April 14th, 2003 4:57am
Mice Have Germs. They Deserve To Die.
The most interesting couple on television. (Well, aside from Tony and Carmella…)
After some delay spring is upon us here in New York, and so I shall be offering some happy blue-skies ’90s indie pop to mark the occasion. Enjoy.
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci “Poodle Rockin'”
Imperial Drag “Boy Or A Girl” Not to be confused with Imperial Teen. This song was a minor alt-rock-radio hit back around 1996 or 1997. It’s really depressing to think about how this song could never get playlisted these days given how conservative/homophobic/misogynistic radio playlists have become in this Clear Channel world, and how it was only a few years ago that there were a few positive songs about queer sexuality getting some airplay. (Off the top of my head: “You’re One” by Imperial Teen, “I Kissed A Girl” by Jill Sobule, “Queer” by Garbage, several 90s-era R.E.M. songs…) It gives some perspective as to how far mainstream pop culture has jumped backwards since making some positive headway for a few years in the previous decade. This song isn’t even particularly racy or anything, but the notion of a song about gender-bending and confusion about sexual orientation seems verboten in pop culture nowadays unless it involves hot Maxim lesbian chicks and is strictly relegated to the subtext of the presentation, but not the songs themselves.
M.O.T.O. “It Takes Just Like A Milkshake”
Virgin Whore Complex “Four Alarm Fire On Lover’s Lane”
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