Like many of my LGBT brothers and sisters, I've been waiting for the last several days to see exactly what Congress intends to do about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
I've filled the silence with meditations on my favorite waiting music and literature. The 1983 album, Waiting, by Fun Boy Three has been much on my mind and their tune, The More I See (The Less I Believe), seems as relevant now as it did when it was written.
YouTube - Fun Boy Three - The More I See
According to Wikipedia, Fun Boy Three were a short-lived but successful multi-racial English band which ran from 1981 to 1983 and was formed by singers Terry Hall, Neville Staples and Lynval Golding after they left The Specials. They set about making music which covered a variety of genres. The band enjoyed six UK Top 20 hits, including the jungledrum- inspired "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)" and the brassy, marriage-cynic anthem "Tunnel of Love" and created two albums of which the eponymous Fun Boy Three was the most successful.
The trio's last UK hit was the song "Our Lips Are Sealed" from album Waiting, co-written by Terry Hall and Jane Wiedlin of the US band The Go-Gos, who had had a US hit with the song a year earlier. They then toured the USA and split afterwards.
