Playlist: The Very Best of Sly & the Family Stone

Performer: Sly & the Family Stone
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Sony/Legacy's 2009 set PLAYLIST is a terrific budget-line collection of Sly & the Family Stone's hits, containing every one of their huge hits from "Dance to the Music" to Sly's solo "I Get High on You." While there are some charting singles like "Running Away" and "Loose Booty" missing," this has all their anthems -- "Family Affair," "Stand!," "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)," "Hot Fun in the Summertime," "Everybody Is a Star," "Everyday People," "I Want to Take You Higher," "If You Want Me to Stay," "You Can Make It If You Try" -- making this an excellent collection of the group's basics.

Sylvester Stewart, known to the world as Sly Stone, had a musical vision that coalesced quickly in the late 1960s and sadly disintegrated after half a decade. As the leader of Sly & the Family Stone, he and his combination hippie commune/soul revue melded funk with psychedelia in a revolutionary manner. Sly's lyrical themes shifted from peace and love to scathing social commentaries that made for some of the strongest political statements of the era. Unfortunately, by the turn of the decade he began to lose himself in a netherworld of drug addiction from which he never really recovered.

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