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The Essential Sly & The Family Stone
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | Underdog |
2 | I Cannot Make It |
3 | Dance to the Music |
4 | Are You Ready? |
5 | Fun |
6 | M'Lady |
7 | Life |
8 | Love City |
9 | Stand! |
10 | Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey |
11 | I Want To Take You Higher |
12 | Somebody's Watching You |
13 | Sing A Simple Song |
14 | Everyday People |
15 | You Can Make It If You Try |
16 | Hot Fun in the Summertime |
17 | Everybody Is a Star |
18 | Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) |
Disc: 2
1 | Family Affair |
2 | Luv N' Haight |
3 | Poet |
4 | (You Caught Me) Smilin' |
5 | Runnin' Away |
6 | Brave & Strong |
7 | Just Like a Baby |
8 | Thank You for Talkin' to Me, Africa |
9 | In Time |
10 | If You Want Me to Stay |
11 | Frisky |
12 | Skin I'm In |
13 | Babies Makin' Babies |
14 | If It Were Left Up to Me |
15 | Time For Livin' |
16 | Loose Booty |
17 | I Get High On You - Sly Stone |
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Product Description
The most comprehensive Sly & the Family Stone collection ever assembled! Funk as we know it basically began here: Dance to the Music; Fun; M'Lady; Life; Stand; I Want to Take You Higher; Sing a Simple Song; Everyday People; You Can Make It If You Try; Hot Fun in the Summertime; Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin); Everybody Is a Star , and more.
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Long before Michael Jackson and Prince became superstars by fusing rhythmic soul with rock's sense of scale and ambition, a former Northern California deejay and producer named Sylvester Stewart took the vaunted musical utopianism of the '60s and forged it into the cross-cultural, ass-shaking, genre-bending groove monster that was Sly and the Family Stone. James Brown may have invented funk, but S&TFS masterfully tooled and supercharged it into mass-acceptance. No mere greatest hits collection--though they're all here in digitally remastered glory--this 35-track, double-disc anthology delves deeper into the handful of seminal albums the band produced before its leaders' long, troubling slide into drug abuse and oblivion. Given the chronological development, there's a sense here that Stewart/Stone's problems paralleled the increasingly militant and hard-edged stance his band took on albums like the uncompromising classics There's a Riot Going On and Family Affair. Propelled by Larry Graham's locomotive bass lines and accented by rousing horns, Sly and company swooped from the heights of 1969's hit-laden "Stand" towards a darker and more unsettling decade ahead. Few bands have soared higher--or fallen as far. --Jerry McCulley
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5 x 5.59 x 0.47 inches; 3.04 ounces
- Manufacturer : Sony Legacy
- Item model number : 2110623
- Original Release Date : 2003
- Run time : 2 hours and 5 minutes
- Date First Available : January 23, 2007
- Label : Sony Legacy
- ASIN : B00006NSH7
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #14,333 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #148 in Funk (CDs & Vinyl)
- #466 in Soul (CDs & Vinyl)
- #6,100 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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But enough hyperbole-- the music itself, presented in fine remastered sound, includes virtually all their singles for Epic and a number of album tracks, with particular emphasis on "Stand!" (seven cuts), "There's a Riot Goin' On" (eight) and "Fresh" (six). As I've often thought the three of these were far and away superior than everything else the band ever did, I'm alright with this. With the presentation chronological, you can hear the band rising from an older funk sound ("Underdog") to the commercial pop forced by the record label ("Dance to the Music") to eventually into a sunny sort of optimistic funk/soul ("Life"). Had the band stopped when they did find their own sound, they dismissal of them would make sense, but instead Stone's artistry became increasingly more dense, more personal, and more powerful. There are few records out there as direct and potent as "Stand!" and "There's a Riot Goin' On", the former perhaps the summation of the California dream ("Stand!", huge hit "Everyday People"), the latter being a reflection of its failure ("Luv N' Haight", "(You Caught Me) Smilin'"). Along with all this are many songs that have worked their way into collective consciousness-- the aformentioned "Everyday People", "Sing a Simple Song", "Everybody is a Star", "Hot Fun in the Summertime", "If You Want Me To Stay"... when I first started listening to Sly and the Family Stone only recently, I was shocked how much of this material I knew.
For fans, in the wake of the recent batch of remasters, this is somewhat undervalued with the band's first seven albums available in remastered sound. This does however include the two singles that were omitted from that remasters-- "Hot Fun in the Summertime" and double-A side "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"/"Everybody is a Star". There's also one track from Sly Stone solo record "High On You" ("I Get High on You"), which has not been reissued.
Sly and the Family Stone's place in music history is a bit undervalued, and I think this collection can go some way towards reconciling that. For the uninitiated, this is the place to start. Highly recommended.
And while the liner notes booklet does provide track details (with a few minor errors), a few pics and a meager group history, this is not the strong point of this piece. The biggest appeal in this set - besides being a nearly complete musical overview - is the vast improvement in sonic quality. Every track is in crystalline stereo, often a revelatory improvement over what has appeared on previous Sly CD's. If you're looking to purchase a Sly best-of compilation, look no further. If you already own previously issued collections, this piece is worth having for the sonic improvements alone. With its minor flaws, this still represents the best Sly "best" to come along.
It wasn't until years later they came out with the "Essential Sly and the Family Stone". This is an excellent collection and feels more complete than "the anthology".
However, now the Collection (seven sly albums remastered and with bonus tracks) is out.
You would think that the Collection would have ALL the Sly tracks. BUT IT DOESN'T. Three singles (that were not on any albums and were singles only) are not in the collection, "Thank you" "Hot Fun in the Summertime" and "Everyone is a Star". As far as I know, these three tracks are only on compliations i.e. "Greatest Hits" "The Anthology" and "The Essential Sly and the Family Stone". The Essential is the only one that is remastered. (It usually makes little difference when they "remaster" tracks but the stereo versions of "Thank You" and "Hot Fun" do sound better).
If you need all the Sly tracks, you might need this for those three tracks. If you want a good compilation of some of sly's best tracks, well, this is the better of the three.
CORRECTION: The Sly and the Family Stone Collection seemed to have gone up to about 65 dollars (it was 55 the last time I checked which is about a week ago)
no great Sylvester masterpiece. I immediately noticed a huge difference with this vs some other
old cds I had over the years. This is more bass and mid range perfection. Nothing missing, nothing added.
This isn't the tinny, clanky sounds that some remasters deliver, but its far more flat and heavy, which are good
adjectives for listening to music with a purists ear like mine. When 'Sing a Simple Song' came on, I about wrecked
the damn car! It was SO awesome. And Runnin Away remains one of my favorites. Some folks like to banter
about with mixes by Prince or Michael Jackson, which are noteworthy artists, but I believe now without a doubt that Prince
didn't just form out of nothing in all his skills (musically or production-wise). I think he looked back at this heavy cat and realized he could (and
should) copy some of his mojo and take it a different direction. You can hear Prince borrowing from Sly quite a bit in fact.
But it all started here, -and Mr James Brown of course. Cheers!
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Reviewed in France on August 10, 2022
が、初聞きの1枚目の1曲目「Underdog」にやられました。
これだけでも十分。
洋邦問わず今でも数多くのフォロワーがいることをあらためて実感。