Here are twelve covers of the album’s classic tracks.ĭigg Deep – I Want to Take You Higher (Sly & the Family Stone cover)
Some of the latter have helped themselves to this gold mine and brought it to listeners in their own way.
Greatest Hits is a gold mine of joy, and the rewards have been evident to both fans and bands. Sly Stone’s gift for irresistible dance songs is a matter of world acclaim, but his gift for political anthems that are uplifting but never simplistic or sentimental is a gas. The rhythms, the arrangements, the singing, the playing, the production, and–can’t forget this one–the rhythms are inspirational, good-humored, and trenchant throughout, and on only one cut (“Fun”) are the lyrics merely competent. If not a cynical cash grab, it was at least within smelling distance.īut a funny thing happened – they scooped up some of the best singles of the sixties, when Sly Stone was writing songs emphasizing the coming together of all races, creeds, and colors into one big party, and the result was what Robert Christgau called “among the greatest rock and roll LPs of all time.” In his A+ review, he went on: So they put together Sly and the Family Stone’s Greatest Hits. Sly and the Family Stone hadn’t recorded anything new in a year, and the record label wanted to keep Sly’s name in the public consciousness – and if they could make a little money in the bargain, so much the better.
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