Dick wrote:
"Amen. Ditto the Peter Gunn theme, the James Bond theme, etc.
etc. Because of comments on the list I checked out several
Barry Adamson cuts and can't see much there. The ideas are
sort of interesting, but sampling or rearranging or whatever
he's doing to the original music strikes me as tampering, not
creating."
While I do think sampling can be art (unfortunately, more in
principal than in most people's practice), I understand your
point, especially when it comes to Adamson. Even a fan like
myself has to admit that he does sometimes have a tendency to
be too cutesy, especially on his covers. And it increases as
his career goes along. This is why I recommended his first,
Moss Side Story. This was a very early entry in the
"soundtrack for a film that doesn't exist" category. It's got
a nice, noir feel. And the covers here were not part of the
original album. The already mentioned Man with a Golden Arm
and Alfred Hitchcock Presents were "extra CD tracks," from an
EP he put out around the same time.
However, if you find his cover songs overdone, you should
definitely avoid his writing. I only made it through a few
paragraphs of his short story The Big Bamboozled (in Purr
Magazine). Not that it would make it any more readable, I can
only hope it was meant as parody.
Mark
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