Christ. You've really aged in the last 13 years.

Well I think you look very handsome still, maybe even better than you did, and your current partner, Hisae, is more beautiful than all those yesterday women.

Sally.

your current partner, Hisae, is more beautiful than all those yesterday women.

Thank you, Sally -- no comment (the Judgement of Paris led to ten years of war)!

It happens to us all, Momus, it happens to us all. No need to pull a face like that.

"it happens to us all"

Trite fucker.

man, your ex wife and flatmate looked seriously hot!

no way has momus aged badly. remove the grey beard and he looks better than ever
.maybe im projecting my insecurities being only a few years younger,but i dont think so. so cut him slack and to those who slag .post a contemporary pic juxtaposed with one thirteen years ago. nuff said

I think this qualifies as a logical tautology.

Ageist and lookist.

You have a big chin. Is that a factor in your beard-wearing, then and now?

You've aged, but not that badly, all things considering. That was a truly awful look you were sporting in 1996.

Kahimi Karie is better looking than his current girlfriend.

The anonymous commenters here are very funny, once you get a feel for them. "Kahimi Karie is better looking." It needed to be said! Where do these people come from? Also, Momus looks better now, more distinguished, it needs to be said.

I like "David Hamilton". My favorite from that era is "Cat from the Future"...it'd be great to hear a new version of that one.

Which album do I have to hunt down to hear David Hamilton?

Kahimi Karie Larme de Crocodile (1997)

which is where i first encountered momus after -half randomly half judging by the cover- selecting this and only this cd out of a giant box of 100yen cds at some giant recycled media store in japan no inaka in the late 90s

Ah, thanks a lot! I found Laila's version of it via Spotify (thanks to the other commenters who suggested registering an account from Britain, that did work!). Is her whispering singing voice a querverweis to Kahimi? On her "Nunki" album (the only KK album I've heard so far), she does the "whipser" singing to a great extent - without sounding as seductive as Laila, I might add.

Amazon.co.jp sells Larme de Crocodile for a bit above 3,000 Yen. Hope I can find it on ebay or someplace else for a bit less, though. :)

Is her whispering singing voice a querverweis to Kahimi?

I think it all goes back to Granny Birkin!

But Laila really enjoyed shouty stuff too. I still really like Japanese Especially, the shouty "My Boy Lollipop" song where she yells about following Japanese lolitas into Agnes B hoping they'll "let their panties fall down on the street".

Honestly. I think you look better now than you did back then. Laila has aged really well but I don't think she was too old back when you recorded with her.

Lose the goatee and you would have looked like one of those boyband teenyboppers. A lot of them sported the 'mushroom' haircut.


- Mazie.

this blog is sooo cool! i can't almost believe this! my boyfriend looks better than the best looking man on the world (and also on the moon). and the best looking woman looks worse than him 8)

every-one in the first photo looks like someone i know or used to and it totally messed with my head for a moment.

i kept thinking that you looked terribly strange, apart from the sleezy ninetiesness of everything, and then i realized it's because you still had both eyes back then. do you ever feel nostalgia for depth perception?

Oh, obviously! I mean, a breast looks very different when it's flat!

yes you look much better , you give a younger fresher image now ! the momus is like good wine, it gets better with years.
wow, It was really like a dark age back in the days, everybody in black, thick velvet, furnished appartments, wizman...maybe the polaroid effect.
Though my favorite records of yours came from this era.
I didn't know you appeared on La Grosse Boule, it was my favorite radio show!

Florian.

lookin like an elongated 90s ethan hawke in that last one

now that i've met you IRL i feel a lot worse leaving creepy comments, this sucks

Dave Gahan lived in your flat with you?

You look much better now for sure - the best has yet to come! Aging is cool.

Antonin

damn. laila france is gorgeous. you look sad, but lucky to have been there.

i retract that last part. i was feeling mean b/c i had an enormous crush on you, and i was thinking you're famous enough, and i assume you have plenty of self-confidence.

anyway, i really like you. and you look handsome. and you did look a little sad in those photos. and laila france is gorgeous.

i hope you're happy at this point in your life.

Hi Nick,

Ed wasn't there that night, or at least not in that photo... that was some nutter who I had difficulty shaking off... It's been a long time since those days, mos def.

Is that a denim suit?

I think it is some sort of denim-like material, perhaps de Nîmes.

Very Status Quo circa Blue for You: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/BlueForYou_StatusQuo.jpg