TripleX

10 Jul 2017

9 July 2017

Show 337

+You are the Everything by REM. Released in 1988 from their 6^th studio album, Green. LGBTI for Michael Stipe, who was mum about his sexuality for years but finally came out in 2011.

+Freedom 90 by George Michael. Request.

+You Make me Feel by Sylvester. 1978 hit that proved that being out and proud wasn’t always a career busting move.

+Damn, I wish I Was your Lover by Sophie B Hawkins. She counts herselve as omnisexual, which is non-hetero enough for me to tick the LGBTI box.

Dreaming of Me by Depeche Mode. From their 1981 debut album, Speak and Spell. The only album with Vince Clarke, which is why most people think it’s the lightest of their ouvre.

Quiet Life by Japan. 1979 was the year and this was the title track to their third album. Japan were a British glam rock band at their start in 1974 that morphed into androgynous new Romanticism by the late 70s.

Piece of Cake by 8 Bark. From their 1990 debut 7”, 12, released on Underdog Records. With Wendy Means on vocals; Steve Sackett on bass; Douglas Ward on vocals & guitar and Brian Kozlovsky on drums.

Automatic Erotic by Elliott James Murphy. The 12^th track on his 1990 album, 12. Also American, and writes novels as well as music.

Millennium by DJ Edge. From his album called 12 released in 1994.

Your Loving Arms by Billie Ray Martin. German singer with her 1994 big dance hit, apparently huge in gay clubs throughout the US. Who knew? I don’t have any evidence that she herself is same sex attracted though…

Nothing Can Come Between Us by Sade. Request.

Aussies: Letter F

*It’s Just that I Miss You by The Flaming Hands. 1981 single from this band featuring Andrew Farriss, one fo the INXS Farrisses…

*Burn for You by John Farnham. 1990 single from Chain Reaction, his 14^th studio album.

*The Remedy by The Fabulaires. Greg Champion’s Adelaide-based band from 1979-81. They put out just one album, I think, in 1981, Apocalypso.

*What Am I? by Fur. This is from their 1994 EP “Find What You Like & Let it Kill You.” They were from Brisbane.

*You weren’t in Love with Me by Billy Field. 1981 single hit single that reached no. 1 in August that year. Also on his debut solo album, Bad Habits, from that year.

*Ordinary Angels by Frente. Frente burst onto the Australian music charts with this 1992 single from the Clunk EP. It finished that year as the 20th best selling single on the ARIA charts. It also appeared on the 1994 soundtrack to the tv show Melrose Place.

Touched by Ortheia Barnes. Request.

Cross My Heart by Nu Soul Habits. Request.

We can funk by Prince. Request.

Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill. Despite the Sapphic lyrics, apparently the artists themselves aren’t lesbians. Disappointed… Kathleen Hanna, the lead, is married to a Beasty Boy. But is more famous for having inadvertently named Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit…she wrote Kurt smells like…and he liked it, without knowing it’s a girls’ deodorant.

Pretend We’re Dead by L7. 1992 track from Bricks are Heavy, their third album. They are American and I believe I’ve never played them before…

Nearly Lost You by Screaming Trees. From their 6^th studio album, Sweet Oblivion. I believe this is their debut here on TripleX too…