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closeupready

(29,503 posts)
Tue Jun 23, 2015, 01:41 PM Jun 2015

Is there any music you feel is seminal (lol)

in terms of gay music?

As Gen X who has been openly gay for just about forever, the Pet Shop Boys' "Very" is so on the money, every track. It sometimes seems as though I could have written the lyrics, so well does it mirror my experiences.

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Is there any music you feel is seminal (lol) (Original Post) closeupready Jun 2015 OP
WTF is "gay music"? ghostsinthemachine Jun 2015 #1
Gay music is this: closeupready Jun 2015 #3
"How Soon is Now?" shenmue Jun 2015 #2
Pansy Division Gregorian Jun 2015 #4
Billy Strayhorn's "Take the Gay Train" nt marginlized Jun 2015 #5
 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
3. Gay music is this:
Tue Jun 23, 2015, 01:50 PM
Jun 2015
"Can You Forgive Her?"


Another night with open eyes
Too late to sleep, too soon to rise
You're short of breath, is it a heart attack?
Hot and feverish you face the fact

You're in love, and it feels like shame
Because she's gone and made a fool of you in public again
You're in love, and it feels like pain
Because you know there's too much truth in everything she claims

So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she wants you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?

You drift into the strangest dreams
Of youthful follies and changing teams
Admit you're wrong, oh, no, not yet
Then you wake up and remember that you can't forget

She's made you some kind of laughing stock
Because you dance to disco, and you don't like rock
She'd make fun of you, and even in bed
Said she was gonna go and get herself a real man instead...


http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/petshopboys/canyouforgiveher.html

shenmue

(38,506 posts)
2. "How Soon is Now?"
Tue Jun 23, 2015, 01:49 PM
Jun 2015

The Smiths.

"You shut your mouth, how can you say / I go about things the wrong way? / I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does."

Can't say it better than that.

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