Hey, it’s Halloween week: a grrrl’s got to let her goth out sometimes.
Two Tune Tuesday: Groovy
Groovy, no?
Nice to hear the echoes of T.Rex in the Smith Westerns’ track.
Two Tune Tuesday: Songs on TV
Not transvestites — the other TV.
Two Tune Tuesday: Flipsides
I’ve always thought of these songs as teenage lust flip-sides: hormone-charged, sloppy, full of angst but perfectly direct, too. (Must’ve been on my headphones when I was watching skater boys in high school.)
Two Tune Tuesday: Me’Shell Ndegeocello
Sadly, this song is still a little too much the truth for LGBTQ kids of color.
(and here’s another from a couple of years ago which is typically groovy)
Me’Shell Ndegeocello – Leviticus: Faggot, The Sloganeer: Paradise
Two Tune Tuesday: Old School
Old School Hip Hop for today. Does anyone else remember Shell’s Answer Man?
Two Tune Tuesday: Save Me
Playlist seems to be crashing my browser, so just go to NPR & check out this cool dance track: Aretha Franklin remixed by 80s electronica duo OMD.
Mad About the Boy: Yul Brynner in Drag
No one ever believes me that Yul Brynner did drag, so here’s proof. He was Jean Cocteau’s opium runner, after all; it’s not like he was squeaky clean.
I think he did this just to prove he was the sexiest person who ever lived, entirely independent of gender.
Two Tune Tuesday: Of Montreal
You can listen to Of Montreal’s False Priest until its release next Tuesday.
& here’s an older track, Suffer for Fashion, & some lyrics from it which amuse me:
We just want to emote till we’re dead
I know we suffer for fashion or whatever
We don’t want these days to ever end
We just want to emasculate them forever
Two Tune Tuesday: Toy Dolls
Not all punk was serious or angry: here’s The Toy Dolls, who were insane live, a speedfreak’s dream. (The 1st song is dedicated to my NYC friends.)