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The dark, thudding opener "Entertainmen" is one of Phillips's most intriguing songs. Thereafter things get wonky as Phillips and her cohorts (Marc Ribot, husband T-Bone Burnett, Jerry Scheff, and others) let their experimental urges run free on songs that are a little too clever and complex for most listeners. A disappointment after 1991's near-perfect
Cruel Inventions.
--Jeff Bateman
Omnipop (It's Only A Flesh Wound Lambchop),Marc Ribot,Jon Brion,Jim Keltner,Virgin Records,Pop,Popular Music,Rock,Rock/Pop
Average customer rating:
- wish she'd record some more
- Light years ahead of its time...
- Very Interesting Music...
- Durn Good Record
- Dreamy experimental cabaret pop
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Omnipop (It's Only A Flesh Wound Lambchop)
Marc Ribot , Jon Brion , and Jim Keltner
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
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- Martinis & Bikinis
- A Boot and a Shoe
- Fan Dance
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- Zero Zero Zero: The Best of Sam Phillips
ASIN: B000000WBT
Release Date: 1996-08-20 |
Tracks:
- Entertainmen
- Plastic Is Forever
- Animals On Wheels
- Zero Zero Zero!
- Help Yourself
- Your Hands
- Power World
- (Skeleton)
- Where Are You Taking Me
- Compulsive Gambler
- Faster Pussycat To The Library
- Slapstick Heart
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The dark, thudding opener "Entertainmen" is one of Phillips's most intriguing songs. Thereafter things get wonky as Phillips and her cohorts (Marc Ribot, husband T-Bone Burnett, Jerry Scheff, and others) let their experimental urges run free on songs that are a little too clever and complex for most listeners. A disappointment after 1991's near-perfect Cruel Inventions. --Jeff Bateman
Customer Reviews:
wish she'd record some more.......2007-01-04
oh Leslie, (Sam) - you have the MOST amazing voice I have ever heard! You could sing words from a phone book & people would be blessed! Wish you'd record some more soon...
Light years ahead of its time..........2004-06-12
Ignore all the blathering and hypothesizing about this disc -- simply put: it's brilliant. Like anything substantial within the world of "art," it doesn't offer immediate access -- one must develop a relationship with its many layers and levels and secret heart. After the masterwork of Cruel Inventions, the Beatles-drenched bardo of Martinis and Bikinis -- Omnipop follows like a beautiful love child. Sam Phillips is a queen.
Very Interesting Music..........2003-06-20
Sam Phillips remains a highly praised artist by critics, but woefully under-supported by the masses. She intentionally flips back and forth between 'commercial' releases and then 'experimental and artistic' releases. Her debut "Indescribable Wow" was a commercial release, which contained some of the best pop songs every written. Then, she took an experimental and artistic turn with the gem "Cruel Inventions". Then, she came back with the commercial "Martinis and Bikinis", so now we are back to the 'experimental and artistic' with Omnipop. This CD is way out in left field and themes mostly on sexuality and it really works. My favorite cuts are the first song, which to me, is one of her best. She took the word 'entertainment' and left off the 't' on the end and look what you got: "Entertain-men", which is the focus of this song - how life can sometimes revolve around what entertains men, especially where women are concerned. Is it just me or does Sam's voice sound so incredibly sexy when she sings "Watch me... Watch me... Ahhhhh.... Oh let me by your TV, AAHHHHH"!?!? I love the freshness and artsy-ness of "Plastic is Forever". I absolutely loved the sexy and jazzy "Help Yourself". Die-hard fans will find "Power World" a familiar Sam Phillip's trademark. You can always count on Sam to never sound the same, and this one is her most intriguing release to date.
Durn Good Record.......2002-12-09
Tell ya what I can't stand - people who can't take a little variety in their music, like the listeners who were confused by this record. Boo Hoo, ya big babies. Sure, it might not be a genuine, heartfelt album of deeply personal songs and maybe it takes some chances that don't work as well as they might have been intended to, but it is good, listenable, interesting music that beats the heck out of most other releases (on the relative scale, this record is better than 90 percent of the music that finds international release, at least!). This album might confuse listeners? Oh, well then maybe they should get a brain and think a little or finally accept that they're a lot more dull-minded, cloddish and stupid than they think they are. If all music went down easy it wouldn't be worth listening to, and if we "reigned in" singer songwriters they would never lead-off base, and if they never took chances then all the truly great music would never have happened (why can't these fools understand this fact, this little bit of physics? stop praising successful experiments because they go out of conventional bounds while you condemn less successful experiments that trip up a little - you are damning for the same reasons that you praise and that means you are hypocritcal and conflicted and your thinking is literally insane). So, maybe you SHOULD try other Sam Phillips records first, still doesn't mean you shouldn't get this one (frankly, I think it's way better than all of her Leslie era stuff). If the record's such a failure then why is the Best Of compilation named after a song from this album?
Dreamy experimental cabaret pop.......2002-08-05
Most longtime fans will agree Sam was always an artist before her time, and this is the album to prove it. Here you'll find cabaret pop predating the advent of Rufus Wainwright and the sort of experimental soundscapes that artists like Bjork would come to use many years later. " Too clever and complex for most listeners"? This is underestimating the sophistication of music fans. Less adventurous listeners may not have found this album as compelling as her more pop-oriented work on The Indescribable Wow or Martinis and Bikinis. But more's the pity. Lots of great stuff here, including "Your Hands" and "Faster Pussycat to the Library!", two of my favorite Sam tracks.
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