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The Little Red Songbook

The Little Red Songbook

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The album The Little Red Songbook (Le Grand Magistery
Le Grand Magistery
Le Grand Magistery is an independent record label operating out of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan since 1996. They have been home to a number of artists including A Cuckoo, A Girl Called Eddy, Always, Baxendale, The Blood Group, Computer Perfection, Flare, Kahimi Karie, Le Concorde, Mascott, Memphis,...

 61665-60006) was released by Momus
Momus (artist)
Nick Currie , more popularly known under the artist name Momus , is a songwriter, blogger and former journalist for Wired...

 (Nick Currie) 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
Stars Forever
Stars Forever is an album for which the artist Momus wrote thirty songs, one about every person or group who commissioned a song at the price of $1,000. "Patrons" include artist Jeff Koons and two year old animator/superhero Noah Brill...

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The original release of this CD contained a controversial song entitled "Walter Carlos". In 1998, the subject persona of the song, Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos' fame originated in the late 1960s with recordings made on the Moog synthesizer, which was a relatively new and unknown instrument at the time; most notable were L.P.'s of synthesized Bach, and the soundtrack for Stanley...

, sued Momus for $22 million.
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The album The Little Red Songbook (Le Grand Magistery
Le Grand Magistery
Le Grand Magistery is an independent record label operating out of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan since 1996. They have been home to a number of artists including A Cuckoo, A Girl Called Eddy, Always, Baxendale, The Blood Group, Computer Perfection, Flare, Kahimi Karie, Le Concorde, Mascott, Memphis,...

 61665-60006) was released by Momus
Momus (artist)
Nick Currie , more popularly known under the artist name Momus , is a songwriter, blogger and former journalist for Wired...

 (Nick Currie) 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
Stars Forever
Stars Forever is an album for which the artist Momus wrote thirty songs, one about every person or group who commissioned a song at the price of $1,000. "Patrons" include artist Jeff Koons and two year old animator/superhero Noah Brill...

.

The original release of this CD contained a controversial song entitled "Walter Carlos". In 1998, the subject persona of the song, Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos' fame originated in the late 1960s with recordings made on the Moog synthesizer, which was a relatively new and unknown instrument at the time; most notable were L.P.'s of synthesized Bach, and the soundtrack for Stanley...

, sued Momus for $22 million. The case was settled out of court, with Momus agreeing to remove it from the CD and owing $30,000 in legal fees. Subsequent releases of the CD do not include the song.

The title was inspired by the controversial Danish book The Little Red Schoolbook
The Little Red Schoolbook
The Little Red Schoolbook is a book written by two Danish schoolteachers, Søren Hansen and Jesper Jensen in 1969, which was controversial upon its publication. The book was translated into many languages in the early 1970s.The book encourages young people to question societal norms and instructs...

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Track listing

  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've 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)