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Feb. 8th, 2006 07:04 pm
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Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few months or you're still accessing the internet via dial-up, you'll probably know about YouTube, the amazing p2p video archive. I hardly ever watch TV because there's so much crap to sort through before you get to that crucial three minutes of sublimity, but on YouTube pop sublimity is there at the click of a mouse. It's endless, and, for me, endlessly inspiring. My first search was for Bowie, my second for Gainsbourg. Since then I've gone through everything by The Velvet Underground, PiL, Kraftwerk, France Gall, Jacques Dutronc...

Finally it occurred to me to search for Momus stuff. There are no Momus videos up there yet, but there are three songs I made for and with Kahimi Karie: I Am A Kitten (the song I wrote on my honeymoon in Montmartre in 1994), Good Morning World (the only single I'll probably ever write to sell 250,000 copies and go Top 10), and One Thousand 20th Century Chairs (as we performed it on Music Station in 1998, the only time I'll appear in front of ten million people in my entire life, I'm quite sure). Ah, memories... natsukashii, ne?

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Date: 2006-02-08 11:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frontporchmafia.livejournal.com
Oh, thanks for the link. How excellent. I hope that site gets more of you, Momus.

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Date: 2006-02-08 11:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone infringes the copyright of the entire "Man of Letters" DVD, and the videos I did for "Hairstyle of the Devil" and "The Sadness of Things". Hurrah!

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Date: 2006-02-08 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
Shot By Both Sides (http://www.youtube.com/w/Magazine-%22Shot-By-Both-Sides%22?v=8CskCqbFnT0&search=magazine) by Magazine, in the Top of the Pops performance rock historians say ruined them because Devoto didn't move enough or dance! The guitar solo is quite like the one I mime so idiotically in "1000 20th Century Chairs"!

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Date: 2006-02-08 11:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mcfnord.livejournal.com
the chair song is awesome and so is your guitar solo. i know a guy who has that book and i sent him this video.

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Date: 2006-02-08 11:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
Only the lyrics in that song are by me, music is by Hirohisa Horie, who's playing the piano (he's also in Neil and Eraiza).

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Date: 2006-02-08 12:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hans-lucas.livejournal.com
Hey, this metafilter thread (http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/48743) has a few links to some 60's french music videos. Who produced the videos for I Am Kitten and Good Morning World?

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Date: 2006-02-08 12:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
Tajjimax! Tajima Issei. I mentioned him a few days ago in the post about Hinano.

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Date: 2006-02-08 12:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tassellrealm.livejournal.com
Yeah...

http://www.youtube.com/w/France-Gall---Quand-On-Est-Ensemble?v=X5RzaAUoaxo&search=france%20gall

I've been on the thing for hours. One of the highlights for me was the Florian Schneider interview on Argentinan TV, oh, and also: Bowie on The Cher Show.

Now, must go and do some work.

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Date: 2006-02-08 12:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
It's weird, there's a memory of Britney Spears in France Gall's face!

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Date: 2006-02-08 12:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
Plastic Bertrand "Ca Plane Pour Moi" (http://www.youtube.com/w/plastic-bertrand?v=Xs43OGDKtPE&search=plastic%20bertrand)

Cornelius in his Beastie Boys phase (http://www.youtube.com/w/Cornelius---Moon-Walk?v=MChQrkSOfDQ&search=cornelius)

Palais Schaumburg "Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt" (http://www.youtube.com/w/Palais-Schaumburg-Wir-Bauen-Ein-Neue-Stadt?v=_E4DRfK10d4&search=palais%20schaumburg)

Image

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Date: 2006-02-08 01:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] petit-paradis.livejournal.com
what is that backing ensemble combo doing in the plastic bertrand video?

and is plastic bert the father of stagediving?

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Date: 2006-02-08 12:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cap-scaleman.livejournal.com
Searched for Gorillaz? There is a hilarious clip from the MTV Crib show! There is even a few videos with Cornelius, "Moon Walk" and "Tone Twilight Zone".

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Date: 2006-02-09 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anglerfish96.livejournal.com
Ice Cream for Crow (http://www.youtube.com/w/Captain-Beefheart---Ice-Cream-For-Crow-%28music-video%29?v=oPSyQAIlaxk&search=captain%20beefheart) video and a bunch of other Cappy stuff!

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Date: 2006-02-08 01:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
ImageThe Ink in the Well (http://www.youtube.com/w/David-Sylvian---The-Ink-In-The-Well?v=5foal3CqxY4&search=sylvian) by David Sylvian.

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Date: 2006-02-08 01:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
A "duet of the impossible" between Jacques Brel (deceased) and Natasha St Pier, some vedette who follows it up with an outrageous piece of orientalism. (http://www.youtube.com/w/Natasha-St-Pier---Un-ange-frappe-a-ma-porte-%28live%29?v=ym7U3qKhhpQ&search=brel)

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beuys keep swinging

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Date: 2006-02-08 03:02 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
simply amazing, thanks Momus.
Here's some treasure that I found: os mutantes, panis et circenses (http://youtube.com/w/Os-Mutantes---Panis-Et-Circenses?v=SM1jY6fZJW4&search=os%20mutantes)

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Date: 2006-02-08 03:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tianamolko.livejournal.com
so where exactly does one find the music videos that you have made?

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Date: 2006-02-08 04:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cap-scaleman.livejournal.com
Sorry if I sound dumb, but is that you playing guitarr in the "I am a kitten" video, Momus?

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Date: 2006-02-08 06:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] filipefolque.livejournal.com
youtube is amazing;i found a massive beatles video collection there the other day.plus,if you use firefox and the greasemonkey extension,you can download everything to your pc and watch the .flv files with the VLC player.

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Date: 2006-02-08 07:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iamcoreyd.livejournal.com
this site has taken my entire morning. thanks!

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Date: 2006-02-08 08:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davecorun.livejournal.com
What a great site! Thanks!

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Date: 2006-02-08 09:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tassellrealm.livejournal.com
That's weird. I've just looked at...

http://www.youtube.com/w/northern-soul?v=38tSls8XfGs&search=northern%20soul

I swear that this recording of "Just You And I" was from an all-nighter in a gym that I bootlegged in Manchester back in the 1980's - I'd recognise that echo anywhere in the world.

There are only about two copies of that record in existence, apparently.

By the way, Momus I love that song of yours. Lovely chord-changes.

What a talented lad.

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Date: 2006-02-09 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
Thank you, Jake! I keep forgetting that lots of people outside Japan haven't heard this stuff.

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Date: 2006-02-09 10:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] w-e-quimby.livejournal.com
http://www.youtube.com/w/brigitte-bardot?v=tyZF6IWOXt8&search=brigitte%20bardot

Paul's Reaction to John's death

Date: 2006-02-09 05:04 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
http://www.youtube.com/w/Beatles---Paul-McCartney---Reaction-to-John-Lennons-Death?v=JkZ_9v8NSYU&search=John%20Lennon

la boheme

Date: 2006-02-09 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] qscrisp.livejournal.com
Talking of the tube, I saw this on the tube today:

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It was part of this (http://www.raymondgubbay.co.uk/classical-concert-tickets-uk/puccinis-la-boheme-opera-royal-albert-hall-london.htm).

Are you directly involved?

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Date: 2006-02-10 11:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
Act 2 of Puccini's "La Boheme" takes part in the Cafe Momus in Paris. Set designers often like to use big Momus signs in their productions. I'm grateful to this latest one for plastering my name all over London!

wikipedia considers nick eccentric

Date: 2006-02-09 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_widely_considered_to_be_eccentric

silly.....

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Date: 2006-02-09 07:37 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Momus, I'm wondering if, perhaps in the early days, did you ever jam with your cousin, Justin from Del Amitri?

Donnie.

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Date: 2006-02-09 07:40 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Momus, I'm wondering if, perhaps in the early days, did you ever jam with your cousin, Justin from Del Amitri?

Donnie.

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Date: 2006-02-10 11:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com
Never! Although I think we may have played hide and seek.

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Date: 2006-02-15 05:40 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
hee hee hee
i'm the one who posted the kahimi karie momus vids!
- n69n