Color My Love (all kinds of ways) the semi finals (NSFW?)

Continued from Music is My Life (well becomes my life)


 I experienced a lot of "growing up" with my friends. I got drunk for the first time and I tried pot for the first time. (I hope mom don't read this). I racked up quite a bit of "experience" but no naughty time yet.  I did discover that sticky white ooze boys do at that age. As a kid with a single mom in the Reagan 80s sex, I knew what sex was on an acedemic level but not on the physical level. I think most guys who have story about trying to break the code on the cable box to see the naughty stuff.  For Chicago it was

and you could see stuff if you fiddled with the pan nob on your TV.  Oooh I just saw some titties (meh). WHere are the guys? I want to see guys. Of course now day these movies would have been on Cinemax. They were tittialting at the time to a 16 year old now they would be considered soft core.But I digress.  I would go through the motions of "exlpore my body" I did some weird shit trying to figure out what felt good. Still nothing. I felt like Are You There God? It's Me, Keith. When is it my turn? Oh and I even read my sister's copy of Forever I read Harold Robbins' Goodbye, Janette. The protagonists uncle was the antagonist and of course he was GAY. And of course he was into S&M and beat Janette. But its saving grace was Jenatte was a lesbi/bi and a became a successful fashion designer. That's all I remember 28 years later so don't quote me on it. Once again I digress. I had this MASSIVE celeb crush on Duran Duran at the time. OMG who didn't. And I loved the Rio album again who didn't but I actually liked the Duran Duran album more. 

  

Coming up Color My Love (all kinds of ways) The FINALS!!  (NSFW?)

Music is My Life (well becomes my life)

Continued from Big Gay Adventure

Now as a kid I always a hankering for music. My sisters were into all that wonderful seventies pop like Abba, the Osmonds and the like. My brother loved the Rock & Roll which i never appreicated until I was a profession DJ. It was a nice pallette cleanser from all that house, trance, techno and Thunderpuss, Junior Vasquez, Calderone boom de boom. Matter a fact in the early oh ohs I purchased the whole 25 volume Have A Nice Day   series on Rhino but thats another share. Anywho, where was I?... oh yeah... I was 16 in had my first job and I discover in 1983 a little show called MV3 with Richard Blade. For those of us without cable and MTV i was a godsend.

And discovered this little gem.

Yazoo - Don't Go

 I wasn't sure if liked it. I loved the music but I thought Alison Moyet looked like a dude. A real girly dude. I decided I love it. It fascinated me. Mind you I knew what gay was and I knew I was it so I didn't quite know what to do with what I saw.

Another treat.

Toto Coelo - I Eat Canibals

Who'd a thunk? Trash bags for clothing? and so colorful too

 I had a K-tel record called The Beat at the time.

 

If it was a little bent I was digging it. I was stuck with Friday Night videos because we couldn't afford cable at the time. 

I some how made friends with twin girls in high school and they were a huge influence on how my life would turn out later. They introduced me to the alternative musics and most importantly the queer. Mind you this was the earlier 80s and AIDS was just started becoming a problem however nowhere near Chicago at least at 16 I didn't know, but this kind of exposure at that time in my life during the time it was was very advantageous.

That's when I was exposed to

Yello - I Love You

What the hell was that!?! I had never heard anything like it and i love love loved it. AND WE ARE OFF!!! out of the starting gate and on the track to follow the rest of my life.

Oh and this one and I still don't get sick of it

Tin Tin - Kiss Me

Up Next  my naughty life begins in Color My Love (all kinds of ways)

A Big Gay Adventure

After I found Facebook, I've been focusing on that so I haven't been update my blog. This being Gay Pride Weekend in Chicago (Oops now you know were I is) and with the passage of gay marriage in New York, Besides the fact I ain't getting any younger or prettier (big saddy face) I thought I 'd share my big gay adventure through video clips. I was inspired to do this as I was on my commute home (11pm) listening to my jams (Apollonia 6 - Sex Shooter) and four good looking young guys got on the bus (19 - 20 maybe definite early 20s) I wasn't sure if they were gay but they acted like it hanging on each other and some junk. I got to thinking "What a long way we've come in just a short 28 years when I first started my adventure as a young homo in music. So lets take a ride. BTW I was 15 when the juices started bubbling. (Shit now you know how old eye is)

we start with what inspired this little... wait Big Gay Adventure

Apollonia - Sex Shooter

Next up my early years or Music is My Life (well becomes my life)

Holy Moley

Haven't had much to blog about. I discovered Facebook and Twitter.

But here's a blast from the past. I doubt very many people remember this one

Lauren Grey - Putting the night on hold

Cette groovy chick

When I started working in clubs, I remember seeing this artist. She's a French Canadian minx.
She was the Canadian Britney Spears of the 90s. I really don't know much about her. But here's a couple of videos.


She took what Madonna was doing at the time and took to a whole other level. There was actual male frontal nudity in the Dis Moi Dis Moi

Memba this

Vacant eyed models pretending to play instruments.
This ain't Robert Palmer (God rest his soul)
It's Michelle Shocked - On the Greener Side.

What A Beau Hunk?

As a 13 to 16 year I found myself crushin on this guy big time.
Not quite sure why. You tell me. I did like his music.
My newly developing gaydar pinged like crazy when I first saw him on the Kenny Everett Video Show back in the late 70's early 80's on our local channel 32 on Saturday nights.

Here he is. Great Britain's answer to Elvis Presley (I was only interested in the early 80's though he has had a career like Cher over there, a hit in every decade since the 50s). Actually he's the biggest selling pop star in British History. His band the Shadows was said to have influenced the Beatles

It's Cliff Richard

Here's Devil Woman

There was a running joke on Kenny Everett show. Cliff Richard was always trying to perform on the show but Kenny won't let him and finally he relents and lets Cliff sing at the end of the show. Keep in mind Cliff is probably the biggest pop star in England at the time. Unfortunatley I can't find a clip

Here's Dreaming & We Don't Talk Anymore

And the song he sang just to me
A Little in Love

Rumors abound in the U.K. that he may be gay though he live with the man (see below) he denies being gay.

He was, after all, on the soundtrack for Xanadu. It was the skating scene in the multi-sensual uber recording studio.

Here's Suddenly w/ ONJ and All I Ask Of You from Phantom of the Opera w/ Sarah Brightman

So, in the early 80's I wanted him, then when I got my first taste of guys, he was forgotten.
Real boys were so much more interesting.

As I pursued a good time in the clubs, what should I hear like an old lover trying to win you back, at a sleaze party (the predecessor of the circuit and rave scene mostly focusing on downtempo tunes). I hear the song Some People by a very familiar voice that sent shivers down my spine. I was being haunted. Just when I thought it was safe and getting my fill of early Kylie, Rick Astley, and 80s comeback Donna Summer I hear I Just Don't Have the Heart. I think that's when I gave up on Hi NRG and switch to house and techno

Some People and then hopping on to the SAW train I Just Don't Have the Heart

Now finally he's old and does nothing for me until I was in the UK and like an infection that won't go away I bought his autobiography.

Interesting fact: Like Freddie Mercury he was born in India, Hmmm go figure

Oh my God. I can't believe it

Oh my god I can't believe it.
I sooooooo forgot about this one
What a blast from the past
The man that gave us Enough Is Enough (No More Tears)
comes

Ocho Rios by Paul Jabara



Enjoy

Deep in Glamour?

I found this twelve inch the other day and I had a hankering for the video


Malcolm McLaren was always in sync with the times. This was from the late 80's and it inspired Madonna. He was also responsible for incorporating classical elements into pop music.
He was like the Andy Warhol of music.

Deep In Vogue (Club Mix) @ Yahoo! Video

His influence on music started with the Sex Pistols,
Then he gave us Adam and the Ants and BowWowWow.

He was on the cutting edge of urban trends with Buffalo Girls influence by the then new phenomena of Hip hop, break-dance, and double dutch jump rop with the World Famous Supreme Team Show.

Malcolm McLaren then ventured into classical music with a pop interpretation. I used the music of Pucinni and Bizet set to an alternative dance beat.

He also produced Opera House was the official them for British Airways add campaign from the early 90s. It later inspired Ralphi Rosario La Aria Latina on his 45 Miles of Nerves Cd.
Malcolm McLaren followed that up with a project called Paris with an appearance by Catherine Deneuve. Paris has a classic jazz inspiration

Enjoy

Such a Groovy Chick

I did Beau Hunks
Now for some Groovy Chicks
I am sooooooooooo diggin this chick
I just rediscovered her and her solo stuff is a

I've dug her band Shakespeare's Sister.

The first time I saw a Shakespeare's Sister video was "Your History" at The Revolver in WeHo

I especially loved her in Bananarama. She was my favorite.
She gave a certain "i don't know" to the trio.

She's only shot from the head up in the I Can't Help It video
(my favorite Bananarama song BTW).
She was carrying Dave Stewart's (The guy from the Eurythmics) baby.
She's the devil chick in Venus.

Siobhan Fahey

What a groovy chick!!!

The Beloved - Memba them?

Being a DJ I own waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much vinyl. So I'm transfering some of my faves to MP3. I came across this one

Here's the video

Then there's this one from 96

I was a The Beloved freak through the 90s and tried to get as much of their music as I could.
Look forward to Your Love Takes Me Higher.

The French are soooo...how do you say? Uh French

I had a tingling in my brain when I saw this so many years ago.
It's Gautier bitch, it's Gautier (moi thinks.)
So very artzie.


Marcia Balia - Les Rita Mitsouko


And then we get old

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

She's Baaaaaaaaaack

I meant to post about this earlier when I got back from London. It's old news now but I still dig it,
She back with a vengeance and she's 60.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Grace Jones

Grace Jones - Corporate Cannibal (from her new album)

I Like Life

Here's a clip from one of my all time holiday favorites. It's the musical version of A Christmas Carol. It's written by the same guys who wrote the musical Oliver. It's called Scrooge. This scene is the visit from the Ghost of Christmas Present.

Member this

Vanity - Under the Influence

Jacqui Brookes - Lost Without Your Love

Makin me moist

half the reason we went to London was to see these guys we wound up seeing them in New York City
Here's a great Beatles cover.
The Last Shadow Puppets- Shes So Heavy BBC Electric Proms

What the...? Really?

Here's a real obscure one. I had a hard time figuring this one out. I had heard the song for many years and never figured out the name of song. I only ran across the remixes it when i was working at a dance music store in 1994. I always thought was by DFC.

Gaznevada - IC Love Affair (1983)

It's Italo new wave

Jennifer Rush - Heart Over Mind

Here's an obscure blast from my past. It was 1987 and I still wasn't legal. I remember seeing this video at Christopher Street, Bulldog Road and the quintessential video bar Sidetrack in Chicago. I especially particular sloppy (in more ways than one) nights at Christopher Street. Oh those were the days.




Oh BTW she did this one before Celine but not before Laura Branigan

Face to Face - Under the Gun

I was going through my stacks and stacks of vinyl to convert into MP3s for my iPod and came across this 12" 

Face to Face - Under the Gun (1984)

I so totally remember it like yesterday. I was but a wee child of 17 (1984 you do the math) and saw the video at one of those special social places I wasn't supposed to be in. I was a naughty child. But to quote Janis Ian "I learned the truth at 17". And like Janis Ian I became a lesbian except I didn't like chicks. Oh the sweet blossom of youth.  

Expect a lot more post like this as I journey through the music of my virginal (riiiiiiiiiiiiiight) youth.