Momus -
"Hippopotamomus"

[ Released on Creation Records - CRECD 097 - April 1991 ]

MOMUS SAYS:  Momus makes a record about sex for children. At least, he makes a record about sex for the child in all of us: the part of us that refuses guilt, that plays with mud pies, that soils its nappy, that loves to suck and be sucked. He abandons melancholy, he abandons satire and politics - the negative elements which have earned him a reputation as 'the gaunt minstrel of modern angst'. He presents, in songs which gurgle with babyish delight, a utopia of sorts, a place where sex without consequence is celebrated without censorship.

PHESPIRIT SAYS:  Phespirit's first Momus album and still one of his favourites. The electronic sound is now transposed to the Kraftwerk/minimalist end of the scale without any trace of the earlier flirtation with Stock/Aitken/Waterman style. In his exquisite lyrics, Momus gleefully abandons the shackled morality of the conservative and politically correct classes with characteristic brilliance. The Marquis of Sadness remains the greatest of all Momus's character creations; Phespirit's ideal fantasy lifestyle.

Hippopotamomus I Ate A Girl Right Up Michelin Man A Dull Documentary Marquis Of Sadness Bluestocking Ventriloquists And Dolls The Painter And His Model A Monkey For Sallie Pornography Song In Contravention