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Momus's albums are for louches- the jet set, the easy and the sleazy who read edwardian poetry in an attempt to pull-its sexually ambigous porn with all the right all/illusions.

At first that seems to be the case w. 20 vodka jellies-but their is something strange on this album. It seems simple and hurt. Wounded and broken almost. Alot of the tracks seem to have him in strange places and times- a foreigner in time and place. He is someone who is chasing shadows on the circle line, remembering "who shared red wine and a kilo of salad on the back of a fiat 500." I think it is my gavorite momus album because for the first time we realize that the superego that momus floats his mandrain self on hides a heat with too manyt breaks and cracks

― anthony, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it contains several songs written for the gorgeous jap star karie and hearing momus sing "voglio scopare con i ragazzi di trastevere" is an enlightening and funny thing, he's singing songs from a female point of view ( and cat's point of view).songs he created to exploit the sexiness of kahimi breathy voice and childish persona .this is making things ridicously complex and interesting at the same time. I completely dislike his, as he calls it, grunge period documented in the record. like the graphics.

― francesco, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

songs he created to exploit the sexiness of kahimi breathy voice and childish persona

And ILX exploits the sexiness of Momus's childish persona = we are R. Kelly.

― Nicole, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I must confess this is an album I haven't bought, and don't feel very tempted to. I've downloaded about a quarter of the tracks and, lets say the grunge stuff is the least interesting Momus evah, some of the Kahmi stuff : "I am a Kitten", "Giapponese a Roma", are cute but forgetable. Other's seem like B-sides and half-hearted sketches.

The only two I really like are the brilliant pop song / Fukayama reference : "The End of History" and "London 1888" which does have the fragility you're talking about. But I understand this stuff is left over from his Timelord days, which is really the album of broken- hearted, human, tragic Momus. I just wish these tracks had been included with Timelord (which is too short) instead.

― phil, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

Lo, Phil, it shall be done. Cherry Red seem to be making headway in getting the rights to the Creation albums back from Sony, and when we put together rereleases I think those two tracks certainly should be on 'Timelord', where they belong thematically and compositionally.

― Momus, Sunday, 15 September 2002 01:57 (twenty-three years ago)

ten years pass...

Damsel, here I am
Come rub it pon my belly
Like some vodka jellies

― how's life, Sunday, 30 June 2013 12:48 (twelve years ago)

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