Stars Forever
by Momus

Year	Source	Chart	Rank	Rank Score
2022	drstuey	Top 23 Music Albums of 1999	20/23	1
2020	jnfbn	Top 100 Music Albums of 1999	80/100	1
2014	philbutrin	Top 100 Music Albums of 1999	18/100	4
		Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in.		3
		Total Rank Score: The total rank score.		6

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70/100	04/10/2021 12:46	drstuey	2,697	73/100
80/100	07/19/2020 13:16	jnfbn	8,880	81/100
65/100	08/08/2014 23:31	philbutrin	3,079	68/100
60/100	04/02/2014 16:35	Jorbaa	739	78/100
70/100	09/15/2013 17:04	Norman Bates	10,034	75/100

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drstuey 04/10/2021 11:45 | #268414

So this is an interesting one because it is an early example of crowd funding, or as he calls it "patronage pop". He needed to pay some large legal bills following a lawsuit about a track on his previous album so he asked 30 fans to each pay $1000 to have a song written to order about them. Most of the songs are biographical portraits incorporating his trademark witty wordplay, and most of them are catchy pop songs (some are obviously based on other well-known songs). One song is a marriage proposal. Some also include some wider cultural analysis, for example 'Miles Franklin' is about issues of loneliness and 'Steven Zeeland' an argument in favour of homosexuals in the armed forces.

The musical highlight is probably 'Tinnitus' a wild romp about someone who was an extra in a kilts and swords movie shot in Scotland. It does go on a bit and the songs all tend to merge into each other.

At the end of the album are 8 further tracks contributed by fans who responded to a karaoke competition - they sang over the instrumental tracks at the end of his previous album.

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