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swears from junk sleep on 2006-07-01 08:01 [#01930367]
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I really like him. His attitude and everything.

Just downloaded his "Ping Pong" album, it's great.
There's a song called "His Majesty the Baby" written from
the point of view of a pervert who's jealous of a baby
because the kid gets to suck tits and piss and shit all over
women, and it's all totally socially acceptable.

swears from junk sleep on 2006-07-01 08:08 [#01930370]
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The NME Review of "Ping Pong"

Momus

Ping Pong (Satyricon/CD/LP)

Nick Currie is a man who likes to wash the soiled laundry of
his mind in public. Why else songs with subjects as tasteful
and diverse as tossing off babies, sex crimes, bondage,
Japanese schoolgirls and barely-suppressed misogyny?

Maybe because the concept of this, his tenth album, is to
don the 'avatar mask' and explore the world through other
personas, like some low-rent, garret-dwelling Robert De
Niro. It's also apparently an album for 'futuristic
vaudevillians'. But in a world full of Play Stations, Momus
is struggling with a valve-operated, hand-held console.

And quite what is futuristic about minimalist waltzes, songs
that sound like they were recorded with the cries of a
virtual pet as the sole instrument, is as obscure as his
lyrical subject matter is unsettling.

Occasionally, a little tinkle like 'Age Of Information', or
the whispering funk of 'Professor Shaftenberg' will overcome
this unwillingness to approach a tune, but generally this is
as kitsch as a My Little Pony duvet cover, as arch as the
entrance to most cathedrals, and several years too late for
the so-called easy-listening explosion.

Sure, it's thought-provokingly ambiguous, but his continual
look-mother-I'm-swearing-are-you-appalled-yet? attitude is,
after a few songs, about as shocking as a mince pie, while
his music is the sound of someone who wishes he was from
France, where they encourage such self-indulgent opuses of
drool and jism in the name of art.

'I'm amoral, provocative, confrontational and shameless," he
tells us. Maybe, but with music this pedestrian, this is
less like artistic probing into polymorphous perversity and
more like voyeuristic titillation for the kind of people who
like to buy used underwear. (2)

Jim Alexander

staz on 2006-07-01 08:11 [#01930371]
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a friend sent me a load of tracks, it sounded odd

qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2006-07-01 08:12 [#01930372]
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sounds like you'd like it, yes.

swears from junk sleep on 2006-07-01 08:16 [#01930373]
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This around the time they were pushing the Stereophonics "We
don't want any one this artsy fartsy crap! We want bland
meat 'n' potaters RAWK!"

dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2006-07-01 08:32 [#01930374]
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I like "Tender Pervert", especially the track "The Complete
History of Sexual Jealousy pts. 17-24" and I had a pretend
live album that was great. I lost so many albums in my mini
exodus.

Fah from Netherlands, The on 2006-07-01 18:26 [#01930690]
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here comes your fat girlfriend

swears from junk sleep on 2006-07-01 21:39 [#01930784]
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In an alternate universe.....momus would be Emperor,
and.......well, wait a minute, is he gay together or
what?!!!?11!

swears from junk sleep on 2006-07-01 21:40 [#01930785]
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Like autechre.

swears from junk sleep on 2006-07-01 21:40 [#01930786]
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or LFO.

swears from junk sleep on 2006-07-01 21:41 [#01930788]
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You couldn't make it up.
Wow, I just realised, The NME is the Sun for Students.

disasemble from United States on 2006-07-03 13:24 [#01931654]
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i had to bump this thread up because momus can be really
great. ping pong is one of my favorite albums, and my
favorite momus album.

CHOICE PICKS:

tender pervert
circus maximus
ping pong
voyager
hippopotamomus

he has equally shit albums as well though. especially as of
late. this hotshot producer he got working for him is
ruining momus, unfortunately.

swears from junk sleep on 2006-09-09 09:46 [#01968020]
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Just thinking if your mate's fey, artsy dad played you a
bunch of "witty", "literate" indie caberet songs he'd played
on a Casio keyboard and acoustic guitar, you'd be like like
"Wow that's uh...really, interesting..." (Big false,
embarassed grin)
But 'cause he's an established musician and writer it's
okay.

Preconceptions, eh?

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