Momus

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Jon, I see you skipped out.

Momus on the bbc radio 6 at this moment, it is a nice song called I Was A Maoist Intellectual

^ That was a great song. Can't remember which album it was (Hippopotamomus? Hmm, no ... fuck it) but yeh, that whole period when Momus actually wrote great songs was a joy.

http://ndobos.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/bat-signal.jpeg

Can't remember which album it was (Hippopotamomus? Hmm, no ... fuck it)

Tender Pervert. Still great, now free.

Oh, superb. I've not heard that for years. Good excuse to reacquaint myself. Thank you.

Ha! Bishonen "could well be the peak of my songwriting career". No "could well" about it, Nicky Boy.

casting an eye over the juno release list a couple of weeks ago and found that he's got a song on the new dial 12"!

Momus - 5/26/09 Highline ballroom NYC

There's a vinyl copy of The Tender Pervert in the window of one of the charity shops along Cowley Road, Oxford.

I was surprised to see it in the window.

Strangely, the Tender Pervert is still on display in the same shop window.

You'd have thought either a) someone would have bought it or b) they'd have put something else in its place by now.

Momus on the bbc radio 6 at this moment, it is a nice song called I Was A Maoist Intellectual

this is the only momus song i've ever heard.

has this guy grown up yet?

I only got about 20 posts in, but it made me miss Tonic! Saw a few great shows there before I actually moved to NYC: Stars of the Lid, etc. I was up here for CMJ once and saw the tail-end of a Momus gig somewhere downtown. It was only three weeks after 9/11 and the city felt indescribably strange, Anthrax scares screaming out from hotel elevator television broadcasts, seemingly nobody roaming the streets at night. Momus did some songs and then went back to his booth where a few very tiny Japanese women stroked him pensively. I'll never forget it.

=)

I think Otto Spooky and Ocky Milk are my favorite Momus albums. I really love that masterful DIY cabaret concrete thing he has going on them. They are quite deeply psychedelic and experimental, especially considering he's long been a teetotaler. Some of the most bizarre, melodic, lyrical, catchy, and endearing music I have heard from any modern artist.

The first time I heard "The Artist Overwhelmed" I was spellbound, and had to replay it over and over again. It was a total mind-blinder.

Has anyone heard his new stuff? I haven't listened to anything since Joemus. I thought that was a slight letdown but had some very very high points. I still think he's one of my favorite contemporary musicians, especially his post-2k phase. There is some otherworldly beautiful music on the 'Oskar Trilogy' albums. A lot of those songs really sound like parts of dreams I've had. "Sempreverde", "Bantam Boys", and "The Artist Overwhelmed" (all from Otty Spooky) really feel like they only exist in a sublime, distorted dreamworld.

My last Momus experience was seeing him (and, I think, you) on the American Patchwork tour. I was a fan of Circus Maximus, Don't Stop the Night and Timelord. I would like to catch up with his newer stuff but I'm not sure where to start. For what it's worth, I loved your set! And also for what it's worth, I found Momus to be quite approachable, friendly, and accomodating, despite his being ticked off that the venue was too cheap to give him a beer.

Cool, where was that? It's a bit surreal, that summer. It was 10 years ago! Thanks, Super Madrigal Brothers feels like one of my past lives now!

He was working on Oskar Tennis Champion at the time. It has that amazing song "Is It Because I'm a Pirate?" where he portrays a pirate trying in vain to hit on a waitress. He played that live during that tour, along with the beautiful "Little Schubert". That album also has a chiptune medley that I made at the end of it.

Otto Spooky is my favorite, mostly because of the variety of instrumentation. He was heavily influenced by Berlin-era Bowie for those two albums and the next one, Ocky Milk, and they are all deeply psychedelic, bizarre pop and music-hall songs with electronic cut-up acoustic and world instruments alongside retro synths. Some really bizarre experiments in sound and lyrics.

Atlanta (I think it was the EARL?). Fun show. Fake swordfights, kitten impressions, the whole deal. I'll check out those albums, thanks for the recommendations!

Hah, I remember that show, whoever was running it was being a ass about the booze and calling us faggots and stuff. Probably why he's never been back to Atlanta.

Ugh. Well, in spite of it all, Momus was quite nice to me! And I have also not been back to Atlanta.

anyone got to the oto thing?

I've actually come around to Joemus quite a bit in the past year or so, after initially being slightly disappointed. Don't think it's at all a drop in quality from the Oskar -> Ocky trilogy (honestly I'd probably pick Ocky as the weak link of the four-album span). Unfortunately that kind of energy is totally missing from the two most recent albums, though there are some nice moments here and there. The Thunderclown really should've been left as an EP.

I remember really liking the ending of Joemus, with "The Man You'll Never Be" and "The Vaudevillian".

He's been posting great new stuff on Youtube for the past few days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKh0dOi_Fc&feature=bf_prev&list=PL8F26123A7F7BED5C&lf=autoplay

pretty good!

Catching up on his Hearspool radio series: http://mrstsk.tumblr.com/post/59591346688

I'm listening to the first one, which overlays surreal, soft-spoken monologues with field recordings, ambient classical and pop music. Most latterly is a deconstruction of Wire's '40 Versions'. It's all rather delightful - one part Stanshall, one part Blue Jam (without Morris' wacky excesses), two parts God knows what. It was recorded for Basic FM but has most of the hallmarks of a good Resonance FM show

Hey i was going to buy Momus's book and then i looked on Amazon and saw he has a few!

The Book of Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Jokes-British-Literature/dp/1564785610/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1403564848&sr=8-4&keywords=momus

The Book of Scotlands
http://www.amazon.com/Solution-11-167-The-Book-Scotlands/dp/1933128550/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1403564848&sr=8-6&keywords=momus

UnAmerican
http://www.amazon.com/UnAmerica-Success-Failure-Series-Momus/dp/0985508590/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403564848&sr=8-1&keywords=momus

Has anyone here read these? Which one should i get first...

also the book of japans. I gave the book of scotlands to a friend, idk how good it is.

http://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/pubic-intellectual-an-anthology-1986-2016/

pubic instead of public

good tracklist. looks like almost half of Voyager is there which is A Very Good Thing in my book. i like this quote from a few years back;
"it perplexes me slightly when people say that Voyager is my peak. But it's understandable -- I think the anonymity of the record allows it to fit other people's lives, and the era, whereas the quirkiness of my current work maybe doesn't.. "

i wonder how Cherry Red have been able to release old Creation tracks? i guess all that's been Sorted Out now. the albums were out of print for years which is i guess why he decided to put them all up online for free in 2008. it'd be nice to have deluxe editions of those 80s/90s albums.

always fascinated by anthology/best-of/selected works records curated by the artist themselves, always some big surprises regarding what they put in, and what they leave out. can't believe his picks from stars forever! totally forgot about "life of the fields" though, beautiful song.

Any thoughts on disc 3?

(That's the point where I stop recognising track titles).

very familiar w the first half of disc 3. mostly the stuff from the NYC psych folk prog phase. "Going for a Walk With a Line" is brilliant. i also quite like "Nervous Heartbeat" which has a lovely and heart-tugging strings sample. "Frilly Military" is fun too, i think he wrote that for Kahimi Karie a long time ago and this version has a nice slightness going for it. "The Vaudevillian" is incredible, one of those songs that made me stop in my tracks when i first heard it. love the mix of humor & pathos. wonderful finale (also could've gone w "The Artists Overwhelmed")

oh wherefor art thoa

yum

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/momus-create-i-procreate-3cd-remastered-expanded-edition/

Thought this revival would be about Momus competition coming back to help us with our Japanese.

Plot twist

Momus doesn’t speak japanese

No compute

i sympathize with or relate to his reasons/excuses for not learning japanese

Do you guys seriously think that Momus never learned Japanese?

did he even learn english

i'm sure he has to at least some extent. but i sympathize with what he says about japan being a nice place to live and not speaking japanese being a way of protecting/isolating yourself from the conformity of japanese society.

I would bet money Momus speaks almost no Japanese

Who does he talk to then? He lives there.

He can’t even gossip.