Sly and the Family Stone - Just Like a Baby

[duecepoppi1]

this music is above a critique from youtubers this is pioneering monumental and very historical american music. long live sly !!!!!!!!

[Cooksto]

Sly STONE : Esthétique Psychédélique Communicative !!

À la manière d'un Solfège à la croisée des Langages. L'écoute du Travail de Sly STONE & THE FAM. agit comme un curseur sur l' Inspiration des Artistes. De plus les sonorités de leurs deux albums '' Dance To The Music '' et '' Life '' vont influencer significativement l'Industrie Musicale. Et c'est ainsi que le langoureux son de la Motown, basé sur le piano, fût bientôt dépassé mais aussitôt remplacé par la Soul Psychédélique.

[novarye]

A great song, Sly is the man I dont care that hes in a bad spot nowadays I will always have respect and love for Sly & The Family Stone

[tristramshandy3]

Funk-a-licious!

[PinedaJeans]

So much is said in those moans and growls

[ImaniHekima]

He's moaning the blues....just like many did before. Loving the comments I've read here.

[javiikiller]

This song is drug.

[rightlydividtheword]

Everything about this group spelled nothing but some original "hot funk" there work was creativity at it's best and timeless.

[CHEVYBOY951]

2 FAGS DIDNT FEEL THIS REAL MUZICC

[HolidayKirk]

@CHEVYBOY951 No reason to bring hate into this, man.

[CHEVYBOY951]

@HolidayKirk YEA UR RITE BUT WHO DONT LIKE SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE LOL

[IC114283]

This is my favourite album from Sly :)

[MrArsg13]

its FUNK

[mh1909sci]

this song is fucking beautiful

[noroofs]

you hear sly's bed creek in as he sings this masterpiece.. meanin that that is all he had to do while recordin riot... and groupies and massive amounts of drugs

[cheekymonkey1979]

This song, like most of Sly's songbook, is beyond all criticism. It cannot be touched or harmed.

[EarlofSuave308]

I am feeling the funky groove. What a great record!

[digitalpapa55]

For me, this song gives sound to the feelings one feels when one has tried to do the best one can and chit still don't work. The way he crush grooves the keyboard notes about mid-way song is devastatingly nasty. I love Sly.  Perry Cox TU 4 this post.

[goPistons06]

i'll do like snoop would say "we gonna smoke an ounce to this"...

[mssvic88]

JUST DONT LISTEN TO IT SLY AINT THE ONLY ONE WHO MESSED HIS LIFE OFF ON DRUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YET HE IS STILL A GENIUS!!!! U COMPUTER CRITICS GET ON MY DAMN NERVES NEVER NOTHING POSITIVE TO SAY!!!!!! SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cubanitaa]

1 of my fave Sly songs ever

[bongoloid77]

The dirtiest blues... I've never heard a bass so full of woe n groove... everything about this album makes things slow down to a certain pace n jus GROOOVE...sly is almost incomprehensible on certain tracks... a total reflection of what was goin on in his mind and the outside world...

[VampireYouth]

John Legend completely ripped this off on his track "She Don't Have To Know".

[poskinful]

super whaow

[RATMfan92]

Clearly the druggiest tune on this album.

Amazingly chill. And listen to that groove on 1:24 - 1:38!

That is like the funkiest, stankiest slow groove on earth. I just keep playing that little part over and over :P

[Frownland81]

@RATMfan92

Yes, it is a very druggie tune, just as I said, most of "There's a Riot Goin On" is the best album to crash to heavy coke usage to. Since Sly was a basehead, I imagine he knew those sensations all too well, and he captures the inescapable depression of crashing from a certain white stimulant after your supply has run out. Still, this is a superb album, and I mean every statement I have made about "Just Like a Baby" being druggy, spacey, and world weary as a compliment.

[Alexltavares]

Aww man such a wonderful, soulful tune. I love playin this bassline! I believe Larry played the bass on this track, though not sure this was Greg on drums. You can hear Larry's and Freddie's background vocals here.

[bongoloid77]

@Alexltavares

Oh its Larry for sure... the bump de bump percussive thang... he left after this to form GCS and Rustee Allen took over

[GrumpyPancake]

My favorite song on the album!

First 30 seconds are UNBELIEVABLE

[POW3RTOTHEP3OPL3]

The most soulful and funkfilled man to ever walk this earth, the man was BAD.

[GingerMMM]

Lot of music critics ... including me

ramshackle? disappointed? digging his musical grave?

that's sad....

i guess for me it's a soulful groove from beginning to end....

raw & smooth at the same time...melodic.... harmonizing....

mmmmm mmmmm MMMMMM.... the kind that makes u close ur eyes and escape into it - the kind that when it's over... it leaves u wanting more

with the windows down in the SUV this one pours from the speakers & subwoofers with that heavy bass... cause that's how i roll

[KATAO333]

@GingerMMM Damn RIght!!!!! I like the Poetry in your Reply messing with this tune

are album is like dissing Robert Johnson this album changed the face of American

Music Period.

[frenchiemjl]

OL' school. this whole album is FAT!

[earnestmorrissey]

@frenchiemjl Your whole MOMMA is fat.

[michaeljulius119]

Yes this song carry's a certain type of melancholy undertone, but far from ramshackle. Rhythically this song/album carries a style of funk unheard of in urban music until it's release. The singing utilizes what's called in some church circles as "Dr. Watts." It incorporates more moaning than actual words. It helped make Al green, The Ohio Players, The Barkays, George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic and a host of other urban/black music groups. It's simply too "soulful" for somes taste.

[borbetomagus]

@michaeljulius119 This is one of my favorite tracks on the album, but I guess I've always felt it was performed about 15-20% too fast. I imagine no producer would ever allow a dirge as I'm describing to be a second track -- especially from a performer previously known for more upbeat, life-affirming music. Then again, Sly Stone produced the album.... I'm just disappointed he didn't go all the way (with a slower performance), since it sounds like he was already digging his musical grave.

[SandozSaxonWilliams]

@borbetomagus

just how much heroin do you want?...actually, no man, slower would be interesting and a much different exp...

for me, this is just about as down as you can get

[Frownland81]

This is arguably the most haunting, depressed, and ramshackle track from 1971's classic, haunting, depressed, and ramshackle album "There's a Riot Goin' On", or as I like to call it "the best album ever to crash to heavy coke usage to".

[phunkidruma]

@Frownland81 true story ...u r 2 funny...these lil yungbloods don't even know the FUN we had!!!!!!!!

[phunkidruma]

@Frownland81lol.. u r too funny....very true story... these lil youngbloods cannot comprehend the FUN we had!!!!!!!....geeked up

[MrHopeTelevision]

@Frownland81 you're arguably a weasel

[BuddhismForRobots]

YES.....