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

[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!