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A 1994 track which contrasts the highbrow artistic tastes of the narrator with their love of the simple pleasures in life, such as trampolines, tangerines, and “the simple lover who is mine”
I'm in love with Witold Gombrowicz
That sombre Polish man
I journey to the end of night with Louis F. Celine
But when I'm tired of reading novels by melancholy authors
I bounce on an enormous trampoline
'Pornographia', 'Ferdydurke', the Polish avant garde
I find Schšnberg's 'Verklarte Nacht' the loveliest thing I've heard
But when I've lost my taste for the highest and the best
I bounce, I bounce, I bounce with zest
I'm very fond of Karlheinz Stockhausen
'Musique Concrete' excites me
Luciano Berio inflames my very being
But when I've left behind my passion for serial composition
I bite at an enormous tangerine
Giacomo Leopardi,
Stephane MallarmŽ
Diaghilev and Rilke
Lou Andreas Salome
But when I've lost my taste for the highest and the best
I bite, I bite, I bite with zest
I'm in love with Frederic Chopin and Isabelle Adjani
I play Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bambou and Jane Birkin at my party
But when the radiant night is over and the sun begins to shine
I kiss the simple lover who is mine
'Pornographia', 'Ferdydurke', the Polish avant garde
I find Schšnberg's 'Verklarte Nacht' the loveliest thing I've heard
But when I've lost my taste for the highest and the best
I kiss, I kiss, I kiss with zest
Giacomo Leopardi, Stephane MallarmŽ
Diaghilev and Rilke, Lou Andreas Salome
But when I've lost my taste for the highest and the best
I laugh, I live, I love with the best
Radiant Night was written by Momus.
Momus released Radiant Night on Mon Jan 01 1996.
On the CD inlay, Momus had this to say about the song:
Written in 1994…The name dropping is only redeemed by the divine comedy at the end of each verse…A melody from Chopin by way of Gainsbourg.