So I read today that wildly entertaining, shamelessly pandering bubble-glam musician and child-molesting creep Gary Glitter was released from prison in Vietnam today. (Via Whitney Matheson.) I have a hard time expressing how difficult it is for me to deal with Gaz being a predatory bastard because his music, and this song in particular, played a big role in me becoming the person I am–not as big as Bowie or Roxy or Iggy or Eno, certainly, but more than any of the other bubbleglam people. I just think there’s something really…accurate about the way the lyrics of this song intertwine with that relentless, often-imitated beat-clap and that fat, vaguely sinister guitar noise to verbally and musically convey HORNY in all-caps. Like, when you’ve felt that way, isn’t this the way you felt? But the best part is the end, when the Glitter Band shifts the notes around atop the main riff–like that, it goes from desperate to confident, from “oh god I hope it happens I need it to happen please please please” to “oh god it’s gonna happen it’s happening yes yes yes!”

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