TripleX

23 Nov 2015

22 November 2015

Show 261

Crazy for You by Slowdive. From their 1995 album Pygmalion, their final of 3 after coming together in 1989. They’re from Reading in the UK…just like the tv show Beautiful People.

You were So Young by The Cigarettes. From 1979. English band active from 1978-81 and included Rob Smith (vocals, guitar), Stave Taylor (vocals, bass), Adam Palmer (drums). This track came out on a compilation produced in 2002 from music recorded during their heyday.

Tell Me When It’s Over by The Dream Syndicate. First track on their second album but the debut full-length album. Produced by Chris D. (of The Flesh Eaters/The Divine Horsemen), it was recorded in Los Angeles in September 1982 and released later that year on Chris D.’s Ruby Records, which was a division of Slash Records. Dream Syndicate was active from 1981 to 1989 and was associated with the Paisley Underground music movement.

+Take a Chance on Me by Erasure. From their 1992 EP, Abbaesque, which was one of the first times since I first discovered Abba that I was allowed to say I liked them in the US… Erasure made them cool(er). LGBTIQ for Andy Bell, lead singer and very openly gay!

Paralysis by Robert Rental. The First EP by Robert Rental, released in 1978. This was the stage name for Robert Donnachie, who died of lung cancer in 2000.

Lovin’ Man by L.J. Reynolds. Request.

Eee Tee by Denise LaSalle. Request.

Sunglasses at Night by Corey Hart. The first single released off his debut album, 1983’s First Offense. He’s Canadian.

+Man on the Moon by REM. From their 1992 album, Automatic for the People, and of course honouring comedian Andy Kaufman. So doubly LGBTIQ for Michael Stipe and Kaufman, who was outed as bisexual after his death by his female partner.

Biology by Joe Jackson. From Beat Crazy, his third album. Released in 1980.

Aussie who can fly:

*Alchemy’s Dead by The Clouds. They are an indie rock band from Sydney, Australia formed in December 1989. The core of the group consisted of frontwomen Jodi Phillis (guitar and vocals) and Patricia “Trish” Young (bass and vocals). This is a 1993 single from Thunderhead, their third album, also released in 93.

*Short Changed Again by Finch. 1976 single from this relatively short-lived Aussie band that started life as Stillwater in 1973, changed it to Finch and then was forced to change their name again in 1978 because a Dutch band with the same name was bigger. This band became Contraband and then broke up the following year.

*Basement Blues by Galapagos Duck. Aussie Jazz from 1979. The band formed at Kosciuszko in 1969 and continues to play today, though their most recent album is from 2006.

*Hindsight by The Hummingbirds. Their 4th non-album single released in 1987 from Phantom records; Dragged Over the Coals was the B-side.

*Slippin’ Away by Max Merritt and the Meteors. reached #2 on the 1976 Australian singles charts. Kiwi born but moved to Sydney for his career. He is is renowned as an interpreter of soul music and R&B.

*Townhall Steps by The Mexican Spitfires. From Lupe Velez, their 1988 12” EP. The Mexican Spitfires were an inner-city–suburban Sydney band with a collection of songs about Sydney. Their songs dealt with aspects of daily life

Cult of Personality by Living Colour. Request.

+Living on my Own by Freddie Mercury. It’s from Mr. Bad Guy, his first solo album – he wrote all 11 songs. Released in 1985, during a period in which Queen were on hiatus…”they were on a break!” It was dedicated “to my cat Jerry—also Tom, Oscar and Tiffany, and all the cat lovers across the universe—screw everybody else”. LGBTIQ

Only Happy When It Rains by Garbage. a single released from Garbage’s 1995 self-titled debut album. It became the band’s breakthrough single in the United Kingdom, where it became the first Garbage single to chart in the Top 40.

Strangers by Night by C.C. Catch. C. C. Catch (born Caroline Catherine Müller) is a Dutch-born German pop singer, best known for her collaboration with Dieter Bohlen from Modern Talking in the 1980s. This is a 1986 single from Catch the Catch, her debut album, also from 1986.

Reach by Judy Cheeks. After some success in the 1970s dance music scene, Cheeks had a bit of a comeback in the early 1990s. This track appeared on the Summer Hitmix 94 CD released by ZYX Records. She’s an American singer, actor, music writer and producer and the daughter of gospel legend Rev. Julius Cheeks.

+Nothings gonna stop me now by Samantha Fox. From her 1987 follow up to Touch me, a self-titled album. Britain’s number one p. 3 girl in the 80s…and yet I get to tick off yet another LGBTIQ track as she came out in 2003: “I have slept with other women but I’ve not been in love before Myra Stratton. People say I’m gay….I don’t know what I am. All I know is that I’m in love with Myra [Stratton, my manager]. I love her completely and want to spend the rest of my life with her.” Sadly, Stratton died in August of this year.

She Bangs the Drums by The Stone Roses. The 2nd single from their 1989 self-titled debut album. They formed in Manchester in 1983.