Ultraconformist, voyager, timelord, tennis and ping pong champion, tender pervert, poison boyfriend, hippopotamus, philosopher, folk singer, star forever 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 also wears a patch on his right eye on account of his contracting amoebic keratitis.
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 three-year-old animator/superhero Noah Brill. It should be noted that Momus intended "Walter Carlos" as a tribute to the creator of Switched On Bach; he was, in fact, 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).
Other Momus activities include writing for Vice Magazine [1] (http://www.viceland.com/), Index Magazine [2] (http://www.indexmagazine.com/), AIGA Voice [3] (http://journal.aiga.org/), and Design Observer [4] (http://www.designobserver.com/), as well as being a kind of guest instructor working on a special sound-art project with students of Future University [5] (http://www.fun.ac.jp/en/) in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan during the early months of 2005.
Albums
- Circus Maximus (1986)
- The Poison Boyfriend (1987)
- Tender Pervert (1988)
- Dont 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 (2005)
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