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Sly & The Family Stone (Stand!, Dance to Music)

Sly & The Family Stone


Get VMP’s exclusive AAA reissues of the second and fourth albums from Sly and the Family Stone. It’s a family affair!

Nutrition Facts

VMP Exclusive Pressing

This is a VMP Exclusive record, and you can't get this specific variation anywhere else.

Exclusive Features

foil stamped Yes
numbered Yes

Other Features

color A Red One and a Blue One & Color Me Two
exclusive VMP Exclusive
label Sony
mastering engineer Ryan Smith
mastering studio Sterling Sound
pressing location GZ Vinyl
release type Reissue
remastering details (AAA) Lacquers Cut From Tapes by Ryan Smith, Sterling Sound

By the Numbers


1LP

format

331/3
RPM

speed

1500

total pressing quantity

12
inch

vinyl size

180
gram

weight

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Description


Dance to the Music was made under duress. Sly Stone had been told by his label boss, Clive Davis, to make something more poppy than the radical vision of funk he’d eventually make on latter albums. Not only did Sly make a hit album, he also accidentally invented the genre of psychedelic soul, wherein everyone from the Temptations to the Isleys started wearing paisley and singing about cosmic brotherhood. What the imitators never got exactly right is the grooves of this version of Sly and the Family Stone: The music here might be pop-oriented and earnest in subject matter, but Sly and his family bring the absolute heat on these nine songs. 
Before making their masterpiece, There’s a Riot Goin’ On, Sly and the Family Stone made their artistic and commercial breakthrough: Stand! the group’s biggest album, one that was immediately followed by a Woodstock performance and the release of a Greatest Hits album that took five of the eight songs from Stand! and put them alongside other earlier hits. The point is: Stand! is a masterful achievement, a moment when a band’s artistic greatness was appropriately recognized by the record buying public, something that rarely happens as cleanly and directly as it did on Stand! Featuring some of the band’s best and most beloved songs, it’s absolutely essential to every record collection that houses it.    

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