Momus, why didn't you include Andrew Loog Oldham in "The Symphonies of Beethoven"?

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I mean, his name does end in "-oog."

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, that's been boldfaced long enough.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, he probably didn't do it because the "-oog" words all come at the ends of the lines, and then he would be forced to begin the next line with "Oldham." How could he ever pull that one off?

― Intravinicius de Moraes, Monday, 15 November 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Quite.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You could have mentioned him in a more formal manner, like Oldham, Andrew Loog, perhaps. There are loads of ways a mon of your talents could have found a way around the problem!

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

a mon of your talents
I just pictured Momus with dreadlocks and a huge spliff.

― Every country has their stupid (AaronHz), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Photoshop anyone?

― Every country has their stupid (AaronHz), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, typos. I of course meant "a mons of your talent". I was imagining Momus carved into Mount Rushmore, eyepatch and all.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Again, photoshop?

― Every country has their stupid (AaronHz), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

How about this?

We play the symphonies of Beethoven
Pretending to be rude, with Mister Oldham, Andrew Loog
They play the symphonies of Beethoven
Drowning in the pool, with Brian and his 'ludes

Nah, doesn't work.

― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

momus, hold another karaoke contest for the next record!

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, if I'd been an even bigger Gainsbourg fan than I was at the time, I could have done it by copying G's rhyming style, which was radically end-chopped and associative. I think he was influenced by Apollinaire and Queneau and OULIPO and stuff. He would do something like this ('Elastique' from 'Charlotte Forever'):

J'suis elastique
Dans me gimmicks
Un peu comme Mick
Jagger, q'je trouve comique...

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

me mes

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Said Andrew Loog
Oldham
When Robert Moog
Sold him
What looked most like a cross between
A tandoor train and a freight oven:

"Well, my old droog,
Clearly
I love this new g-
ear, li-
sten how I'll make it wail and keen
The symphonies of Beethoven!"

― OleM (OleM), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he was influenced by Apollinaire and Queneau and OULIPO

You think? But you don't know. There is no documentation? Maybe he wrote a dirty song for or about Queneau's daughter? There is nothing in Oulipo Oulipo Oulipo about this (Nor in A Fistful of Gitanes for that matter). Serge Gainsbourg is not in the index, but Martin Gardner and Karl Friedrich Gauss are. What a bunch of nerds those guys were. But clever, funny creative nerds.

To bring this nominally back to music, I never knew into recently that Jane Birkin's first husband (and first man, apparently) was John Barry.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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