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Old 07-01-2015, 08:10 PM   #140 (permalink)
Josef K
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It was a live album where she basically used performance art (naked from the waist up and covered in fake blood) as a way to attack the so-called moral watchdogs who were spewing hate towards gays during the AIDS crisis of the 80s/90s (This was recorded in 1990). She's a big gay rights activist (her gay brother died of AIDS), and this album was made up largely of songs from her previous three albums, all of which were entirely concerned with the topic.
Yeah, this. It's possible you'd be into You Must Be Certain of the Devil, TLP - it's the most accessible of the three AIDS albums and it has "Let My People Go" on it.
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