Sly & the Family Stone - Fresh
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Artist: Sly & the Family StoneEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- In Time
- If You Want Me To Stay
- Let Me Have It All
- Frisky
- Thankful N' Thoughtful
- Skin I'm In
- I Don't Know (Satisfaction)
- Keep On Dancin'
- Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
- If It Were Left Up To Me
- Babies Makin' Babies
Free Music Notes for Fresh
Free Music Review: Funky, Fun and Fresh
Hit: 4 Stars
Surprise! This is the opposite of both Riot and Stand! Not much social commentary here at all, just a lot of funk. And I don't mean dark, intense funk like Riot: the focus here is clearly on the party. It's laid-back, with a lot of slap bass, horns, chanted backup vocals, and lyrics about sex (song titles include "Frisky", "Let Me Have it All" and "Keep on Dancin'"). Probably the Sly album that had the biggest influence on Parliament, now that I think about it. Okay, so the lyrics aren't really the central part of the album, and it is kind of annoying how he reprises "Dance to the Music" on "Keep on Dancin'" (Can't always be an original, I guess). And what inspired him to record "Que Sera, Sera"? Now, I'll be fair here: Nobody could make that song sound good. I learned that the hard way after being subjected to the Doris Day version of the song twice in a twenty-minute time span (I'm not exaggerating there, either!) at an Italian restaurant with good food, funny pictures and bad music. So yeah, that song is horrendous no matter how you slice it, and Sly can't do much for it. There's one more weak song ("If It Was Left Up to Me"), but overall Fresh is excellent. "If You Want Me to Stay" is one of the coolest songs ever with one of the coolest horn parts ever (later slavishly covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers); "In Time" is a good funk jam; "Babies Makin' Babies" and "I Don't Know (Satisfaction)" do make good political statements, and "Frisky", "Thankful `n' Thoughtful" and "Let Me Have it All" are superb songs for booty-shakin'. A big disappointment after Stand! and Riot, sure. Enough good music to make it Sly's third-best, though. This is also the last Sly album that anybody really cares about, for what that's worth.
Fresh Poster
Stripped down and funky beyond words, 1973's Fresh is quite simply the last great album by Sly & the Family Stone. Funkadelic guru George Clinton, a man who knows something about genre cross-wiring, tabbed Fresh as one of his all-time favorites and convinced the Red Hot Chili Peppers to cut "If It Were Left Up To Me" for their 1985 Clinton-produced LP Freaky Styley. Jazz icon Miles Davis reportedly sat his band down to soak up inspiration from multiple playings of Fresh, a work ranked #186 in Rolling Stone's top 500 rock albums of all time. "If You Want Me To Stay," "Frisky" and "If It Were Left Up To Me" all got plenty of airplay and chart action, the last of Sly's works to score such treatment. Following the almost-scary political manifesto of 1971's There's A Riot Goin' On, Fresh seems particularly, well, fresh! And a little nasty too!Coming as it did on the heels of the utterly whacked There's a Riot Goin' On, 1973's Fresh surprised a lot of Sly fans by actually living up to its name. The weariness and paranoia of Riot are totally missing in action, replaced by a relaxed optimism that seems to shine from every note of tracks like "If You Want Me to Stay" and "In Time." The band--newly buttressed by the rhythm section of Rusty Allen and Andy Newmark--plays it loose and funky, and Sly's oddball sense of humor resurfaces on a cover of Doris Day's "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)." Sadly, Sly would never again make a record even half as fresh as Fresh. --Dan Epstein
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