Where Is Momus' Dignity, Goddamnit ?

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It seems to have been downhill all the way since the Creation years. What's happened to the cool poetic type who was presumably at one point unreachable by the drunken screeds of his mad fans, like this one for example ? And what sort of a title for an album is Oskar Tennis Champion in any case ? And then there's all this tawdry self-publicity, which suggests a man who's succumbed to the easy temptations of spending the whole day on the internet, like a retired Premier League footballer writing endless letters to the sports pages of the UK tabloids ? Or has Momus been inspired by the new wave of British " urchin " rock, as pioneered by great bands like The Others, or whatever they're called, as featured in this week's NME, who want to break down the barrier between stage act and audience ? I ask all this only as a concerned citizen; has Momus totally lost it ?

― Quintin forrest (The Eyes), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Is his music anything like his posts?

― Damn Yankees- High Enough (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

No. No it is not.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's very much not. I've only brought this up, in fact I've only even heard of this site as a result of a conversation in the pub this evening, in which Momus was described as a " total cock. " Which was a bit dismaying to hear, seeing as at the moment I only really listen to Future Time Machine Pilot, the new, excellent, compilation. So it was even more alarming to log on here and realise the whole Momus-as-cock thing was in many ways perhaps a justifiable opinion, based on the evidence.

To be charitable, for a while back there he was possibly drinking a bit much, but still...

― Quintin forrest (The Eyes), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

FWIW: I know a lovely lady who thinks the world of the members of Momus, knows them personally and says they're quite sweet.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus is funny. I have a hard time reading his posts here and not laughing. Maybe if I were a cock myself my hackles would rise, but as it is, I'm not, and I say there's dignity in maintaining such an entertaining personality. So there!

― broken rekkid, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus has a cock.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

it's true, we've seen it.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

mandee said it was scary.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the "essays" section on his website is required reading

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I've read them all.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus used to be more concerned with being interesting than being right. That was fun.

Now, he seems to think he is right because he is interesting. That's not much fun at all.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Marcel O! T! M!

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(sorry, I have nothing else interesting to say. Which is, uh, wrong?)

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Thursday, 28 October 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

dignity's for chumps

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 28 October 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow! Marcel, that's pretty OTM, and I am a supreme fan of Mr. Momus. But, I'd like to interject that all great artists have their New Power Generation period. Give 'im a bit. Besides, who can honestly say that all of the daily diary entries on his site aren't juicy as hell for those of us stuck living in only ONE solitary international city.

Momus is the Wim Wenders of pop.

― maria b (maria b), Thursday, 28 October 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

He's the Wim Wenders of whimsy.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 28 October 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

nuh uh. yer just bitter and shit.

― maria b (maria b), Thursday, 28 October 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Whimiscal is the way he wends.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 28 October 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

On the whims of desire.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 28 October 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't he leave his dignity in Winnipeg or something?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 28 October 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

With Mr. Easton?

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 28 October 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a Lisbon Story, no doubt.

:: rolls eyes ::

C'mon!!!!

He's not THAT far gone. At least he's still engaged with reality, albeit a very mediated, green tea scented, prone-to-navel-gazing, blog-heavy reality.

― maria b (maria b), Thursday, 28 October 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I only really listen to Future Time Machine Pilot, the new, excellent, compilation

This compilation is news to me! Can you mean 'Forbidden Software Timemachine' from a couple of years ago? If I'm really indulging in 'tawdry self-publicity' I'm clearly not getting the message across very effectively -- you don't mention my 2004 album ('Summerisle') or 2005 album ('Otto Spooky') at all. Perhaps because I haven't mentioned them much either, so busy am I blogging about urbanism, bathing in Japan, the deaths of Derrida and John Peel, and a million other subjects.

Is this 'like a retired Premier League footballer writing endless letters to the sports pages of the UK tabloids'? Well, I haven't retired, I was never Premier League, and my blog, journalism and other internet writings aren't very 'tabloid', so my answer is 'No'. I'm just very, very interested in objective reality, which is why I travel so enormously and write continuously about the things I'm experiencing. And I'm not really interested in building up some sort of distant, untouchable mystique. Being 'a star' in that way must be just tremendously boring.

Signed,

Ronnie 'The Striker' Momus (Ret'd.)
Clough Mansions
Clacton-on-Sea

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 28 October 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus, what is one song that will guarantee action?

― blingo, Thursday, 28 October 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"Coming in a Girl's Mouth"

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Thursday, 28 October 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell us about "Otto Spooky"!

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean where is Momus' equivalent of fellow Scots "rockers" Deacon Blue's breakthough hit, "Dignity"?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

and where indeed his massively selling well crafted metaphors on sexual anomie, re: 'chocolate girl'

― debden, Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

T/S Ricky Ross vs. Momus

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha, the words to "Dignity" are absolutely SHITE!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

who the hell worries about "dignity" anyway? Paul Weller has "dignity", I guess!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Momus got no diggity?

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus makes an appearance in the Bulgakov book I am reading at the moment - a small drawing of him appears on the defaced stove of a ukranian monarchist family during the civil war of 1918. I assume it is the god, not the sound sculptor and essayist, but Bulgakov, master of ambiguity as he is, never clears up this point.

― debden, Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

however the date of Bulgakov's death - 1940 - makes me guess the former.

― debden, Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Why? Momus was born in 1912

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to paint a picture called "Dignity" - in it Momus will be being whipped with branches of thorns while his detractors laugh, with anonymous, evil faces. Momus' face will be serene despite this, his eye looking through the soul of the viewer. His head crowned by the last embers of a glorious blood-red sunset.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Will he be naked?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

perhaps we should start a thread of momus sightings where the momus we know is apparently not present - when momus is not momus? it could be part of a post-human project.

or is momus a mask, like zorro, that is passed down from mandarin family to family, through generations, from the shadowy stalinist russia of bulgakov's time to the present day?

― debden, Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Would you like him to be naked? I was thinking more a rough covering of rags.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen enough of Momus naked to last me a lifetime, a rough covering of rags should suffice

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

wherever the laceration of mocking laughter is needed to shatter bourgeois complacency

xpost

― debden, Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://userpic.livejournal.com/21429824/1898080

― mini-momus, Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking of something like this - perhaps with more scope for mocking masses. (not a very good picture of the painting, but it's all I could find)

http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/images/Evangelical_Pop/CaravaggioFlagellationChris.jpg

Is that covered up enough? Should I add a jumper?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

A jumper draped round the groin region could work

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it meant to be erotic, or not?

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Momus, so erotic's out of the question

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

... unless it's autoerotic

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, I'm just waiting for the moment when poor old Drew Daniel from Matmos (who's just started posting around here) gets his naked photos linked to in every thread he's on, as if to say 'Never mind if he's right or if his music's good, look, Ma, he's naked!' And I'm sure those links will be accompanied by comments about how a naked man can never, under any circumstances, be an erotic sight. Culture wars indeed.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 29 October 2004 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi, Momus!

Yeah, I'm kinda wondering what will happen when I go on the academic job market in a year or so- when the search committee Googles me and finds that BUTT magaze interview + pictures it will get kinda spicy. Moi, je ne regrette rien . . .

― Drew Daniel, Friday, 29 October 2004 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, there you go, guys, he's more or less given you the URL! And he's hot!

I've just been given a residency at a Japanese University early next year, and a couple of months ago they were at the stage of 'We're just going to do a little research about you on the internet...' Well, it doesn't seem to have put them off. Then again, they're Japanese, and therefore exempt from hysteria about nudity and so on.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 29 October 2004 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Kirk: Ah, come on Luanne, you know what this is.
Luanne: Kirk, I don't know what it is.
Kirk: [sighs] It could not be more simple, Luanne. You want me to
show this to the cat, and have the cat tell you what it is?
'Cause the cat's going to get it.
Luanne: I'm sorry, I'm not as smart as you, Kirk. We didn't all go to
Gudger College.
[timer dings]
Kirk: It's dignity! Gah! Don't you even know dignity when you see
it?
Luanne: Kirk, you're spitting.
Kirk: Okay, genius, why don't you draw dignity.
[she does so]
[everyone gasps in recognition -- we can't see it, however]
Hibbert: Worthy of Webster's.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 29 October 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Fine Momus, have it your way:
http://www.buttmagazine.com/img/matmos.jpg

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Friday, 29 October 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

(that appears to be the only Matmos photo they have online, and it's actually Martin who is really exposed there, right? So yeah...)

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Friday, 29 October 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure that Momus will attempt to justify the above photo in terms of Wildean jocularity, taking care to note that shared aesthetic taste is politically imperative, brag more about his Japanese university gig, and reasuure us once again that he is the equal of his academic brother. Yes, Momus could've been a contender, yet .....

Don't worry, kids. The man himself will be here soon enough and explain it himself. (yawn)

― Majooba, Friday, 29 October 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

And I'm not much of a fan of Wim Wenders, but at least I've never heard *him* prattle on about "cute fascism".

― Majooba, Friday, 29 October 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It's just that he's been crowing on about Butt Magazine like there's some great treasure trove of photographs of Drew's dick, and that's simply not the case as far as I can tell. I've never seen the actual magazine though. There was more than that published I assume, Drew?

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Friday, 29 October 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

momus, I think you're great and would like to meet you one day. so long,

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 29 October 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I like him too.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Friday, 29 October 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

'attempt to justify'? We're clearly on different sides of the culture war, Majooba.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 29 October 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, apologies for mentioning my university job in Japan. Stuff like that clearly has no place on a thread about my 'dignity'.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 29 October 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow. Matmos, what an unfortunate penis.

― maria b (maria b), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Duh, I'm the guy sitting on Martin's shoulders. (and I've no complaints about my boyfriend either, so there)

― Drew Daniel, Friday, 29 October 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

reasuure us once again that he is the equal of his academic brother.

Momus' brother is Majooba?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Momus! Being currently buried alive in a (14 people per square km)western Canadian wasteland, I now realise the truth of your brilliant 'Double Density' piece

― dave q, Friday, 29 October 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Momus

I want to smoke weed with you. Next time you're in the midwestern US drop me a line.

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Momus:

"Spooky" is not an interesting word as you think it is. Also you need to do more songs about bitchin' hot rods. And study Bernie Worrell.

Sincerely,
Burgeoning Critic Still Reeling From the Novelty of Actually Being Able to Communicate With Pop Musicians

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm trying to decide which ex-Premiership footballer Momus is most like.

Graham Le Saux? Pat Nevin? Choccy McLair?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I've met Momus, he's quite nice and fun to hang around with. He took us to dinner in a tiny, secret restaurant when we were in Tokyo.

Based on the picture above, I may have to become a Matmos fan.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Girls are impressionable.

― maria b (maria b), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Who took that photograph? Leni Riefenstahl?

― Not a Cute Fascist, Saturday, 30 October 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Drew's legs are very nice.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"Based on the picture above, I may have to become a Matmos fan."

If you're into Aryan gay sex. Whatever floats your cute fascist boat, aesthetes.

― Majooba, Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, not every pink-tinted image of gay men with reasonably good physiques carrying each other piggyback completed naked (except for socks) in a hotel room is necessarily a Triumph of the Will-homage, you know.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 30 October 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, when did they ever let Hitler youth wear socks like that?

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Prior to ILM I was only vaguely familiar with Momus the artist, and had no preconceptions about Momus the man. I don’t recognise at all this “tawdry” self-publicist. He seldom writes about his own music and when he does, such as his reaction to negative review in Pitchfork, its frequently stimulating and certainly not self regarding.

― stevo (stevo), Saturday, 30 October 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you, nice people, for nice comments!

I'm trying to decide which ex-Premiership footballer Momus is most like. Graham Le Saux? Pat Nevin? Choccy McLair?

I've actually met and hung out with Pat Nevin. I lived in the early 90s with Vicky Spook, a girl who worked at Creation and dated Lawrence from Felt (she even had a Felt song, 'How Spook Got Her Man', written about her. And although 'Spook' is not her real name, I think it's a lovely word.) Vicky was always cultivating friendships with famous people. Lawrence would come round and watch the soaps. Leos Carax would call up from Paris (which was funny, because later Carax became friends with my wife Shazna too) and Pat Nevin used to drop by. He was very un-footballer-like. Very shy and sincere and polite and rather studious, as I recall. A bit like a Scottish missionary. Actually, come to think of it, he had something of Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch about him.

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Pat Nevin joke: Pat Nevin was a Chelsea player who was a bit more educated than the average football player. He often read classical literature on the team coach which unsurprisingly led to him enduring all sorts of piss-taking. On one trip he was reading Chekhov. Noticing this, one of the other players said "At last I recognise something you're reading, he's that bloke off of Star Trek isn't he?"

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

momus is the arrow that pierced the ass of St Sebastian
thoughts of his patch
make me break out in splatches of sorrow and laughter
and schoolgirl stained panties

― Queen Gripping the Gorillas, Saturday, 30 October 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Prior to ILM I was only vaguely familiar with Momus the artist, and had no preconceptions about Momus the man. I don’t recognise at all this “tawdry” self-publicist. He seldom writes about his own music and when he does, such as his reaction to negative review in Pitchfork, its frequently stimulating and certainly not self regarding."

Ever get the feeling that the actual music is as inconsequential to Momus himself as it is to the world at large? Momus comes across not so much as a self-publicizing product pusher, but rather a self-aggrandizing name dropper with a pathological compulsion to establish his place in his self-invented (and - consciously? unconsciously? - projected) pantheon of the Absolutely Fabulous Beautiful and Famous.

This is adolescent screaming queen delusional grandeur of the highest order; precisely the unfortunate sort of behavior one would expect from a shy, faggy 15 year old drunk on *fabulous* preening tales of Oscar Wilde and Warhol's Factory, dahling. Oh, indeed, what a curious wonder to behold in one such as Momus and his advanced years. To that end, Momus offers us *yet again* the tale of Spook and Lawrence - operative phrase: "Vicky was always cultivating friendships with famous people" - and, wonderfully, alo managing the incredible feat of name-dropping Carax, Nevin, and Stuart Murdoch within the space of two or three sentences. Aren't we impressed? And, gee, isn't Momus's life such a glamorous rich tapestry?

Like Spinal Tap in the aftermath of their decline, Momus is milking it in the one remaining place on earth that will accomodate the dumb roundeye novelty of the downtrodden, all used up Occidental Other - Japan. Unfortunately for us, we in the Entropic West aren't given the chance to miss or forget about Momus, as he takes great pains to name-drop the likes of Sophia Coppola in his missives from Faraway. That is, he manages to squeeze such vicarious fabulousity in between the cracks and farts of his topical theory-weaving: you know, the world-historical semiological significance of Hello Kitty!, how "cute" he finds fascist conformity, as glimpsed in a vision of little Japanese schoolgirls in sailor suits (he stole that notion from an Eno song anyway; even Momus's dreams are borrowed and bankrupt) and the collars of Nazi tunics in "Triumph of the Will".

Welcome to Momus World: a land of "righteous" aesthetic consumerism and unspeakingly stupid boilerplate "glamor".... Compliant young Japanese girls in sailor suits, politely conjuring white noise from shiny new Apple laptop computers (can't talk to them, though, as Momus - in the grand tradition of his British Imperial forerunners, refuses to learn the savage language of the Other), as Momus holds court at the corner table, drinking sake with Sophia Coppola, Oscar Wilde, Andy Warhol, Noel Coward, and the flavor of the month "hip" glossy magazine editor and/or art director. Fabulash!

"Culture wars". Spare me. You're not even on the fucking map, Momus.

― Majooba, Saturday, 30 October 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Majooba, are you Momus in disguise, tearing down the edifice of your own public identity to amuse yourself? If not then I have to ask, were you once his friend, but you hadn't seen him in years, and you and your lover at the time went with him to a party, and he left with her?

― Crown Loyal, Saturday, 30 October 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, you're that Sutcliffe dude, aren't you?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 30 October 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post, I mean)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 30 October 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM MOMUSFOR HALLOWEEN

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Saturday, 30 October 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Compliant young Japanese girls in sailor suits, politely conjuring white noise from shiny new Apple laptop computers.....drinking sake with Sophia Coppola, Oscar Wilde, Andy Warhol, Noel Coward

this sounds fuckin ace, where can i get me some of this?

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 31 October 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait till you mature a bit, zappi. By the time you turn 17, you might reconsider then.

― Majooba, Sunday, 31 October 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, you really are bitter about something! haha!

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Bitter? Not at all. Increasingly intolerant of frozen adolescent idiocy? Yes.

― Majooba, Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://islamic-world.net/children/fruit/citrus/pic/lemon.gif

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think what Majooba says is wrong -- I am somewhat glamour-struck, at an age when many have lapsed into disillusionment, or focused their love more narrowly on their families -- but I don't think he takes into account that the 'delusions' he describes might be the source of a tremendous amount of happiness. To be glamourstruck might be part of a virtuous circle, just as to be bitter might be part of a vicious one. Dropping the names of godlike talents is also a way of saying that talent is important and that people can be godlike. (By the way, for the record, I am not a fan of Sofia Coppola and have never met her.)

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 31 October 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

You're not even on the fucking map, Momus.

One of the nice things about being on the map, but being one of the smallest things on it, is that everybody else seems so damned glamourous!

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 31 October 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.imomus.com/musicplasma.jpeg

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 31 October 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha Momus doesn't get his own gradient-shaded sphere

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Sunday, 31 October 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

He does in our hearts.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 31 October 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus lost me with 'Folktronic', and I haven't been able to work up the interest to try on the newer records for size. I probably should; 'Ping Pong,' 'Poison Boyfriend,' 'Voyager,' and 'Tender Pervert' are still some of my favorite records.

re: Matmos - 'A Chance to Cut . . .' is the only one I know well, and it's right fab.

― J (Jay), Sunday, 31 October 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Personally I like 'The Civil War' best. In fact, when I heard it I thought it was one of my recent records, the ones you haven't heard, J!

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 31 October 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the rat one

― big chaki (chaki), Sunday, 31 October 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Majooba - that's you Joe, isn't it ?

Momus - I started this thh-uhread in much the same spirit as a teenage beer fan chucking a pint glass at Liam Gallagher, really. So if as a result of anything said subsequent, you were lead to start feeling like a lower thing, musically, than Madonna for god's sake, then I do apologise. Madonna has brought more misery into the world than any number of major political figures ( and if that sounds a bit harsh, what about the social havoc that Papa Don't Preach caused ? Is it too much to suggest that the origins of the US Christian Right's rise to power can be traced back to some sort of funny reaction to Madonna's behaviour in the mid-to-late Eighties ? Well possibly, yes, but then again, what sort of a rallying cry for the under-Eighteens was " I'm gonna keep my baby " ? )

Anyway, sorry if I went over the top with any earlier comments, chief.

― Quintin forrest (The Eyes), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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