So what I've done is taken pretty much every good song from the band I could find up through and including 1970 and gathered them into an album. There already has been a big Sly and the Family Stone box set, but only one relevant unreleased song appeared on it. But even though the proposed album had a title, I don't think it ever got to the point of having a song list. I've decided to try to put together a 1970 studio album instead.
#SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE GREATEST HITS 1970 RAR PLUS#
It contained the three stand-alone hits, plus earlier hits, and was a huge seller. For instance, he became notorious for showing up late to his band's concerts, if he showed up at all.Īs a result of a lack of progress on a new album, the record company decided to put out a "Greatest Hits" album to give the fans something while everyone waited for a new album. They released three hit singles in late 1969 that didn't appear on any album: "Hot Fun in the Summertime," "Everybody Is a Star," and "Thank You "Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin." But at the same time, Sly Stone was falling deeper and deeper into serious drug addiction, and was becoming increasingly erratic and unproductive. However, the band was still very popular. He'll call it 'The Incredible and Unpredictable Sly and the Family Stone.' It's a line out of one of Epic's publicity releases last year."īut the months passed, and no new album emerged. In the Maissue of Rolling Stone Magazine, an article about band leader Sly Stone stated: "Now he's finishing up an album, the most optimistic of all, with Sly Stone having gauged his power around the country. It turns out there were plans for an album in between. Heck, in 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival released three hit studio albums of mostly original material! Today, a gap like that would be typical, or even slightly speedy. But that's two and a half years between albums. In November 1971, that band released the album "There's a Riot Goin' On." Both albums are great, and are on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the top 500 albums of all time. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.In May 1969, the Sly and the Family Stone album "Stand!" was released. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Brackett, Nathan Hoard, Christian (eds.). Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. ^ a b 'Sly and the Family Stone: Greatest Hits'.All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide to Popular Music. In Bogdanov, Vladimir Woodstra, Chris Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (eds.). ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2001).^ '500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time'.Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). ^ a b 'American album certifications – Sly & the Family Stone'.
'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)'/
Little Sister (Vet Stone, Mary McCreary, Elva Mouton) - background vocals.Cynthia Robinson - trumpet, vocal ad-libs.Sly Stone - vocals, organ, guitar, piano, harmonica, and more.'Everybody is a Star', 'Hot Fun in the Summertime' and 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)' are all new to album.'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)' – 4:47.Superscripts denote original album sources, referenced below. Īll songs written by Sylvester Stewart, and produced and arranged by Sly Stone for Stone Flower Productions. Christgau asserted that the music's flashy stereo separations, vocal sounds, and register alterations made Greatest Hits 'the toughest commercial experiments in rock and roll history'. He said that Stone's political songs are 'uplifting but never simplistic or sentimental', and found the rhythms particularly exceptional, calling them 'inspirational, good-humored, and trenchant throughout'. Although he found occasionally 'trite' music and lyrics, Landau felt that most of the songs 'alone stand as a tribute to one of the most original and creative rock musicians.' In Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau said that, although he has 'doubts' about the band's studio albums, Greatest Hits is 'among the greatest rock and roll LPs of all time', with 'only one cut ('Fun')' wherein the lyrics are 'merely competent'. In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, music critic Jon Landau said that Sly Stone's style is 'so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles', the best of which are compiled on Greatest Hits.
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