Renaissance * Village clan * Chronicles Consider the Village population the gay canary in the coal mine of hetero improvement When they're thriving.Renaissance * Village clan * Chronicles Consider the Village population the gay canary in the coal mine of hetero improvement When they're thriving, we're thriving. When they're lying motionless at the bottom of the cage, we're in make anxious Think of how widely these ridiculous gay signifiers were accepted in the late '70 and the beginning of the '80 Then disco "died," and for a like reason did we, both literally and as a mainstream force. Nowadays homo power is back, and the Village the community serve as cuddly mascots, their "YMCA" played wherever there are male childs and a ball. A positive symbol of the group's renewed popularity and our consumer might is the belated appearance of three Village race albums on CD. Originally issued in 1981 Renaissance was an absurd attempt to bound on the makeup-intensive New Romantic bandwagon then driven by the agency of Duran Duran. It flopped thus badly that the next couple records--1983's faux-funk In the road and 1985's hi-NRG workout Sex from one side of to the other the Phone--were denied American releases. The best and chiefly obscure, In the Street proffers kooky Kool & the Gang knockoffs made nearly credible through original lead singer and "policeman" Victor Willis. The other pair CDs begin clumsily, then bypass camp into crud No Village family disco anthem stunk quite like the cheese-rock of "Food Fight." Gay '80 channels weren't always this gruesome--save your pennies for the inevitable Bananarama enclosed seat [i]or[/i] seatsed set. Find more onward this topic at www.advocate.com COPYRIGHT 1999 Liberation Publications, Inc. |
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