An Ocky concordance

[imomus]

Now 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.

Comments

[zephyrcrow.livejournal.com]

Still waiting on some songs in Esperanto.

[zzberlin.livejournal.com]

zephyrcrow, I call your bluff! You do not really speak Esperanto, do you?

I looked at some Esperanto-language books one time and then my ADHD kicked in.

[zephyrcrow.livejournal.com]

I speak some, probably the equivalent of a first- or second-grader. It looks more complicated than it is; if you can memorize what different words mean, the grammar is incredibly simple and you just plug words in where they go. A really good book is called "Esperanto: Learning and Using the International Language," by some dude whose name I don't remember. Also, Wikipedia has a cool article on Esperanto culture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_culture).

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.

[(Anonymous)]

"Total album word count: 2097"

Does that include the refrains?

[svenskasfinx.livejournal.com]

"Total album word count: 2097."

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

[wringham.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to getting my copy, Momus (from Glasgow's Mono of course).

"Total album word count: 2097"

That's the perfect wordage for an academic essay. Surely not a coincidence.

[(Anonymous)]

Momus, do you think you'll ever pursue that album of "songs for women" you talked about so long ago?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Did I ever talk about that? It's a stupid idea. All songs are for all people.

[(Anonymous)]

i see someone's never listed to new kids on the block

-joel-

[(Anonymous)]

"Perhaps I'll fill out the rest of the album with the Kahimi Karie prog-folk songs (although I'm thinking of holding those back for a future album of interpretations of my 90s songs for women, Momus As A Girl)"

Ages ago, writing about folktronic

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see, an album of songs I wrote for women!

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!

[(Anonymous)]

This from the man who likes Jake Thackray

[imomus.livejournal.com]

(Sings some Thackray songs experimentally to see if they're sexist):

"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...

[(Anonymous)]

Momus, there are two limericks i'd like to subject you to, from a volume of 1700 erotic limericks a dear friend gave to me.

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

[imomus.livejournal.com]

The first one is lovely!

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

One my grandmother taught me when I was a lad, the filthy woman:

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

[(Anonymous)]

but... Well, according to you on ilx, "remarkably sexist".

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.

[zzberlin.livejournal.com]

"Momus As A Girl"

Fun to think about!

[mooshstache.livejournal.com]

ocky milk wonderland, take me away!

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Wow, that many languages, you have preformed over my expectations Momus. I shall buy this album as soon as possible!

The Birdcatcher

[(Anonymous)]

isn't "the birdcatcher" the same song as "the kitten's telephone" from the "stop this" CD / "this must stop" CD-Rom from 1996?
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

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's the same song. New arrangement.

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

oh dear i am up to my neck in kanji!

<3 <3

i cannot wait to receive this in the mail. the cover looks great.

[mongoltrophies.livejournal.com]

Do you know if the album will be sold by Darla or iTunes?

[cheapsurrealist.livejournal.com]

It's listed on the Darla site as a preorder.

I've just realised that Momus and my nextdoor nieghbor are label mates.

[cheapsurrealist.livejournal.com]

meant to make my nextdoor nieghbor (http://www.theemoreshallows.com/) a link

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

ah, that makes them distro mates :)

[cheapsurrealist.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's more acurate.

I'll have to remember this next time I'm playing 6 degrees of Momus.

[pixelmist.livejournal.com]

Favor me with some Momacular insight: after reading through the lyrics, I detect a strain of the non-native English delaware so beautifully describe (http://www.delaware.gr.jp/TEXT/txt_world_languag_e.html) in one of their poem-blogs. Anything to that?

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!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

That Delaware thing is quite similar to the idea of RedeEnglish (http://imomus.livejournal.com/105277.html).

A Spratch O' Thyme's lyrics

[(Anonymous)]

Hi great to hear about your new album!
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

[(Anonymous)]

Kajsa kicks ass.

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[severalmoose.livejournal.com]

I tried downloading this album off of iTunes and it refused to download and not it's mysteriously vanished from my computer (even though I paid for it). Who do you think is to blame for this catastrophe?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

If it refused to download, how was it on your computer in the first place?

What country are you in? Which iTunes store was it?

[severalmoose.livejournal.com]

It loaded all of the songs after I paid for them and then I got an error saying I couldn't actually download them, and then when I restarted iTunes they weren't even loaded anywhere to be downloaded, they were just gone. I'm in the US, so I assume it was the US iTunes store? I've never had this problem before but my computer tends to fuck up a lot so I'm really not that surprised.

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.