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  • mike white youre tight.

    -antwaun dixon

  • Mike white anybody?

  • Sly's first album had much more complex arrangements. After the first album he simplified his arrangements a little bit. It obviously helped to make his music more accessible to a wider audience. 'Dance To The Music' was where everyone joined the party, and Motown took notice and followed Sly's template for their new pschedelic direction, assigning Norman Whitfield to The Temptations and adapting their sound to the musical revolution that Sly & The Family Stone had ushered in.

  • captivating.. I can't believe I've never heard this before....

  • Sly marquait déjà sa différence en 61 lorsqu'il rejoignit le groupe de Soul THE VISCAYNES (Formation Doo-wop Multi-Ethniques). Cette ligne de démarcation se confirme de la même manière lorsqu'il décida de diffuser les disques des BEATLES, Bob DYLAN ou ROLLING STONES quelques années plus tard,à une période ou Sly intervenait à titre de DeeJaY pour la station Soul: KSOL (San Francisco) A vous suivre..

  • CHICKENBONE!!!!

    

  • Ohh funk mother fucker!!!!!!

  • Mike White, is so tight.. Mike White you're tight

  • @M0oTang is that from a movie or something

  • mike fuckin white

  • Mr Funk I would like introduce you to Mr Disco and Mr Motown ... you will all get along JUST FINE.

    Heh....you could drop a t-shirt in Sly Stone's sweat and it would sparkle.

  • groove on

  • <3 coolest guy on the planet!

  • Sly was ahead of his time. Break dancing beats 15 years later

  • Funktastic

    

  • SHAKE JUNT CHICKEN BOWN NOWISON

  • mike white is so tight

  • mike white

  • the intro horns sound like that one song we used to sing as kids..."farajocka" or somthin

  • 23 people are dead

  • fuck wish there was just an instrumental

  • shake junnt

    

  • underdog for life !

  • I had this song on my Xbox for Burnout 3: Takedown purposes. Swear to god that this is the most awesome "let's get PUMPED!" song of all time.

  • this sounds like early steps towards hip hop

  • @girlsailor123 Early rap drew heavily on the 70's funk scene for beats, inspiration and attitude. Check out George Clinton's Parliment/Funkadelic stuff if you're keen for more along these lines. ^_^

  • Sick song. Loving it

  • It CM u cant go wrong with Sly

  • Terrible that Sly is sleeping in a van in L.A., 2011.

  • @Buckeyecat2002 is he broke?

  • @Plaguelord

    Word of mouth. He sold all the rights to his songs a while back and now he's a beatnik.

  • @Plaguelord -Yep. Well, the "Van" is better described as a small, self contained camper/ motor home. Sly records muisic in it. The folks living in the house where Sly parks the camper, feed him and allow him to use the shower. ASly's valle lives in the house. Sounds more like somebody staying with relatives, than a dead broke, homeless person. Thank God, he is alive.

  • GENIUS!!!!

  • beautiful song

  • Amazing groove...

  • one of my favorite pieces of funk percussion ever. Good tune.

  • Does anybody remember Sly singing "the way you make me feel ya know" anybody remember what album that one is on?

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  • You must have reading issues i made a pro Sly comment and you had a go,Sly never won awards that he deserved Miles was influenced my Hendrix not Sly but Prince never admitted he was influenced by Sly,I am a Sly fan and you stacked it,you are a hero,fakewit,Sly is influential but the commercial people never gave him the credit that all I mean.

  • @jasonjuliushaekcmedi From a fellow Sly fan and also a fan of Prince, Prince has paid many tribute to Sly in interviews, onstage and on record. Go to prince.org and type in Sly Stone, and you can see many articles where Prince praised Sly. Also, Prince is friends with Larry Graham, who he has played with countless times.

  • @Rakabash Prince fuckin sucks man, n comparison,and Prince has never stated he was influenced by Sly he is in denial,he and Jackson owe this man heaps.Fuck Prince the dandy.

  • @jasonjuliushaekcmedi Sly is Prince's biggest influence, and he has stated this several times throughout his career. He still performs covers of Sly's songs and occasionally performs with the original members of The Family Stone. Not to mention the influence of Larry Graham on Princes's bass playing.

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  • I'm glad a Dj numark Instrumental got me here.

  • AWESOME SONG PLAYIN GUITAR ON DIS EVRYDAY

  • Bless you Sly,never got the accolades he deserved the founder of funk,hip hop ,disco and that groovy look,better than jackson and Prince who ripped him off.this track kicks ass and in it has truth, complete truth.

  • @jasonjuliushaekcmedi

    Are you kidding me? Anyone with a brain knows Sly & The Family Stone's contribution as innovators to the history of recorded and live music. You're talking about a guy and his group that influenced both MILES DAVIS AND JIMI HENDRIX! Take 1 guess where the ideas for both Band of Gypsies and Bitches Brew came from.

  • @Fakename7

    Man i agree on what you say but don't get hot headed FakeWit,Miles plyed fusion based on Hendrix ,Sly was not recognised by the commercial public and deserved more ,i am a Sly fan and wished him more sucess,so why are you slamming me Fakewit 69

  • @jasonjuliushaekcmedi

    If you're so thin-skinned that you honestly believe you were being ''slammed" by yours truly, then I really don't know what else to tell you, squirt.

  • Bruder Jakob, Bruder Jakob. In der Kirche habe ich das gehasst.

    Brother Jacob, Brother Jacob. In church i hated it.

  • i've been the underdog lots of times!!!

  • @TheBfjr i hear ya!

  • i wanna listen to some sly and the family stone with a SLAP bass. can anyone direct me to some songs that have slap?

  • @added23 Try "Thank you to talk to me Africa", "You caught me smilin again" and maybe "In Time"...

  • @tomasamaral thanks man. i heard a bit of slapping in "you caught me smilin". but i couldnt hear it in the others. very cool songs anyways

  • A band named Dirtbombs covered this song......they are a Detroit garage rock band

    honestly i heard there version first.

  • @SeanScharf off of a 411VM video by any chance?

  • No big covers of this one that I know. Let's keep it that way.

    No Gatorade commercials of this one either. Let's keep it that way.

  • @oakland2949 I hear you on that one. When i heard Iggy Pop's Lust For Life being used for a car commercial i was mortified. There is a singer out of Detroit named Brendan Benson. He has this track called "What I'm Looking For". I used to play it on a seemingly endless loop ad thought this was one for those who like esoteric sounds. Imagine my horror upon hearing this on an Independence Blue Cross ad. Fuck's sake!

    M.K.

  • @the215renaissanceman It's funny that you should say that. I heard somebody use this instrumental under a sports highlight show here in the Bay just about a week ago. I figured it fit and it wasn't cheesy. If you didn't know the song, you wouldn't have thought twice about it.

  • Chunky Funk ...brilliant!!! :)

  • this is what iam talking about. if i was ever in the fight of my life this would be my music!

  • si, klaro!

  •  this song is so right

  • listening 1st time made me feel like gettin shot by a rainbow out of a unicorns arse. B A M ! ! ! P U R E A W E S O M E N E S S ! ! !

  • This is the root.. Hip-Hop is the tree which grew from this cultivation! 

  • I can totally see how hip hop took everything from this song.

  • oh my god this SONG IS SOOOOO DOOOOOPEEE!!!!!

  • i neeed the instrumental to this, can anyone help?

  • I wish bitch-ass Youtube would help its users, instead of saying "error, try again" when I put a banned character in, perhaps they could put the more helpful: "we have mistakenly detected you as attempting to use HTML in your post, sorry for our poor detection methods, but at least you know why, so you can save time re-posting". Useless generic error instead - fooling no hackers either. Anyway, Sly Stone is much more useful - even on a bad day.

  • dope as fucka

  • VADER JACOB

  • @RomyRomes1 You mean "Frere & Jacque"?

  • @TheTongueTerrorist You're right to correct the thumbkin one, haha! You yourself mean the song 'Frère Jacques', yes. (French trad. song referring to a monk sleeping-in instead of sounding the morning bells for mass!) The 'Frère' is exaggerated making it sound like there's an 'and' or extra syllable in there.

  • @TheTongueTerrorist indeed!

  • The woman version is better

  • @ZunZaraVoMu Why even come here if you don't like it? Seriously, is your life that dull? we don't care if you have shit music taste mate.

  • An underdog is rising as u guys are arguing and this song is palying making the perfect scene to KICK ASS

  • czy mi się wydaje, czy na początku słyszę melodie "Pani Janie"??? Tak, to jest to :-)

  • whatever ruck973....i was there back in the day...some of us are tired of looking for "good" music. should i also look for air to breathe? turning on the radio confirms my frustration, so dont tell me how to feel about the abysmal state of mainstream music....you weren't even born, so your point of reference needs growth...serious growth. peace to you too

  • @btinsley1

    Lol, that was such a dramatic response.

    "should i also look for air to breathe?"

    Bahahah.

  • why do i hear frere jacques at the beginning and the end of the song?

  • Have this record for a long time!

    Such a brilliant song!

  • mystery

  • Bboy Sin from Sacramento?!

  • i know how it feels when you got to be twice as fucking good to get a look, slys a genius for this.

  • They really went to town on this didnt they?

  • This has to have been sped up. Why?

  • There's great art being made everywhere today. You just won't find it promoted by big time corporations who own the mainstream media. I bet there's a great band every goddamn square mile of this country. Open your eyes, open your ears. The more the corporations supress (s.p.) the good stuff, the better the good stuff gets!

  • this needs to be chopped up and screwed with or at least slowed down

  • @roscoegino GET OUTTA HERE!!!!!!!!!

  • "frere jacque, frere jacque, dormez vous ? dormez vous ? sonnez les matines, sonnez les matines " 

  • @heymisterjoe ding dang dong!

  • Sly and them are the best to come out of the 70s and have very few replacments.

  • Those horns....those horns!!!!! This rocks out!

  • I think I like it underground anyway... When fun is outlawed, only outlaws will have fun...

  • Correct me if i'm wrong, but the intro reminds me a lot of "Frère Jacques" a French nursery rhyme. Like they say, inspiration comes from many places lol. (Awesome tune, Sly & The Family Stone ftw ^^)

  • @89Snake - I think you're right. But I immediately thought of the theme song from the 60s cartoon, 'Underdog', also. Well, that's what creative people do: pull their inspirations from seemingly unlikely sources. 

  • The lyrics to this song are so hot-on the real. Sly & Family Stone said it all in this song for those of us who are doing our best to survive on the wrong side of (today's) invisible railroad tracks. Or what can be termed as the economic, racial & political "line of demarcation. If you get a chance, look up the online lyrics, read along as you listen to this song. Not only is the instrumentals fantastic, the lyrics lay on top of the melody most awesomely. Wake up 2day's writers&musicians. Shift

  • so amazing

  • Love this music reminds me of my sweet New Orleans ^_^

  • The Brother John (Bruder Jakob) tune at the beginning and in the end is an awesome adaptation of the childrens classic.

    This song evokes such a good mood.

  • @ChillMal word to that my brother! Auf jeden Fall mein Bruder ! yeaaaaaaaaha keep up that funkin music ^^

  • I have never heard this before. And I'm Sly&Family Stone fan.

  • Nixon used to get down to this. True story.

  • 17 people don't know what music is.

  • i would shred to this!

  • YES

  • All you guys arguing is practically disrespect to such a good song. Just leave it be and enjoy the music!

  • love to bboy to this!!! :D

  • Everything about this speaks to me completely. Such an empowering song, makes me FEEL every single time I hear it.

  • nice!

  • hot but dirtbombs are hotter

  • it almost seems like the music u upload is made for beatmakers, like they knew these hats and this horn would bang in a beat... but i'm afraid they did not knew that back in the days lol. love what ur doing man big up

  • frere jacques?

  • kickin it old skool nigga

  • frere jacques dormez vous..... it's so funky i hear that when i was 6 years old now i'm 20 i m so old. LOL

  • I want to pitch this down and let it ride. Those drums are so damn funky.

  • DIRTY!!!!!!!!!

  • I LIKE THIS! :)

  • Any Chinese folks here?

    I'm pretty sure I hear the Chinese children's song 'San Zhi Lao Hu' in this but played in a different note lol

  • @S8917560G yes it is the song and its played in c like underdog.There is a German vesion its called "Bruder Jakob" but i think that the french version "Frčre Jacques" is the orginal.

  • this was their 1st hit yeah?

  • @joezetank This album came out in 1970 so...

  • @oakland2949 - this album was re-released in 1970. Sly & the Family Stone was signed to Epic and released A Whole New Thing in 1967. Their first chart hit wasn't until 1968 with "Dance to the Music" off the album of the same name.

  • @beauclaus I stand corrected. Good job.

  • @oakland2949 he was just throwing info out because he thought you might wanna hear, why do ppl have to assume everyone is trying to prove them wrong on the internet?

    i wish everyone who argued over Youtube could get like bad rep or something and you could block ppl's comments with bad rep so they dont ruin it for everyone else.

  • @flip103333 Do you think I was arguing. I was praising him. When did you even get into the conversation? Real hip-hop is about competition, aka battles. Hip-Hop music was made by looping the best breaks from the songs of this era and others as well as other genres.

    Competition doesn't stop at breakin', DJing, writing, MCing. It goes to knowledge of the breaks. I got schooled and I was letting him know that he was the one who did it.

    Toughen up Flip.

    Respect.

  • @oakland2949 you said "i stand correct. god job." i wont give a douche bag like you respect still you respect others. cant get any if you dont give it.

  • @flip103333 Sorry Flip. What I meant when I said Respect was that I was sending respect out to you. We can disagree without name calling can't we?

    Respect.

  • @oakland2949 i dont have a disagreement with you, i am just pointing out you were being a douche. but thanks for the respect.

  • @StarflareLegionaire. Couldn't have said it better my friend.

  • nicee :P

  • love this

  • BBoy status

  • @Salvarican1 I thought the same thing as soon as that beat kicked

  • This is the music that shows the PASSION and has the real voice of that era. Underdog as a word says it all. Think about it... late 60s and being "not white". Sh*t this stuff works even today. Not to even mention how KILLER GROOVY this track is.

    You just don't hear anything this good anymore. Today's music is washed for the brainwashed. Good music needs hard times and innovative people get together. Long live these funk's golden masterpieces!

  • @t3r080 true man

  • to tell you the truth, i think that I can listen to b-boys tracks cuz you don't hear the same songs all day long, day after day. jimmy SHK

  • <---- UNDERDOG and i can handle it.

  • you gotta be twice as good

  • WOW and this the opening track to their debut album?!!! I gotta have this on vinyl

  • DONNIS - UNDERDOG

  • i play this before i go to work on my phone.

  • I LOVE TO BBOY TO THIS SHIT TRY IT

  • This is a fantastic jam...Sly's vocals have a vibrance to them that is reminiscent of early James Brown on this song (in parts)! Sly is so versatile!!

  • Im 22 years old and this is the most electrifying musical masterpiece ive ever heard....#Genius

  • This song is so overplayed now

  • @skoocda never overplayed and never mainstream. (cough) thank you

  • @skatetolive34

    you're obviously not a bboy

  • @OURGEEKAY ok, you got me there. perceptive, indeed.

  • 1:50

    yeaahhhh-heeeyyyy!!

    

  • JAM!!!!

  • todays music is just to make a quick buck, back then they made music to be enjoyed and respected

  • THIS SHIT HOT .

    TO EVERYBODY BITCHING ABOUT TODAYS MUSIC ON THE COMMENTS.

    IF YOU WANT MUSIC WITH SUBSTANCE THEN GO LISTEN TO IT. THE INTERNET HAS EVRYTHING ON IT. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS FIND IT. MAINSTREAM MEDIA ISN'T GOING TO GIVE IT TO YOU. SO STOP RANTING ABOUT HOW MUSIC IS CORNY AND MEANINGLESS NOW-A-DAYS. DEAL WITH IT.

    PEOPLE STILL MAKE GOOD MUSIC WITH SUBSTANCE IN EVERY GENRE, BUT IT'S JUST NOT SUPPORTED BY THE MAINSTREAM. SO YOU HAVE TO LOOK FOR IT.

    PEACE

  • @RUCK973 Right on!!!!

  • @RUCK973 that is probably the best thing I've ever read in the youtube comments

  • @RUCK973 this should be on the front page of youtube, for everyone to read xP

  • @RUCK973 i think thats a pretty good reason to complain about something. its so much harder to find good music now. back then it was played on the radio/tv...now u gotta search the internet like crazy to find 1 good band

  • @RUCK973 AMEN

  • @RUCK973 CAPSCAPSCAPS

    also, i agree

  • @RUCK973 Absolutely! The main problem is, nowadays, people are too lazy...

  • @RUCK973 - But, we want NEW music to like, buy and hear in concert, and then talk about on the internet. Where is it? Stop yelling at uuuuuuuusss (waaaaaannnnnhhhh!).

  • @FromUR2UB I think what RUCK973 meant is that there actually is new music. As he said, we have to look for it. 

  • @oliverecords - Oh, I got it. I was just amusing myself.

  • @FromUR2UB just look around into new bands, when sly was doing this music there was probably shit on the top played songs also(an article on cracked.com talked about this recently)... so there's no reason bitching about music today just because you know the greatest jewels of the past... you did because they were good enough to last, if you look for good music and good bands you'll find

  • @trw45q - WHAT new bands?? Who and where are they? That's the thing: there aren't any new self-contained R&B / funk bands.  What happened to them? Of course all music of the past wasn't great, or even good, but it was fewer and farther between the good stuff. Good music wasn't sporadic, and the number of artists who were good couldn't be counted on one hand. The most exciting current music I've heard in a long time was John Legend and The Roots Unstaged video. How many are doing it like that?

  • @FromUR2UB I'M WRITING LOTSV FUNK MUSIC AN I'M GONNA BRING THE SCENE BACK

  • @mooglesarerabbits - Looking forward to it! Do it big, and do it right!

  • @RUCK973  "PEOPLE STILL MAKE GOOD MUSIC WITH