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Started by Steve, April 08, 2007, 08:56:52

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piggymirror


piggymirror

...aaaand this one. I hate the fact that the lyrics to this song are still relevant. But you just need to turn the TV on... :worried:

 

SueC

Yeah, over 50 years after MLK, same old same old.  :worried:

This song is not about this exact situation, but about the same sort of thing:


PS:  Great title (& lyrics) on that last Bowie track!
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Ulrich

New Waterboys (just got the latest album one year ago, which still seems "new" to me; they're almost too fast these days):

The holy city breathed like a dying man...

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MeltingMan

En cette nation [Russie] qui n'a pas eu de théoriciens et de démagogues,
les pires ferments de destruction ont apparu. (J. Péladan)

piggymirror

I've always loved this guitar part.


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SueC

Quote from: MeltingMan on June 07, 2020, 21:02:52

...sometimes it's surprising how much crap you can find in yourself when you go digging!  :1f635:

It was a bit of a thing to ping "like" here for me.  I really liked this song when I was 13.  And would subsequently, from the age of 14 after discovering alternative music, have rather eaten live wriggly worms than admit this was ever the case.

This was the one time in my life that my mother actually listened to music with me.  She liked this song too. The singer does have a decent voice, much more so than a lot of his contemporaries did, and good on him for showing people you don't have to be binary.  It's just that I outgrew this style of music and discovered things I liked better.  But, I think the reticence to ever admit I liked this song was tied up in this idea of having developed "better taste" and that's something I interrogate now.

Anyone else here got anything weird like that going down?

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MeltingMan

En cette nation [Russie] qui n'a pas eu de théoriciens et de démagogues,
les pires ferments de destruction ont apparu. (J. Péladan)

piggymirror

Quote from: SueC on June 08, 2020, 17:16:47It was a bit of a thing to ping "like" here for me.  I really liked this song when I was 13.  And would subsequently, from the age of 14 after discovering alternative music, have rather eaten live wriggly worms than admit this was ever the case.

[...] It's just that I outgrew this style of music and discovered things I liked better.  But, I think the reticence to ever admit I liked this song was tied up in this idea of having developed "better taste" and that's something I interrogate now.

This is quite a good song.
But I hadn't realised the bits of dub in it until now, which makes it even better.

Quote from: SueC on June 08, 2020, 17:16:47Anyone else here got anything weird like that going down?

That would definitely be one. It was all the time on the radio when I was a kid.
But I have always liked that song, and in fact I think it must be about the very best he's ever done (disclaimer - I haven't really followed Boy George after Karma Chameleon, and that was a minute or two ago...).

But in my case it was more like, er...




This is actually a very fine song (back then I didn't know it was a cover), Jimmy has an outstanding voice, just that in hindsight, the production doesn't do it for me, I prefer more synthy things.
Bronski Breat itself, for instance, or Erasure.
Or... the Pet Shop Boys, which one day appeared and did put an end to the contest (amazing band, the PSB). With the Pet Shop Boys, things became more "serious" while staying very poppy at the same time.
Also Depeche Mode, but by then I was not as aware of them, excepting Just Can't Get Enough, of course, which was everywhere as well.
But I was always humming Don't Leave Me This Way it as a kid, hahahaa.

piggymirror

It's been many years since I didn't listen to him.
Still brilliant, of course.

But his music seems to be a bit forgotten...
Besides, on youtube you find more Hendrix covers than his actual songs. Urgh.

The beginning of this song reminds me a bit of Just Say Yes.



Ulrich

The holy city breathed like a dying man...

SueC

Quote from: piggymirror on June 08, 2020, 22:57:07
Quote from: SueC on June 08, 2020, 17:16:47It was a bit of a thing to ping "like" here for me.  I really liked this song when I was 13.  And would subsequently, from the age of 14 after discovering alternative music, have rather eaten live wriggly worms than admit this was ever the case.

[...] It's just that I outgrew this style of music and discovered things I liked better.  But, I think the reticence to ever admit I liked this song was tied up in this idea of having developed "better taste" and that's something I interrogate now.

This is quite a good song.
But I hadn't realised the bits of dub in it until now, which makes it even better.

Just watching the video on this, which I actually don't recall ever seeing before, random thoughts - and I don't know the story behind this clip - but in the mid-80s, where I lived, they were only just beginning to decriminalise homosexuality (and there were police lynchings in Sydney etc of gay people, probably in part because the judiciary were considering dropping those laws), and watching that clip just brought that back to me.  It seems to me to sort of pantomime all that stuff about the public reaction to a non-hetero, non-gender-binary, different sort of person - and the law court setting did make me think about the criminalisation laws of the time.

It was in my home too.  I got bashed in the face by my father for having a Boy George poster up on my wall when I was 13 - because BG was a "poof" and a "pervert" - according to my elder and better...


Quote from: piggymirror on June 08, 2020, 22:57:07
Quote from: SueC on June 08, 2020, 17:16:47Anyone else here got anything weird like that going down?

But in my case it was more like, er...



This is actually a very fine song (back then I didn't know it was a cover), Jimmy has an outstanding voice, just that in hindsight, the production doesn't do it for me, I prefer more synthy things.
Bronski Breat itself, for instance, or Erasure.

I looked up the lyrics.  Interesting that it was initially written by a presumably straight woman and then sung by a gay guy, but of course, sex is sex and love is love - my recurring niggle is when people say love and actually mean sex, because I'm pedantic and these are technically two different things, although it's great when they dance hand-in-hand, and the sum is greater than the parts etc.  (And I always go on about that, because if young people especially confuse that, they can get very hurt; and to make the distinction helps inoculate people a bit against relationship dysfunction; although in those lyrics there are bigger fish to fry like co-dependency - making someone else responsible for your happiness when actually you are; and it's in so many pop songs.../end rant and the soapbox is now available for the next speaker ;))

I remember Why and thought that had fabulous lyrics. :cool 35 years later looking back it's like, "WTF was society thinking?" but of course it's not all roses yet either.

And now I'm gonna put on a song that can make you blush, bwahahaha.  :lol:  Here's Paul Kelly euphemising with his tongue firmly in his cheek.


https://genius.com/Paul-kelly-and-the-messengers-happy-slave-lyrics
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