- Audio CD (6 Mar 1989)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Mute
- ASIN: B0000240U7
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 85,879 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. On the Wrong Side of Relaxation |
| 2. Under Wraps |
| 3. Central Control |
| 4. Round Up the Usual Suspects |
| 5. Sounds From The Big House |
| 6. Suck On The Honey Of Love |
| 7. Everything Happens To Me |
| 8. The Swinging Detective |
| 9. Autodestrution |
| 10. Intensive Care |
| 11. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World |
| 12. Free at Last |
| 13. Alfred Hitchcock Presents |
| 14. Chocolate Milk Shake |
| 15. The Man With The Golden Arm |
Product Description
Debut 1989 solo album a dark, atmospheric "imaginary soundtrack" from the one-time Bad Seeds & Magazine member, Guest vocals from Diamanda Galás. Includes "The Man With The Golden Arm".
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Why is this Barry Adamsons best record? Well, its thrilling and visceral. It has no truck with easy listening or coffee table jazz. Moss Side Story is the definitive Adamson record for me. It is just such a thrill to listen to - a realisation of his imaginary film soundtrack style. Its 'Get Carter' set in the grey Manchester of the mid-1980s. The record moves effortlessly from its claustrophobic opening through sonic landscapes pivoting on the quite indescribably beautiful "Everything Happens To Me" before disappearing off into the ether via a cute interpretation of the theme tune to "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and a diamond hard reading of "The Man With the Golden Arm". Adamson went on to more acclaim with other records and seeing him live last year reminds me what a unique talent he is but this is his magnum opus to me. This got me hooked on his music. This is the real deal. Moss Side Story is all your dreams and nightmares rolled into a stunning panorama of music. Buy it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Barry's ascent into the jazz noir world evoked black and white mutual worlds. Easily transplanted to the brass blasted grim fairytales of urban USA, Barry did the ultimate twist. He grafted noir onto the outre social housing worlds of inner city UK grime. Suddenly instead of appearing austere gangsta rap dominated concrete, needle fixated with obliteration, Barry makes them human.
This is both a soundtrack to events yet to happen and a testament to the wasted bodies lying on the streets of inner city Manchester. "Operation Trident" transplanted, a three pronged musical score, fleshing out the humanity on the skeletal frames.
Experimental in the industrial progenitor sense, Barry returns back to the scene of the crime of his childhood and creates a lush austere industrial soundtrack. In the best British tradition, everything including the kitchen sink is thrown into the fray. Jazz, Industrial, Exotica movie tracks weave a realist fantasy from threadbare lives. Whilst the jazz method captures allure in the mid period Adamson, this, the first of Barry's opus, bottles and caps despair.
So it's not music you can whistle to, but placed late night on the deck or pumping through the car it captures a vibe. This is music for those who have travelled the dead end roads, unpaved pavements, lit by broken streetlights, smelt the burnt out buildings and read the graffiti. UK Urban Noir as art, the socially included know not what they have missed.
This is both a soundtrack to events yet to happen and a testament to the wasted bodies lying on the streets of inner city Manchester. "Operation Trident" transplanted, a three pronged musical score, fleshing out the humanity on the skeletal frames.
Experimental in the industrial progenitor sense, Barry returns back to the scene of the crime of his childhood and creates a lush austere industrial soundtrack. In the best British tradition, everything including the kitchen sink is thrown into the fray. Jazz, Industrial, Exotica movie tracks weave a realist fantasy from threadbare lives. Whilst the jazz method captures allure in the mid period Adamson, this, the first of Barry's opus, bottles and caps despair.
So it's not music you can whistle to, but placed late night on the deck or pumping through the car it captures a vibe. This is music for those who have travelled the dead end roads, unpaved pavements, lit by broken streetlights, smelt the burnt out buildings and read the graffiti. UK Urban Noir as art, the socially included know not what they have missed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The band Adamson played with-Magazine-had a hit single called Shot by both sides/Which began to sum up Manchester in the 90s-a city of fear where the blood ran in the gutters and the drug wars escalated into extreme violence and rape was an every day occasion.
In fact this work starts off with a rape and Diamanda Galas heard saying "I won't say a thing Mr Adamson" as she flees.
Using found sounds and samples and serving up a palette of jazz,hip hop and John Barry this is a highly atmospheric 54 minutes worth of what would have been called Programme Music in the classical world.
Described as the "soundtrack for a non existent movie" the Mancunian instrumentalist was inspired first by his own troubled upbringing on a sink estate but rose above it to join a band and subsequently make a number of albums in his own right
In fact this work starts off with a rape and Diamanda Galas heard saying "I won't say a thing Mr Adamson" as she flees.
Using found sounds and samples and serving up a palette of jazz,hip hop and John Barry this is a highly atmospheric 54 minutes worth of what would have been called Programme Music in the classical world.
Described as the "soundtrack for a non existent movie" the Mancunian instrumentalist was inspired first by his own troubled upbringing on a sink estate but rose above it to join a band and subsequently make a number of albums in his own right
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Not Barry's best by far...
Despite the generally appreciative reviews, I think the 'average joe' listener will find this a hard album to like. Read more
Published on 6 April 2005 by Mr. K. Gardiner
Mean and moody
A friend recommended this record after hearing it while shopping in Camden market. I bought it and immediately loved it. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2002 by P. S. Bennett
not great
this album is a letdown for me. after byeing all his later albums i got this and it is dated and hard to listen to more than a few times without thinking about tirning it of and... Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2001
AVANT MUSIC
Former Magazine and Bad Seeds bassist and rhythm king, Mr. Adamson, released this great album under his own name as a soundtrack to an imaginary film. Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2000 by ka-lande@frisurf.no
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