Songs that remind you of your club/bar days

Such a tender moment, I’m sure. Did you spit or swallow, you fat whore?

Early 90s. Southern Nights, Orlando.

Oh, to be young and hopeful.

This one

Last Dance by Donna Summer. They’d always play it at 2am, and it would run for about 20 minutes…everyone was a sweaty mess by the time it was over.

Drop Dead Gorgeous by Republica.

In Da Bush!

R1 you cunt!

That disco version of Don’t Cry for Me Argentina!

Jack Your Body

This one for me...

Pegasus, Pittsburgh, early 90s. Probably the first few weeks this was out.

Floor was already hopping, but this came on and.....have never seen anything like it before or since. Hundreds and hundreds off people, everywhere you looked, just ON. Arms in the air - the energy was palpable.

Cavern by Liquid Liquid (bass line made famous in White Lines)

Mooriah…

Queer Nation at The Gardening Club in Covent Garden, London,, '96. Hands in the air and sweat dripping off the low ceiling.

NYC 2004

Anything Erasure, Bronski Beat or Pet Shop Boys.

I remember this in the movie Parting Glances.

9am, Sunday mornings at Trade in London, spangled off my tits.

Misheard lyric: "Wake up all the slags..."

At the Chez Paree about 1933.

Flock of Seagulls, any of their songs. My favorite was "Telecommunication."

Great memories.

Lisa Stansfield. All Around the World take me back to Christopher Street in Chicago 1990.

1975 - the Barefoot Boy

Ninth Circle, late '70s

Dee-Lite "What is Love?" Chicago 1990, doing coke in the DJ booth at Sidetrack with Leon & Things

Ninth Circle, late '70s

Robyn - Show Me Love

I've posted this before: "Nobody's Supposed To Be Here: Hex Hector Club Mix"

Ah, the late 1990s were so much fun!

This reminds me of bar days in Hamburg

This reminds me of Danceteria downtown

"I Turn To You" by Mel C was EVERYWHERE when it was released in 1999...and I loved it. It's still on my workout playlist.

This reminds me of Mudd Club (but not live)

This reminds me of Peppermint Lounge

Losing My Religion. By REM Tom’s Bar. Berlin 1993

That bar was a bunch of freaks

This reminds me of Boy Bar

Pyramid

Irresistible!

Weetamix Geneva

Pacha Ibiza

I was too young when it was initially released, but when I DID eventually start going to bars & clubs, I always requested Cece Penniston's "Finally".

Okay. I'll stop now.

Relax.

You have excellent taste, OP... but today I'm in a house mood. This isn't the best recording, but earpods/headphones help.

The Happy Penis song

Relax.

NITSA Barcelona

The Charleston.

Trouw Amsterdam, favorite deep downtempo

This, then and now Ms Candi Staton

And when it was time to take things down a notch…

Electribe 101 featuring Ms Billie Rae Martin

Sublime

Holly is so fucking hot in that video, R45. In addition to the fact that I find him attractive, the juxtaposition of his overall geeky image & erotically provocative lyric/behavior REALLY do it for me.

Do I sexually objectify some geeks and nerds? A little.

This (and many other tunes) will always remind me of U4ia in Cleveland.

My first gay bar, Kismet, Columbus Ohio 1981

This one

A certain rust belt dive bar that shall remain nameless.

1986. My first summer sober. And the songs I remember arr: “Nasty Boys” - Janet Jackson, and “How Will I Know?” - Whitney Houston. It seemed I heard thse 2 songs played everywhere.

*are

This, of course:

*those

Yikes! I have fat fingers!

Der Kommissar by Falco. Played it constantly on juke box.

There are some videos that were ONLY played in gay bars.

[quote] "How Will I Know?”

That's my favorite Whitney song, R56! I was quite a few years from entering bars at that point, however.

More Alison Moyet

Stock Aitken Waterman was 33% of the playlist at Uncle Charlie's West Village Happy Hour. I was a club snob and club music snob but I still loved a tacky pick up bar.

Speaking of Uncle Charlie’s (circa 1991/2) I remember this song playing endlessly.

That's just the bestest band that am! Oh, my honeylamb!

It's nearly 30 years later and I still marvel at how unique Justified and Ancient is - amazing.

Anything Frankie Knuckes or David Morales - TWILO, Sound Factory, Sound Factory Bar, Tunnel, Roxy. How do young people not do dance clubs now - except the occasional Brooklyn event. A shame. Dancing has largely disappeared - such a uniquely gay spiritual element of life.

Just before "Grunge," we had the baggy T-shirt look. This Stone Roses track was indie-college-rock without going the Skinny Puppy / Techno / Progressive Alternative route. Sadly, it gets zero play these days, but it puts me in the way-back machine right to 1989.

Post 2000, there was a huge run of great Brooklyn dance clubs. Had you retired, or given up?

"Mi Cucu" by Sonora Dinamita. If it sounds familiar, it's the Spanish version of "My Toot Toot".

The second you heard the sirens it was a mad rush to the dance floor. To this day I still get chills and Ive heard this song eleventy million times. Such fantastic memories attached to it. R2 I had many fabulous nights in that wretched bar ! Remember when they had strippers ? One night I jumped up on the speaker with one and got very,very nasty . I was having a lovely time until my husband had decided I'd had a little too much to drink. I BEGGED him to take the stripper home with us (he was more than willing) .

Frankie Goes To Hollywood-Relax. They always played it too loudly.

[quote] "Cece Penniston"

Oh, dear.

I ALWAYS misspell her name. Ce Ce Peniston. There.

The national anthem when I was getting cock on a regular basis.

Candi

Wet Ass Pussy Cardi B

Dan Hartman - Instant Replay

R72 HOLY CRAP, my older brother used to play that all the time. I LOVE that song.

It's 12am at the Midnight Lounge. Shirts off boys!

When I hear this I smell Polo and Seagram's Wine Coolers

When I hear this my anus dilates.

When I hear this I smell sweaty parachute pants,

When I hear this I smell poppers.

Beat Club- my hair was dyed purple.

When I hear this I smell his Gitanes.

Do You Eat Ass? By Princess Vitarah

I want to dance around even when I am laying down when I hear this.

This was overplayed back then in mainstream clubs but it reminds me of 1st gay club experience watching them live at SF Colossus, while donning a blazer (I know) and wondering how does a big black lady voice come out of that skinny thing. Fortunately I was able to see Martha Wash perform the next year.

Images of heaven by Peter Godwin

When I hear this I smell his sweaty popped collar Polo shirt.

When I hear this I smell his hair gel.

Id be homeless too with her flat assed voice, r20.

When I hear this I smell teenage boy butt.

My god we had fun.

Basically anything from 2008. I was a little gayling fresh out of high school.

When I hear this I smell surfer bongs at 3 am

R35 Was that you downstairs?

When I hear this I smell his Dial spray on.

Like her or not, it got a lot of play.

r8, I was dancing at the Monster in Key West. Someone shoved poppers under my nose and the intro to this song came on, I looked around at the packed dance floor with half naked men and I thought "yep, I'm gay".

The next morning I was doubtful. "No.......".

When I hear this I smell glycol fog.

A little before my time but you aren’t gay and American and of certain age if you haven’t heard this at least once…

The opening strains make me want to order an ice cold beer.

When I hear this I smell absinthe.

J to the Lo

When I hear this I smell banana daiquiris and Coppertone

Tell the man with the money to come here and pay me…

After hours- remember clubs used to have after hours?

R28 Or...

When I hear this I smell drag queen lip gloss.

When I hear this I smell Parliament House

Oh God R104 I LOVE that song ! Heres another dance goodie (we are getting offtrack here Ladies !) . Every time I hear it Im at a bar called Renes in Tampa doing lines off a table and dancing until the wee hours..

When I hear this I smell blood from a split lip and a broken heart

When I hear this I smell Joey Stephano's cigarette breath.

When I hear this I smell cum.

Underrated song from Duran Duran… the video always takes my back to being at Revolver or The Rage in West Hollywood in the late 1980s. It was played in pretty heavy rotation and a model crazy friend of mine loved that it featured Tatjana Patitz.

When I hear this I smell the leather upholstery of a Rolls Corniche.

When I hear this I smell a boys tears.

I don’t know what else Pebbles did but this was Bam Bam :)

When I hear this I smell rain on a Key West side walk at 3am.

When I hear this I smell funeral lilies.

I heard this played a lot.

What a great song. I think it has some double meaning or something.

This was a thread of club songs, not a bunch of "sad top 40 song now played in frau workplaces smells like THIS!" thread.

What Gay bars were y’all going to that had smellivision videos?

R125 ^ Smells like.

Takes me back to the I Beam.

I remember when the music switched over to techno in the early 90s.

Pyramid Club circa 1990.

"Darktown Strutters Ball"

Water Verve

[quote] Der Kommissar by Falco. Played it constantly on juke box.

Der Kommissar was my jam! Along with "Girls on Film" (Duran Duran).

(I smell Drakkar Noir.)

Black Box - Strike It Up

Gonna Make You Sweat, C+C Music Factory, still gets my booty bouncin’

Loved C+C Music Factory and Dee Lite's Groove Is in the Heart.

Pet Shop Boys - Go West

We thought we were so cool.

My first time in a gay club, in a building that used to be a bank - walking in, looking up at two stories of marble, and saw people doing this dance.

Le Palace… Paris… summer 1980… saw Grace Jones and Jerry Hall on the dance floor along with so many beautiful French boys.

Oh, what I wouldn't give for a fresh tube of Tenax!

We can’t forget RuPaul’s Supermodel

52nd Street - Cool as Ice.

I thought they were a NYC band, they were from Manchester England.

I remember them playing this and a lot of other OMD songs at The Pharr Library in Atlanta in the mid 1980s.

“Heaven is cold, Without any soul… It's hard to believe, I was so in love with you”

Perfect lyric for a few of my first boyfriends who turned out to be jerks. What was I thinking?! LOL

By the time I went to clubs, it was this. Long love Missy E!!!!

I like that a lot of club songs were remixes or covers of older songs.

Downtown 1999

Saw OMD do an instore event before a concert (which I also saw) and the cute curly haired guy was either stuffing socks into his jeans or had an enormous package, with long thick VPL.

R127 to R125 smells like napalm in the morning

N' Touch bar on Polk St. in SF

Native New Yorker, Macarthur Park/Last Dance, Tainted Love

Roberta Kelly's Oh, Happy Day/My Father's House

La Ross's Love Hangover, The Boss, No One Gets the Prize

Ashford and Simpson's Found a Cure

Not sure what Club this was but I want to join.

The Delirium mix by Sarah mclachlan.

Paul Lekakis, Boom Boom. Even remember being on a club tour and doing the song "live"

Everything But The Girl, Missing

Nashville Pussy - Piece of Ass!

Guaranteed dancefloor carnage in the early 90s

Neil Young probably never anticipated this.

Sunday early am @ SF's End Up circa mid-90s: Why am I still out and about since Fri night . . . oh right, when "partying" connoted dancing & socializing all wknd (provided you're in close proximity to the loo), unlike what it suggests now

Shit, R26, we may have met.

Jade - I'm Gonna Get Your Love

Great thread! First couple Mardi Gras in NOLA (early 90s), there was always ‘one’ song - you heard it every bar you went into, from Lafittes to the Pub to Rawhide to Jewels. MG 1990 - LIsten to Your Heart (Sonia) - MG1991 - Love Will Never Do (Janet Jackson)….

1981: Feels Like I’m In Love…Kelly Marie. Secretly dancing with boys in the middle of a crowded dance floor at By George Disco in Columbia, MO.

Sometimes the DJ would play a remix I hadn’t heard and I’d rush out to buy it, like this one by Miss Carey. It became my jogging anthem…

The poster R81 tanked was was a fun thread turning it into an opportunity for him to troll with dozens of posts about smell.

What kind of OCD fucked up troll does this?

Tapps - My Forbidden Lover

I think Whitney and Ann Nesbit did this better, but this @ The Dover Fox, circa 1982, Kansas City every night at closing time, just before the sidewalk sale.

Liquid Liquid - Cavern, The Higsons - Run Me Down

Reminds of Danceteria.

Wonderwall and Sky High.

Good memory on the Liquid Liquid. Then the beat reminds me of 19 and early Limelight when it was straight and actually cool for a year or two.

The beat in another form - White Lines and it reminds me of Roxy in early 80s when it became a disco.

Well

Cockring Amsterdam - basement dance floor - 1993. Favorite space in the world. Then crawl across to the oldest leather bar in the world, Argos, for some nasty basement sex.

Believe it or not, the first drag queen performance I ever saw was to this remix of the Amy Grant song Baby Baby:

Scritti Politti - Wood Beez, Perfect Way, Absolute etc

As I recall, L.A. Style’s James Brown is Dead was a good song to hear at the club when you were on acid.

So many, but recently rediscovered Jimi Tenor, Take me Baby

Double Dutch Bus.

Secret Ties - Dancing in My Sleep

Michael Lovesmith "Baby I Will"

The thread seems to be slowing down, so is it time?

Jesse Rae - Rusha

Whodini - Five Minutes of Funk

Circa 1994, playing any KMFDM cd as I prepared to go out was de rigeur on a Saturday night. Or a Thursday night, for that matter. Nothing woke people's sensibilities up like "Godlike."

I remember the dance bar Equus in Philadelphia used to play the Abba song "On and On and On" repeatedly.

Late 80's, The Garage in Columbus. For some inexplicable reason, whistles were popular then, too.

I am loving the entries with a story/club/place/time.

I remember being in the Eagle in Exile in Columbus and within a few hundred feet "Relax" came on. Then I walked a little farther and could see a circle of guys jacking off, one smirking and sort of doing it to the beat.

And then I walked sort of around a corner and saw two guys pissing on a third, just as Holly Johnson sang "cum......hah!"

Also remembering a night in the Eagle in Chicago, walking down to the basement and seeing someone get fisted while "Army of Me" by Bjork was playing. Not the association I wanted to have with that song LOL.

The Divinyl's "I touch myself". St. Kilda pub crawls, 1990.

Gurl It's 1982 I just moved to Tampa to work at Maas Brothers, and Bobby Stoner was wearing this out at the Old Plantation .....

A remix of this had the dance floor LIT!

Keys in Cleveland, circa 1991. My pasty white ass was one of about three white asses in the entire joint. Gah, I loved dancing there.

R188 He was still wearing it out in 1986, complete with the chalky "fog" machines on the dance floor, and a bartender named Ramón, who would not leave me alone!

Vivian Vee - Give Me A Break

*Vivien

: )

Equus Philly - OMG. Never there for dancing only drinks. 1984

Level 42, "Something About You". Heard it at both The Garage and The Eagle in Columbus, OH, 1986ish.

"I'm Losing You," The Uptown Girls (1983 Enlarged Prostate Eldermix)

Jade, "I'm Gonna Get Your Love"

Can I just say that the early to mid 90s was a fucking fabulous time to come of age in a gay bar. I actually feel sorry for young gays today who will never be able experience anything like it.

I remember quite a few Showtune Sundays at Sidetrack with this playing

"In My House" - Mary Jane Girls (Rick James).

HISSSSSS....

I see several fellow Floridians on here ! Old Plantation in Tampa was one of my most favorite bars . Maas Brothers was a fabulous old school department store . I bought all my Christian Dior chemises ( they werent called shirts,god forbid!) there and they always tailored them to fit so beautifully.Tampa in the 80s-90s was rotten with fabulous gay bars.

R201 My child did you frequent Rene's and EL Goya /Tracks as well ???

Bjork BIG TIME SENSUALITY

R202 Rene's was my spiritual home ! I posted upthread about doing lines at the table and dancing all night. Then you must know or heard of Sable Starr ! Sable was dating a lesbian heiress to the Johnson and Johnson fortune that was madly in love with her and was going to pay for Sable to have the surgery,but Sable wasnt ever going to and was stringing her along. That old dyke lavished furs and gowns and jewels on Sable .One night Sable and I were in a limo making the rounds of the bars and doing massive amounts of coke and she picked up this scorching hot Coast Guard stud. There we are rolling down Kennedy Blvd in a limo while Sable is riding that dick . We end up back at sables apartment (penthouse where she lived with the heiress) at 6 am and the dyke was beyond enraged. A screaming match ensued ,and next thing you know Sable and I are running down the street with loads of furs and dresses and all these morning commuters about wrecked ! It was HILARIOUS . Ah the memories .

R204 I remember Kim Ross who was a performer at Rene's she looked exactly like Diana Ross !!! I do vaguely remember Sable Star. And coke was very easy to come by in Tampa for some reason

I remember Kim Ross ! I knew tons of people back then and honestly,I dont think I knew one that didnt do coke. It was easier to find than weed. And so cheap too ! I bet a lot came in thru the port of Tampa. My friends and I would often get a shitty room at the Floridian (like $35 a night,yikes!) and run around acting like fools . I woke up one morning at the Floridian and there were 2 guys in bed with me,2 guys in bed with my friend,and 2 sleeping on the floor. All of us buck naked,and to this day I have NO memory of that night ! Isnt it funny though how we could stomp around then at all hours of the night and never ever felt unsafe ? I wouldnt do that in any city these days. Im so glad I was born when I was and partied like a frigging rock star. Young gays are so boring now.

Dearest Florida eldermesses, did y'all also know Gilda Golden and Chena Black?

This one.

R204 Giilda Golden accidently hit me a shoe she threw at another patron that was heckling her . She apologized profusely and I drank free all night

"Follow Me" by Aly Us

Also this one, "Marcia Baila" by Les Rita Mitsouko.

R207 I remember Gilda but not Chena . I was indeed a mess,but lord did I ever have fun doing it. The worst part is I had so many nights under the influence of something or the other I dont remember half the shit I did. Thank god there werent cell phones then is all I can say !

I obsessed over this new wave meets world music with a dah of religious influence during my college clubbing days innAmn Arbor circa 1985.

Slam dance at Smart Bar

^r214)

This one: loads of mollys/vitamin Es

Finding the memories of club performers fascinating so I started this thread

Back when she still deigned to make dance music for the unwashed hoi polloi

Heaven 17 was Area for me.

218 replies so not sure if this ones been brought up but this one is still the theme song of most of my nightmares …

Also this one was a staple in that late 90s/early 2000s last hurrah of the rave party at a club thing that was happening at the time

Late 80s, The Works, Columbus Circle, around 2am-ish

To be gay and clubbing in 1998...

R220) Darude Sandstorm was my running song. It was great to listen to in a crowded 5k run.

"But I believe in the boogie

Oh, but the boogie don't believe in me"

True then, true now...

The Works wasn't anywhere near Columbus Circle, it was in the 80s next to Museum of Natural History.

The Works was an interesting as a bus stop. Nice pool table though and the occasional appearance of Nathan Lane.

I hear this and I'm transported to Uncle Charlie's on Greenwich. The pilgrimage back and forth between Charlie's and Reeds (now Pieces) on Christopher wore holes in my shoes.

Oops I meant Columbus AVENUE

Heaven 17 - Fascist Groove Thing

Picture it. Honolulu, 1987. Two underaged kids going back and forth from Hula's and Dirty Mary's.

Being bought endless drinks by older guys and dancing to this. Fun times!

The Bar, after hours,1988. I was more into New Order, etc., but this and Taylor Dayne are what I remember from The Bar in Lexington, KY.

I forgot to mention that I can smell the Obsession and Aqua Net, lol.

They used to play this at the dance clubs in San Diego…always wondered what happened to Jane. But this was a fun song.

Worked at Disney World in the early 90s. We got paid on Thursday, and Thursday night was free admission to Pleasure Island for Disney "cast members"; because so many gay men worked at Disney, Thursday night at Pleasure Island became an unofficial gay night, especially at Mannequins Dance Palace, which had a rotating dance floor. Me and my friends would dance on the edge of the floor, teasing those standing on the sidelines when this song came on.

R235 I posted about Keys in Cleveland before but your post reminded me that they played this one a number of times leading into either My Lovin' or Free Your Mind.....

I still remember the beautiful dude that would do a acrobatic/gymnastic move on the floor. Fine as fuck. Every inch of him 😈

R61, "Invisible" by Alison Moyet definitely was one of those videos only played at the clubs. It was such a great, 1985-sounding song, it should have been played to death on MTV and become a huge hit. But MTV refused to play her videos because she was overweight. She said it. A couple of the VJs from MTV at the time said it as well. MTV didn't play videos by fat girls, that was just just their policy, however unwritten the policy was. Moyet's album, "Alf," was a huge, multi-platinum hit in England. It was as huge a hit in England as "Diamond Life" by Sade, which was released around the same time. MTV had no problem playing Sade videos, though. So Sade broke through in the U.S., but Alison never did. Hmmmm.... I wonder why?

By the way, Alison Moyet was soooo much more talented than that horrible Adele. Yet MTV (when they play videos, which is seldom), VH1, etc., have no problem devoting hours of airtime to that awful woman. Alison just arrived at the wrong time. Too bad.

And Alison hates that song now. No wonder.

Early 90's Garage on Saturday and Eagle on Sunday nights.

Yazoo - Don't Go

What bar? We're just listing names of songs unless you tell us WHERE the memory happened!!!!

R242 Nations, DC

A lot of these songs make me feel like I’m fucking Rob Lowe in Atlanta.

Good times @ Universe (177 Townsend, now all overpriced SF condos) for the most part. Priority back then was getting on guest list or knowing front person. Listening to this, found my upper tolerance, having taken Xs too close together and had to sideline from floor, waiting to "get off ride".

Tracks. 1994.

Twinlight Zone

The Toolbox, Toronto.

Ernie's Afternoon Piss Party

Another favorite at the dance clubs in San Diego…I think Donna Summer was trying to get back into our good graces via Stock-Aiken-Waterman…

Too many clubs & venues to list, I started clubbing at 16, I was never asked for an ID. Through many different eras of music.

Some of the clubs I frequented, Area, Club 82, Max's Kansas City, Danceteria, Berlin, The Ritz, Peppermint Lounge, The Limelight, Pyramid, Earth's Edge.....

There will never be a NYC club scene like that again. The rich have ruined NYC.

R250 The rich owned or funded many of those clubs, even behind-the-scenes, so they aren't all that bad.

Turds Don’t Stink Like You

Berlin in Chicago....too many to mention but I remember dancing to Kiss Them for Me by Siouxsie and the Banshees wrapped in someone else's fur stole. (Long story)

Agree R250. 1974-1994 were the dance club years of NYC I think. Post-rock, early soul to late house, early electronic dance music. Framed by periods of economics and other social dynamics that will likely prevent a resurgence. Glad I was there.

Zack's Fourth Avenue, 1990ish (maybe 1991?)

If I go back to when I was really young and first started going to clubs, it has to be this. Bennett’s club in Glasgow had a mixed night every Tuesday where straight people were welcome to join gay friends. It was called the Shimmy. Such innocent times. Sharleen Spiteri was a regular. This was well before Simple Minds went down the stadium rock route.

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Up & Down

The Odyssey, 1983 - I would be upstairs avoiding the chicken hawks with my best friend, Kathy, when a song would end and we would hear a weird sound come through the speakers. Then we would simultaneously realize that it was crickets - the opening of Club Tropicana - and we would rush down the stairs to the dancefloor.

And the other song that brings back The Odyssey - Cee Farrow, "Should I Love You?

This

Tu es foutu

2 songs come to mind. When I was In my 20s first time going to gay clubs/bars. So first was 2008 when I heard “ just dance” lady Gaga at club night called Cherry Pop in Los Angeles, I think the song was big in the la club scene before it was big worldwide and the beat it starts with is never heard anything like. No joke I was hanging with some of the Bryan Singer kept boys, doing coke, going to the abbey, area, wearing Ed Hardy 🤦‍♂️ just having a VERY LA club cool kid moment. The other is “Disturbia” by Rihanna reminds me of the Miami club scene, and clubs like score a and twist 🤷‍♂️. The entire 2007-2010 era reminds me of Gaga, Britney Spears circus, and Rihanna. Honestly it was a great time to come of age, almost innocent looking back 😯 🤨

This

[quote][R250] The rich owned or funded many of those clubs, even behind-the-scenes, so they aren't all that bad.

Let me correct that for you, most of the people who owned those clubs became rich because of the clubs. There were also rampant drug sales going on at so many NYC clubs, the owners sure knew about it.

The guy who owned the Limelight, Peter Gatien, was arrested for many offenses. Her was deported back to his native Canada in 1998.

"Gatien was acquitted of his drug-racketeering and conspiracy charge in 1998 but was deported to Canada after pleading guilty to subsequent state tax-evasion charges."

The Motherlode, 1982. I was 18 and knew that this was the one bar that had a reeeaaalllly lax carding policy. Despite the pseudo Western theme with sawdust on the floor and crates to sit on, the first song I heard was Q-Feel's "Dancing in Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)."

I remember being in a club in Chicago listening to this. Everyone had their rainbow gay pride freedom rings. I think I still have mine somewhere in a box.

Picture it I am in San Fransisco in 1980 21 years old , rocking my Izoid shift and Calvin Klein Jeans , ( with my 32-inch waist at the time ) tearing up the dance floor to this song sung by a local favorite .. at the Trocadero Transfer, I lip-synced every word of those lyrics AND I could do the hand gestures as good as Ms. Ross !!!!

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In the Mood by Glenn Miller

R260 where was The Odyssey that played the fabulous Cee Farrow (RIP)?

The Townhouse

Then… Now… Forever…

‘Tis the season 🎃

"As The Rush Comes" - Motorcycle

"And the Band Played On."

Alas.

R273 Bless you my child for posting that clip, it was joyful and powerful to watch !!! May Saint Donna bestow heavenly gifts to you !!!

[quote] The rich owned or funded many of those clubs

The vast majority of clubs I went to between 1990 and 2000ish were owned by the mafia. Sometimes it would be some young upstart entrepreneur, and every once in a while a gay guy or guys would buy and run a club for a while, but more often than not it was some old mafia guy, or more entertainingly, some old dude and his wife.

I remember one club where the owner's wife would sit at the door to take the cover charge. She was sweet and also usually drunk or high out of her fucking mind. In a clapping-two-beats-behind-everyone-else kinda way. But hey, that place was home for a lot of us when no place else would have us.

oh forgot, my point with my post at r277 was none of these old dudes were making THAT kind of bank. They were getting paid and it was keeping things afloat or solid, but no one was fuck you rich. I'm sure fortunes were made and lost in NYC and maybe LA and a few other spots but that's different.

Second Hand Rose

Anyone remember this one? I'd forgotten it and just was reminded now. It's so good!

I was way too young then but drop dead gorgeous by Republica is such a banger. She was just so cool.

First New Orleans Mardi Gras 1990. This cut was played in every bar. From Lafittes to The Pub, to Rawhide to Jewels to Phoenix you would hear it.

more recent version

Duckie at the Vauxhall Tavern was my favourite club when I lived in London. It had the best music, the friendliest crowd, and the entertainment was everything from the sublime to the ridiculous. Great memories.

Absolutely, R284! I lived in London in the late 00s and going there is one of my favourite memories of that time. An actual friendly crowd and great music. The first time I lined up there I could hear them playing Lene Lovich from outside and I knew I was in for a great time.

I always thought that Ptown at Halloween would be some glamorous affair filled with the beautiful gays. I just watched that horror show at R237 and .... Ugh. What a fugfest. The poppers snorting at the beginning of the video sealed the deal What a celebration of ugly white trash. I'm glad I saw it though because I was afraid I was missing out on something but now I know I'm not.

Late '80s sampling!

"Beautiful Dreamer"

Old Plantation, Jax Fl circa 1984. Wearing my skintight Calvin Kleins,pink Christian Dior chemise,pink sequinned bow tie and red heart shaped glasses. With my gigantic poufed out hair and cobalt blue eyeliner you couldnt tell me NOTHIN ! Ah glorious,glorious youth .

Ahem.....

Time Warp!

R271 The Odyssey was catty-corner from The Beverly Center in Los Angeles, just a little south of West Hollywood. The article below gives a great history of it, including video footage from Halloween 1981, as well as a brief clip from "Night Shift" that was filmed there that shows the spinning light poles (they raised and lowered from the ceiling.) It was mostly a club for18 and over, but you could certainly get in at 17 and maybe younger. The young gay boys would always be followed around by the much older chicken hawks (they were definitely not hot Daddies.) It was destroyed by fire in 1985.

This one. Only heard in clubs. No one bought the single.

San Francisco (You've Got Me) - Village People, 1977

Fly Robin Fly NYC 1975

Spirit In The Sky

Walking On Thin Ice - Yoko Ono - Made me crazy in the early 80's.

Law of the Land by the Temptations playing at the Tenth Floor in the 70s. It holds up.

R2977 Walking on Thin Ice was the go to song in early 1980s clubs. A truly great record. It was the last song John recorded with Yoko before he was killed.

The Associates records were also popular in clubs in NYC. Billy Mackenzie was gorgeous and a true talent.

Mozart concerto. I use to wear my white wig in the palace. I was born in 1569

[quote]Early 90's Garage on Saturday and Eagle on Sunday nights.

Hello fellow Columbus dweller! I lived in Columbus from 1985-1998. That was the routine: The garage on Friday and/or Saturday, The Eagle on Sundays.

Anything by Ruth Etting or Fred Waring.

Bizarre Love Triangle- New Order playing at Menjo’s. I remember it coming on while waiting in line for the restroom. The line would practically disappear immediately once the tunes hook was heard.

R303 Menjos with the low drop ceiling and bad decor. Good thing I was only average height so I didn’t have to worry about hitting my head when dancing. Although the crack neighborhood around the club was always a threat in the 1980s.