MOMUS – TENDER PERVERT LP – Nr MINT A1/B1 UK 1988 INDIE CREATION

Momus – Tender Pervert
(Creation Records  1988  CRELP036)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition

Nicholas “Nick” Currie (born 11 February 1960), more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a Scottish songwriter, author, blogger and former journalist for Wired.

For over thirty years he has been releasing, to marginal commercial and critical success, albums on labels in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. In his lyrics and his other writing he makes seemingly random use of decontextualized 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.”

Tender Pervert is the third studio album by Scottish musician Momus, released in 1988 on Creation Records.

The album’s working title was The Homosexual, due to its homosexual themes (as seen in “The Homosexual”, “Love on Ice”, and “Bishonen”). Momus was dissuaded by Creation Records founder Alan McGee from naming it as such due to the presumption that Canadian distributor PolyGram would not release an album under that title. The album’s frequent references to homosexuality were based on Momus’ reaction to homophobic rhetoric in the British media surrounding the AIDS epidemic, suggesting that, “…if gay people are not only dying but being gagged by the government while dying, it’s up to straight people to promote homosexuality in their place.” The album was also influenced by the themes explored by Serge Gainsbourg in his 1984 album, Love on the Beat, as well as Japanese pop culture and cultural figures such as Yukio Mishima.

Tracklist

Personnel

• Momus – performance, writing, production
• The Brothers Quay – “imaginary videos”
• Ian Buruma – “heroes and villains of Japanese culture”
• Mika Goto – “roses and bishōnen comics”
• Dave Harper – cover features
• Mike Hinc – “travel”
• Nicki Kefalis – radio
• Dean Klevatt – sequential programming and performance
• Vici MacDonald – “thunder player”
• Alan McGee – “worldplans”
• Nigel Palmer – “exquisite engineering”
• Ruth Stirling – interpreter
• Thomi Wroblewski – photography