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Compiled by: Jon Savage

“Featuring classics by Sylvester, the Kinks, and the Ramones alongside little known discoveries by Chris Robison, the Miracles and Curt Boettcher, Queer Noises tells the hidden history of gay pop music. Beginning in 1961 with drag queens and camp records on tiny labels, the compilation passes through mid sixties’ pop, early seventies’ soul and singer songwriters, glitter rock, and punk to end with Sylvester’s 1978 “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” - the first international hit by an out gay performer. The gay contribution to pop music has always been ignored and written out of history: with detailed sleeve-notes and track by track rundowns, as well as many period photos, “Queer Noises” tells the story of how gay music went from the closet into the charts.” Jon Savage

1. Jose At: The Black Cat [2:09]
2. Rod McKuen: Eros [1:42]
3. Mr. Jean Fredericks: Nobody Loves A Fairy When She’s Forty [3:56]
4. Byrd E.Bath & Rodney Dangerfield: Florence of Arabia [3:40]
5. B.Bubba : I’d Rather Fight Than Swish [3:16]
6. The Kinks: See My Friend [2:40]
7. The Tornados: Do You Come Here Often [3:53]
8. The Brothers Butch: Kay Why? [3:13]
9. Teddy & Darrel: These Boots [2:22]
10. Zebedy: The Man I Love [3:09]
11. Curt Boettcher: Astral Cowboy [2:18]
12. Harrison Kennedy: Closet Queen [3:43]
13. Polly Perkins: Coochy Coo [3:19]
14. Michael Cohen: Bitterfeast [3:09]
15. Jobriath: I’m A Man [3:30]
16. Chris Robison: Lookin’ For A Boy [3:57]
17. Peter Grudzien: White Trash Hillbilly Trick [2:56]
18. Valentino: I Was Born This Way [3:20]
19. The Miracles: Ain’t Nobody Straight In L. A. [3:43]
20. The Ramones: 53rd And 3rd [2:19]
21. The Twinkeyz: Aliens In Our Midst [3:17]
22. Dead Fingers Talk: Nobody Loves You When You’re Old And Gay [4:30]
23. Black Randy & The Metro Squad: Trouble At The Cup [1:53]
24. Sylvester: You Make Me Feel [3:45]