Adventures in Dreamland

Adventures in Dreamland Artist: Kim Fowley
Label: Weed
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 714288791528
EAN: 0714288791528
ASIN: B00015YW8K


Release Date: 2004-02-17

Adventures in Dreamland


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Tracks:

  1. Terrors Of Tinseltown
  2. Hollywood USA
  3. Black World
  4. The World's Changed
  5. Movieland Memories
  6. Dream Factory
  7. Life And Love
  8. Afghanistan
  9. Mayor Of The Sunset Strip
  10. Ballad Of Phil Spector
  11. Ballad Of Gene Vincent
  12. United We Stand
  13. Redlight Runners
  14. The Dog Next Door
  15. Dog
  16. Young Flesh City
  17. Night School
  18. Mrs. Rodney Bingenheimer
  19. Hollywood Child
  20. RU Paranoid?
  21. Vinyl

Album Description

Imagine if Lou Reed & Frank Zappa made an album in 2004. The result would be 'Adventures In Dreamland'. However, the artist isn't Lou Reed or Frank Zappa, it's Kim Fowley & this is his masterpiece! Kim Fowley has performed with or written songs for John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Gram Parsons, Gene Vincent, & Frank Zappa. This is the first solo album in ten years from the man who's worked with the likes of Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, Soft Machine, Cat Stevens, Jimmy Page, Primal Scream, Kiss, & more. 21 tracks. Weed. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Good Songs Neutralized by Poor Production.......2007-03-18

I'd read about Fowley and his pervasiveness in music in Uncut magazine more than two years ago, but it wasn't until 2007 that I found this album of his. I decided to see what this insider was capable of delivering. The fact that the album had twenty-some tracks made it very appealing. Without any hesitation and with a good bit of expectation, I bought this album.

Unfortunately, the album was not exactly what I expected. A guy who worked with Zappa, the Runaways and Gram Parsons doesn't need 21st century rap beats in his work. And yet, that irksome component is prevalent in many songs. And with so many songs, there's bound to be plenty of weird and daft filler. Something that resembles an 8 year old's fixation with dogs can come off rather negatively on the listener. And a techno song? Hmm. No thanks.These factors really put me off, as you can tell.

But the songs themselves are rather good. Picture a Lou Reed kind of thing, where the singer delivers a good story with plenty of quips and whatnot. Enjoyable vignettes, you might say. Straightforward guitar chords are the primary basis for the tracks, and they hold up well (save for the "beatz"...).

Overall, the production values really forced me to deduct major points here. The filler also ticked me off. But most of the songs themselves are good and warrant repeated listening. I wasn't put off entirely by this album, and it encourages to seek out his earlier work. If you dig the man's solo work, buy this. If you're a neophyte, start elsewhere.

5 out of 5 stars 21st Century Obscuro!.......2005-02-24

Strange stories of the SCENE called humanity, utterances through the word-speak of Hipdom, the what-is and what-is-not of who-is and who-was,...welcome to the world of Kim Fowley.

Because of the variety contained herein this is arguably his most accessable cd,and at 70+ minutes you get a full Hollywood bungalows worth.

If you like to indulge in the soiled street stories of a Stan Ridgeway or Lou Reed; or the bloody red L.A. sun poetics of Jim Morrison conjoined with the old man sex mysticism of a William Burroughs...I'd say start with this Kim Fowley cd.

Framing these wicked observations is a kinda groove-centered minimalist lounge music,sounding as if vintage Frank Zappa collaborated with Psychic T.V..Recommended.

5 out of 5 stars

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