You know Momus, of course. Sophisticated, educated, devastatingly sexy, it's almost as if he's the Doklands of music. Here he is in collaboration with Joe Germlin, king of the 8-bit arcade machine wall of sound. Ask yourself, which is the more authentic sound of 1980: David Bowie or Defender ? Why bother to pick when you can have both at once, in the form of this utterly crazed cover version. There's something of the broken-down fairground ride in Ashes to Ashes . It's woozy and staggering rather than conventionally glitchy, and crammed [...]
this is a tribute to novelist william golding, born a hundred years ago this week. constructing a sort of poem from selected phrases in his daughter judy golding's radio memoir of her father, i set it to my own music and images from peter brook's 1963 film of lord of the flies. momus Filed under: music stuff , video , words Tagged: lord of the flies , momus , music , music [...]
Sekä James Dean Bradfield ( The Great Western, 2006 ) että Momus ( Circus Maximus, 1986 ) ovat tehneet onnistuneet versiot Jacques Brelin koskettavasta kappaleesta Voir un ami pleurer (Les Marquises, 1977). Syksyiseen ja sateiseen päivään sopivan tunnelman lisäksi kappaleen sanat pysäyttävät: "So our defeats are just reminders / Of death that waits behind it all The body wilts before the mind does / Surprised to see how soon it falls" So now that money's all but scentless / Noses and consciences are clear The pointless [...]
Pop music, never known for its subtlety and largely celebrated for its lack thereof, is a particularly fertile rose bed of wrong. This compilation takes a look at some of the most memorable (and unheard) examples, with inventive songs about peeking through windows, tending to her garden, and good old-fashioned assault.
HIYA // George's arm/tatt Twin Shadow described his break-up mix for Oki-Ni (who, if you didn't know, do a fabulous mixtape series besides fabulous clothes) with, 'I was thinking about blaming everything on girls.' So, yeah this mix is ' melancholy and wounded...tied together by a feeling of bitter-sweet loss '. But at the same time, and perhaps much more apparent (in my ears at least), is the sound of the mild self-derision that can ring heartbroken self pity. [...]
MOMUS at LUNA by Jeff Scher "This was a fairly spontaneously made film of the fabulous Nick Curry, aka Momus at LUNA lounge in Manhattan in 1998."
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Tweet Frank blogged about Tawny Owl And The Birds Of Prey back in January , and they're back with a new double A-side, "Momus" & "What Time Is It There?". It's more or less what you'd expect from a band who describe themselves as "Britain's premier noise/soul/schism/alt.-rock Motown" outfit. But then again, it would be hard to make a track that wasn't what you'd expect from that. More precisely, I'd say it's minimal melodrama, if that's not an oxymoron. [...]
Δε θυμάμαι, αλλά μάλλον λόγω ελλείψεως χρόνου δεν πήγα στον Momus τις προάλλες. Mea Culpa. Κάπου θα δούλευα πάλι τζάμπα. Και έτσι όπως το συνηθίζω όταν δεν πάω σε ένα live, κάθομαι μόλις μπορέσω και κάνω μια επανάληψη εφ΄όλης της ύλης με την ησυχία μου. Όπως κάποτε που είχα σκυλιάσει γιατί δεν είχα βρει θέση για το Γερμανικό Ρέκβιεμ του Μπραμς και πέρασα μέρες ακούγοντας το στο player, έτσι τώρα πέρασα υπέροχες ώρες ακούγοντας τις παλιές δουλειές του Momus που υπάρχουν πλήρεις στο Ubu Web με σχόλια για [...]
Lauluntekijä/kirjailija Nick Currie , tunnetummin Momus , ilmoittaa nettisivuillaan esiintyvänsä Helsingin Dubrovnikissa (Eerikinkatu 11) 1. maaliskuuta. Lippujen hinnasta tai soittoajasta ei ole vielä tarkempaa tietoa. Momus? Tutustu tuotantoon vaikkapa lataamalla ilmaiseksi kuusi vuosina 1987-1993 Creation Recordsin julkaisemaan levyä. Tai sitten kuuntelemalla/katsomalla oheinen video: "Vampire Weekend asked Momus to make a new song over samples from the instrumental backing track for Diplomat's Son from Contra. Salty Hot Peanuts is what he came up with." [...]
25. Stars – The Five Ghosts Holds up really well upon repeated listens, unlike it's predecessor. Though, frustratingly, the title track didn't end up on the album. 24. Action Action – The Ones Who Get It Are The Ones Who Need Not To Know Despite an annoying lead vocalist (who kind of grows on you [...]
illustration: apelmon We all know them, and make no mistake, they're everywhere. They might be a family member, or a neighbour. They might even be one of your best friends. Some are easy to spot. Some less so. A few handy tell-tale signs are bloodshot eyes, reduced hearing and the pungent smell of stale second-hand smoke. They're usually carrying a bag of some sort. Even with these practical tips, you wouldn't always be able spot them, and yet they're always out there.... DJs. How do we [...]
I explained my loathing of Christmas last year , and all I can say is how happy I am not to be working retail (it was getting pretty close as the resumés kept going out to no avail last year). I'm already feeling the funk creep in (not the Parliament kind) as I avoid the shopping centres and try my hardest to block out my mother's moaning about not having enough extended family for holiday occasions (the dig at my singleness is duly noted - if only she could understand what pure joy I have in my own company...she'd [...]
In 1994, Nick Currie alias Momus placed an ad in French Nova magazine: „Girl singer wanted for an album of songs in the style of 1970s Italian soft porn films." The final babe of his choice was half French, half Thai art student Laila France whose role model was clear right from the start. She was going to be Momus's European clone of Kahimi Karie – Her Majesty of the Irresistibly Whispered Japanese Ultra Babypop who had recorded a good dozen of knockout smash hits with the Scottish artist –, while Momus sticked to his usual [...]
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As if the paper has been stalking my coming-of-age years, yesterday's Review featured a loving history of Momus : In a sense, the persona Currie contrived on his early records was born out of exactly the milieu pictured in that 1980 photograph: a self-conscious amalgam of a very British pop-lust, dreams of the continental avant-garde and the new, grey dawn of post-punk. If his records sometimes sounded like the Pet Shop Boys trying to describe Leonard Cohen, the Momus character (as also the fact of Currie's self-invention) was curiously indebted to the bruised and sly romantics of [...]
It's been an extremely long week (so long, in fact, that it became two weeks), and I'm still feeling a little crabby because I came down with a cold last weekend in the midst of a heatwave in a house with no air conditioning. A few days later, I ended up with some extremely vomitous backpain (if this is me at 26, I may as well call it quits at 30). I'm also just feeling bogged down with work, so I'm going to do a cheer up mix. Frankly, I despise people who tell me to cheer up or smile [...]
I realize I've missed yet another weekly mix last week; as usual, work has been hectic, and I had to go out of town for a work meeting - really out of town, meaning the rock-and-tree landscape of northwestern Ontario, not really my comfort zone. For this week's mix, I'm going to return to a theme I did last year: songs inspired by literature/books/authors. If you're interested in what I chose last time, or want to check before you point out that I missed some obvious song, click here . One of my favourites in this [...]
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