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Michael’s Gayest Albums Evar - Volume 1

by Michael Nolan

georgemichael The current issue of OUT Magazine contains a cover piece touting the "100 Gayest Albums of All Time", so I thought I would take a look at some of what I consider to be the gayest of them all.

1. Faith, George Michael

Now could I really have a post about gay music without mentioning the uber-gay sex symbol of the eighties, George Michael?  He oozed sex and on his first solo album packed it full of sexual overtones from top to bottom (*wink wink, nudge nudge*).  Who could ever forget the up-in-arms drama caused by the groundbreaking "I Want Your Sex", not to mention the video?

In reality though, this remains Michael’s best work (outside of a public restroom, that is) to date, including the vapid earworms of his days with WHAM!

2.  Kissing To Be Clever, Culture Club

The success of a tranny broke new ground in the eighties with the introduction of Boy George to the world.  By the time the band’s third single "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" went number one in sixteen countries (but only #2 in the U.S., alas), Boy George and the rest of the Club had already taken on thousands of adoring (and appearance mimicking) fans.

Too bad the heroin got the best of good ol’ George O’Dowd; he really was a musical genius back in the day.

3.  The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie bowie_iman

Did you really think I could make even one post about gay albums and not mention the androgynous Ziggy Stardust?  As if!  This album may have been released a few months before I was born but it remains a mainstay and benchmark of concept albums to this day.  David Bowie was never in better form (or using better drugs) than during his tenure as Ziggy, but he definitely took a step up when he met and married the ultra-fab Iman.

Does Bowie really play both sides of the fence and are the rumors about his relationship with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger true?  Who cares?

What albums do you think should be in this ever-growing list of mine here at P&O?  Leave me a comment and tell the world what you think!

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Posted in Musical Mondays on September 1st, 2008

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