Amazing Blonde Women: Momus demos from 1988

[imomus]

The recent arrival from New York of my boxes -- all my earthly possessions, basically; mostly books, records and tapes -- means that I've been delving, on recent rainy days, into my past: fishing out tatty treasures, reliving old glories and digitizing the cassette tapes, which -- before the internet came along -- used to be the centre of my world.



As a result, today I can proudly present, live from a pile of boxes in my kabaretkeller, a sort of Momus Basement Tapes podcast -- an mp3 of 80 minutes of my home-recorded demos from the year 1988.

Amazing Blonde Women: Momus demos from 1988 (mono mp3 file, 80 mins, 36.6MB)

So, rewind twenty years. It's 1988. I'm an ambitious Creation Records artist living in a tiny room (with a red plush curtain, a bed, a basin, some bookshelves and a sheet of Chinese newspaper covering a yellow fluorescent bulb) in a rather grand back street near the top end of the King's Road. I'm writing the songs that'll make up the bulk of my "Tender Pervert" and "Don't Stop the Night" albums. On these demos (made with a Casio SK1, a guitar, and a Fostex 4-track) I'm both praying and playing, toying with my three main interests: literature, my own fated (or ill-fated) fame, and the love of women. This Momus is a singing author, a pervy 80s moralist, a displaced French chansonnier and -- as Alan McGee later put it -- "a legend in his own lunchtime".

Morality is Vanity
How Do You Find My Sister?
Amazing Blonde Women
Junk Jewelry
Trust Me, I'm a Doctor
Junk Jewelry (reprise)
The Guitar Lesson
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Ice King
I Was A Maoist Intellectual
Bishonen
Susceptible
The Charm of Innocence
The Homosexual
In the Sanatorium
Blame Mame
The Hairstyle of the Devil
Last of the Window Cleaners
Tango Ballad (Brecht / Weill)
Lord of the Dance

Comments

[bearzbub.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing.

[(Anonymous)]

This is lovely. Thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

Fantastic, big thanks.

[rckdjbear.livejournal.com]

The extended 12inch mix of The Hairstyle of the Devil is my most favorite,ever!

[dzima.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you were not in The Proclaimers?

[pradoc.livejournal.com]

Thx ! Nice works.

[cheapsurrealist.livejournal.com]

Thank you. This made my morning.

[sakuraamplifier.livejournal.com]

Cool to hear the beginnings of "Voyager" showing up in "Amazing Blonde Women". I can't wait to get through all of these.

[(Anonymous)]

Nice one, thanks!

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

I´m too spastic to get it to download, but pretty good anyway. Obviously I appreciate the title.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you were not in The Proclaimers?

I used to get all their leftover women. Glorious days spent deep in gorgeous Proclaimer pussy!

1988 OK

[(Anonymous)]

Hello Nick,

Call it coincidence or telepathy ?
I haven't checked this site for several months, and I land on it (via an MP3 blog) on the very day that you post these demos (that I will lap up) with this picture I took on what I'm sure must remain one of the most peculiar/memorable/dreadful gig settings you must have known !

Livappy,

JC Brouchard
http://vivonzeureux.blogspot.com

Re: 1988 OK

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I know, a "one man show" in a shopping mall, sandwiched between a hairdressing demonstration and a fashion show! It wasn't my finest moment.

Thanks for the photo!

[peacelovgranola.livejournal.com]

i like these...like a more hip, more prog-leonard cohen...

Re: 1988 OK

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Another of JC Brouchard's 1988 Momus photos:



Hum, we're getting very Mojo, very retro-necro (http://imomus.livejournal.com/255928.html) here, aren't we?

Re: 1988 OK

[imomus.livejournal.com]

2007.

[(Anonymous)]

finally hearing these has made my year. seriously! (matt)

[thisisnoisland.livejournal.com]

It is great to hear these

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, momus, that was so great. Thankyou!

[hiljaaa.livejournal.com]

Wow, in 88 I was into collecting Teenage Mutant Turtles gum stickers. There were 50 different stickers, finally I got them all. The gum lost its flat taste very fast, even if you stuffed 10 pieces in your mouth at the same time. Talking was impossible with all that chewing gum in your mouth, drooling was easy.

I cant wait for more boxes.

[stanleylieber.livejournal.com]

domo

[telephoneface.livejournal.com]

This is so cool thank you! I feel like I have to share and now I do:

Super Madrigal Brothers play Ave Maria (http://www.supermadrigalbros.com/en/Super Madrigal Brothers - Ave Maria (remix).mp3)

[(Anonymous)]

Fantastic, just goes to show you that you should a been number one in the hit parade with Ice King! You are also a vastly underrated guitarist Nick! Great times from the 80's indeed! The whole world shoul've turned Brouchard/Currie

[(Anonymous)]

Marvelous, thanks Momus.

bowler

[eustaceplimsoll.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!