An Ocky concordance
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imomusNow that my Ocky Milk album has effectively been published, I've put the complete lyrics (as well as a few photos and videos relating to the songs) online.
Here are a few facts abstracted from that lyrics page. A sort of Ocky Concordance, if you will.
Languages used: English, French, Japanese, nonsense language, automatic web translation-speak.
Places mentioned: Alexanderplatz, France, Liverpool, Disneyland, Waterloo station, Borneo, Inner Mongolia, the Alps, Calcutta, Jamaica, Tibet, the Caucases, Asia Minor, Zanzibar, China, Morecambe, Blackpool.
Historical figures or characters mentioned: Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, Hades, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charlie Chaplin, Mantovani, Torquato Tasso, Hiawatha, Josiah Wedgewood, Count Ossie, Ho Chi Mihn, Diogenes, Saint Augustine.
Fictional characters: Various Moop Bears, Flirty Lady, The Bird-Catcher of Hades, Dr Selbert Lanolin, The Viscompte de Lisle, The Marquis of Rochdale, an Inner Mongolian Cow Sour Yoghurt Supergirl, a Calcutta Book Dealer, a Zulu, some Galloping Ghosts, a Fox-Hunting Man, Big Sam, Ocky Milkman's Wife, the Grim Reaper, Miss Bryce, and a "Gokkun Princess Bukakke Jeweller".
Total album word count: 2097.
Here are a few facts abstracted from that lyrics page. A sort of Ocky Concordance, if you will.
Languages used: English, French, Japanese, nonsense language, automatic web translation-speak.
Places mentioned: Alexanderplatz, France, Liverpool, Disneyland, Waterloo station, Borneo, Inner Mongolia, the Alps, Calcutta, Jamaica, Tibet, the Caucases, Asia Minor, Zanzibar, China, Morecambe, Blackpool.
Historical figures or characters mentioned: Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, Hades, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charlie Chaplin, Mantovani, Torquato Tasso, Hiawatha, Josiah Wedgewood, Count Ossie, Ho Chi Mihn, Diogenes, Saint Augustine.
Fictional characters: Various Moop Bears, Flirty Lady, The Bird-Catcher of Hades, Dr Selbert Lanolin, The Viscompte de Lisle, The Marquis of Rochdale, an Inner Mongolian Cow Sour Yoghurt Supergirl, a Calcutta Book Dealer, a Zulu, some Galloping Ghosts, a Fox-Hunting Man, Big Sam, Ocky Milkman's Wife, the Grim Reaper, Miss Bryce, and a "Gokkun Princess Bukakke Jeweller".
Total album word count: 2097.
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Date: 2006-09-08 09:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-08 09:41 pm (UTC)I looked at some Esperanto-language books one time and then my ADHD kicked in.
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Date: 2006-09-08 11:43 pm (UTC)Here's Persone (http://bertilow.com/persone/index.html), an Esperanto rock band. Kinda bland mid-nineties stuff, but you can hear what la internacia lingvo sounds like in song. Also highly recommended: Esperanto rap (http://www.dolchamar.com/audiovideo.htm). Hilarious.
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Date: 2006-09-08 10:19 am (UTC)Does that include the refrains?
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Date: 2006-09-08 11:33 am (UTC)When you mentioned that your songs were your writting, I seriously should never have had any doubts ;).
Congradulations- I may influence some people to get it so I can have a listen for myself :)
Best wishes- Dorian
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Date: 2006-09-08 12:05 pm (UTC)"Total album word count: 2097"
That's the perfect wordage for an academic essay. Surely not a coincidence.
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Date: 2006-09-08 12:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-08 12:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-08 12:41 pm (UTC)-joel-
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-08 01:57 pm (UTC)Ages ago, writing about folktronic
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Date: 2006-09-08 02:04 pm (UTC)I thought you meant something more like "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Communism and Capitalism", a "book for women". Terribly sexist, old bean!
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Date: 2006-09-08 02:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-08 03:08 pm (UTC)"There once was an old captain who loved nothing more
But to live again his voyages and walk by the seashore
A good man and a kind man but the bane of his life
Was his bad-tempered, cold-hearted bitch of a wife"
Hmm, well, it's not quite Jagger's "Under My Thumb", but I suppose it could be a bit sexist.
"I love a good bum on a woman, it makes my day
To me it is palpable proof of God's existence, a posteriori
Also I love breasts and arms and ankles, elbows, knees
It's the tongue, the tongue, the tongue on a woman that spoils the job for me
"Please understand I respect and admire the frailer sex
And I honour them every bit as much as the next misogynist
But give some women the ghost of a chance to talk and thereupon
They go on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on ..."
Well, it's not quite Snoop Dogg's "Can You Control Yo Hoe", but...
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-08 03:44 pm (UTC)There was a young plumber of Leigh
Who was plumbing a girl by the sea.
She said, "Stop your plumbing,
There's somebody coming!"
Said the plumber, still plumbing, "It's me."
A girl attending Bryn Mawr
Committed a dreadful faux pas.
She loosened a stay
In her decollete`,
Exposing her je-ne-sais-quoi.
Numbers 60 and 1573, respectively. And oh, I am the same anonymous poster who talked about your songs for ladies.
-Douglas
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-08 04:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-09 06:38 am (UTC)There once was a man from Adair
Who was making his girl on the stairs
When the staircase broke
He quickened his stroke
And finished her off in mid-air
I'm not Dougie
Date: 2006-09-08 05:29 pm (UTC)i was trying to download this (the album) on soulseek but my entire queue wa smysteriously erased. i don't seem to be able to fint it again. would any of you good people have it on your lists?
-- matthew james (action_Respok...), June 10th, 2004.
Answers
He's great, but 'On Again On Again' is a remarkably sexist song. 'She could bore the balls off a buffalo' etc.
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Date: 2006-09-08 09:48 pm (UTC)Fun to think about!
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-08 03:19 pm (UTC)The Birdcatcher
Date: 2006-09-08 04:37 pm (UTC)i have also a CD of demos for "ping pong" that has a track called "the ritual suicide of mr. mickey mouse"... same song or just same lyrics?
eRiC (exorbitantly flaunting with my useless knowledge of momus memorabilia)
Re: The Birdcatcher
Date: 2006-09-08 04:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-08 05:47 pm (UTC)<3 <3
i cannot wait to receive this in the mail. the cover looks great.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-08 09:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-08 09:43 pm (UTC)I've just realised that Momus and my nextdoor nieghbor are label mates.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-08 10:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-09 01:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-09 04:32 am (UTC)I'll have to remember this next time I'm playing 6 degrees of Momus.
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Date: 2006-09-08 09:58 pm (UTC)Oh, and by the way: maybe the finest lyrics of your career to date, in my ever-so humble o-pinion. Can't wait to get the album, and, of course, congratulations, you old scoundrel!
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Date: 2006-09-08 11:16 pm (UTC)A Spratch O' Thyme's lyrics
Date: 2006-09-11 12:42 am (UTC)by the way I've been searching for the lyrics of "A Spratch O' Thyme", a beautiful song you collaborated with Anne Laplantine, and I've never found it.
Can you please put its lyrics on this journal Mr Momus?
thank you
Anm
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Date: 2006-09-11 12:28 pm (UTC)f
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Date: 2006-12-23 07:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-23 09:54 am (UTC)What country are you in? Which iTunes store was it?
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Date: 2006-12-23 10:57 am (UTC)I just came here for lack of anywhere else to complain. I think it must just be a problem with iTunes or my computer. But I'm pretty sad about it :( I don't know where else to buy it.