All these gay hits people jammed to and to think some had no idea but boogied till dawn 😂

Yea "Cruel Summer" is phenomenal big, but people should also hear they b/side cover song "Cairo"! Only at 8 in the UK and 9 at the US. Not fair at all!

Gorillaz

I was at the melbourne concert in 1983 when new order performed blue Monday live for the first time before a paying audience, the drum machine and sequencers got so out of synch halfway through the song, they gave it away.....

The first two Gorillaz albums are still the only physical albums I have bought till this day lol. I'm not really a music guy but Gorillaz was something else.

How They Cosplay How We Grew UP

Pretty silly retconing it to lgbtq+ when it's about stuff happening in the '80s

Blur sucked.

All the stuff about the way Drummond managed them is so brilliantly bizarre, the idea that echo was some sort of diety, not a drum machine lol all very ritualistic stuff very much a precurser to how the jamms and the KLF would do things.

I had a stroke trying to read that damn title

The Dicks, while a hardcore/queercore band, had some pretty grungy tracks as far back as the late 70s.

Grunge was just a rehash of post-punk. Kurt Cobain was a dollar store Ian Curtis.

Rage for the Machine will do what they are told. At least Limp Biscuit didn't push Biopower... or maybe they did. None of these sell outs can be trusted.

The artist class loves the authority and establishment now. It's pathetic.

Minor correction. The saxophone is not a brass instrument but rather a woodwind instrument.

Discovered Misery Business today and I immediately had to do a deep search on this band cause it was insanely good

love em..reminds me of lofi a bit??

I think most of us gay guys who were around in that period also miss it. There was such camaraderie between us and a real sense of community, despite a horrendous plague and laws against us. Gay culture was really blossoming.

Fantastic song and album. Age of consent is one of the greatest albums ever conceived. The only reason it has not do much visibility is because is gay music, basically.

Tedious and Boring. Oasis was better, and I hate Oasis.

@03:00 Relay? Typo in the script?

Always loved this song. The video is heartbreaking, and really touched a nerve with me, even as a straight guy. I had many issues with my parents and totally identified with the scenario even if the underlying causes were different. I'm about the same age as Jimmy Sommerville and grew up with very much the same influences. It's hopefully not too much of a stretch to say that this song and its video made me realise what gay people were going through was just the same shit as the rest of us, but ten times worse. Whatever remaining low-level homophobia I had at that time (due to the intrinsic culture of the 70s) I turned my back on for good.

Nobody in the 80s thought this stuff was gay. That's why this revisionist history is so lame. It was all hidden because it's degenerate

Mother Love Bone never seemed grunge-y at all to me. They looked and sounded more like Faster Pussycat.

My favourite songs from the 80's are Tainted love by Soft Cell Why by Bronski Beat Karma Chameleon by Culture Club Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood

LONG LIVE BJÖRK

Blur were a joke in Britain. Albarn was laughed at for being Mockney and they made twee pop songs. The rose tinted glasses don't work here.

They were Franz Ferdinand and their biggest single was "Take me out," that will never not be funny. It's far from their best track though.

Great analysis

Punk and hip hop are brothers. Don't forget that.

I'm not 100% sure but I think coattails of a dead man by Primus might be about Courtney Love

I was born a couple months after MTV started. I was also an army brat and for a little over three years from just before the age of 2 to just turning 6 I was in this remote post in Alaska, the whole thing was about the size of medium sized mall without the parking lot. It was build on top of permafrost so nothing for hundreds of miles. And of course we were trapped in doors 8-9 months out of the year because we were near the article circle. By God my mother was bored so found a way to get us cable, one of maybe a dozen on post that had it. So I spent the 8 month long winters watching mtv from 84- to 87 in the basement just rocking out to British artists so much I began to develop a British accent that I kept for years. It’s shaped so much of my life and I got my mom into so much music starting with Annie Lennox and then in the 90’s Garbage. I even moved to England for a time with my second partner. In a weird way it felt like coming home not going somewhere new. I really wish I could thank everyone of these artists especially when I hear how hard it was for them to get their music out there with the way life and the industry went for them. Just want to tell them Thank you, you saved my life and helped make my life awesome and full of wonder.

Absolutely comprehensive coverage of one of the most ground breaking groups of the 80s . What a great and necessary documentary. Will definitely be sharing this one . Wow !

I went to see New Order in 1983. Fantastic concert. Of course I was beaten by my mate Dave from Glossop who went to see Joy Division. Were New Order playing dance music? Of course not. Disco was considered less cool than Val Doonican at the time.

Emerson Lake and Palmer, Yes, ELO, Boston and the Edgar Winter Group with Frankenstein, were all missed here

Kristen and Tonya are STEP sisters NOT 1/2 sisters

Is the Mtv interview shown in clips on this video available on KZfaq?

Voice of a diva indeed. It's funny how Bronski Beat didn't go in for the outwardly flamboyant gay stereotypes like Frankie, yet they were way gayer in the actual content of their music! Definitely groundbreaking and very subversive.

I cannot overstate the importance this song has for me. In 1984, at the age of 17, I finally began to come out as a gay man, at least to myself (it would take me another couple of years until I had worked up the nerves to come out to my parents). It was another time back then, with no internet and next to no information about homosexuality, and no prominent people being officially out. I felt very desperate and alone for a very long time, so this song of course hit a raw nerve. I also cannot overstate how much Bronski Beat helped me stay afloat during these times. Jimmy Somerville will forever be my personal hero, especially because he used his fame for much needed visibility and policital activism.

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brilliant!

Surely Tom Robinson was the first openly gay performer with his 1978 Sing if you’re glad to be gay!

thank you for featuring No Doubt and Gwen. I feel she doesn't get much love for her singing voice, which I have always been obsessed with

Country Life still my favorite

One of these songs that can save a life.

I was around the scene at this time and the conventional opinion was that Prodigy were "sellouts" (along with the Shamen and a few others) who were going for big money mainstream appeal and abandoning the electronic underground that birthed them. At this time there was a real sense in rave of wanting to remain its own culture with defenses against going too pop. anyone who got too popular was immediately hated - a situation that changed radically as DJs became the rockstars and the underground became the overground. A big part of that was Prodigy's doing. By the end of the 90s it was no longer an issue. I always liked them but it was at risk of my hip raver credentials to admit that

Sleeper and Elastica in the same vid??!! Sweet

The really ridiculous thought of this whole thing is that "Roll With It" is a way better song than "Country House," and "The Universal" is a way better song than "Wonderwall." I really just can't help but laugh at that.

when that beat begins at the club you will ALWAYS hear me scream and see me running for the dance floor. every time lol