Mood: Irked, but whatever.
Music: This whole blog entry, fool.
Game: World of Warcraft, Puzzle Pirates, Hopefully COD2 today....
Book: Special Forces, Tom Clancy.
Muffin: Actually, I had a bagel.
Below, find the first cut of Old Glenn's Big Gay Playlist...I had some criteria when I made this:
- All songs must currently be found in the iTunes shop (So you all can run out and buy the songs when you say "Oh YEAH! I want that!")
- I must actually own said music.
- It has to be more than 10 years old! (Of course, I may have fudged or forgotten actual years...after all, I AM old.)
- It had to have been played in dance clubs (or remixed to be played in dance clubs, or SHOULD have been played in dance clubs.)
This obviously isn't complete...that is, I have far, far more music that would fit on this list...but this is a good amount of music to get started with...let's call it: Old Glenn's Big Gay Playlist - The Basics
Oh, and they're not in any particular order...this list is designed to get thrown on an iPod and shuffled.
Everybody Dance Now!
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Everybody Dance Now, C+C Music Factory
Relax, Frankie Goes to Hollywood
State Farm, Yaz
What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy), Information Society
You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record), Dead or Alive
West End Girls, Pet Shop Boys
A Little Respect, Erasure
Smalltown Boy, Bronski Beat
Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper
Save A Prayer, Duran Duran
Enjoy The Silence, Depeche Mode
Always On My Mind, Pet Shop Boys
O l'Amour, Erasure
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, Culture Club
What Have I Done To Deserve This, Pet Shop Boys
People Are People, Depeche Mode
It's A Sin, Pet Shop Boys
Head Over Heels, Tears For Fears
Love Shack, B-52s
Come Undone, Duran Duran
It's My Life, Talk Talk
Things That Make You Go Hmmm, C+C Music Factory
Nemesis, Shriekback
Sex (I'm a....), Berlin
Flesh For Fantasy, Billy Idol
Never Can Say Goodbye, Communards
I Want Candy, Bow Wow Wow
Just Like Heaven, Cure
Everything Counts, Depeche Mode
Lips Like Sugar, Echo And The Bunnymen
Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl), Haircut 100
Something About You, Level 42
True Faith, New Order
Cruel To Be Kind, Nick Lowe
If You Leave, OMD
Kiss Them For Me, Siouxsie and the Banshees
Only You, Yaz
Always Something There To Remind Me, Naked Eyes
Don't Go, Yaz
Heart of Glass, Blondie
So Alive, Love and Rockets
Sweet Dreams, Eurythmics
Love Will Tear Us Apart, Joy Division
Peek-A-Boo, Siouxsie and the Banshees
Mandinka, Sinead O'Connor
Yeah, yeah, yeah... It's Old GLENN'S Big Gay Playlist, operative word being "Glenn's." BUT, ya know you opened up a matter begging to be critiqued.
(This is only Volume One of your playlist. Understood.)
And now, without further ado:
1) Heart of Glass was late 70s (1978). Excellent song, but I don't think it counts as 80s. The criteria "It has to be more than 10 years old..." needs a starting point/year. Otherwise, one could argue to include Ziggy Stardust/Bowie, Queen, etc. on this themed playlist. And my iPod only holds 40GB.
2) No Sugarcubes? Quelle horreur, man!
3) It has been empirically proven that DM's Master & Servant SOOOO should be in the top ten of any respectable 80s big gay playlist! Yes, empirically.
4) Ode to Boy. Yaz. 'nuff said.
5) Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You). A Flock of Seagulls.
6) I would lawyer Ministry's "Land of Rape and Honey" has a rightful place on such a list.
7) Released in 1990, thus satisfying your 10+ years benchmark, Madonna's Vogue is quintessential Big Gay Playlist material.
I'll stop there for now.
I'm inclined to add... Some of the songs on your list... well, I wouldn't (and don't) have them on *my* iPod. (Because I'm cool like that.) Admittedly, however, from a scholarly perspective, they do belong on the list. Good job, White.
Finally, you're not old! Were you to be old, I'd be old, too. And it's an empirical fact that I'm not old. Yes, empirical. :p
-r
Posted by: Regina at October 26, 2005 01:09 PMCindy Lauper! Ack! Jam an icepick in my forhead.
And, at least you are older than I, old bird. And that's permanent!
What, no Halen? No Metallica? No Maiden?
Posted by: heywah at October 27, 2005 08:37 AM