Sly's later albums
jazzman21
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Like so many people, i'm a Sly fan and have all most of his albums with the family Dance to the..., There's a Riot..., Stand, etc., but after the album "Fresh" for whatever reasons, I just didn't pay any attention to his albums after that. But recently I have gotten curious about these albums and since I've never heard any of them I was hoping ya'll can give me some insight on what good/not good...High on You, Small Talk, Heard ya Missed Me, Back on the Right track, etc.?
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This album is worth picking up for a few dollars. "Remember Who You Are" is a classic track
not as great as anything he did beforehand, but still a nice album overall
Massive cosign. That track has the full package... dope intro, verses and chorus.
DJ Ferrari
"Can't Strain My Brain" is one of my favorite Sly songs. Incidentally, the Canadian and Quadrophonic versions of "Small Talk" both have a break-heavy 32-bar intro to "Time for Livin'" that's not on the regular American issue.
U talkin bout this one...the cover is so dope.
How bout this one....
any one dig the green eyed monster girl cut.. def dig that song , and pretty much every track on the album... Who Do You Love
I listened to 90% of that album and liked what I heard. Never understood why its held in such low regard/slept on.
SG
"If You Want Me To Stay," according to his wife, is about Sly telling her that he's not going to be there for her and his child.
As the late Rick James said, "Cocaine is a hell'uva drug!"
I always was puzzled by the line: "when you know that you're number two, number one's gonna be number one!"
(nice breakin' bread and eatin' curry witcha, Motown!)
I read about that Sly song in a book called "In Their Own Words" or something like. It's a series where they just rely on quotes by the musicians to tell the story. Great series. Anyways, Sly's wife was talking about how Sly basically walked out on her and their child for drugs and recording. She would always call him, and then one day he said, "I wrote this song about you - If You Want Me To Stay." I guess he had to put it into music that he was blowing them off. Pretty cold and another indication that his music was more important than his family at that time.
i got that canadian press - didn't realize there was a difference.
I have a canadian press that's the same as the american one. So i guess you still have to listen to make sure you have the right one (unless there's some other way to tell which is which).
Can't F*** with Loose Booty!!! It doesn't get funkier than that.
Umm, with all due respect, her account sounds like bullshit. "If You Want Me to Stay" was released in 1973. Sly didn't get married until 1974.
Aaah, that just cleared up some long-time confusion on my part. First time I ever heard "Small Talk" was at a friend's house about 15 years ago. I remember we were checking those drums (used on that hum-along song by KMD, right?). Later on when I got my own copy it didn't have that braek fluid, and I was wondering if it was all in my head
Anyway, like Mo67 said, Sly's 70s output should not be slept on. A lot of good tunes on those albums. I thought I had 'em all, but this thread just made me realize that I don't have "Back On The Right Track". I was sure that one was somewhere in my Sly section. Got to fill that hole.
When I get home from vacation I'll look it up in the book. Did they have a kid before or after they got married?
That's a good point since little man looks to be about 2 on the cover of "Small Talk" and that was from the same year he got married.
I seem to remember reading something in the big Mojo piece on Sly from a few years ago to the effect that around the time of "Riot" he was shacking up with wifey and her sister, which is gangster. The Mojo piece was amazingly good considering that it was written by Joel Selvin, who is more or less the rock version of Ricky Vincent.