Earworm of the Day: Pete Shelley - Homosapien

 
In the pre-YouTube 90s, CD comps were a relatively cheap way to sample lots of music one wouldn't hear otherwise lacking a good college or community radio station. Rhino put out some of the best punk and post-punk comps of the decade. Just as alternative rock was becoming less and less "alternative, the hunger for underground music increased and Rhino stepped up to the plate with their DIY series. I think I still have one, somewhere, featuring Pete Shelley's "Homosapien," which isn't all that rare or unheard, at least in its day, but did manage to get banned from British radio for "explicit references to gay sex." (source ) Shelley was one of punks first openly bisexual stars, though his sexuality was only hinted at in his Buzzcocks singles.