Tracks
- Stand!
- Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey
- I Want to Take You Higher
- Somebody's Watching You
- Sing a Simple Song
- Everyday People
- Sex Machine
- You Can Make It If You Try
Stand! is a complex album. At its heart, it's a funk album. Sly and the Family Stone lay down some of the heaviest and thickest grooves you'll ever hear. However, it's got more melody than a straight funk album. It also jams more like a psychedelic rock album than a soul or funk album.
This album really comes out of nowhere, at least on the 1001 Albums list. There's just nothing else between the soul and funk of James Brown and Sam Cooke in the mid 1960s and this album. With this album and its heavy rocking groove, Sly Stone has charted the course for black music in the 1970s. This album should have been ordered before The Temptations' Cloud Nine since it was released earlier.
I think this is one of the best albums I've ever heard. It has a great sound and a great attitude. There is more hope for humanity in Everyday People than in any other song so far on this list. You Can Make It If You Try is obvious in its positivity, but Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey is more subtle. The other songs are just as uplifting, but more from the music than from the lyrics.
The stand out songs are Stand!, Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey, I Want to Take You Higher, Sing a Simple Song, Everyday People and You Can Make It If You Try.
★★★★★★★★★★
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