Absolute O'Brien

Artist: Richard O'Brien
Label: Oglio Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 790058911129
EAN: 0790058911129
ASIN: B00000K29V

Release Date: 1999-09-07

Absolute O'Brien

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Tracks:

Incubus Of Love
It's Up To You
Ain't That To Die For
Fixation
The Dance Of Love
One Hundred Dollars An Hour
Rhythm Of The Heartbeat
I've Been There Before
Running With The Noisy Boys
I Will Always Hold You In My Heart
Angel In Me

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Customer Reviews:

Sheer Genius!.......2007-03-28

Richard "Ritz" O'Brien is brilliant and his voice is perfect for this kind of lounge-y, blues-y jazz. Everytime I listen to this I just want to lick his eyes!

A Shockingly Unique, Enjoyable Album.......2004-10-08

This is, hands-down, my favorite album of all time. It's strikingly different than the material Richard O'Brien is best known for (The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Shock Treatment), and it's such a marvelous venture from the styles he's more associated with.

This album is, at its core, a very laid-back, jazz-influenced album. O'Brien's voice is beautiful, though unconventionally so. Whether he's upping the pace on tracks like "Dance of Love" and "Running With the Noisy Boys" or slowing things down on tracks like my all-time favorite song, "Angel In Me," O'Brien truly shines and showcases his vast, unmatchable level of talent.

He's brilliant - the songs, the lyrics, everything. I can't say much more than this is an awe-inspiring, beautiful, shockingly enjoyable album by one of my favorite performers ever. It's brilliant - get it and be amazed.

absolutely brilliant.......2004-03-25

i just received this cd in the mail yesterday, but i haven't stopped listening to it since i popped open the shiny plastic jewel case and placed the perfect disc into my walkman! it's different from anything i already had in my collection, but it's just what i needed! it, to me, sounds an odd cross between adam ant and bryan ferry...taking the best of both, but becoming something so much better than either! it is, as other people have stated, very mellow, but that's not a bad thing at all! in this day and age of non stop stress, it's so nice to just be able to sit back and listen to this cd! and only o'brien could write a song('100 dollars an hour') about prostitution and make it sound so utterly romantic the way he sings it! i love him! i had been listening to the 'rocky horror' soundtrack, and watching both that and 'dark city' so much lately, i thought this cd might push me into overload, but, believe me, there is never enough o'brien....and on top of the cd's greatness, is the insert! complete with lyrics and plenty of pictures...for the girls and boys who like to ogle their boy as they listen to his seductively sweet voice! *sigh* it's certainly one of the most unusual and best CDs i've purchased in a long time....i only wish i had had the sense to buy it 5 years ago when i saw the advert in a magazine on it's release.....fool i am! but happy as a clam that i was able to still find it!

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Ritz's Bits.......2002-09-25

Richard O'Brien is a very talented singer/songwriter/actor. But unfortunately, outside of "Rocky Horror", "Shock Treatment" and maybe even "Dark City" -- most of his work isn't known about, even by the devout Rocky people.

Many of the songs on this album are from his Mephistopheles Smith live act he was developing in the early and mid-90s and finally gave up when the costume effect he insisted on going on gave him problems. He did however record some of the best songs (minus, unfortunately, "Disgracefully Yours" the title of his act) for this CD. He then added other songs that he wrote during the making of "Dark City" and recorded most everything in a soft jazz style that was decidedly different from his earlier tunes (exception "Running With The Noisy Boys.")

Does this style work for Richard? Not as well as Richard playing it Rock and Roll style, or listening to him play acoustically on his guitar (oh yeah!) But it does work.

Some songs like "It's Up To You" and "Rhythm of the Heartbeat" (the latter from Meph Smith/Disgracefully Yours) sound more like something you'd be listening to at Starbucks and are just a tad too mellow.

The jazz style, however works terrifically on other songs. While I prefer the unrelease acoustic version of "Incubus of Love" the jazz version certainly does it justice. "Angel In Me" also works well here. But where it really scores is on two songs "Ain't That to Die For" (again from his act) which is a great upbeat number, and "One Hundred Dollars an Hour" -- the rare song about prostitution and sensuality.

I'll be the first to profess more of a fondness for his rawer (and exceptionally difficult to find) earlier works released on vinyl such as his Kimi & Ritz and Dicky Hart singles, or the cast album to "The Stripper," another musical he co-wrote with Hartley (Hartley did the music, Richard the lyrics.) But we won't see a legitimate release of those songs on CD for year, and Richard would like to do another album before revisiting those works. But if you've already bought Rocky and Shock treatment, here's a chance to get another dose of cleverness from the shaven-headed one, Ritz.

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