The Year in Gay Music: Rufus Rocks, Sisters Soar, and more!

Would you believe that I was listening to Patrick Wolf when I started reading this?

The Magic Position totally deserves best album and it's a shame that most people haven't heard of him because he's really fantastic.  His older stuff is pretty rad too, darker, but oh-so-good.  I'm just waiting for him to break into mainstream...and hopefully raise the standards of music?

I feel bad because I know nearly none of the other people but now I have a list of people to check out. =D

This is awesome.

I was so disappointed by John Rich's comments earlier this year.  I found Big & Rich to be a refreshingly different take on country music, and the messages they sent through their music (that there's a beauty in being a "freak" in today's society, and to embrace that freakiness) had me convinced they were pushing the boundaries of acceptance in an otherwise conservative genre.

How wrong I was.

 

fan and follower.  I subscribe to Billboard, listen to Live365 internet radio, etc., but I still find it difficult to hear really interesting pop music.  So much of today's "pop" music is dreary and predictable.  How many songs are going to be foisted on us that have a beautiful R&B female singer with a rapper interlude?  The fact that both MIKA and Scissor Sisters were virtually ignored by US Top 40 stations was criminal.  In Canada "Grace Kelly" was one of the biggest hits of the first 6 months of 2007, and Scissor Sister's "Don't Feel Like Dancing" was also a big hit.

Thanks for a great blog, I have read about Patrick Wolf in Billboard, now I just got to find his music!  Perhaps I will check Itunes, or MySpace (I don't buy CDs anymore have gone totally digital).

Cheers

JBE

I was so excited to see Patrick Wolf on this list. His music is awesome and he is AMAZING live. He's also incredibly sweet and down to earth, my friends and I met him after his show in Toronto and he stayed and talked to us for almost an hour even though it was four o'clock in the morning.

First - if you are rating Mark Ronson and Rufus Wainwright (bless his judy garland loving little heart) as some of the best, what do you know about rock? And furthermore - who's to say an 80's influence is bad - what comes around goes around.

You clearly didn't listen to this band's cd more than once, never saw them live, and have not seen the truly devoted fans they have. This band's music was featured on the True Colors tour, the L-word, and the Late Late Show - in addition to rocking the charts of Logo's Click List all summer.

Does that sound like a band no one likes? I think not.....reviews are glorified opinions regardless - but reviewers who refer to glbtq counterparts as "carpet-munchers"( as Joey did in the hx magazine "review") need to get a new job somewhere else - may falwell's kids need help running the hate campaign - don't toss insults so lightly thinking you are just joking - this is exactly the same kind of joke we face from the straight community every day - we don't need it from our own.

 

afhickman

"It takes a village (to make Village People)"

Rufus channeled the Trapp family for the concert I saw in London.  In fact he looked just like one of those "damn" Trapp kids.  He also channeled Judy, but I much prefer him in Lederhosen to fish-nets. 

This was not a review but was more of a personal attack against people Joey obviously knows nothing about..... here is more of what the HATER had to say: 

THECLIKS 
Snakehouse 
Canuck carpet munchers The Cliks channel Chrissie Hynde on their major label debut, but transgendered singer Lucas Silveria’s Marlboro-scarred vocals suffocate in an exhaust fume of ’80s power chords. On lead single “Oh Yeah,” Silveria chokes,“I’ve fallen down and I can’t get up.” Nice to know that someone finds lyrics in Life Call commercials. (TommyBoy Entertainment) —JoeyHood

Joey is the one stuck in the 80's for having even remembering that commercial, which isn't how the lyrics go anyways so Joey's comment is totally not relevant to the song.  (besides even if it were relevant, the 80's are back in style too...so who cares?  Hence all the "skinny jeans" lately, checkout the fashion world).  If Joey would have actually listened to ANY CD with a open mind, he would realize many songs seem to have inspiration from different eras and that is nothing abnormal in the music world.   

Re: comparison to  Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders… a couple songs have that reflection at times, but not the entire song or CD.  Lucas definitely has his own sound and style.

Re: "Canuck carpet munchers" . . . . WTF is that all about?  Just a personal attack on people Joey knows nothing about, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!   WHAT DOES THATHAVE TO DO WITH A MUSIC REVIEW ANYWAYS????

Re: the use of "Power Chords" ... refer my next comments about rock icon money makers, I'm sure you will hear some Power Chords in their music too.  Bands become money makers because fans like their music, and it's the fans that are the real critics Joey.

Re: "Marlboro-scarred vocals"..... lets all tell that one to the rock icon money makers: Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Bon Scott (deceased) of AC DC, yeah, their rough voices sucked alright....   (oh by the way ...they are all probably carpet munchers too, but funny that has nothing to do with their music either) 

 JOEY HOOD, -GO GET A REAL JOB BECAUSE YOU REALLY SUCK AT REVIEWS!!!!

 

 

Actually, Milo Management, organizers of the Homorevolution tour, is based in Los Angeles, not San Francisco. The tour didn't make a full-fledged stop in San Francisco, unfortunately.

Every dance floor I visited this year was filled when the DJ played "Blind." What's up with ommittng Hercules and Love Affair from the list?