Sly & the Family Stone - Greatest Hits (2015) Audio Fidelity SACD FLAC Beolab1700

Sly & the Family Stone - Greatest Hits (2015) Audio Fidelity SACD FLAC Beolab1700

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Sly & the Family Stone - Greatest Hits
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Artist...............: Sly & the Family Stone
Album................: Greatest Hits
Genre................: Funk
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2015
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 67 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........: CD Layer only

Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 27/10/2015

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Tracklisting
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01. I Want to Take You Higher (3:05)
02. Everybody Is a Star (3:04)
03. Stand! (3:10)
04. Life (3:01)
05. Fun (2:24)
06. You Can Make It If You Try (3:44)
07. Dance to the Music (3:00)
08. Everyday People (2:23)
09. Hot Fun in the Summertime (2:40)
10. M’Lady (2:45)
11. Sing a Simple Song (3:06)
12. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (4:50)

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Released in 1970 during the stopgap between Stand! and There’s a Riot Goin’ On, Greatest Hits inadvertently arrived at precisely the right moment, summarizing Sly & the Family Stone‘s joyous hit-making run on the pop and R&B charts.
Technically, only four songs here reached the Top Ten, with only two others hitting the Top 40, but judging this solely on charts is misleading, since this is simply a peerless singles collection.
This summarizes their first four albums perfectly (almost all of Stand! outside of the two jams and “Somebody’s Watching You” is here), adding the non-LP singles “Hot Fun in the Summertime,” “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),” and “Everybody Is a Star,” possibly the loveliest thing they ever recorded. But, this isn’t merely a summary (and, if it was just that, Anthology, the early-’80s comp that covers Riot and Fresh would be stronger than this), it’s one of the greatest party records of all time. Music is rarely as vivacious, vigorous, and vibrant as this, and captured on one album, the spirit, sound, and songs of Sly & the Family Stone are all the more stunning. Greatest hits don’t come better than this — in fact, music rarely does.

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