5013929169135

Pubic Intellectual An Anthology 1986-2016

Momus

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: CDTRED691

Release Date:  19 August 2016

Label:  Cherry Red Records / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5013929169135

Genres:  Pop  

  • Description

    Scottish artist Momus, the performing alias for Nick Currie, has curated a fascinating body of work over the course of the last 30 years for labels such as Creation, Cherry Red, Analog Baroque and ©l. For thirty years, Momus has been releasing albums to critical success. In his lyrics and his other writing, he makes novel use of decontextualised pieces of continental (mostly French) philosophy, and has built up a personal world he says is "dominated by values like diversity, orientalism, and a respect for otherness." He seems fascinated by identity, Japan, Rome, the avant-garde, time travel and sex. Celebrating his 30th anniversary, Public Intellectual is the first anthology to document Momus' entire recorded output. Carefully compiled and annotated by the artist, with artwork by his chosen designer, this is a very personal statement. Included are many of Momus' most acclaimed songs - such as The Hairstyle Of The Devil', 'Lucky Like St. Sebastian' and 'Murderers, The Hope of Women'. Pubic Intellectual also draws on Momus' most recent albums from the noughties, such as Bibliotek, Bambi, Turpsycore and Glyptothek.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Lucky Like St Sebastian
      • 2. Paper Wraps Rock
      • 3. Murderers, the Hope of Women
      • 4. Flame Into Being
      • 5. Closer to You
      • 6. A Complete History of Sexual Jealousy (Parts 17-24)
      • 7. The Homosexual
      • 8. Bishonen
      • 9. I Was a Maoist Intellectual
      • 10. How Do You Find My Sister
      • 11. The Hairstyle of the Devil
      • 12. Shaftesbury Avenue
      • 13. Morality Is Vanity
      • 14. Bluestocking
      • 15. Ventriloquists and Dolls
      • 16. Summer Holiday 1999

      Disc 2

      • 1. Cibachrome Blue
      • 2. Voyager
      • 3. Spacewalk
      • 4. Platinum
      • 5. Enlightenment
      • 6. Rhetoric
      • 7. Last of the Window Cleaners
      • 8. The Cheque's in the Post
      • 9. The Cabinet of Kuniyoshi Kaneko
      • 10. Microworlds
      • 11. The Sadness of Things
      • 12. London 1888
      • 13. The End of History
      • 14. I Want You, But I Don't Need You
      • 15. The Age of Information
      • 16. Born to Be Adored
      • 17. Old Friend, New Flame

      Disc 3

      • 1. Tinnitus
      • 2. Stefano Zarelli
      • 3. Going for a Walk With a Line
      • 4. Pygmalism
      • 5. Scottish Lips
      • 6. Beowulf (I Am Deformed)
      • 7. The Laird of Inversnecky
      • 8. Life of the Fields
      • 9. Frilly Military
      • 10. Nervous Heartbeat
      • 11. Widow Twanky
      • 12. Hypnoprism
      • 13. Love Wakes the Devil
      • 14. Erase
      • 15. Bibliotek
      • 16. Bambi
      • 17. The Ephebophobe
      • 18. System of Usher
      • 19. The Hiker
      • 20. The Manticore
      • 21. The Art Creep
      • 22. Masks of Bebko
      • 23. The Vaudevillian