| | |  | Music | Home » » Greatest Hits | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| August 28, 2007 | | Studio:
| Sony | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Format:
| Original recording remastered | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 17 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | I Want To Take You Higher | | 2. | Everybody Is A Star | | 3. | Stand! | | 4. | Life | | 5. | Fun | | 6. | You Can Make It If You Try | | 7. | Dance To The Music | | 8. | Everyday People | | 9. | Hot Fun In The Summertime | | 10. | M'Lady | | 11. | Sing A Simple Song | | 12. | Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) | |
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 Boom Acka Lacka Lacka Boom!Jul 30, 2010
One of the men who can lay an honest calling to "Father of Funk" is Sly Stone, and this brief but effective best of maps it out brilliantly. When I was in high school and on the Wrestling Team, there were "Sports Buses" that took team members home after practice. In reality, they were Ford Vans, but they also had 8-Track players. Our driver was this burly, bearded bear of a man named Terry, and he almost always had this album in the 8-track. I have many memories of going home on dark winter evenings as "Hot Fun In The Summertime" and "Everyday People" would play.
Forty years later and I'm still digging it. Sly cross pollinated funk, rock, 60's psychedelic and a decidedly political bent and emerged with not just the first truly integrated rock band to create hit records, but anthems that partied and thought out loud. While Stone's eventual personal disintegration happened after this anthology was released (meaning it's missing "If You Want Me to Stay" and "Family Affair"), what's here is still extraordinary in its power.
After all, if you can't smile to the hits here, you're probably too old or old enough to have gone deaf. "Stand!," "Thank You (Fallettinme Be Micelf Agaon)" and "Dance To The Music" are still guaranteed crowd pleasers, and the non/lesser-hits like "You Can Make It" and "Sing A Simple Song" will pack the party. Which is the cool thing about this Greatest Hits. Stone may have had a little gas left in the tank, but this album was released at a peak moment in his creative timeline. You can pop it in and it rings joyously from beginning to end, holding together like a whole album and not just a collection of singles. To this day, it remains a classic time capsule for creativity in American Music.
 It was exactly what I was looking for!!!Mar 11, 2010
It is nice to have a place to go to from the comfort of your home and be able to find music I listened to as a kid and as a new CD. The sound was even better then I remembered. Thanks!!!
Be for his time!Feb 14, 2010
Sly and the Family were before their time. Funk, pop, soul where do you put this rag tag group of multi talented wild people!? A woman in the horn section! Mind blowing good!
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 It's been re-issued as re-mastered, but still short and incompleteFeb 04, 2010
You know, I'd buy this collection from Sly and the Family Stone but it still only contains the original 12 tracks of it's initial 1970 release. And every track on here is great. He does have some gay sounding 70's tunes that I'm glad are not here, but there are still two classic high pop charters from 1971 and 1973 from Sly and the Family Stone that could make this collection a whole lot better.
If they added "Family Affair" and "If You Want Me To Stay" as bonus tracks, this CD would be ultimately complete as a greatest hits CD of Sly and the Family Stone. I know there is a double CD of the best of Sly and the Family Stone, but that's just way too much Sly and the Family Stone to have to sit through. And, like I said, he's got some really pansy sounding tunes.
Now, Columbia did good when they re-released Donovan's greatest hits, and the Hollies greatest hits, by adding their few extra charted hits after the albums initial release, so why can't they improve on Sly and the Family Stone? If Santana's greatest hits had the full version of "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen", I'd buy that CD. When Columbia released the first CD of Blood, Sweat, and Tears, they gave us the full versions of all the songs (even though they printed the shorter 45 versions time lengths on the back). When they re-released their greatest hits as re-mastered, they then gave us the original 45 versions as the original album was released in the 70's. I'm glad I still have the first CD issue.
I guess I'll just have to make my own "best of CD" of Sly and the Family Stone. Heck, I'm sure alot of people are doing that anyway.
sly & the family stone greatest hitsJan 31, 2010
I love this cd so much that I had to replace the first one that was lost.
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