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― Cub, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 06:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
why are these late-mid period Sly CDs out of print, and his last coupla albums relatively easy to track down now??
― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 10:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 10:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
Plus, from the late records, the aforementioned "Crossword Puzzle," the title track of "Small Talk," "Same Thing (Makes You Laugh, Makes You Cry"), "Loose Booty." And from one of the early ones, "Advice."
― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 11:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dadaismus, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 12:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
(Plus I really want to know what the fucking chords in Family Affair are).
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
i rate his albums like this:riotstandwhole new thingfreshdance to the music/life
i like the others in the 70s but his songwriting was going down the pan a bit, already.
― ppp, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
S: "Underdog," a song I love to kick a mixtape off with.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Presumably this isn't referring to the Electric Spanking of War Babies. The tracks from that album that Sly collaborated on are brilliant!
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Shakey Mo, do ya know what I own? The "Riot" SONGBOOK, with all 'em in it. I can't believe I ever found this, but I do have it, and if you want the chords to any of the songs, be glad to e-mail them to you, make copies and regular mail them, whatever. ("Family Affair" is actually quite simple!)
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link
the lack of a closing quotation mark here had me thinking that sly had recorded a song entitled ""ha ha, hee hee, and sly's so out of tune he's nearly pushed out of that song altogether"
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link
is out of print too, and fucking hard to track down.
― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 08:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― ppp, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah. no market for that.
― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link
ILM, I KISS YOU!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― ppp, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― ppp, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link
many others...
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― ppp, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link
The series is called For the Record, not Off the Record.
< /pedant >
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1841955914/qid=1116503480/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_8_3/026-8727259-6275608
― stevie (stevie), Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― ppp, Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Destroy: Dance to the Music. I agree with Shakey: aside from the singles, this album doesn't really do anything for me. I haven't heard the post-High Epic/Warner Bros LPs, so I can't comment on 'em.
― Vic Funk, Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― JayBabcock (jabbercocky), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force (Sparkle Motion's Rising Force), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
WTF does this even mean? I can understand if they weren't actually that into the four-on-the-snare Motown beats because they wanted to be doing funk, but to suggest that Sly had some other, hipper style in mind that he never got around to playing is such bullshit.
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
It’s possible I just wrote more words than have been written in aggregate on that record over the last forty-two years.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 18 May 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
I think you're overstating the "interesting" aspects of Heard Ya Missed Me by quite a lot.
I don't understand how Sly mimicking the Philly Soul sound is a good thing at all. I mean, Philly Soul and McFadden and Whitehead are fine, but I find it really disappointing that someone as unique as Sly would ditch his one of a kind sound for a (sub-par) imitation of what was essentially a cookie cutter operation. To me, that just magnifies the record's shortcomings.
At least he still sounds like himself on High on You. Granted, a not as good version of his previous self, but still undeniably him.
I feel like Heard Ya Missed Me could have been made by any number of people.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 18 May 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
I don't really think he's mimicking Philly Soul that much tbh.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 18 May 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
Neither do I. I noted the two songs he did seem to be – one was a small flourish on Heard Ya Missed Me, the other was on High On You.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 18 May 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
Sly documentary in 2019!
https://deadline.com/2018/12/sly-and-the-family-stone-feature-documentary-winter-state-entertainment-1202526757/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 28 December 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
Sounds terrible tbh
― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 December 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
horrible title.
In all honesty I am amazed that Sly still lives. If he's making the money he's due now, then bless him.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 28 December 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
Sure, agreed. But a movie about his last 10 yrs as a crack addic trying to get paid sounds like a p grim one
― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 December 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
Uh yeah. I don’t really have a lot of desire to gawk at Sly in his present state.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 28 December 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
Posting this interview as a tribute to Dr. Morbius since the portrait picture you usually see of him was taken by the interviewee:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gbUGS8sots
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 October 2020 04:04 (three years ago) link
Newmark kills it on “in time.” What a groove
― calstars, Sunday, 11 July 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
I'd say Fresh is his second-best record.
It appears that the documentary mentioned two and a half years ago is still unreleased. It's amazing that George Clinton seems to have been the only person in the last 40 years to bring anything to completion with Sly, who is also just about the only person in Clinton's memoirs who receives a vivid portrait. Clinton spends a lot more time in his book talking about ideas than other people.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 11 July 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
not trying to be aggressive or argumentative here, but i thought that was the generally accepted consensus? riot and fresh the firm 1 + 2, with the #3 spot *usually* going to stand, but even that was never as firm a lock as the top two.
"skin i'm in" popped up yesterday while shuffling my ipod and, MAN YES, calstars! newmark just owns the whole album and rusty allen is right there with him. just some super fat, warm grooves all over that album. very dope.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Sunday, 11 July 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
Yeah. I don’t want to disparage Ericco though, he is fantastic on the earlier stuff, full of groove and space. I guess Sly could pick ‘em
― calstars, Sunday, 11 July 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
I guess I'm remembering the Rolling Stone Top 100 1967 to 1987 list, which contained BOTH Stand and Greatest Hits, despite the latter record containing about 90% of what people want to hear on the former.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 12 July 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
that line about the midget does not fly in 2021. #slyiscancelledparty
― peace, man, Monday, 12 July 2021 01:31 (two years ago) link
Fresh > Riot > [if we can't choose the classic pre-Riot Greatest Hits] Dance To The Music (the medley is just sublime, some of the most exciting music comitted to tape, and as great as Stand! is, Sex Machine and the long, turgid Don't Call Me ****** are hard skips for me)
― burnt hombre (stevie), Monday, 12 July 2021 08:15 (two years ago) link
And I really love large chunks of Small Talk, High On You and Back On The Right Track
― burnt hombre (stevie), Monday, 12 July 2021 08:16 (two years ago) link
Relistening to Sex Machine now and hush my mouth, it is a jam. Stll think Dance To The Music is the stronger album, though.
― burnt hombre (stevie), Monday, 12 July 2021 08:36 (two years ago) link
Fresh > Riot
correct
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 July 2021 10:21 (two years ago) link
Fresh is great, but Riot is the greatest album of all time
― J. Sam, Monday, 12 July 2021 14:09 (two years ago) link
I was at a yard party last weekend where the hosts were spinning Greatest Hits and I told my friend it seemed at the time, on that sultry summer day, to be the best record ever.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 12 July 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/eGm2Pqo.pngCynthia ❤️
― calstars, Monday, 12 July 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
Timing.
Fantastic news: @NovenaCarmel just revealed that #SummerofSoul director @questlove will be making a documentary about her dad, Sly Stone. pic.twitter.com/CSANjx8WL9— Яandall 🎧 Яoberts (@LilEdit) July 12, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 July 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
Fantastic news... Summer Of Soul is just brilliant, one of the best music documentaries I've ever seen.
― burnt hombre (stevie), Monday, 12 July 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
OMG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sgxbpFfk0M
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 02:55 (one year ago) link
Whenever they knew Sly was gonna miss a gig they should have sent that dude out there and let the chips fall...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
That would be almost as hilarious as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5C2woQLgto
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 04:36 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMQhO-ee-Cw
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 06:59 (one year ago) link
eat your heart out mike flowers pops
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
at least the Dick Jensen video had a recommend for this (although, bass player absolutely ruled):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ_QaEir7FU
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link