quick

Enjoyed the first track. Not so sure after that but didn’t finish the album so this could be an unfair rating. 2*

Interesting enough. Not great though.

Very weird. Too weird and all over the place for me.

Assumed this would be horrific from the album title. It wasn't as bad as I expected. But found it quite boring, and really dragged on. I'll give it 2 stars for not being terrible, and for some great song names that sound like something we'd come up with.

That was weird and bad.

Sorry Barry Adamson, I had a good time with your last album that's on here. But this one went above my head 😂 I think my fault, not yours

Somewhat interesting but a slog

I couldn't get into this. Just weird, eclectic lounge or soundtrack music.

Oh boy. Well, when you go into an album called Oedipus Schmoedipus I guess you gotta be prepared for strange. This album was weird to say the least. Not necessarily weird bad though, you can tell everything on this album is very intentional - I just don’t think I really understand it. I also don’t feel inclined to want to understand it though.

Some songs were okay, but some were highly annoying

2/5 nope

Kind of felt like 90s computer game music at points.

Not quite as bad as I thought it might be, based on the song titles. But I was also working so didn't really hear the lyric.

Achieved in the Valley in the Dolls i The Sweetest Embrace su solidne, al ostalo je ili elevator music ili neki artsy shit koji mi ne pase bas.

Pretty sporadic

When I finished Murder Ballads, I asked myself "If Nick Cave took a shit on the floor, would it make the 1001 albums list?" Turns out, it didn't even have to be Nick Cave, his bandmate would do. Jokes aside though, this guy clearly has musical talent that comes through on the tracks where he isn't trying to shock or weird out the listener. I can see why only David Lynch actually used his movie-soundtrack style music in an actual movie soundtrack. 3/10, not for me.

Maybe a couple alright songs but mostly pretty weird. 4/10

A bit odd. Didn’t hate it but certainly odd.

Kind of boring

Wild ride. Cool jazz, weird sounds, creepy spoken word...

Didn't like. Wasn't taken in by the hooks, felt plodding and boring. Didn't make it to the end.

The music was ok but why put a bunch of half ass spoken word nonsense in there? I dont know what the hell i just listened to but it wasn’t worth 56 minutes of my time.

Astonishing. Two albums on this list by this guy, who writes film soundtracks for films that don't exist. Ironically, one of the tracks was subsequently featured in a real film. Quite a bit of variety in the soundscapes he creates, somehow manages to get guest vocals from Jarvis and Nick Cave on here which was an unexpected treat, but I can't bring myself to give this any more than a 2.

From a boring opening track, to weird, and dark. Some tracks are bright and happy too, but really, it's all a show. Barry is original and creative, the soundscapes might even be good for a movie soundtrack, but they are all kinda different, with nothing particularly important about them. Sorta like a relationship you wish you never had anything to do with? Maybe the Dude with grit? Pretty things are in the scene but be prepared for the fall because you'll need to be comfortable with the dirty things. No thank you.

Interesting, but kinda weird

I don’t know what to really think about this. It’s an experimental instrumental album that’s horny as fuck. Meh is about all I have to say.

Filing this under 'albums I was vaguely aware of but had never listened to, that I'm sort of glad to have listened to, but will never listen to again'.

Weird to say the least: not the first time I've had to listen to a song in a meh album describing sex in great detail but this took it to another level. Like a fairy tale? Funny but just odd. Other than that I only recognized one song and it's just background music so nothing much. Exactly what I expected coming from an album which peaked at 40 or smth high in the UK albums charts.

Really enjoying hearing the track "Miles". Pretty sure it's a cover of a Miles Davis song but can't place which one right now. Otherwise, Wikipedia says this was supposed to be a concept movie soundtrack and I definitely get that from a couple tracks.

2.5

I like the concept of a soundtrack to an imaginary film, but maybe I need to see the film.

Simultaneously interesting and uninteresting by throughout. 4/10

I liked the early jazzy one and the Milestones interpolation, but otherwise a thoroughly strange album that didn’t click with me. I certainly can’t knock it for diversity or atmosphere, though. Best song: Something Wicked This Way Comes

This album has a lot of quality tracks, and yet it lost me or rather I lost the thread, more than once. Maybe it just hit on the wrong day, but it's hard to even give it a three.

AJ: not for me

All over the place and generally not interesting

A very eclectic album. The songs It's business as usual and vermilion kisses are the the hight of strange. Overall not terrible.

2.9 - I don’t know, dude, another “soundtrack for a fake movie”? The schtick may have seemed fresh a few years but it’s just sounding tired here. It doesn’t seem to create a story arc in my mind but feels like cinematic snippets from various flicks. And the spoken word bits often seem heavy-handed (e.g., Jarvis Cocker’s lusty whisperings on the opening track). I did, however, enjoy hearing Nick Cave on “The Sweetest Embrace.”

A soundtrack album to a movie that doesn't exist - it doesn't sound like a consistent album but only a bunch of songs thrown together, and this is my main issue with it. Some songs are good, the more experimental ones aren't that interesting though. Overall a good background music but nothing more.

Overrated crap. He should stick to bass in other peoples bands.

Soundtrack to a weird noir film that doesn't exist and doesn't seem like something I would want to watch even if it did

Ok, so a soundtrack to an imaginary movie. The Vibes Ain't Nothin' But The Vibes is a song? I guess? It's Business As Usual is not my cup of tea. The problem I am encountering is I am trying to treat this like an album when really its a movie, just without the movie parts. Fucking hell, what a chore. Vermillion Kisses is such a fucking tease. The Sweetest Embrace is the closest to an actual listenable song, because it has Nick Cave on it.

Have tried listening to this about 6 times at night and never made it all the way to the end as always fell asleep. Not objectionable but nothing I'm going to listen to our of choice

Oh right - I listened the hell out of the Lost Highway soundtrack, too. Not sure I ever bothered to look at the name “Barry Adamson” though. My bad, Barry. So this was a really interesting one to listen to in the car driving down the interstate. Wouldn’t exactly call it road trip music, but it started promising enough and I like some of the dark jazz stuff. The song with “vibes” in the title was solid. I remember that one. I liked the Nick Cave song near the end of the record. That one, too. But there were a whole slew of tunes that had me reaching for the next button on my steering wheel. And while some of those, sure, might make for good mood pieces in a Lynch film… it felt like there were more that were better suited for soft core porn. TLDR: more Lynch, less soft core porn, Barry.

Probably the weirdest album I have listened to, at least since his other one. I didn't know what was going on about half the time. Probably doesn't deserve to be on the list, but interesting at least.

Occasionally a cool or tense or tuneful moment, but mostly pretty boring. Couldn't really get into it. 2.5/5

i hate jazz

This was strange most seemed to be score for a film or something. Not necessarily bad but not something I'd seek out really

Meh. Some of it is listenable, but mostly washed over me. Voice (and some music) very similar to Nick Cave.

This album has no idea what it wants to be. Starting off with the most basic 90s British electronic music, it quickly turns to lounge music, experimental jazz, before moving to more conventional cool jazz and going back to experimental jazz. The Nick Cave feature was a welcome surprise, but overall, this album suffered from a total lack of identity; even when it stuck to a genre it didn’t do it well. The whole point of the album seemed to be a reference to the fact that others genres exist without feeling the need to do them well.

Music is good until somebody decides to start mumbling over it.

Listened Before? N This one reminds me a lot of Massive Attack in places, and is more experimental than they are. I didn't dislike it but I didn't love it either. I may try listening again later. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Achieved In The Valley In The Dolls

Komisches Ding, komm net so recht dahinter

This was a weird one and I couldn't quite get my head around it. I like a lot of the spooky lyrics and interludes. Quite a bit better than the worst we've heard!

"Oedipus Schmoedipus" is tolerable as background until "It's Business As Usual." Almost turned it off then and there. Like ok, so this is supposed to be a movie soundtrack to a nonexistent movie? But the listener has been given no clue what the movie is about before the creepiness of "It's Business As Usual" sets in. And then the abrupt transition to "Miles" made what would have been a perfectly fine cover of a Miles Davis song seem weird. Did this movie have some kind of story in Barry Adamson's head? It's a rhetorical question. I don't actually want to know. And definitely don't want to watch that movie.

No

Too much whispering

Remember when they aired Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert on NBC back in 2018? Yeah I don’t either, I don’t think anyone watched it. But it had John Legend, Sara Bareilles and Alice Cooper in the cast, which is really strange. It honestly feels like a fever dream, much like this album. It’s clever and deserves extra points for that, but if this was an actual soundtrack to a movie, I likely would not watch that movie. Much like how I did not watch Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. At least NBC assembled a star cast to feed their viewers.

“My mom used to be a jeans model, so y’know.😉”

I liked bits of this. But starting the day with Jarvis getting a bit saucy wasn't really my plan for my day. Kind of an all star cast, and so many different styles meant this didn't hang together as an album for me. It was helpful to show the Leonard Cohen influence weighs heavy on Mr Cave, if nothing else. By the time it got to Miles - sounding very much elevator music - my attention was wavering due to the constant moving goalposts. A lot of this felt too knowing and referential for me to immerse myself fully. It does kind of work as a soundtrack to an imaginary film, but I am not sure I would sit through the full feature, if so.

Well this was a WEIRD one. It started off as the ideal wfh music. I usually give any album described as 'a soundtrack for an imaginary film' a large swerve; but this was half decent. It then took a dark twist and got a little disturbing with Business as Usual. There was a sudden switch to light jazz on Miles. wtf is this imaginary film all about? I thought Vermillion Kisses what a stupid Spotify ad. An interesting sound collage, but not exactly a stadium filler.

Not quite sure what this was supposed to be......

Shocked this reached 51 on the UK charts. Mostly nonsense. Sweet Embrace was ok.

Another head scratcher. Why is this on this list. No very good or interesting to me.

A imaginary soundtrack is a n interesting concept. The Miles Davis track was my favorite. The others…not so much.

2.4/5 Best: Something Wicked This Way Comes Worst: Dirty Barry Interesting and creative, but a bit weird.

First track was super annoying tbh. The rest just faded into background music, which isn't "bad" but pretty forgettable.

It was, OK - is also a shadow the magic of Melody Nelson from earlier this week, and for other similar sleaze lounge stuff that came on the shuffle afterwards

Noise

This was a weird album but enjoyable for the most part, some tracks were boring though. I really enjoyed "The vibes ain't nothin' but vibes" and "Achieved in the valley in the dolls". Rating: 2.5/5.

This started out interesting and proceeded to being weirder and weirder as it went on. I don't recall the last time I was so uncertain whether or not I even liked an album. There is no cohesion to this album whatsoever as one track would have a Beck vibe followed by a spoken word in Shakespearean style and then back to a Leonard Cohen sort of vibe. That sounds a lot cooler than it actually ended up being for me. I'd put this somewhere between a 2 and a 3 if I could.

Feels too much like background music

Groovy. It’s Business as Usual actually terrified me, though. What the hell? That was creepy. I’m a lyric listener mostly, so I don’t usually listen to instrumental, but it was fine.

Very interesting, very diverse, and very pointless. And for an album recorded in the mid-90s, somebody should have told Barry that the "sax" sound of the 80s sounded dated even when it was popular in the 80s.

There were some cool individual songs on the album, and the overall concept (separated from the songs) was interesting enough, but it wasn't an enjoyable album. There were songs that filled no purpose. The only song I really enjoyed was Miles, which was written by the one and only Miles Davis.

Really weird album.

dramatic like the divine comedy but only slightly less horny during vocals mostly instrumental 2.5

Thanks to this 1001 list, I'm starting to grow convinced that music released in the 90s is either spectacular or horrendous. This album has background/elevator music on one track, nonsensical jibberish on another, and I don't know what else on the next. Guess where this one falls? 3/10.

Bit too self indulgent for me

What even is this?

Prawie godzinny seans z eksperymentalna elektronika podczas dzisiejszego odsluchu Oedipus Schmoedipus od pana Barryego Adamsona, plyta z 96 miala byc soundrackiem do wymyslonego filmu i tak sie tez tego slucha, pan Barry buduje mroczny klimat kwasowego jazzowania z funkwymi nutkami przeplatanymi monologami i wszelakimi samplami, na uwage zasluguje drugi utwor na plejliscie albumu, czyli something wicked this way comes, bo tak jak zapowiada nadchodzi cos nieczystego, caly album wydaje sie kolekcja niepokojaco schludnie brzmiacych sennych opowiesci, a wiki wskazuje na odniesienia do historii kinematografii na poszczegolnych trakach, ale tutaj calkowicie mnie ominely referencje jakie podobno zostaly przemycone, tak jak elektronika nie byla moim ulubionym gatunkiem, tak nadal nim nie jest, a oedipus jest bardzo specyficznym nagraniem, do ktorego nalezy podejsc z odpowienim nastrojem, w ktory dzisiaj nie trafilem, bo o ile pierwsza polowa plyty byla sluchalna, to druga czesc juz raczej nudzila i nie potrafila przyciagnac na nowo uwagi

Not for me.

Starter veldig bra, mister det etter noen sanger. Morsom sound.

I normally like concept albums, but most of those are progressive rock albums. This album felt like one of the critics, and I'm not a critic.

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.

The good: I like the album name If this was supposed to be a movie soundtrack then I don’t want to watch this movie the plot would probably be incomprehensible. Seriously what genre of movie would this even be? movies i think these songs can be in Set the controls: intro to cheesy action comedy Something wicked: gangster movie the vibes: campy murder mystery its business: horror movie about a stalker miles: romcom with a hardworking female lead dirty barry: the same movie as its business in a moment of clarity: whatever movie would also feature rhapsody in blue in the soundtrack Achieved: campy spy movie vermillion: yea idk the big bamboozle: a funny animated heist movie state of contraction: one with a sad introspective scene the sweetest: a musical about vampires set in the roaring 20's set the controls again: credits music to that cheesy action comedy the songs individually are good and do a lot of storytelling on their own, i just don't think it makes a good soundtrack for a single movie. If i lacked the context that this album was supposed to be a soundtrack then i would think this is a very discordant but good album. with context this album fails for me.

First thought: why does this guy have *two* albums here? As it turns out, he's from Magazine, which is a band I've heard of! Still don't need his soundtracks for movies that don't exist though, this one's maybe slightly better when he's being discount Tom Waits, but otherwise it feels not particularly worth my time

is this what the dark web is like

Pretentious

Y’all wtf is up with this nonsense background noise being on a list of must-listen albums? I’m over it

Is this the same Barry Adamson that did that faux movie soundtrack MOSS SIDE STORY that’s also (undeservedly) on this list? Hard pass… …and a 1-star review with extreme prejudice and long-simmering bitterness from having to listen to that other piece of shit. [ten minutes later, after reading the book entry] David Lynch liked this? FUCK. Now I have to listen to it.

“Set the controls to the heart of the pelvis.” Pass.

Sehr komisch

Had hopes I would like this one.

A real mix of riffs that I've heard before, a bit of elevator music coupled with soundscapes. Not for me

What the hell.

Bad

No one should have to listen to this

Why did we have to listen to two Barry Adamson albums? They are the same

Soundtrack for the worst eurospy movie ever made

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.