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Bands that SHOULD have gay songs but DON'T SEEM TO.

 
  • Bands that SHOULD have gay songs but DON'T SEEM TO.

    I'm still on a quest to find a gay Radiohead song. I do not know why this is.

    I wish New Order had MORE gay songs besides The Perfect Kiss. Come on, Sumner is such a fag. Also, a terrible lyricist, but that's beside the point. I'll add Electronic here, too. Just because I want them to have a gay song.

    I wish girly dance music had some lesbionicity! Like Kylie Minogueand Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

    lol how funny would it be if Oasis had a gay song? VARY FUNY INDEED.

    So, you got any bands that aren't pleasing your rainbow inclinations?

    You've got the love I need to see me through.
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    • 22 May 2008, 10:59
    Modest Mouse, may be. I haven't noticed any insinuation in their songs yet, though Isaac Brock is a really talented songwriter (yes, it's so odd how talented songwriters don't write something about homosexuality). will Johnny Marr ever impart to them some rainbow radiation?
    also, it could be funny if The Verve or Richard Ashcroft in particular wrote something gay, I adore the way he writes songs. I guess it would be very poetic. may be such song would resemble some of Lou Reed's works a little.

    Oasis totally should have a gay song. I just imagine how Liam shouts something like 'I'm gayer than these fucking Albarn and Anderson!'. :D and he should start wearing tight leather jackets and ear-rings and dancing like Brett Anderson in the Animal Nitrate video.
    how great it would be if Noel wrote a song about an unhappy gay love affair! I think I'm going to die laughing.

    and Electronic, too, of course! I agree. just because of Johnny Marr who could write a song presented to Morrissey if only he wasn't such a naughty boy. remember, Johnny: prudence never pays.

  • A phrase I am TOTALLY STEALING: "rainbow radiation." That is gorgeous.

    I've always been frustrated by Pulp's lack of queer songs. There's a little wordplay in "Do You Remember The First Time?", yeah, but Jarvis just SOUNDS so gay--how can he not write about sex with boys? I had high hopes for "Your Sister's Clothes" until I discovered that he was not the one wearing the clothes in question. =(

    Oasis really should have a gay song--I'm not sure how you can be in a band with your brother and not write something that sounds kind of homoerotic. Think about it: The Kinks, Spacehog, My Chemical Romance. I don't know what it is, but siblings make queer music.

    Which reminds me that The Cribs had better present me with a nice fruity song soon, or I'm going to throw a fit.

    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 23 Jun 2008, 16:36
    somehow it has become almost unbearable recently that R.E.M. have so few gay songs (if not any at all).
    I'm almost unable to stand this fact. poor me.
    maybe it would be a good idea to send Michael Stipe a furious letter. like, 'wot, no queer lyrics?'.

  • Oh my god, I'm really annoyed by the lack of gay R.E.M. songs, too! Michael Stipe is bent--you'd think he'd deliver.

    I just went and found a fanmail address for R.E.M.:

    R.E.M.
    Rem-Athens LLC
    PO Box 8032
    Athens, GA 30603
    USA

    A sternly-worded letter is clearly in order.

    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 28 Jun 2008, 23:17
    great! what about thinking this problem over properly? maybe we could really send him something more than an anonymous letter running as follows:

    MICHAEL YOU NERD WRITE A GAY SONG WILL YOU PLEASE
    NOW!!!
    or we'll come and strangle you in your very own bed.

    xoxo

    come on, it's you English native speaker not me, after all. :)
    and it takes kinda less money to send a letter from America to America than from Russia to America. and I'm too avaricious to allow such a crying disparity in money.

    woulduplzzzhelpmechshhhhhhhsavemymisersoulibegu

  • Oh, but by not being a native English speaker, you can get away with all kinds of things! When you threaten to strangle people in their beds, it's totally charming. If I did it, I'd look CRAZY.

    Once we decide what it should say, I'll mail it, though.

    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 2 Jul 2008, 17:11
    yeah, a promise to come and strangle sounds just like a promise to come and make love. what a pity Michael's gay... well, perhaps it's possible to bring some pretty boy over? that's a good idea, BTW.

    hum!

    I think it's better not to mention suffocations in beds and other terribly charming things. what if Michael calls the police?

    maybe it should say something like this:

    Hello!

    We love R.E.M. & Michael Stipe being gay (okay, we could remove that part about Michael). What is more, we love analysing R.E.M. lyrics carefully. Oh, and we love it when songwriters talk about their sexuality (or whatever you name it) in songs, especially if they're homosexual (fuck, sounds pretty much like some dirty joke).
    So, dear Michael, could you please write a beautiful song about homosexuality (and release it then)? Because we all really long to hear a gay R.E.M. song. Maybe there are some, though we can't figure out anything, except for several allusions, which are too vague, in fact.
    Hopefully, your arty pride wasn't offended.

    gosh, it still sounds very clumsy.
    any ideas of what we should add to it to make it more appropriate?

  • Cheshworth said:
    I've always been frustrated by Pulp's lack of queer songs. There's a little wordplay in "Do You Remember The First Time?", yeah, but Jarvis just SOUNDS so gay--how can he not write about sex with boys? I had high hopes for "Your Sister's Clothes" until I discovered that he was not the one wearing the clothes in question. =(


    Bah, I know. Although to be fair, "Do You Remember The First Time?" and "Pink Glove" are always going to be my 'if this was a girl singing, this would be the gayest song ever, gah' pieces, deep down in my heart. XD

    I suppose there's always "David's Last Summer", if you feel like reading it that way.

  • I third the Pulp, seriously. Oh Jarv, you would have been the most beautiful little queer slut in your heyday :'(

    I always expect there to be more queer Patrick Wolf songs, because I'm pretty sure he's pansexual or something. There was a quote to that degree, anyway.

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    • 18 Oct 2008, 23:03
    is it just me or do the cure really have so few (if any) queer songs that they can't be hunted out easily?what a shame after all. robert smith could've been quite homoerotic if only he'd wanted to, and what a pity he's too old now for that kind of things. wait a minute, but it seems like people at the age of 49 can't be too old to be falsely fauxmosexual or whatever you name it - look at morrissey!
    well robert smith hates morrissey, here's the clue. apparently.

  • The Cure SHOULD have more gay songs! "Lullaby" is too molester-y to count. "Cut Here" contains a lot of almost-homoerotic affection towards another man, but it's about Billy Mackenzie's suicide. When a guy's male friend kills himself, I think he's entitled to speak as lovingly as he wants to without it being turned into a Gay Thing.

    ... unfortunately, I think it's the closest we'll get to gay in this case.

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    • 5 Nov 2008, 21:23
    Why hasn't anyone proposed The Tears yet? It's really a mystery how Bread and Butter contrive to write songs so queer and so innocently decent at the same time. Like, we all know what's Autograph actually about, but when it comes to in-depth analysis, there is absolutely nothing to cavil at! Ugh. Damn Anderson, will you ever go straight?

    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 29 Dec 2009, 17:29
    Almost two years have passed.
    WHERE'S MY QUEER SONG, MICHAEL STIPE???

    (Sorry, it's just a cry from the heart.)

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