Momus (musician)
Nick Currie (born February 11,1960), more popularly known by the pseudonym Momus, is a Scottish-born songwriter. Named after the Greek god Momus, most of his songs are self-referential and/or postmodern. For more than twenty years he has been releasing playful and transgressive albums on labels in Britain, America, and Japan, building up a personal world dominated by values like diversity, orientalism, and a respect for otherness. He is also well known outside the US as a producer. He has a fascination with identity, Japan, the avant garde, time travel and sex.
He has been sued by Michelin UK, for the song Michelin Man, which compared the mascot to a blow-up doll, on Hippopotamomus (1991); and by Wendy Carlos for the song Walter Carlos, which postulated that the post-sexual reassignment surgery Wendy could travel back in time to marry her pre-surgery self, Walter, on Little Red Songbook (1998). In response to the debt incurred from Carlos' lawsuit, which was dismissed, Momus wrote thirty songs about every person or group who commissioned a song at the price of $1,000, compiling Stars Forever (1999). "Patrons" include artist Jeff Koons and two year old animator/superhero Noah Brill. It should be noted that Momus intended to tribute the creator of Switched On Bach, in fact he was at the peak of his self described "analog baroque" period. Stars Forever also features the winners of a karaoke contest started on The Little Red Songbook (1998).
Albums
- Circus Maximus (1986)
- The Poison Boyfriend (1987)
- Tender Pervert (1988)
- Don?t Stop The Night (1989)
- Monsters Of Love (1990)
- Hippopotamomus (1991)
- The Ultraconformist (Live Whilst Out Of Fashion) (1992)
- Voyager (1992)
- Timelord (1993)
- Slender Sherbert (1995)
- The Philosophy of Momus (1995)
- Twenty Vodka Jellies (1996)
- Ping Pong (1997)
- The Little Red Songbook (1998)
- Stars Forever (1999)
- Folktronic (2001)
- Oskar Tennis Champion (2003)
- Summerisle, a collaboration with Anne Laplantine (2004)
- Otto Spooky (forthcoming 2005)
