Oedipus Schmoedipus  by Barry Adamson

Oedipus Schmoedipus is an album by the British composer Barry Adamson, which was released in 1996. The composer fantasizes that he is writing the soundtrack for a movie that actually does not exist. In reality, it is the soundtrack of a film that existed only in Barry Adamson's mind. The interesting thing about the whole case was that the composition Something Wicked This Way Comes was the only track from the record that was used in a soundtrack as it was heard in the movie "Lost Highway" by David Lynch the year following the release of Oedipus Schmoedipus.

Barry Adamson captures and combines sounds, acid jazz passages, and art rock musical elements throughout the album. In three compositions he has vocal help from Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, Billy Mackenzie of Associates, and his old friend Nick Cave. These songs are Set the Controls For The Heart Of The Pelvis, Achieved In The Valley Of Dolls, and The Sweetest Embrace respectively. The production of the album was done by Adamson himself.

The album Oedipus Schmoedipus seems to come to complete Barry Adamson's trilogy, a trilogy that had started with Moss Side Story in 1989 and continued with Soul Murder in 1992.