Silly early morning poll...

[clarkk]

From a late night discussion with luxzia, purveyorofchaos, and clickkbd:

Poll Gayest band ever

Comments

[linearb]

good gay? or bad gay?

[clarkk]

Hmm... Whichever strikes your fancy. :)

[kishenehn]

Nice to actually see a post from you. :-p

It was definitely before your time, but Bronski Beat was a *huge* deal in bringing gay culture into the musical mainstream ... "Smalltown Boy" was quite the song for me. Another band from then would be Soft Cell, whose lead singer was gay. More recently, I like an obscure British group called Coil.

[clarkk]

:)

Yeah, I post a bit more frequently here, as you may have noticed.

And I've heard of Bronski Beat, but not really heard them. I'll have to check them out.

[dookee]

I can't really decide even on 3, partly because of how it's phrased, 'top' 3 gayest bands ever? I can name favorites, but are we rating them on a scale of how gay they are?

Queen's one of my favorite bands ever, but .. I'm not sure I'd say they beat the Village People, Boy George, or Elton John in regard to being flamboyantly gay.

Oh, and you forgot George Michael, in my opinion he trumps all of those bands combined.

[arya]

Those not voting for Johnny McGovern have clearly not seen the video for "Lookin' Cute" - which is simply fabulous.

[clarkk]

I almost think I should have provided a link, as I don't know how many people have even heard of him.

[boo_kat]

I'm very confused now. My dad loves most of these bands, and raised me listening to this music. I wonder what this says about my dad, my childhood, and they way I turned out... at least it explains my fondness for drag!

[clarkk]

Your fondness for drag trumps mine. :) And, I'm not sure what it says about you, your childhood, or what, but at least you have good taste in music.

[dookee]

I agree with the good taste in music comment, I like several of the bands listed, and I'm heterosexual.

I'm a bit confused by Rammstein's inclusion in the list, since everyone in the band is to my knowledge straight. Perhaps because of this?

[clarkk]

Rammstein was included at the insistence of luxzia and purveyorofchaos.