Sly and the Family Stone :: Fun
Fun is. Any song that starts with a kick-snare, boom-smack is bound to make your next two and a half minutes shake like Jell-o in a centrifuge. That snare keeps on the 2-3-4’s throughout most of the song: a drunkard trying, and failing, to stand up straight. It only veers off to fly through time and space into the bottom of the percussive register. Then it snaps right back into the groove as if it were that drunken guy at the party who falls off the porch only to jump right back up as if nothing happened (you know who you are).
The Beatles-esque choir can’t stop itself from climbing up the banisters to pull the chandelier all the way back down. That’s just the beginning of the end, but the party keeps going. The dry mouth laughter in the background can’t be the horn section; they’re too busy getting stuck in your head. I know… it’s OK… just whistle along. Too much Fun is never, ever enough.
Fun
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Sly’s music is amazing. Good choice (because there’s so, so many good choices that could have been made).