What Momus stuff can you download?

[imomus]

Hello, I'm Momus and apart from being a blogger, an artist and a journalist, I'm a musician who's made umpteen albums and is making the humpty flipth right at this very moment. Now, I've been hearing that Momus albums are finally appearing on iTunes music store, but I gather that iTunes gives different results depending on where you are in the world. This is what I get when I search iTunes for Momus:



Perhaps because of a previous cookie, I seem to be getting the German iTunes store even though I'm now in Japan. So could anyone in any country who uses iTunes check what Momus material is available, and leave a comment here telling me what records of mine are up there? I'd also be interested to know what Momus stuff is available on eMusic or other services you know about for downloading music, and what comes up on any free p2p services you use.

Don't worry, I'm in favour of a "mixed economy" of online music, ie I'm quite happy that some stuff should be free and some should be for sale. Post anonymously if you have draconian persecution of music downloaders going on in your country.

Comments

[hetlir.livejournal.com]

Someone on soulseek under the name ritrok2 has pretty much every album you've ever done.

[hetlir.livejournal.com]

Including The Happy Family

[lightfromlight.livejournal.com]

USA:



I'll assume you're not in the Trombone Quartet.

I'm behind a nasty firewall at the moment, so I can't really check p2p services.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Ah, interesting, thank you! I see I flipped between the genres of electronica and rock in the space of two years (Stars Forever in 1999 and Folktronic in 2001)! And that previously I'd worked in the alternative and pop genres too! What a flip-flopper!

[ukreeduk.livejournal.com]

ive pretty much gotten everything off soulseek through various people. the newer stuff is easier to find... i had a hard time finding voyager and timelord.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Questions: why on earth would anyone buy my albums on iTunes when they're all on Soulseek free? Do people have moral qualms about using the p2p services? Is it a hassle? Are you scared to get caught and fined or jailed?

By the way, if anyone feels guilty about using p2p, there's a donate button on my website (http://www.imomus.com). But seeing from this blog what a nice life I lead, I'm sure that not many people feel terribly sorry for me! And that's fine...

[theophile.livejournal.com]

just about every album ever released is available through p2p. that's why I'm such a big fan of the system. well, that and the fact that it's not a thin layer of sugary bile coating the half-digested souls of artists (http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/).

I found the following albums of yours through various filesharing methods a few years back.

        1981 (the happy family) the man on your street       |    12 | 45.9Mb |  50:10 |  MP3 | 128 C  
        1987 the poison boyfriend (128, 160)                 |    11 | 55.0Mb |  57:21 |  MP3 | 133 ~  
        1989 don't stop the night                            |    11 | 68.3Mb |  49:41 |  MP3 | 192 C  
        1991 hippopotamomus                                  |    10 | 38.6Mb |  33:44 |  MP3 | 160 C  
        1992 the ultraconformist                             |    10 | 47.1Mb |  41:09 |  MP3 | 160 C  
        1992 voyager (128, 160)                              |    10 | 44.7Mb |  41:57 |  MP3 | 148 ~  
        1993 timelord                                        |     7 | 43.8Mb |  31:54 |  MP3 | 192 C  
        1995 slender sherbert                                |    17 | 73.5Mb |  75:55 |  MP3 | 135 V  
        1996 stop this (audio from CD-ROM)                   |    11 | 27.5Mb |  38:10 |  MP3 | 100 V  

the albums not listed are that way because I have the CDs. I'm sure they're easy to find, too, at this point-- particularly the newer ones.

incidentally, one of the best things about the black free market economy is that banned tracks stay very much alive. I have IRC to thank for "Michelin Man" and "Walter Carlos."

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Neither of them very good songs, I'm afraid.

CANADA

[birdflew.livejournal.com]

Folktronic, 20 Vodka Jellies, Stars Forever

Re: CANADA

[birdflew.livejournal.com]

Oh wait, and Ping Pong, and The Little Red Songbook

I clearly don't know how to work the iTunes music store since I only steal music.

[pintele.livejournal.com]

Well, it looks like the US iTunes and p2p programs have been covered, but! I would like to add that whilst checking just now on Limewire to see what came up, your cover of "Orgasm Addict" was listed under the genre "Porn Groove", which I find really funny for some reason. Is that an actual recognized genre now?

[aienn.livejournal.com]

my, my
for semi-pirate Russian site it's like this:

Momus - Tender Pervert (UK)
Momus - The Little Red Songbook (US Version)
Momus - Forbidden Software Timemachine (2 CD)
Momus - 20 Vodka Jellies
Momus - Oskar Tennis Champion

* * *

and no +Laplantine album, which is quite odd

[dehumidifier.livejournal.com]

Upon typing your name into acquisition (for those of us unable to use soulseek, i.e. mac users) had the following songs:

Mnemorex, Adam Green, First Communist, It's Important to Be Trendy, Lolitapop Dollhouse, Lucky Like St. Sebastian (live), Natsuko Tayama, Nikon 2, Ping Pong with Hong Kong, Robocowboys, Superstars of Bollywood, The Gatecrasher, The Madness of Lee Scratch Perry, Girlish Boy, Mountain Music and a Stereo Total remix titled The Other Side Of You (momus remix).

Seeing as it was songs and not albums, acquisition users are not faring so well on the Momus front.

Oh, and is there is any significance whatsoever of these particular songs showing up in one grouping? It seems like such a completely random sampling...

[stanleylieber.livejournal.com]

This program (http://nicotine-app.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl) might make your day.

[hello-mike.livejournal.com]

A few months ago, I poked around on the eDonkey 2000 network (with the eMule client) and found a number of things, but only was able to, um, Spooky Kabuki and I Was A Maoist Intellectual, as I remember correctly.

I was introduced to your music by a girlfriend, more than a year ago. I'm not sure where she heard of you. College somwhere, I think? Through googling, I found your journal, which both impressed and amused me, so here I am reading.

Music downloading is legal in Canada, as far as I know, and I like it that way. I still buy music, but I'm exposed to a much broader variety of things than I ever was pre-downloading. Now when I buy music it's because I'm listening to something and I go, "oh, this is truly awesome, I must go support this artist." I like to think I put more thought into it this way.

[(Anonymous)]

In e-mule you can find:
Hippotamomus
The little red songbook
Tender Pervert
Timelord
The poison boyfriend
Philosophy of Momus
Stars forever

And lots of songs. I don't have a credit card to use Paypal. I bought your records (FTM and Otto) as way to thank you for your blog. And I keep listening them, as I keep reading.

[bunkadoo.livejournal.com]

Here (http://www.emusic.com/artist/11607/11607048.html)'s what you can find on eMusic. They just added a bunch of your older albums that I don't have, which makes the subscription all the more worth it.

Screen Shot of Above

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/whump/99984075/)

I'm a fan of eMusic, and now I can snap up your catalog.

[cheapsurrealist.livejournal.com]

Perhaps because of a previous cookie, I seem to be getting the German iTunes store even though I'm now in Japan.

At the bottom of the page there is a menu to select your country. Have you tried that?

A couple years ago I was on the <a href="http://www.looperama.com>Looper</a> disscussion board and Stuard David suggested a game where someone would suggest a song and then everyone would download it with Limewire or whatever and critique it. One day he suggested "The Gatecrasher" by Momus. There was a shitload of Momus on Limewire and I was hooked. I have since purchased several cd's. I like to have the artwork and stuff. The Looper board was destroyed by Turkish terrorists so it's a little slow right now.

don't know what happened but here's the rest

[cheapsurrealist.livejournal.com]

A couple years ago I was on the <a href="http://www.looperama.com>Looper</a> disscussion board and Stuard David suggested a game where someone would suggest a song and then everyone would download it with Limewire or whatever and critique it. One day he suggested "The Gatecrasher" by Momus. There was a shitload of Momus on Limewire and I was hooked. I have since purchased several cd's. I like to have the artwork and stuff. The Looper board was destroyed by Turkish terrorists so it's a little slow right now.

Limewire.com

[riley-o.livejournal.com]

I'm in the USA and I use Limewire. Sometimes I can only find a couple of your songs (usually from Little Red Songbook), but when that happens I just keep trying over the course of an hour or so while I'm doing other things, and several more songs will tend to pop up. Just now, however, I typed you in and got all these at once:

Paolo Rumi, Lapdog, Erostratus, Is It Because I’m a Pirate, The Laird of Inversnecky, Beowulf, Multiplying Love, Palm Deathtop, My Sperm is Not Your Enemy, Oskar Tennis Champion, Orgasm Addict, Girlish Boy, I Want You But I Don’t Need You, The Most Important Man Alive, Eleven Executioners, Homosexual (live), Lucky Like St. Sebastian (live), Virtual Valerie, Supershy, King Solomon’s Song and Mine, Akiko Masuda, Little Apples All, Landrover, Platinium, Psychopathia Sexualis, Sex For the Disabled, Michelin Man, Born to Be Adored, Mountain Music, Orgonon, Jackie Onassis, Complicated, Momusic, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With, Walter Carlos, Rhetoric, Suicide Pact, The Hippy Analog Portapak…, The Seventh Wife of Henry the VIII, Love On Ice, Protestant Art, Coming In A Girl’s Mouth, Lolitapop Dollhouse, The Gatecrasher, Adam Green, Christmas On Earth, A Little Schubert, Spooky Kabuki, Lovely Tree, Pierrot Lunaire, Electrosexual Sewing Machine, The Ringtone Cycle, and Scottish Lips.

And yes, the persecution of music downloaders here is absolutely becoming draconian.

[nomorepolitics.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I tried to check, but those sites wanted me to sign and download stuff.

All your music I have I got from the person who first took me to your concert in Shimo-Kitazawa; me and Miniskirt Edgar shared and exchanged a lot of stuff. Here's the internet source I usually use for music; but I haven't actually tried to download this stuff, E-Mule.

Lolitapop Dollhouse ALBUM and MPG
The Poison Boyfriend AL
The Little Red Songbook AL
Philosophy of Momus AL
Timelord AL
Stars Forever AL
Tender Pervert AL
Forbidden Software Timemachine AL
I am a Kitten MPG
Hippopotamus Por Vagnerian AL
Anne Summerisle-Horspiel AL
Good Morning World SG
Man of Letters /Cherry Red AL
One Thousand 20th Century Chairs MPG
Bishonen SG
Walter Carlos SG
Lucky Like St. Sebastian SG
I am the Law SG
Journey to the Centre of Me SG
Mistaken Memories of Medieval Manhattan SG
The Penis Song SG
Adam Green SG
The Hairstyle of the Devil
The Cabinet of Kuniyoshi Kaneko SG
Withiniyt SG
Girlish Boy SG
Superstars of Bollywood SG
Things you never did SG
I Want you but I don't need you SG
Cockle Pickers SG
See a Friend in Tears SG
Ping Pong AL
I was a Maoist Intellectual SG
and some other loose songs, mostly from the same albums.

ITALY

[(Anonymous)]

Circus Maximus
Electronic Bible, Chapter 2
London Pavilion
Monokini
Otto Spooky
Schooldisco
The Philosophy of Momus
The Ruling Class - The Very Best of Él Records

Soundtracks from these albums are available on the Italian iTunes store.
Even if I'm late, have a happy birthday, Momus,

cheers,

Davide

Your albums

[(Anonymous)]

You may be interested to know that a fair number (sorry don't know exactly how many off hand) of your albums are available at an independant record store here in Vancouver, Canada called Zulu records.

-neil in Vancouver

[conorh.livejournal.com]

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/78965652@N00/99992155/)

bookmarklets also.

[david-f.livejournal.com]

i don't use peer to peer very often and i don't find what i'm looking for on itunes at the moment. but i can preview almost anything using audio search engines, before buying records. see :

- singingfish (http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/search?last_query=momus&a_submit=1&aw=1&sfor=av&dur=3&fmp3=1&freal=1&fwin=1&fqt=1&cmus=1&cmov=1&crad=1&coth=1&ctv=1&cnews=1&cspt=1&cfin=1&rpp=10&persist=1&exp=0&query=momus&x=57&y=13&adult_results=&a_eml_search=1&email_type=2)
- alltheweb (http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=mp3&cs=utf-8&q=momus&rys=0)
- altavista (http://www.altavista.com/audio/results?q=momus&maf=mp3&maf=realmedia&mad=long)

i have created several bookmarklets (http://www.bookmarklets.com/about/make/) like these and i can listen to anything almost instantly.

Re: bookmarklets also.

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Another one who uses Singingfish besides me! And that "alltheweb" seems excellent too!

[georgesdelatour.livejournal.com]

What a coincidence. This morning I had recommended on the UK iTunes site a compilation called "Electronic Bible, Volume 2", which included your song "I Refuse To Die". Other than that, it's the same as in your photo here in the UK.

Why don't record companies just put everything that was ever recorded by anyone on iTunes? I now think in terms of "what's the reason to withhold this music?"

ITunes Australia

[(Anonymous)]

20 Vodka Jellies,
Folktronic,
Stars Forever,
The Little Red Songbook,
Ping Pong,
The philosophy of momus

News from Portugal

[(Anonymous)]

From Portugal you can access to those Albums (with iTunes);

The Philosophy of Momus
Otto Spooky
20 Vodka Jellies
Folktronic
The Little Red Songbook
Circus maximus
Stars Forever
Ping Pong

(for curiosity, the genres are from Electronic to pop, from Alternative to Rock. In the shops you can see your cd's filed under alternative/ independent, and i'm using an anonymous post because I forgot my livejournal ID... only because of that... we don't have a draconian persecution simply because we don't have a significant implant of broadband...)

and the songs:
I Am the Law Reproductions (Human League Tribute Album)
Paper Wraps Rock London Pavilion: Él 1986, Vol. 1
Paper Wraps Rock London Pavilion: Él In 1986 & 1987, Vol. 1 & 2
Nicky The Ruling Class - The Very Best of Él Records

In the shops, your cd's are really hard to find!

Pedro Félix

Re: News from Portugal

[cosmodromo.livejournal.com]

i found a bunch of recent momus cds in a small store in lisboa, shelved between world music albums. LPs are harder to find, i got timelord and voyager, mint condition, in an old store downtown and that was a happy day of my life.

[geeveecatullus.livejournal.com]

emusic: what a person above already posted but I cannot get any of those on Le Grand Magistry here in Austria.
They have Ultracomformuist listed under their live recordings (lol!) and a ton of cherry red compilations with at least one track by you.

hi vanessa

[rroland.livejournal.com]

i love the ultraconformist, it rocks! i have all his cds i am anti dling..it's less analog.

On BearShare

[(Anonymous)]

There are not many of your tracks on my P2P Network... one night, someone was on who had all of the "Timelord", "Poison Boyfriend", and "Philosophy of Momus" albums, but it was only twice he's ever showed up when I search.

If you search every day for about a week or so, it's possible to get every track on "Ping Pong" or "Slender Sherbert", sometimes even "Circus Maximus" if you're dilligent. There's never more then 1-2 "Tender Pervert", "Voyager", or "Don't Stop The Night" tracks at one time.

[cosmodromo.livejournal.com]

in 2000-2001 i got all your solo albums from napster and audiogalaxy, being folktronic the last i have downloaded. i'm pretty sure they're all still avaliable on other p2p services, and can be found with some persistence and patience.

best wishes!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Nick, Steve Lafreniere here. You just enlightened me as to the concept of "previous cookies." Smacks forehead. Anyway, when I search MOMUS in the US iTunes store I get: 20 Vodka Jellies, Stars Forever, Ping Pong, Folktronic, The Little Red Songbook, and The Philosophy of Momus. No Otto Spooky for some reason. Congratulations on inclusion in the Biennial. I look forward to your performance, and your stay in NYC. I have a lot to say about the Cockettes, btw, as I used to live with one. Let's meet up when you're here

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Hello Steve! Nice to see you here! Look forward to hearing about your Cockettes experiences!

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

i have mostly everything, at least everything i like, in physical form, with the sizable holes patched with slsk and limewire. listening to you sing as i type, actually. turning my boyfriend\/fiancee into an addict though i'm afraid you're not profitting at all, unless you count adoration and photographs as a form of currency.

xo
mischa