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In Colm Tobins book love in a dark time , he suggests a parrell reading for 1984 where it is about two men in 1948 who are unable to love under a facisitic gaze. Its not the one that orwell intended but it is an implicit reading i as a queer man have made . I want to make a mix tape like that , songs that are explicitly hetero but have provided a comfort or can be read as queer . So far i have you got to hide your love away by the beatles or a secret love by doris day . Any others ?

― anthony, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mama Cass-"Make Your Own Kind of Music".

I'll think of more when I get home, this sounds like a great tape..

― Arthur, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Beatles, "I'll Get You (In The End)"

― Curt, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tommy James and The Shondells, "I Think We're Alone Now"

― Curt, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lesley Gore, "Sometimes I Wish I Were A Boy"

Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians, "Balloon Man" (asexual on the surface of it, bursting at the seams with gay subtext)

― Douglas, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"What We Do is Secret" by the Germs.

Standing in the line we're aberrations
Defects in a defects mirror
And we've been here all the time real fixations
Hidden deep in the furor
What we do is secret -- SECRET!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My favourite "closeted" Stones song (only available on *Metamorphosis*, a hodge-podge collection of unreleased songs) is "I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys" from around '65. Amazing track. I was able to grab it from AudioGalaxy. It's more anti-girl than pro- guy on the surface...so it should fit your tape quite nicely!

― s woods, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe more read through a lens of presumed homosocial punk-jock-rock bonding on the face of it, but then again Darby was enough of a Bowie fan to know how to play around. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, "Make Your Own Kind of Music" is more of an anti-closet anthem. How about-- "Town without Pity" by Gene Pitney
"Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra
"They Don't Know" by Tracey Ullman
"Frankenstein" by the New York Dolls
"Our Lips Are Sealed" by the Go-Gos
"Do You Want to Know a Secret" by the Beatles
"I Say Nothing" by Voice of the Beehive
"I Know a Place" by Petula Clark
"Somewhere" from West Side Story
"Hernando's Hideaway" from the Pajama Game
"You and Me Against the World" by Helen Reddy

― Arthur, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I always though the Germs "The Other Next One" was a song about gay promiscuity. "You're not the first, you're not the last, another day, another crash." Sloppy punk rock pretending-to-be-asexual promiscuity, at that.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Rebel Kind" by Dino, Desi & Billy
"I'm Not Like Everybody Else" by the Kinks

― Arthur, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Beatles, "No Reply" Leslie Gore, "Wonder Boy" (Face it, Les - he's "different".) Dionne Warwick, "Walk On By" Carpenters, "(They Long To Be) Close To You" Elton John, "Your Song"

― Curt, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Again...
Beatles, "No Reply"
Leslie Gore, "Wonder Boy" (Face it, Les - he's "different".)
Dionne Warwick, "Walk On By"
Carpenters, "(They Long To Be) Close To You"
Elton John, "Your Song"

― Curt, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

joy division's 'disorder', it sounds like 'i've been waiting for a GUY to take me by the hand' in the introductory line.

― tyler, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Its for you arthur .

― anthony, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Real Men - Joe Jackson

― Queen G, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been waiting for a _guide_ to come and take me by the hand.

― mt, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I Will Survive

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, good, can't wait, Anthony

Here's a couple more:

"Talk of the Town" by the Pretenders
"Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?" by the Barbarians

― Arthur, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, maybe the guide was a guy.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yet a couple more, pansy rockist division:

John Lennon, "How"
Rolling Stones, "Something Happened To Me Yesterday"

― Curt, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't belive that nobody's mentioned "I Want It That Way"

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'scuze me, while I kiss this guy...

― Dave225, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't pay enough attention, so it might be that Armand Van Helden was explicitly and openly addressing being gay, but U Don't Know Me sounded to me as if it was about that.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Doing All Right With the Boys" Gary Glitter
Not only does the song fit, but it's fucking great.

― Sean, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Backdoor Lover, by Du Jour.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Where the Boys All Go" by the Rolling Stones (off EMOTIONAL RESCUE)

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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