Fonz wrote:I suspect many folks' disregard for FZ comes from exposure to Overnight Sensation and/or Valley Girls, and not a lot else. Fair enough. That stuff made the mainstream. Got FZ 'known' for 'Titties and Beer' and 'Dynamo Hum'. But FZ's work is far more diverse, and f there really is nothing amongst the approximately 100 official releases that you could bear to listen to...or even compare to Sly's handful of songs/albums I think there's a perverse negative snobbery at play.
Well, at times that's part of the problem for me- particularly late in life he felt the need to release it every time he scratched his ass. I mean, how many official releases does anybody
need? I mean unless it's somebody like the Dead where if you're a fan you're likely obsessive.
As for 'perverse negative snobbery,' nothing of the kind (in my case, anyway). I love
We're Only In It For The Money and about half of
Freak Out- but neither of them give me 1/10th of the pleasure of an average Sly album. And I've looked at it from every angle- felt that way as a kid just getting into music, felt that way no matter how hard I intellectualized it. Yep- mentally, physically
and emotionally. He just does more for me.
And I've never heard
Overnight Sensation in full, to my knowledge. And I
like "Valley Girl" and don't think it's out of line with his normal style- he started out doing novelty stuff, after all.