Tell me something about Otto Spooky
Feb. 21st, 2005 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusToday I'd like anyone who's got a copy of my new album Otto Spooky to tell me something about it... and you.
How does this long-playing Momus record fit into your listening routine? What records do you play before and after it? Have you bought anything since, and is Herr Spooky throwing shade or overshadowed? Were you particularly struck by certain lines? Do Otto's musical textures please you? What's great and what grates? Where does Otto stand in your personal canon of Momus records (assuming you have some other ones)? What do you think of John Talaga's intermezzi? Have you fallen asleep to this music, made love to it, got lost in it, jogged with it, played it in your car while driving through a National Park? Did you cover your children's ears when the song about the fascist boyscout came on? (Assuming you have children, that is.) Did your dog chew James Goggin's digipak (if so, print the JPEG above on stiff card and spray it with some foul-smelling fixative). Do any of the songs play in your head even when the record isn't on? When you're at the supermarket, do you ever look around to see if Robin Hood is there "in a wheelchair buying food", kidney dialysis colostomy bag by his side? Are you a top-scoring, panda-topping Lute Score wizard?
How does this long-playing Momus record fit into your listening routine? What records do you play before and after it? Have you bought anything since, and is Herr Spooky throwing shade or overshadowed? Were you particularly struck by certain lines? Do Otto's musical textures please you? What's great and what grates? Where does Otto stand in your personal canon of Momus records (assuming you have some other ones)? What do you think of John Talaga's intermezzi? Have you fallen asleep to this music, made love to it, got lost in it, jogged with it, played it in your car while driving through a National Park? Did you cover your children's ears when the song about the fascist boyscout came on? (Assuming you have children, that is.) Did your dog chew James Goggin's digipak (if so, print the JPEG above on stiff card and spray it with some foul-smelling fixative). Do any of the songs play in your head even when the record isn't on? When you're at the supermarket, do you ever look around to see if Robin Hood is there "in a wheelchair buying food", kidney dialysis colostomy bag by his side? Are you a top-scoring, panda-topping Lute Score wizard?
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Date: 2005-02-21 09:53 pm (UTC)Well, I find myself listening to it a lot. I've never understood people like Nick Cave and Green Gartside who say the last time they hear their records is when they're making them. I seem to have the ability to listen to my records as if they're by someone else. And I enjoy them a lot! This one more than most, actually. Although I wish it didn't get bogged down in slower numbers towards the end. I wish it stayed manic and poppy right to the finish.
I'm pleased that you like Oskar. Some people consider that record a failure, and it is rather lugubrious and... over-produced, possibly. Also, it was made at an unhappy time for me. I was quite isolated in Tokyo, living out the end of an important relationship, with my New York adventures behind me, and having lost a friend to suicide. It's also a post-9/11 record, although it isn't obvious. But the bananaskin-under-Modernism theme does refer to 9/11.
I'd love to hear Otto with extra fretless bass! Go for it. And will check out Jeans Team.
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Date: 2005-02-21 10:38 pm (UTC)Er, keep it up!