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we'll see about that.

I think the music always slightly dated, but his vocals still unsurpassed, and his version of The Wizard of Oz is a classic in my book.

is he still on someone's playlist now and then?

― Erik, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Momus to thread!

― ddflgjgputg8, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was frightened as a child when I saw him appear with David Bowie on Saturday Night Live. Did he work at Fiorucci, or was that just Joey Arias?

― Sean, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know about the 'dated' tag. I mean yes, obviously, the man is dead a long time now, but I think "Total Eclipse of the Sun" (notably the version on URRGH!A MUSIC WAR still sounds pretty fresh.) It certainly doesn't sound like anyone else.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He was a genius. My old roomate Kristian wrote "Total Eclipse" , as well as this obituary for the East Village Eye that explains the Klaus Nomi phenomenon much better than I could.

"Klaus was a face - elfin and painted as a Kabuki robot. He was a style - a medieval interpretation of the 21st century via Berlin 1929. He was a voice, almost inhuman in range, from operatic soprano to Prussian general. He was a master performer - a master of theatrical gesture. Above all he was a visionary. He said the future is based on the needs of the artist, deciding how to live and living that way every minute. Klaus, the man from the future, lived that way in the present, and held out his hand saying, "Come with me. You can do it too." His vision was naive, quaint, almost foolish, but forceful in its purity and innocence. Even at his most wildly ridiculous ("Lightning Strikes") or quaveringly sublime (Purcell's "Death") there was an acknowledgment of impending apocalypse that lent it conviction. For Klaus, apocalypse was a metaphor for purification, and as the oddball optimist surrounded by cynical detachment and resignation, he dared to believe in a better world." He should be on everyone's playlist.

― Arthur, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

falling in love again is such an other worldly and frighteing interpeation of that standard, really thats all i have to say

― anthony, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean "Can't Help Falling in Love", the Elvis song, right? Or did he also do the Deitrich/Blue Angel song? I could imagine that.

― Curt, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes the dietrich one, he also did a version of I feel love, anybody heard it? where to find it?

― erik, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Remember me, but ah, forget my fate. I (heart) KN

The Smiths used it as intro music a couple of the times I saw them.

― Alexander Blair, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sean, you saw him on the saturday night live, I'm jealous.

― erik, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ten years pass...

https://twitter.com/SantaKlausNomi

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 December 2012 17:15 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VRLFIpcRXc

check out the DJ Hell remix of the "Cold Song". RIP Klaus Nomi, 30 years ago today!

― lynshrooom, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 10:33 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

http://i.imgur.com/akrvyZp.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 18 January 2016 01:46 (nine years ago)

no shit?

― sarahell, Monday, 18 January 2016 01:48 (nine years ago)

Only if we wish hard enough.

― pplains, Monday, 18 January 2016 01:56 (nine years ago)

This really happened though:

http://i.imgur.com/zU156HW.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 18 January 2016 01:57 (nine years ago)

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