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Here's another batch of demos from old Momus cassettes. This time we start with a few tracks from the "legendary lost Momus album" BBC 1. This was going to be the 1987 follow-up to Circus Maximus on el Records, and we already had a rather brilliant sleeve illustration (me as Atlas holding up the BBC 1 Earth logo) by Ed Pinsent. But, as fate would have it, I switched to Creation and made The Poison Boyfriend instead. BBC 1 was to have been a theme album -- songs like "The Filippino", "Confectioner" and "Splitting the Atom in Eden" (released here for the first time) would have joined "The Mother-in-Law", "Love on Ice" and "Situation Comedy Blues" (later plundered somewhat haphazardly for Creation albums) on a record deconstructing television and the whole idea of mainstream electronic vaudeville. It's a retro theme now, of course; the golden age of television is clearly over. But electronic vaudeville continues to be a big theme for me, as does the question of whether life / sex is more interesting than media / art: there's some great entertainment lined up for me on BBC 1, but meet me on Shaftesbury Avenue...
The Golden Age of Television: Momus demos from the mid-80s (54.5 MB stereo mp3 file, 59 mins 33 secs)
The FilippinoConfectioner
Splitting the Atom in Eden
Ash and Sack
Nobody
Landrover
Paolo
Hotel Marquis de Sade
John the Baptist Jones
Lesson of Sodom (According to Lot)
Rules of the Game of Quoits
Lusts of a Moron
Amongst Women Only
Shaftesbury Avenue
Start at the Top
Could I Leave You? (Sondheim)
The comments for Amazing Blonde Women, the last Momus demos podcast, saw several people saying they'd be willing to pay something for these releases -- if you feel that way feel free to visit the old Momus website and make a Paypal donation using the button there.
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Date: 2007-08-03 12:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-03 01:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-03 07:12 pm (UTC)Buskers & pavement artists have been doing it for centuries -- you create art for people to enjoy, you put your cap on the pavement, and if people like your creations they drop some coins in. It's just this time the pavement is the internet and the cap is paypal.
Artists work for commision all the time. Infact, Momus has done it before with 'Stars Forever', but it's probably best to pretend that album never happened ;o)
gasp!
Date: 2007-08-03 08:49 pm (UTC)sarah
Re: gasp!
Date: 2007-08-03 09:30 pm (UTC)Everyone knows the title "Stars Forever" is supposed to be ironic, but a title like "Selling my soul coz I had the shit sued out of me" or "Here's your pound of flesh you ugly transexual cunt" would have propelled the album to truely legendary status.
como??????
Date: 2007-08-04 03:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-04 08:33 am (UTC)I thought you were one of those anonymous guys who turns up on this blog just to be mean.
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Date: 2007-08-04 04:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-04 04:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-04 09:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-03 05:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-03 05:41 pm (UTC)If this fellow is opening his electricity bills and saying "Feeling the pinch, Washington Gas Energy Services?" or buying his coffee with "Feeling the pinch, Starbucks?" I'm fine with it.
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Date: 2007-08-03 01:40 pm (UTC)You can't put a price on this stuff.
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Date: 2007-08-03 02:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-03 03:54 pm (UTC)more »songs in soft pencil«!
Date: 2007-08-03 05:57 pm (UTC)what more can we expect to come out of those legendary lost boxes from NY? the »thank you party people« song from the early nineties? those tracks that were announced for the canceled Le Grand Magistery EP »Sports Pierrot«? a »Ping Pong« demo called »sausage machine«? a secret duet with Bobby Gillespie covering the Stooges? definitely, more »songs in soft pencil«, p l e a s e !
see you at the smart deli/TAKEN party?
eRiC
Re: more »songs in soft pencil«!
Date: 2007-08-03 06:27 pm (UTC)Sports Pierrot etc is on DAT, and although I have the tapes I don't have a DAT player at the moment. Thank You Party People is on videotape, so it's dubbable. Not sure what Sausage Machine was -- you're just showing off now, Eric!
Re: more »songs in soft pencil«!
Date: 2007-08-03 08:11 pm (UTC)so, you really don't remember "Sausage Machine"?
you know, i have the total hot shot fan knowledge of every Momus song.
even of those that you try so hard to forget...
like the legendary "Oswald Curling Master", "Scottish Body Hair" or the glorious "I was a Fashion Muslim in the Kebab Industry".
i guess i should come along with my old DAT recorder.
à bientôt!
eRiC
Re: more »songs in soft pencil«!
Date: 2007-08-15 07:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-03 05:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-03 07:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-03 09:16 pm (UTC)This is very generous of you. Look forward to listening these new songs. Some people posting here are so cynical, very few artists would be willing to share their demos for free, especially unreleased songs.
What is a fair price in exchange for the demos posted ? I know there is no obligation, but it seems to be fair to me as aside from the music, I get a lot out of Click Opera.
Richard
PS. I also appeciated the Josef K, a post-punk favourite.
Songs From Under The Floorboards
Date: 2007-08-03 10:26 pm (UTC)I would be interested in purchasing these recordings, would there any possibility of doing a Slender Sherbet on them?
Thomas S.
Re: Songs From Under The Floorboards
Date: 2007-08-03 11:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-04 12:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-04 08:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-04 11:53 am (UTC)3M: Momus Mining & Manufacturing
Date: 2007-08-04 01:46 pm (UTC)Subscription CDs?
Date: 2007-08-06 09:17 am (UTC)Re: Subscription CDs?
Date: 2007-08-15 07:13 am (UTC)Re: Subscription CDs?
Date: 2007-08-15 07:48 am (UTC)Paypal
Date: 2007-08-17 08:09 am (UTC)Oh, and if there's not an English version, I'll just run it through babelfish and find a Euro to dollars converter.
Re: Paypal
Date: 2007-08-17 01:51 pm (UTC)The dollars to euro translation is handled automatically, and my account can receive both.
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Date: 2007-08-21 08:40 pm (UTC)