But fuck it… this is one of my favorite songs ever, silly video and all.

Still one of my favorite albums, this is always on those “lay back and chill out” mix tapes I make. No idea what the lyrics mean at all, but the haunting tune still stays with me. Enjoy…

I make no secret of the number of times I’ve wanked off thinking of Rob Halford.  The hot leather daddy is lead singer of Judas Priest and his own solo band Halford.

I still remember when I ran to the store to buy their album “Turbo” which was one of the first albums I’d ever bought without ever hearing anything on it, based solely  on how much I loved their previous ones. Instead of a classic Metal album, I was shocked by the danceable hard rock sound that was such a departure that I’ll admit I had a rough time wrapping my head around it at first.

But it was catchy enough that it eventually became one of my favorite Priest albums (and I’ll never forget using the albums ballad “Out In The Cold” to make my move on a guy in 12th grade). I also say that without “Turbo,” we wouldn’t have gotten the bands that came a years later that had danceable hard rock like Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM and even bands like Korn and White Zombie.

And he just turned 59. So… I guess I’ll have to drop down my my knees and show him some over-due appreciation.  Ya know?

My favorite Boy George album is still his rock and roll opus “Cheapness and Beauty” but I’ll take anything from him. Still a lot of fun after all these years.

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I stand corrected… this isn’t a single, it’s a remixed album track. If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go jump up and down with excitement that one of my Teenage Idols just sent me a Tweet. Geez, I’m such a girl.

If you’re American, this is just two handsome men singing to each other. If you’re from the UK, this is two former Boy Band co-members, neither of them are gay but they’re both  fagstags (that’s a straight man who loves his gays) singing a campy love song to each other.

Think of this as like a British version of the love ballad that Justin Timberlake and Lance Bass never recorded.

I still remember, after a few too many men in dresses adorned my record collection, that I got some wood watching Go West who claimed they were the “end of the gender benders.”

Yeah, for the most part the music was pretty much the same as most post-Duran Brit Pop but the guys looked like they’d be down for a fuck, too.

Ah.. the 80s…

I love Ricky Martin and I don’t care who knows it.

I’m just hoping that on his next album he’ll stop singing about girls. That’s just wrong.

Ok, last year we got new albums by Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains. This year we got a new Hole album and in September we get a new Sound Garden record?

I’m in 90s heaven.

This was a rather fun recording of a Liz Phair cover I recorded for an indie artist Rex Baunsit a few years ago.  My best memory of Rex was at a Gay Pride Day tent store we were both working at. He brought along his guitar and sat there singing folk versions of Alanis songs. While wearing a kilt. And no underwear. And giving a REALLY nice view of all his goodies.

So mid last week as I sat in my office working away on stuff, I threw on some old 80s pop and started to Tweet the random lyrics. It didn’t take long before my Twitter bud angstytimelord and I were posting Kim Carnes lyrics back and forth at each other.

I didn’t even know there was a video for this song.