Sex above the Phone * Village persons * Chronicles Consider the Village race the gay canary in the coal mine of hetero agriculture When they're thriving.Sex above the Phone * Village persons * Chronicles Consider the Village race the gay canary in the coal mine of hetero agriculture When they're thriving, we're thriving. When they're lying motionless at the bottom of the cage, we're in pester 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 nation serve as cuddly mascots, their "YMCA" played wherever there are lads and a ball. A infallible symbol of the group's renewed popularity and our consumer might is the belated appearance of three Village commonalty albums on CD. Originally issued in 1981 Renaissance was an absurd attempt to dance on the makeup-intensive New Romantic bandwagon then driven on Duran Duran. It flopped with equal reason badly that the next pair records--1983's faux-funk In the highway and 1985's hi-NRG workout Sex through the Phone--were denied American releases. The best and principally obscure, In the Street proffers kooky Kool & the Gang knockoffs made nearly credible through original lead singer and "policeman" Victor Willis. The other brace CDs begin clumsily, then bypass camp into crud No Village folks disco anthem stunk quite like the cheese-rock of "Food Fight." Gay '80 furrows weren't always this gruesome--save your pennies for the inevitable Bananarama chested set. Find more forward this topic at www.advocate.com COPYRIGHT 1999 Liberation Publications, Inc. |
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