The Little Red Songbook

This article is about the album by Momus. For the songs collected by the Industrial Workers of the World, see Little Red Songbook.

The album The Little Red Songbook (Le Grand Magistery 61665-60006) was released by Momus in 1998. This CD features a number of karaoke versions of the songs that were used for a singing contest. The winners of the contest appear on the CD Stars Forever.

The original release of this CD contained a controversial song entitled "Walter Carlos". In 1998, the subject persona of the song, Wendy Carlos, a transgender artist who had first come to fame releasing albums under her birth name Walter Carlos, sued Momus for $22 million.[1] The case was settled out of court, with Momus agreeing to remove it from the CD and owing $30,000 in legal fees.[2] Subsequent releases of the CD do not include the song.

The title was inspired by the controversial Danish book The Little Red Schoolbook.[3]

Track listing

Current tracks

  1. Old Friend, New Flame
  2. MC Escher
  3. Who Is Mr. Jones?
  4. Harry K-Tel
  5. Lucretia Borgia
  6. How To Spot An Invert
  7. Everyone I Have Ever Slept With
  8. Born To Be Adored
  9. Coming In A Girl's Mouth
  10. What Are You Wearing?
  11. The New Decameron
  12. The Symphonies Of Beethoven
  13. Tragedy And Farce
  14. Mrs. X, An Ex-Lover
  15. A White Oriental Flower
  16. Some Mistranslations
  17. The Ugly Sister
  18. Welcome To My Show Trial
  19. Old Friend, New Flame (Karaoke)
  20. Tragedy And Farce (Karaoke)
  21. The New Decameron (Karaoke)
  22. Coming In A Girl's Mouth (Karaoke)
  23. Mrs. X, An Ex-Lover (Karaoke)
  24. Harry K-Tell (Karaoke)
  25. Who Is Mr. Jones? (Karaoke)
  26. How To Spot An Invert (Karaoke)
  27. The Symphonies Of Beethoven (Karaoke)

Deleted track

References

  1. Shepherd, Fiona (1999-09-10). "The World Can Change in a Matter of Momus". The Scotsman. The Scotsman Publications Ltd. p. 23.
  2. Selvin, Joel; Vaziri, Aidin; Heller, Greg (1999-11-07). "$1,000 Bought a Custom Song on Momus' Latest Album". The San Francisco Chronicle. The Chronicle Publishing Co.
  3. Click Opera - Fuck your way to the revolution
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/18/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.