Sly and the Family Stone Albums Ranked From Worst to Best
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2022
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Sly and the Family Stone was an American band from San Francisco. Active from 1966 to 1983, it was pivotal in the development of funk, soul, rock, and psychedelic music. Its core line-up was led by singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, and included Stone's brother and singer/guitarist Freddie Stone, sister and singer/keyboardist Rose Stone, trumpeter Cynthia Robinson, drummer Greg Errico, saxophonist Jerry Martini, and bassist Larry Graham. It was the first major American rock group to have a racially integrated, male and female lineup.
Formed in 1966, the group's music synthesized a variety of disparate musical genres to help pioneer the emerging "psychedelic soul" sound. They released a series of Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits such as "Dance to the Music" (1968), "Everyday People" (1968), and "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" (1969), as well as critically acclaimed albums such as Stand! (1969), which combined pop sensibility with social commentary.[5] In the 1970s, it transitioned into a darker and less commercial funk sound on releases such as There's a Riot Goin' On (1971) and Fresh (1973), proving as influential as their early work. By 1975, drug problems and interpersonal clashes led to dissolution,[6] though Sly continued to record and tour with a new rotating lineup under the name "Sly and the Family Stone" until drug problems forced his effective retirement in 1987.
The work of Sly and the Family Stone greatly influenced the sound of subsequent American funk, pop, soul, R&B, and hip hop music. Music critic Joel Selvin wrote, "there are two types of black music: black music before Sly Stone, and black music after Sly Stone". In 2010, they were ranked 43rd in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and three of their albums are included on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
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There's music before Sly, and music after Sly, thanks for covering him
Great vid gents. I adore Fresh, Riot and Stand!. Apparently for the cover of Fresh, Sly isn't actually kicking in the air. They say he was so out of it he's actually face down on glass, with the photographer underneath, shooting up at our star. Bless him.
One of my all time faves. Great show guys. Sly was loved by Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Prince among others, and you can't overstate his impact on popular music in the 60's and 70's. To me, he's one of the greatest American songwriters to have ever lived.
1. There's a Riot Goin' On - 5
Thank you TLM for devoting a week to this great band. (Nothing below 3 stars for me. Even though there was the inevitable dip in quality in the later years for various reasons, there's is always something that kept me engaged on those records)
I've only listened to Riot and Stand all the way through, but this video inspired me to take a deeper look. Really enjoyed this one guys, always good to have you back in the 70s.
My 2nd time watching this. All 3 of you guys have incredible insight on this discography
Good to see you guys exposed to a ‘new’ artist not heard before. His music has been in my regular listening for a few decades and it’s fantastic. Rivals Stevie even
Love Sly’s music, personally think he is one of the most underrated talents of that era- under appreciated as a composer, an arranger & a producer. And what a band.
Loved this guys! Huge sly fan. Thanks!
Love me a bit of Sly, another excellent episode guys. My fave is Stand but i think their best is Riot. Prince definitely owes a lot to Sly.
Huge props for covering Sly in your rankings!!!!! Their biggest hits were in the 60's but
This is your best ranking since your X ranking - it helps that Sly and X are two of my all time favorite musical acts.
Wow, I had no idea you guys were going to do the Family Stone this week. What a coincidence. I watched the Woodstock documentary last week and I started listening to their albums because I was blown away by their performance of "I Want to Take You Higher" at the festival. Fantastic band. Very underappreciated nowadays, and extremely influential on R&B, soul, funk and hip hop that would appear in the future. You barely hear any of their music, at least in Australia where I live. And at the time they were groundbreaking for being one of the first truly integrated hugely popular mainstream rock/pop/R&B bands. Their sound which appealed to both the R&B/soul audience and the roc audience netted them huge hits in the late-60s/early-70s
Nice show. I am truly appreciative of your foray into funk. I'd love you to dive deeper--go all in with a P-Funk week. But Sly and the Family Stone are great for now.
As the 60s turned into the 70s, the giant musical icons shaped the things to come (Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown) - but even they were all looking at what one man and his band were doing and eagerly licked it up to incorporate his ideas into their new sound. It is almost impossible to imagine what music after 1969 would even have been like without Sly!
Sooooo excited for next week!!! 😄
So I’m super hyped for Cocteau Twins because they’re my favorite band. But at the same time I don’t think I can emotionally handle anything negative being said about them. That’s how much I love them and every note they ever recorded.
One of my 6 or 7 favorite catalogs - happy you did it! Wish you knew more about those times - there's more going on that you guys missed, although Joe was catching on. The racial and sexual politics were DEEP. "Chicken," for instance, was about how young people were being pushed to doing dangerous things* - drugs, crime, sex. When Cynthia sings, "call me what you want," but you know the pressure to "put out" is heavy. *I know - like they are now.
Good on you Joe for rating A Whole New Thing so high. I listened to it once a long time ago, not very closely. Recently I listened to it again and was blown away. Really revolutionary funk & psychedelic soul debut. Absolutely amazing this came out in 67 - Sly Stone invented 70s (and beyond) black music here!. Dance to the Music feels more commercial and less interesting to me, though still groovy.