Comments on: Substitute Saturday Top Five — We’ll have a gay old time

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By: Matt Helm

Matt Helm — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:11:29 +0000

@Republibot 3.0 …

“I just grew up assuming Depeche Mode was gay because they kind of look it, and everyone just told me that they were.”

Hence my comment that almost every 80s act was either gay or should be. Or should I say, should have been.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:27:22 +0000

R3, are you insinuating “faith” should be capitalized (and is a guy)?

By: Republibot 3.0

Republibot 3.0 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:47:21 +0000

I just grew up assuming Depeche Mode was gay because they kind of look it, and everyone just told me that they were. Just out of insomniac boredom one night, I started looking up information about them all on Wiki, and as far as I can tell, none of ‘em are gay. Not even Vince Clarke, who left to form Yaz and (Eventually) Erasure.

Which, when you think about it, is damn weird, because they’re clearly, clearly singing some songs about being gay.

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:23:36 +0000

Don’t forget Depeche Mode! Still love “Enjoy the Silence”, “Never Let Me Down Again”, etc.

By: Republibot 3.0

Republibot 3.0 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:11:46 +0000

Curiously, though, Lux Interior from The Cramps wasn’t gay. Neither was Prince. I’d've lost both of those bets.

I don’t think the kids today can appreciate how much time and entertainment we invested in discussing who was and wasn’t a sexual deviant back in those days. My highschool class was about evenly divided on whether Boy George was gay or not, with about half of us thinking he was, and the other half falling back on the Michael Jackson defence of being “Too strange to be gay.” I also remember how all the girlies loved the Go Gos one week, and the next this video came out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7pI1AY5Ux8 and suddenly everyone was convinced they were all lesbians and no one would listen to them anymore.

Ah, good times.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:50:48 +0000

Good ol' Hot Space, never afraid to bring da funk. Can actually understand MTV's hesitance with the "Body Language" video, but God bless Night Flight for showing it then and YouTube for the 21st century audience...

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:37:15 +0000

So’s Grant Hart. Another case I didn’t know their swang till long after most of America knew. Strangely (not unlike Frank Beard being the only ZZ Topper without a beard), bassist Greg Norton, the guy with the Freddie Mercury on steroids handlebar ‘stache, was the sole straight Husker.

By: kevin w

kevin w — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:36:32 +0000

Yeah I saw that Freddie Mercury biography and I was amazed by what that guy said. Funny thing is, He never took into account the album “Hot Space”, which set the band back not only in the U.S., but in the U.K as well. They regained the audience in the U.K. but not so much in America, until Freddies untimley death.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:44:09 +0000

Two Tribes from FGH

Any 4 songs from Husker Du’s Metal Circus. Bob Mould is gay.