Moss Side Story

Fuck, I hate this. What’s the point? It is literally a soundtrack and has absolutely no meaning because it is missing the film. 1.2

Love this shit. It's all over the place in sound but absolutely plays out like a movie score. Easy to dismiss as background music as it's mostly instrumental, but there is so much going on that it can steal your focus very quickly. This is the experimental music I've been missing.

Quite enjoyed it for background music but it does feel a bit odd to have on this list. 3.5/5

No purpose, no good. Sorry.

Maybe would’ve enjoyed this more if it was actually set to a film

This is really a soundtrack for movie that doesn’t exist. Terrible idea, but admittedly solid execution. The music is pretty good, but its inclusion here seems pretty pointless. Favorite song was The Swinging Detective.

With all the albums that could have been included in the 1001, they picked this one? There are REAL soundtracks worth hearing before you die that they didn't include. Plus, it made virtually no impact outside the UK, showing again the UK bias in the 1001. Its inclusion is just plain ridiculous. That said, it wasn't BAD, per se. It made for good background music and had a few tracks that caught my attention (Under Wraps, Sounds from the Big House, Intensive Care). I'm just flat out annoyed it was included and that absolutely colored my view of it.

An interesting album. I find the idea of composing film music for a movie that doesn't exist funny. Apparently Barry Adamson has often made this joke. It was good to have heard this album. But I probably won't be doing it again any time soon. 3/5

Not for me

De auto in met het gezin. Zet voor het gemak het eerst volgende te luisteren 1001-album maar op. Dat houdt het wel heel kort vol. Wat rare ruimte-geluiden en ik ben niet alleen mijn gezin, maar eigenlijk ook mijzelf al kwijt. Thuis kijk ik wat ik eigenlijk heb opgezet. Een wanna-be-soundtrack blijkbaar. Normaal zijn dit soort soundtracks al niet los te luisteren, maar nu heb ik er ook nog eens geen enkel nostalgie-gevoel bij wat mij zou kunnen helpen. We noteren weer een hele dikke 1.

Way better than I expected. Super atmospheric.

This clearly wasn't meant for casual listening. Unfortunately, you and I are casual listeners.

Majorly disappointing, given how much I enjoyed Adamson’s other record on this list. Frankly, neither of them should be here, but if at least one had to be, it shouldn’t be this one. Dull dull dull.

2/5

Yesterday I had the score to The Virgin Suicides by Air, and it was awesome. I don’t know what this album is, but it sounds more like a soundtrack than that album - which is an actual soundtrack.

It’s not unpleasant. It’s catchy in parts for sure, but there are a lot of moments of ambiance and background sounds that make sense if it’s a soundtrack, I guess, but kinda weird if not.

Turns out tabs concept album intended to *sound* like a soundtrack, because the artist wanted to get hired to make soundtracks. Gotta say, that’s pretty cool. It definitely earns 3 stars musically because it’s a bit of a bop, but I’m gonna grant it the fourth because making a soundtrack to a movie that doesn’t exist - and still being able to make it sound cohesive - is pretty bad ass.

2.75
Unique but not especially replayable other than the covers.

Spooky vibes, inventive sounds. I dig.

Evil Cartoon Circus Music

According to Wikipedia the dude that made this album was looking for work in making film soundtracks so made this as proof he could do it. I’m less mad at the album than I am at the person who put it on this list!
It’s a freaking demo album and a LOOONGG one. Honestly one track isn’t that much different than the next. Not that they are bad, but by the half hour mark I had gotten the point and was well ready for it to be over.
Each track is too well composed musically to give it only one star, but it’s so dragged out and repetitive that it is almost getting me annoyed enough to go there.

It’s not the worst instrumental album I’ve ever heard, it’s just unbelievably boring and somewhat pointless

Moss Side Story is one of the most interesting albums i have ever heard. It was apparently a concept album for a crime movie that never existed and i do kinda wish this film existed because i would have liked to see the context for all of these songs. This album is still really good on its own though, it was dark, morbid and creepy in all the right spots. This is also an album that had songs that were different sounding enough to keep me on my toes but still felt like they all were connected mostly due to having that crime movie style sound. I really like this album for what it is but i feel like i would have liked it more if this film had actually existed.
Best Song: Auto Destruction
Worst Song: Central Control