Sly and the Family Stone: Most underrated Band of All-Time?

[L.Kizzle]

I mean really, these guys (and gal) never get no respect when the top Bands come up, WHY? Their music is timeless, from 1967-1975 they've had big hits that are still played today all the time. Just watch TV and look at most of those car commercials or commercials in general, it's SLY! They mixed so many styles together, from R&B to Soul to Rock to Psychedelica to of course FUNK! Dude released some of the greatest LP's including the great tale "There's a Riot Goin' On" in 1971.



Underdog (http://youtube.com/watch?v=HMQQcniF2Bg)
Trip To Tour Heart (http://youtube.com/watch?v=XUZYN_AxICw)
Dance To the Music (http://youtube.com/watch?v=CaaistUCHBs)
Everyday People (http://youtube.com/watch?v=-336qHRGv1M)
Sing a Simple Song (http://youtube.com/watch?v=XdZQug0gc-g)
Stand (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dz3tyx8DkVY)
I Want To Take You Higher (http://youtube.com/watch?v=R3QEyMeEfqM)
Don't Call Me ******, Whitey (http://youtube.com/watch?v=B29DV9ly6DE)
Hot Fun in the Summertime (http://youtube.com/watch?v=uRTbugyDq-E)
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=pLAFnV2yzHE) SLAP BASS bishes
Time (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rmo6erWD7po&feature=related)
Family Affair (http://youtube.com/watch?v=-1DZi2A0qlQ)
Runnin' Away (http://youtube.com/watch?v=yr47w9P85-c)
(You Caught Me) Smilin' (http://youtube.com/watch?v=RAo8cucRB9U)
If You Want Me To Stay (http://youtube.com/watch?v=U3t9htxbIAc)
Babies Makin' Babies (http://youtube.com/watch?v=qACFC6aq16Q)
Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=AQZNkzP4kYw)
Loose Booty (http://youtube.com/watch?v=2HZcAl1sn2s)

[LJJ]

I'd put them on the overrated list myself. They aren't any good.

[L.Kizzle]

I'd put them on the overrated list myself. They aren't any good.
Why do you think they're overrated?

[loot]

i think the clash and the cure are pretty underrated.

[kps]

I'd put them on the overrated list myself. They aren't any good.


yer nutz, Sly and the Family Stone are great

[LJJ]

Why do you think they're overrated?

Like I said, because their music isn't that good.

[Bean]

Sly and the Family Stone: Most underrated Band of All-Time?
Real Talk. The bass is givin me chills.

[L.Kizzle]

Real Talk. The bass is givin me chills.
Yeah, Larry Graham for y'all asses.

[boozehound]

I'd put them on the overrated list myself. They aren't any good.
wow, you are a fool. clearly an underrated band in the sense that they were groundbreaking for funk (even if graham didnt actually invent slapping). kids these days may recognize a song or two from commercials, but clearly they do not have the same easy recognition of Jb or clinton.

[L.Kizzle]

I just received some early Sly Stone disc. Homie was gettin' it in well before he made his name with the Family Stone in 67. He was a singer in a Doo-Wop group, a DJ and music producer early on. Man, you can really here his genius from the beginning. A lot of the early stuff surprisingly he did for Billy Preston.

He wrote/produced a top 5 pop hit for Bobby Freeman in 1964 called "C'Mon and Swim" and a hit for the Beau Brummels "Laugh Laugh"


One collection called Precious Stone Sly Stone In The Studio 1963-1965

Sly Stewart: Scat Swim (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6IUvfMYFzw)
Sly: Buttermilk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Ll2AleUY0)
Sly and Billy Preston: Life of Fortune and Fame (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD6hdex_sBg)
Sly and Billy Preston: Take My Advice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lerzTxtIS3U)
Sly: Underdog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aD0Hm3BvWQ)



Listen To The Voices : Sly Stone in the Studio 1965-1970 This disc right here ... Oh my shit!!!!!!!!


The Beau Brummels version of the above song "Underdog" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVephAXGUe8)
The Beau Brummels: Are You Sure (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rpWYC_As9I)
Sly: You Really Got Me (demo of Kinks classic) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBwuMnYsJv8)
Sly & the Family Stone: I Can't Turn You Loose (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1pVJUKE624)
Sly & the Family Stone: Man Does Not Live demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2trPimOUpd0)
Little Sister: Somebody's Watching You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCRkjcQ0KVM)
Little Sister: Stanga (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ANaBgAxio)
Sly Stone and Billy Preston: I Remember (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdNAbhoMEv0)
Abaco Dream: Life and Death in G & A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTEUkd4Ma_w)
6ix: Dynamite (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kKcUczYxdo)
Freddie & the Stone Souls: LSD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnbQpXK7ugo)
Fredie & the Stone Souls: Something About You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4gln8oczk)
Freddie & The Stone Souls: Superfunk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZzQ8BDkz24)

[masonanddixon]

Sly and Family Stone are garbage.

If you want to talk about being underrated, that would be someone like Steely Dan. No one really knows them because they rarely toured but they were probably as good as the Beatles, if not better.

[L.Kizzle]

Sly and Family Stone are garbage.

If you want to talk about being underrated, that would be someone like Steely Dan. No one really knows them because they rarely toured but they were probably as good as the Beatles, if not better.
Who doesn't know Steely Dan? And lol at Sly Stone being garbage. You must be LJJ.

[senelcoolidge]

I really like Sly and the Family Stone. Very talented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NyLl6VAJQ

[ThePhantomCreep]

So underrated. "Hot Time In the Summertime" is my personal favorite. Shame Sly Stone pulled a Dave Chappelle and killed the band before it could even peak.

[BIZARRO]

Favorite Sly tune: Everybody Is A Star

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m29F4FtVo-U

SO good.

[masonanddixon]

Who doesn't know Steely Dan? And lol at Sly Stone being garbage. You must be LJJ.

How many of their songs do you know beyond Rikki Don't lose that number?

Sly and the Family have like 3 good songs man. Beyond that it's blaxploitation

[L.Kizzle]

Sly was an inovater. He had a mixed band who played Rock Soul RnB Folk Jazz Blues. Was one of the first Funkateers. One of the first drum machine users.

[masonanddixon]

Sly was an inovater. He had a mixed band who played Rock Soul RnB Folk Jazz Blues. Was one of the first Funkateers. One of the first drum machine users.

Another reason to not like him.

[L.Kizzle]

Another reason to not like him.
Not a fan of funk? He's more than that.

Not a fan of drum machines? He played accustic drums over it was just used to keep rhythm. Later Family Stone albums were mostly just him im the studio playing guitar, bass, organ and keys, drums, ect.

[LJJ]

It reminds me of the worst jazz I've ever heard, and I love jazz. It's meandering, it never seems to go anywhere. Lacks hooks and ideas. It's the black version of Kenny G, inoffensive sounding but never goes anywhere.

The only right place to play Sly Stone is an elevator.

[L.Kizzle]

It reminds me of the worst jazz I've ever heard, and I love jazz. It's meandering, it never seems to go anywhere. Lacks hooks and ideas. It's the black version of Kenny G, inoffensive sounding but never goes anywhere.

The only right place to play Sly Stone is an elevator.
Sly stone the black Kenny G. I respect your music taste but that's a weird pairing. I can't see Kenny G doing albums like Stand or There's a Riot Goin On.

[LJJ]

It's the black version. Stylistically it's very different, hell it's not even the same genre.

Sly Stone tries to put down a groove, and they half succeed sometimes because they do have a kick ass bass player. Kenny G tries to create those mushy melodies. They are both so lacking any interesting original idea though, they
just sounds like improvisations by people with no talent. Emotionally so bland.

Their meandering grooves of nothingness are perfect for hip hop samples tho, so they got that going for them.

[L.Kizzle]

It's the black version. Stylistically it's very different, hell it's not even the same genre.

Sly Stone tries to put down a groove, and they half succeed sometimes because they do have a kick ass bass player. Kenny G tries to create those mushy melodies. They are both so lacking any interesting original idea though, they
just sounds like improvisations by people with no talent. Emotionally so bland.

Their meandering grooves of nothingness are perfect for hip hop samples tho, so they got that going for them.
I respectfully disagree.

Sly grooves were very inovative. Check the Temptations after Sly took off. Cloud Nine was because of Sly. The Parliaments before Sly were an RnB group. They droppes Testify in 67 ect ect ect. Even the likes of Hendrix and Wonder. Miles Davis used to watch him work in the studio. Herbie H.

Weren't you the guy who said Todd Rundgren was greater than James Brown? If not my bad.

[LJJ]

Todd Rundgren is amazing doe.

[L.Kizzle]

Todd Rundgren is amazing doe.
But for real you telling me you don't feel the song Stand?

[ThePhantomCreep]

Comparing Sly Stone to Kenny G. :facepalm

[ThePhantomCreep]

How many of their songs do you know beyond Rikki Don't lose that number?

Sly and the Family have like 3 good songs man. Beyond that it's blaxploitation

Do It Again, Reeling in the Years, Deacon Blues, Hey Nineteen, etc. Steely Dan have plenty of hits and they're hardly underrated. They're overrated if anything.

[masonanddixon]

Not a fan of funk? He's more than that.

Not a fan of drum machines? He played accustic drums over it was just used to keep rhythm. Later Family Stone albums were mostly just him im the studio playing guitar, bass, organ and keys, drums, ect.

I love funk/groove jazz, but I hate drum machines, of course.

[masonanddixon]

Do It Again, Reeling in the Years, Deacon Blues, Hey Nineteen, etc. Steely Dan have plenty of hits and they're hardly underrated. They're overrated if anything.

lol they literally put out nothing but perfect songs. A song like Aja would be impossible for 99.9999% of other musicians to conceive of.

[ducktape]

sly and the family stone were one of the most influential bands of all time so i wouldn't say they're underrated but they're good

[L.Kizzle]

I love funk/groove jazz, but I hate drum machines, of course.
The drum machine or rhythm machine is not on every track.

[Smoke117]

No, but they are good.

[L.Kizzle]

Miles Davis said "Sly Stone is my only peer."

If This Room Could Talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIuIR0DByLM)

Dynamite! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkPcWe7-lVo)