''Oskar Tennis Champion'' (Cherry Red #ANALOG 008CD) is a 2003

album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

Momus Momus (; Ancient Greek: Μῶμος ''Momos'') in Greek mythology was the personification of satire and mockery, two stories about whom figure among Aesop's Fables. During the Renaissance, several literary works used him as a mouthpiece for their ...

. He described its style as "cabaret concrete": a mix of, "offbeat storytelling," and, "fragmented...computerized beats," referring to his love of singer songwriters such as

Jacques Brel Jacques Romain Georges Brel (, ; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, l ...

and

Serge Gainsbourg Serge Gainsbourg (; born Lucien Ginsburg; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French musician, singer-songwriter, actor, author and filmmaker. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provoca ...

mixed with his love of

musique concrète Musique concrète (; ): " problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, ...

. A bonus disc, ''Oscar Originals'', contains "PREMIX" track versions and three extras.

Track listing

# "Spooky Kabuki" # "Is It Because I'm a Pirate?" # "Multiplying Love" # "Scottish Lips" # "My Sperm Is Not Your Enemy" # "Oskar Tennis Champion" # "A Little Schubert" # "The Laird of Inversnecky" # "The Last Communist" # "

Pierrot Lunaire ''Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds "Pierrot lunaire"'' ("Three times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud's 'Pierrot lunaire), commonly known simply as ''Pierrot lunaire'', Op. 21 ("Moonstruck Pierrot" or "Pierrot in the Moonlight"), is a me ...

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Beowulf ''Beowulf'' (; ang, Bēowulf ) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. The ...

(I Am Deformed)" # "Electrosexual Sewing Machine" # "A Lapdog" # "Lovely Tree" # "Palm Deathtop" # untitled (a minute of silence) # untitled (''The Ringtone Cycle'' by Oliver Cobol) Extra tracks on ''Oscar Originals'': #

"Back Answers PREMIX" (lyrics by

Robb Wilton Robert Wilton Smith (28 August 1881 – 1 May 1957), better known as Robb Wilton, was an English comedian and actor. He was best known for his filmed monologues during the 1930s and 1940s, in which he played incompetent authority figures. His tr ...

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Erostratus Herostratus ( grc, Ἡρόστρατος) was a 4th-century BC Greek, accused of seeking notoriety as an arsonist by destroying the second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (on the outskirts of present-day Selçuk). The conclusion prompted the creat ...

PREMIX" # "Infanticide PREMIX"

References

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