Little Red Songbook [Extra tracks, Original recording reissued]

Momus | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 13, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued
• Label: Le Grand Magistery
• ASIN: B00000C2HP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #413,593 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Old Friend, New Flame

2. M.C. Escher

3. Who Is Mr. Jones?

4. Harry K-Tel

5. Lucretia Borgia

6. How to Spot an Invert

7. Everyone I Have Every Slept With

8. Born to Be Adored

9. Coming in a Girl's Mouth

10. What Are You Wearing?

11. The New Decameron

12. The Symphonies Of Beethoven

13. Tragedy And Farce

14. Mrs. X, An Ex-Lover

15. A White Oriental Flower

16. Old Friend, New Flame (Karaoke)

17. Tragedy And Farce (Karaoke)

18. The New Decameron (Karaoke)

19. Coming In A Girl's Mouth (Karaoke)

20. Mrs. X, An Ex-Lover (Karaoke)

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars While the album is great ... important information for the buyer, September 19, 2006

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G. Edge "weirdlaugh" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Red Songbook (Audio CD)

Momus is a classic musician. A great wit pervades almost all of his songs, and penetrating lyrics are in everything else. I highly recommend his music to anyone who has not heard it, but be warned it is deemed quite offensive to most.

HOWEVER, the reason for this review is that I purchased the item viewed on this page and it does NOT come with the tracks promised. Unfortunately only the first fifteen tracks are included with kareoke versions of nine of the others. This is NOT what I paid $22.50 for, and I don't want anyone else fooled.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I'd like to thank everyone I have ever slept with., March 12, 2002

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Ryan Hennessy (Albany, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Red Songbook (Audio CD)

Perverted Scotsman Momus (Nick Currie) is here with 15 new songs for you in his style of "Analog Baroque." I can't go into the depth of this style like I can with Folktronic, but I can tell you that the style kind of originates with Walter Carlos, the man who did the film score for A Clockwork Orange. He made a record called Switched On Bach which remade a bunch of old Bach music with Moog synthesizers. It's a juxtaposition of Rococo ideas with the technology of today. Momus is the newest in a line of artists to create music in this style, although he goes about it differently. The music is hardly what I'd call baroque. It's Casio pop played on synthesized harpsicords. It ends up more like a tribute to the real analog baroque artists, trying to make something that harks back to Walter Carlos and Jean-Michel Jarre.

The lyrics are obviously going to be pure Momus. As always, he aims to make you think and laugh at what you're actually thinking about. The best example of that is track 9, soon to be classic...On a less dirty part of the cd, Momus wonders what would happen if MC Escher became a rapper because he already had the name going for him. It's an extremely catchy hip hop song that more than wanders from the Analog Baroque theme. According to Momus, every MC loves rapping about how he's the best MC around, but if that were true, then each would be better than the next, and it would be like one of those MC Escher drawings of the neverending staircase.

Unfortunately, with this album more than any other, Momus puts brain way ahead of body. He has the ability to branch out musically and a lot of different interesting things, as shown with Ping Pong and Stars Forever, but on this one he kind of pigeonholes himself with the Analog Baroque idea. It only gets him so far, and it gets tiresome after a few songs. Luckily, this album contains Momus' downright sexy "Born To Be Adored." Having nothing to do with analog baroque, it samples an old soul song throughout it, has a slow beat and a plainitive piano melody. Momus sings over in a quiet voice about all the reasons he's so adorable. In terms of lyrics this might be my favorite Momus song. There's lots of creative rhyming. "My favorite color is the emerald green / Chuck the football king goes when his beauty queen / comes to me when she's chucked him in / I was born to be adored by women."

Unluckily, because of legal complications, you cannot buy the version of this album with "Walter Carlos" on it anymore. It's a great song about gender misidentification.

5.0 out of 5 stars Who knew that analog baroque was so catchy?, December 12, 2003

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Jason Cross (Windsor, Ontario) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Little Red Songbook (Audio CD)

I had been a Momus fan for quite some time when this album came out. Although Momus had used electronica in his work for many years, this was the first of his analog baroque recordings. I must say that I know several people who couldn't take this out of their car CD players for months after getting the record. And some of the same people (myself included) found themselves humming or singing the tunes throughout the day.

There are many stand-outs on the disc. "Everyone I Have Every Slept With" is a simple, hummable tune that tells all. "Born to be Adored" doesn't seem to fit very well with the rest of the album, but it's smooth arrangement is one of the album's highlights. "What are you Wearing?" is an extremely cute cut that should always be sung by a young Japanese girl (and it was on tour).

The only unfortunate part of this album is the removal of of the song "Walter Carlos", due to a lawsuit by Wendy Carlos. Fortunately, the lawsuit brought the very entertaining Stars Forever album into existence.