14. Danny Boy and the Serious Party Gods "Castro Boy (Somewhat Normal Version)" - Yet another thing that I-F and his listeners get right is how fucking gay this **** is. A lot of current dance music, especially of the Kompakt variety, rejects the genre's soul tradition. As a result of turning its back on being human, it comes out sexless. Disco never really did that, even when it was at its most robotic (see Patrick Cowley's many robo-homo records). Gays loved this **** and it loved them, so that it makes sense that a song that's set on San Francisco's Castro Street, with mentions of fisting, poppers and watersports, and containing the lines, "So he starts to read me, he says I talk nelly. How rude! I do not talk nelly. I'm butch! Well, **** you, too," should chart so high. "Castro Boy" parodies Zappa's "Valley Girl," with enough faggy in-jokes to make Larry David prolapse. I don't know if a high contingent of CBS listeners are gay or what (they also placed Ken Laszlo's equally homo-centric "Hey Hey Guy" in the Top 50), but for a bunch of wannabe robots, they're really sensitive.





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