Track Listing

1. Stand!
2. Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey
3. I Want To Take You Higher
4. Somebody's Watching You
5. Sing A Simple Song
6. Everyday People
7. Sex Machine
8. You Can Make It If You Try
9. Stand! (single version)
10. I Want To Take You Higher (single version)
11. You Can Make It If You Try (unissued single version)
12. Soul Clappin' II
13. My Brain (Zig-Zag) (instrumental)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4924 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

From Amazon.com
Need proof of how great Sly and The Family Stone were? Just check out the track listing for Stand! The title track, "I Want to Take You Higher". "You Can Make it if You Try", "Everyday People",(before it was a car commercial)--and this isn't even the greatest hits package! Hippies with attitude (and serious soul moves), Stone and crew were one of the most influential and free-wheeling forces in R&B/rock. Stand shows why. Gut bucket bass lines (thank you Larry Graham), joyous take-you-there anthems, and seething racial politics that made you move--and think--while on the dance floor. --Amy Linden

Customer Reviews

this album is fantastic
this album really is an amazing album. it has a quality which liberates the mind from the drudgery of everyday life and shows us what life should be about. all the songs are great from the long but humourus jam of "sex machine" to the angry scream of "don't call me nigger, whitey". the lyrics are also worth a mention on this album; "everyday people" and "stand" both contain really great and memorable lines that leave a lasting impression. however, all this aside, "i wanna take you higher" is the song that makes this album a masterpiece. it drives with such a force that it causes you to forget the troubles of your day and instead live the ecstacy within the music. the song is a five minute anthem of pure gospel/funk/rock. it will have you dancing like a fool while you clap and sing. this album should be bought for "i wanna take you higher," alone.