Momus

60?!?!?

Good for him. I check in on his tumblr every once in a while and he seems to be doing well and still living by his own rules.

‘Flame Into Being’ is one of the forgotten great songs of the 80s.

I was just listening to Stars Forever today. I think it's my favorite album of his. His old ironic-misogyny stuff really grates, but some of the songs on Stars Forever have the kind of heart I wish he'd put into his poetry more often.

Yeah he has a kind of nabokovian disdain for anything sentimental. This attitude seems to be declining—probably for the worse. It’s good to have some mandarins around.

For those not in the habit of visiting the *BBC Scotland website, he's working on a Covid-LP.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52270653

(*I'm not either, someone posted the link on Facebook).

"At that moment, I was very scared. I really thought - this is it - and started anticipating all the RIP Momus messages people would be posting."

... on ILX. They missed that bit out.

^ Ha! I liked "The Hairstyle of the Devil reached number 94 in the singles chart in 1989."

too high

... on ILX. They missed that bit out.

my man with the hustle

“My Corona” lol

So there is a book about Momus coming out from Zero Books. I’m reading the blog it’s based on, fifteenpeople.com, and revisiting some of those albums.

Timelord is a great record. Not as snotty and arch, filled with longing and despair, so more my speed than his other records. I like how he draws out the main theme of most sci fi— the fact that so much of our technology is motivated by a desire to overcome time and death. The kind of thing that sounds trite in a messageboard post but the buried longing does come out on songs like Enlightenment, which also deals with more contemporary concerns

of course it's fucking zer0

cancel culture can't go far enough

I’m discovering some personal stuff about him in the blog that isn’t so cool also.

Not trying to avoid that reality. I feel like momus is cancelled here already so discussing the music should be ok

Ah. Just came here to wonder how the book was?

I'm unable to watch his series of Open University videos because he has this possibly unconscious click in his speech which really triggers my misophonia.

Did anyone read the book?

I wrote it, if that helps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3KwmdOYPvk