 Artist: Momus: mp3 download Genre(s): Indie Other Momus's discography:  Philosophy of Momus Year: 1995 Tracks: 19  Hippopotamomus Year: 1994 Tracks: 11  Timelord Year: 1993 Tracks: 8  Tender Pervert Year: 1993 Tracks: 11 Momus was the put on name of Nick Currie, a Scottish-born isaac Bashevis Singer, songwriter, and broker provocateur whose music careened from acoustic ballads to electro-pop to acid house and back over again. Born in 1960, Currie spent fourth dimension living in Greece and Canada before returning to Scotland to wait on university; in 1981, he dropped out of school to word form the Happy Family, a band additionally comprised of iII prior members of Josef K. After signing to the 4AD pronounce, the chemical grouping recorded just one LP, 1982's The Man on the Street, before disbanding. After returning to (and graduating from) university, Currie touched to London in 1984. After cutting a consider with el Records, he released Carnival Maximus in 1986; the offset offering released under the Momus name (chosen in laurels of a Greek supreme Being banished from Mount Olympus for daring to criticize the wisdom of Zeus), the record album spotlighted Currie's rich baritone and enthrallment with themes of psychosexuality and cultural crises, revenant motifs end-to-end his extensive catalogue of do work. A move to Alan McGee's Creation label preceded the expiration of 1987's melancholy The Poison Boyfriend, followed by 1988's homoerotic Tender Pervert. Even more than honestly sexual was the next year's Don't Stop the Night, a assemblage exploring taboo topics including incest and necromania. With 1991's Hippopotamomus -- dedicated to the late Serge Gainsbourg -- Momus came under attack; the album, dubbed "a track record roughly sexual urge for children," john Drew flame from feminists as well as a suit from Michelin UK, which objected to a lyrical reference to their mascot, the Michelin Man. (The suit was subsequently settled out of motor hotel, and all unexpended copies of the album were destroyed.) Undiscouraged, Momus returned in 1992 with a geminate of fresh records, The Ultraconformist and the ambient-styled Voyager, divine by the exploit of Yukio Mishima. After writing the 1993 album Shyness for Japanese performing artist nOrikO (world Health Organization adopted her stage name Poison Girlfriend in tribute to Momus) and cathartic Timelord (his terminal work for Creation), Currie made rag headlines for his 1994 marriage to 17-year-old Shazna Nessa, the daughter of a Bangladesh-born restauranteur. Currie and Nessa first base met when she was simply 14; after her parents erudite of the relationship, she was sent back to Bangladesh to figure into an ordered marriage, but on the loose to give to London to marry Currie, forcing the couple to go subway system for fear that Nessa's family line would snatch her. Currie, right away surviving in transportation in Paris, afterwards sign-language to the Cherry Red label and resurfaced in 1995 with The Philosophy of Momus, an eclectic set swerving from reggae to megrims to techno which featured "The Sadness of Things," an indie make recorded with Ken Morioka of the Japanese pop band Soft Ballet. Slender Sherbet, a collection of re-recordings of material from the Tender Pervert era, followed later in the class as Momus of a sudden launch success in Japan writing and producing for the Lolita-pop songstress Kahimi Karie, with whom he notched a train of basketball team back-to-back Top Five hits. 20 Vodka Jellies, a collection of demos performed by Momus and intended for Karie, appeared in 1996, and was the first home of his records issued in the U.S. In accession to writing and producing substantial for Nessa's band Milky and the CD-ROM powder store Liquidizer, Currie rounded out the grade by authorship, producing and computer scheduling the CD-ROM collection This Must Stop. He issued Ping Pong in 1997, returning a year by and by with The Little Red Songbook. 1999's Stars Forever was arguably Momus' most controversial and provocative esthetic statement yet -- mounted to help oneself defray massive sound costs facing Currie's U.S. label Le Grand Magistery, each of its songs was "licenced" for $1000 to each ane by everyone from Japanese pop brain Cornelius to the staff at New York City publicity firm Girlie Action to the members of the Indiepop List (hypertext transfer protocol://www.cut.com/tweenet/list/) and written to the various "patrons'" specifications. Folktronic followed in early 2001, and deuce geezerhood later, Momus debuted on the American Patchwork label with Oskar Tennis Champion. Analog invest out the two-disc Forbidden Software Timemachine: Best of the Creation Years, 1987-1993 compilation in 2003, followed by Otto Spooky and Ocky Milk in 2005 and 2006. |
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