Artist: Sly & The Family Stone
Album: The Essential Sly & The Family Stone
Genre: Funk, R&B, Soul
Label: Epic - Legacy
Released: 1970
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- Underdog (Album Version)
- I Cannot Make It (Album Version)
- Dance to the Music (Album Version)
- Are You Ready? (Album Version)
- Fun (Album Version)
- M'Lady (Album Version)
- Life (Album Version)
- Love City (Album Version)
- Stand! (Album Version)
- Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey (Album Version)
- I Want To Take You Higher (Album Version)
- Somebody's Watching You (Album Version)
- Sing A Simple Song (Album Version)
- Everyday People (Album Version)
- You Can Make It If You Try (Album Version)
- Hot Fun in the Summertime (Single Version)
- Everybody Is a Star (Single Version)
- Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Single Version)
CD 2: - Family Affair (Single Version)
- Luv N' Haight (Single Version)
- Poet (Album Version)
- (You Caught Me) Smilin' (Single Version)
- Runnin' Away (Single Version)
- Brave & Strong (Single Version)
- Just Like a Baby (Album Version)
- Thank You for Talkin' to Me, Africa (Album Version)
- In Time (Album Version)
- If You Want Me to Stay (Album Version)
- Frisky (Album Version)
- Skin I'm In (Album Version)
- Babies Makin' Babies (Album Version)
- If It Were Left Up to Me (Album Version)
- Time For Livin' (Album Version)
- Loose Booty (Album Version)
- I Get High On You (Single Version)
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The Essential Sly & the Family Stone does what a double-CD best-of/career overview should do: it packs a lot of career highlights into a two-disc set for listeners who want more than the basic greatest hits, but don't want every last album. Of course, all of those greatest hits are here, including a few from 1970 that didn't make it onto album releases at the time. As you'd expect, the fattest slice comes from Sly & the Family Stone's late-'60s/early-'70s peak: in fact, most of the tracks from the Stand! and There's a Riot Goin' On albums are here. The fun extras come in the not-too-well-known tracks from pre-Stand! albums and Fresh (which is actually amply represented, with six cuts). This doesn't quite deserve the highest rating, as the post-There's a Riot Goin' On material doesn't keep up the momentum of the rest of the set. Small Talk and Sly Stone's 1975 solo effort, High on You, are wisely lightly plucked, though at least the hits from those albums are the three cuts selected. This deserves better annotation than the cursory liner notes, but otherwise it's an excellent summary of a major rock and soul band.