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Alright, screw this. I slept in until 8 this morning, then had a nap from 5-6, worked out on the $400 towel rack (the exercise bike) for an hour, and then had a coffee at 9. I lost my buzz cooking for everyone, and am now hopelessly awake. Sooooo. Let’s play some music. Here’s what I want you to do. I’m going to create two categories for you- SONGS I LOVE and GAY ANTHEMS. Put a link to either a song you love or a gay anthem in the comments. This will help me make playlists and will be entertaining. I’ll start. Here are two songs I absolutely love:

Here are two songs I would consider gay anthems (and as such, fucking awesome late night music):

Have fun. I’m excited to see what you have to add.

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  8. 8.

    Michael D.

    @Steeplejack: Smalltown Boy is an amazing song in its own right. I love it. The video is even more amazing. This is a song that means something.

    John: I don’t think “Killer Queen” would be a gay anthem though. Great song, but I think a lot of gay people would know the song, but wouldn’t think much of it.

    40+ gay people consider “Smalltown Boy” to be part of their lives. I expect.

  16. 16.

    Michael D.

    I’m sorry. “Relax” is NOT a gay anthem. It’s a song straight people heard once in a gay bar, thought that was cool, and started listening to because they wrongly thought gay people thought it was awesome and, therefore. acceptably cool.

  24. 24.

    Michael D.

    @Steeplejack: Can’t say much about Matt Alber. First time I’ve heard of him. But I will be forever indebted to you for introducing me to this beautiful song! Love. It. I just spent the last few minutes mesmerized.

  25. 25.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Steeplejack: Sorry you had to work late, but yay for dogsitting over the weekend! I’m about to do my NaNoWriMo thang, so if you see me back before 3 a.m. Central Whatever Time, plz kick my flat ass. kthxbai.

  27. 27.

    Steeplejack

    Actually, re thread title, my pants are off. I’m in a big, empty house with two dozing sighthounds and a toasty fire in the fireplace, and I came straight from work and didn’t bring a change of clothes, so I’m hangin’ out in me boxers.

    Wait, that reminds me of the JoBoxers, “Just Got Lucky.” Possible gay anthem?

  35. 35.

    Steeplejack

    @Michael D.:

    Yeah, I love that song, and I almost always tear up when I watch the video. Just as a song, “Boys Don’t Cry” affects me almost as much.

  58. 58.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    Ha, I finally figured out WordPress linking… I’m now a slightly smaller idiot. Yay me.

  70. 70.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack: Heh. I have a minor crush on Kareem too. And yeah I get that sense. But a lot of the Stargate dynamic had a minor homoerotic undertone.

    @John Cole: Fuck that. We’re burning you naked. :)

  72. 72.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    @John Cole:

    I’ve fallen out of the habit the last few years, most of my cds are all boxed up with my books, and without the space to put the collection the impulse to go find new stuff has atrophied a bit. I do appreciate that you also ask questions like “whatever happened to the Screaming Trees” sometimes (I still really enjoy Dust). My tastes started with the ‘grunge’ thing and pretty well exhausted it. Hell, I still listen to the Melvins a few times a year when the mood strikes me and nobody is around to complain about it.

  74. 74.

    Suffern ACE

    @Yutsano:

    Fuck that. We’re burning you naked. :)

    It’s probably the only way to prevent a certain someone from shouting “Once again Wrong Again Cole…” during the ceremony.

  76. 76.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    One other thing to mention while we’re in a music mood. A few weeks back there was a playing of that famous Nirvana concert at the Paramount in Seattle at movie theaters. I went to see it because I’d never been able to see them live, and thought the Reading DVD was a little disappointing. Man, on the big screen with those speakers, it blew me away. I frequently dislike movie theater speakers because the audio mix is always too heavy on effects and music and it drowns out the dialogue. But for a rock concert? Awesome. If theaters need more stuff to put on their screens, some famous old music concerts recorded on quality equipment would be one way to go, at least in places with enough people to draw from that seats would fill.

  78. 78.

    Steeplejack

    @John Cole:

    Whenever I think of Little Feat I am reminded of the great work they did on Robert Palmer’s first one or two albums. Don’t know if this song is one of their collaborations, but it is a song I love: “Every Kinda People.”

    (Probably should have gone with “Spanish Moon,” but I love this song more.)

  82. 82.

    Suffern ACE

    Cripes. It’s 5am and I’m listening to Scissor Sisters and I’m looking for a man smelling like cocoa-butter and cash. This will not end well.

  83. 83.

    JGabriel

    Songs I Love:

    Polyester Bride — Liz Phair

    Kool Thing — Sonic Youth

    If this ain’t a gay anthem, it should be: Magnetic Fields — When My Boy Walks Down The Street

    Grand pianos crash together when my boy walks down the street
    There are whole new kinds of weather when he walks with his new beat
    Everyone sings hallelujah when my boy walks down the street
    Life just kind of dances through ya from your smile down to your feet
    Amazing he’s a whole new form of life
    Blue eyes blazing and he’s going to be my wife

    .

  86. 86.

    JGabriel

    Suffern ACE:

    It’s 5am and I’m listening to Scissor Sisters and I’m looking for a man smelling like cocoa-butter and cash. This will not end well.

    (In my best Luther Vandross impression:)

    “Hey, baby, I got a bottle of tanning lotion, and a twenty-dollar bill I’m rubbing all over my body.”

    .

  88. 88.

    Samara Morgan

    my alltime favorite.
    Sonny Moore, Mora.

    Seal your lips with the black stitch of a secret
    Parade with that speechless dryness of the desert air
    Lay flat under the lime light you feed off all the fiction
    Cold callus and boiled between the bleak deep of your dirty hands

  90. 90.

    burnspbesq

    Don’t know whether k.d. lang’s “The Consequences of Falling” is a gay anthem, but if it’s not I would argue that it should be.

    A great song that I would wager that few of you have heard: “False, False” by Cara Dillon.

  91. 91.

    Uriel

    @Michael D.:

    I’m sorry. “Relax” is NOT a gay anthem. It’s a song straight people heard once in a gay bar, thought that was cool, and started listening to because they wrongly thought gay people thought it was awesome and, therefore. acceptably cool.

    Not to be combative or anything, but as an explanation, this is ‘Da Vinchi Code’ levels of improbable.

  97. 97.

    Suffern ACE

    @Uriel: It’s an act we put on when we know the straights are present. We perform well, the bartenders shares their tips with us. When they’re not around, it’s Wayne Newton til closing time.

  99. 99.

    Uriel

    @Samara Morgan:

    null hypothesis: all the best songs are about sex.

    I think that most islamic scholars would argue otherwise.

    Also, this Justin Biber/industrial fusion stuff you’re linking to is so awful that I’m going to assume it’s intentionally bad- because no one can be that un-self-aware.

  101. 101.

    Samara Morgan

    @Uriel: lool.
    its a mini-history lesson … screamo, to reggaeton, to dubstep.
    FFTL to the present….Breathe Carolina playin’ the tweens at Live Spot to toppin’ the charts at Alt Nation.
    evolution.

    plz, Beiber? How often have i deplored that Americans get Beiber, while the Germans get Tom and Bill Kraulitz.

  102. 102.

    hamletta

    Gay anthem: “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” Sylvester
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG2ixYJ79iE&feature=related

    Song I love (don’t hate): Stone Temple Pilots, “Interstate Love Song”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwaiYWOin_M

    This song woke me up once every hour one night in a San Diego motel room. Because it is awesome.

    And because someone brought up Gordon Lightfoot, who my mother worshipped for much of my childhood, the one Gord song I love above all others, “Don’t Beat Me Down”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZAb12Znjg

    Wouldn’t be a bad song for #OWS: “And the powers that be took a liking to me/ And they told me that love is a four-letter word.”

  105. 105.

    Samara Morgan

    @Uriel:

    I think that most islamic scholars would argue otherwise.

    well….you see, mostly quranic recitation takes the place of musiks in islamic culture.
    so that that is kinda irrelevant.

    but here is some ADF to broaden your horizons, and some Natacha Atlas.
    She bills herself as a human Gaza strip.
    :)

  118. 118.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    Sorry motherfucker won’t take my next Aces link. Look up Why Can’t I Be Satisfied.

  122. 122.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    Emma Jean

    I was walkin’ the dog
    I saw you sittin’ on your veranda
    And when I came back thru
    You were tangoin’ with Amanda
    Emma Jean,
    Won’t you unlock the back door screen
    And invite me in
    For some gin and lemonade
    I’d really love to love you
    My little half tropical maid
    Every time I pass by
    I can see thru you big screen door
    Two lovely lesbian ladies
    Slow dancing on the parquet floor
    Emma Jean,
    Won’t you unlock the back door screen
    And invite me in
    For some gin and lemonade
    I’d really love to love you
    My little half tropical maid

    I get the chills and fever
    Everytime I look in your face
    I just don’t understand
    Why you don’t ask me up to your place
    Emma Jean,
    Won’t you unlock the back door screen
    And invite me in
    For some gin and lemonade
    I’d really love to love you
    My little half tropical maid
    I’d love to love you
    My little half tropical maid
    I’d just love to love you
    My little tropical maid

  126. 126.

    JPL

    Maybe I missed it but Rhinestone Cowboy isn’t mentioned. Is it possible that it doesn’t fit in either category?

  138. 138.

    JGabriel

    Andy Rooney’s last words, allegedly spoken five minutes after he died, were, “You know what else I hate? Being dead. God, it’s worse than modern art and all that rock and hippity hop music kids listen to today!”

    .

  139. 139.

    freelancer (iPhone)

    Andy Rooney’s eyebrows regret to announce that Andy Rooney has passed. They will continue growing over the next several hours, but his eyebrows announced to CBS news that the loss of Rooney will devastate not only them, but 60 Minutes viewers across the globe. Breaking News: ATM machines and those responsible for hip hop, also known as hip hop anonymous or hippopotamus music were heard breathing an audible sigh of relief upon hearing the news as it was reported from Rooney’s eyebrows.

    The Onion knows where to send their check.

  142. 142.

    forked tongue

    I just searched these comments, didn’t click on all the links, but any list of gay anthems that doesn’t include Pet Shop Boy’s cover of “Go West” just doesn’t know what “anthem” means.

  146. 146.

    harlana

    I posted this link last nite, my favorite love song of all time. It’s not an anthem of any kind, but about the sweetness of love, true commitment and finding your soulmate, something that has always eluded me. Perhaps that’s why it makes me cry. Or perhaps just because it’s so beautiful. Or both.

  147. 147.

    Birthmarker

    I always thought Melissa Ethridge’s

    I’m the Only One

    Expresses obsession with love and sex pretty well regardless of orientation.

    (typing on
    iPad is weird)

  148. 148.

    J.W. Hamner

    I wish I had been awake for this post, but from a judicious skim it appears that 80’s New Wave is considered gay. I would dispute this (not Erasure obvi).

  152. 152.

    Hydrino

    Gay anthem: Thin Lizzy “The Boys Are Back in Town”

    Song I love: The Stranglers “Always the Sun”

  157. 157.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Samara Morgan: Are you trying to present it as a gay anthem or as a song you love? I don’t know that it is the former and the latter is, of course, a matter of personal taste. Also too, that song is absolutely dripping with snark, but you, being a literalist, probably missed it.

  161. 161.

    Samara Morgan

    @Omnes Omnibus: both songs are dripping with snark and both songs are my noms for gay anthems.
    if teh gay have anything in abundance besides coolth its self-deprecating humor.

    i already posted Sonny, my all time favorite.
    i grew up with FFTL.
    you never forget your first time.

    With miles to drive
    On a cerebral highway
    Where it leads our hearts to
    That empire where all unfolds
    __
    We drag our knees
    Through these badlands
    And we hurt ourselves
    Just to feel anything
    __
    In the mecca of us
    We all glow forever

  169. 169.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    @Steple/JohnCole: I believe Sneakin Sally Thru The Alley was actually the Meters with Lowell George on guitar. Very cool that somebody out there knows it. One of the most underrated funk albums ever. And imo, the greatest funk drum groove ever. Kicks in at 1:52. For those who like this sort of thing (artists not usually identified with funk, gettin funky) there’s this. I had always heard that Herbie & the Headhunters were the backing band, but according to the album notes, they may be a myth. Anyways, serious get-down here.

    Songs I love:

    Planet Telex- Radiohead

    Ballad of Big Nothing- Elliott Smith

    The Bones of You- Elbow

    When It Rains- Brad Mehldau

    and as for finding a gay anthem, this always struck me as a good place to start.

  172. 172.

    anna

    Songs I not only love, but which get stuck in my head, playing over and over until I hide in the pantry & scream:

    Joan Osborne: “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted” From the very, exceedingly fine documentary, Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA0GcXV2njY

    Sheena Eason: “Morning Train” Oldie but goodie, I defy you to listen to it, then have it NOT go round and round in your head!

  173. 173.

    anna

    Songs I not only love, but which get stuck in my head, playing over and over until I hide in the pantry & scream:

    Joan Osborne: “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted” From the very, exceedingly fine documentary, Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA0GcXV2njY

    Sheena Eason: “Morning Train” Oldie but goodie, I defy you to listen to it, then have it NOT go round and round in your head!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huNejF17gzg

  174. 174.

    anna

    Why do I keep posting twice, posting twice?

    I’m dating myself, but what the hell…the best listening has to be the whole soundtrack from “Standing in the Shadows of Motown” Check out Ben Harper’s (with the Funk Brothers): Heard it through the Grapevine:

    http://bit.ly/s6jDrT

  175. 175.

    Bill Murray

    @Heez:

    Song I love: Hüsker Dü – Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely

    If that song had been written by Bob Mould rather than Grant Hart would it be a gay anthem?

    Grant Hart is gay also

  179. 179.

    mousefarmer

    I can’t believe that nobody’s mentioned “A Little Respect” by Erasure yet. “What religion or reason could make a man desert his lover.”

  180. 180.

    4jkb4ia

    Upon the corpse of this thread:

    Blake Shelton, “God Gave Me You” Has earned the right to be here five times over.
    At the very beginning, Blake Shelton told the story to the announcer of the worst country countdown in history that he decided to record this song after he and Miranda Lambert had a fight and he heard the Dave Barnes version on the radio. It made him more willing to make peace. And he sings the hell out of it. “And I need you–Yeah!” Awesome, awesome, awesome. This song helped me break down and say to my husband, “I need you.”

    For Bruce, Badlands This version is from 1978 and the sheer urgency is great. He hasn’t sung this song a thousand times yet.

  181. 181.

    4jkb4ia

    The only thing I would dare put forward as a gay anthem was Neil Young’s “Philadelphia”. I was at an official Oscar watching party in Minneapolis when this was nominated and this was obviously of huge importance to the gay guys there. But that’s not the tone anyone in this thread’s looking for.

  183. 183.

    Devon

    My favorite post ever. I have had a big shat-eating grin reading and checking out the links. AsiangrrlMN should get props for winning the gay anthem category. Even though I did love that song in its day!

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