Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
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Artist: Sly & The Family StoneEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-07-13
Music Label: Sony Legacy
Soundtracks:
- Stand!
- Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey
- I Want To Take You Higher
- Somebody'S Watching You
- Sing A Simple Song (Single Version)
- Everyday People (Single Version)
- Sex Machine
- You Can Make It If You Try
- Stand! (Single Version)
- I Want To Take You Higher (Single Version)
- You Can Make It If You Try (Single Version)
- Soul Clappin' II
- My Brain (Zig-Zag) (Instrumental)
Free Music Notes for Stand!
Free Music Review: Great Innovator of the Late 1960's, Early 1970s
Hit: 5 Stars
"Stand" was the fourth album recorded by Sly and the Family Stone for CBS Records. "Sly and the Family Stone," were one of the best, and most innovative bands of the late 1960's and early 70's, pioneering a funky psychedelic soulful kind of rock that was widely influential, and would ultimately help create disco. They had five American Top Ten hits, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
Sly Stone, born Sylvester Stewart to a church-going family in Denton, TX, had already achieved some local fame in San Francisco, California, as a radio disk jockey/musician/producer, when he was "discovered" by CBS Records' great president/talent scout Clive Davis. Davis signed Sly to CBS's subsidiary Epic Records; the label that recorded and released all his greatest songs. Anyway, it took them a couple of tries, but their fourth album, "Stand!" was the breakout hit, selling more than three million copies, and introducing us to "Everyday People." You'll find that song, and many of the group's other hit singles here, including, of course, "Stand!" Also "I Want to Take You Higher," "You Can Make it If You Try," and "Sing a Simple Song."
The group played Woodstock that famed three-day concert fest, in upstate New York in 1969, and had a great triumph there. But as the innocent, feel good, do good 60's turned into the harsher, more self-centered 70's, Sly came under great pressures, from his record company to produce more, and from the Black Panther Party, and other extremist black organizations, to produce more militant music. Unfortunately, he reacted by falling into drug problems, and reclusiveness. He became known for missing gigs entirely, or showing up late, and in bizarre dress; he frequently walked offstage and left in the middle of a song, as he did at the 2006 Grammies. But in a former life, I was lucky enough to be one of 20,000 people at the group's June 5, 1974 concert at New York's Madison Square Garden. Sly married Kathleen Silva onstage that day; more to the point, he had the audience up and boogieing along with him; and those 20,000 people did actually rock the immense hall: it sounded like rolling thunder. Betcha he can still make it if he tries.
Stand! Poster
Stand!, the fourth album from Sly & the Family Stone, could have almost pulled double-duty as a greatest hits package for the band. Laced with sure-fire winners, this 1969 LP put Sly and Co. firmly on the road to super-stardom. Four of the album's seven songs, including the Hall of Fame tracks "Everyday People" and "I Want To Take You Higher," shot straight into the national charts. This visionary work also introduced far-sighted FM radio stations to the goosebump-inducing sounds of "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey," a song that accurately portrayed racial tensions in America in a manner that no one could have seen coming. On a musical level, the band was now tight as a cork in a bottle of vintage wine. No doubt about it: Stand! has to be the tastiest mélange ever of rock, politics, funk and soul!Need proof of how great Sly and The Family Stone were? Just check out the track listing for Stand! The title track, "I Want to Take You Higher". "You Can Make it if You Try", "Everyday People",(before it was a car commercial)--and this isn't even the greatest hits package! Hippies with attitude (and serious soul moves), Stone and crew were one of the most influential and free-wheeling forces in R&B/rock. Stand shows why. Gut bucket bass lines (thank you Larry Graham), joyous take-you-there anthems, and seething racial politics that made you move--and think--while on the dance floor. --Amy Linden
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