- Audio CD (30 Jun 2003)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Analog Baroque
- ASIN: B00009NOI8
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 277,168 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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It has to be said, this album won't be to everyone's taste. Nick Currie, aka Momus, is essentially a brilliant poet with a gift for a good tune, but he's never been afraid to court controversy. So on Love on Ice, for example, he ponders the dynamic between ice skaters Torville and Dean, skirting close to libel territory, or on The Homosexual he's vowing vengeance on those who wrongly assume him to be gay by bedding their women.
This is a collection of songs taken from the albums he recorded for Creation in the late Eighties and early nineties. He's a very un-British songwriter in many respects, and his stated influences are people like Jacques Brel, Scott Walker and Serge Gainsbourg, whose determination to shock Currie occasionally attempts to emulate.
Diverse and literate, it's the ideal collection to introduce yourself with his work. It's a shame that there are only two songs from what I'd consider to be his best album, 1997's The Poison Boyfriend. It also seems incredible that his record company have chosen to package this collection without any sleevenotes, and some fairly throwaway artwork.
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agree with the other reviewer, where are the other great tracks from poison boyfriend? such a fantastic album. but lo... Forbidden Software Timemachine is truly a one off insight into the life of a true poet on the outskirts of the music scene. What an introduction to Mr. Currie xoxo
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