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FoolFantastic posted...

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Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On: 18

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There's something about the way this album manifests such overarching exuberance through its sheer energy plus Laura and Dylan's evident enthusiasm that's just sort of swept me up ever since my first spin. Like for you, Bane, I think my openness to music like this also has had much to do with my increasing embrace of my own queerness, with reaching a (non-final) relative understanding of and comfort with being queer and with how I present and otherwise manifest that. 10,000 gecs released soon after, and it was overwhelmingly queer friend-circle communities (and particularly one sometime music-making friend within them) that put the album on my radar and got me to give it a listen. And, I think, those firmly queer-coded senses of community and self-acceptance are what it's emotionally associated with in my mind. So yeah, it does typically take me being in a more upbeat mood to actually want to listen to this and then to get into it, but also that's basically just the difference between passively enjoying it and, say, bopping along from side to side almost the entire time.

It also feels fitting to share my favorite lines (or sets of lines) - whether due to the words themselves, their delivery, their context, or any other combination of factors - from each song here. To be clear, I've long loved every single one of these songs for reasons that overlap in some ways and don't in others, and lyrics are only one factor that plays into my opinions among them. Leaving these here sans explanation (besides agreeing that "Got Anthony Kiedis sucking on my penis" is an amazing line) feels right somehow:

1. Dumbest Girl Alive - "I've got lightning in my veins, walk around like Frankenstein/I did science on my face, I'm the dumbest girl alive"
2. mememe - "I put my paws on my face and pretend to cry"
3. Frog on the Floor - "Hey, yeah, I heard you met my friend the other weekend/I heard that he was telling croaks at the party/And then he got on his front legs and did a keg stand/Wow, that's so cool, I wish I was there so I could see it"
4. I Got My Tooth Removed - "It doesn't hurt me every day, so I just let it get away/I'll deal with it another day, I guess that day just never came"
5. 757 - "Live in dog years and I feel 26/Yeah, I'm old bitch but I learn new tricks"
6. The Most Wanted Person in the United States - "Everybody shuts the fuck up when I'm passing"
7. Hollywood Baby - "Little tiny Hollywood baby"
8. Doritos & Fritos - "Okay, I saw a bee, it flew into a screen"
9. Billy Knows Jamie - "Oh, oh, hey, oh, yeahno, oh my God, no, Jamie, no, he's a totally chill guy, like,"
10. One Million Dollars - [1:01] "One million dollars"

Oh, should say that the above is indeed my ranking of the tracks as a whole, not my ranking of the lines I quoted.