Was standing!
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8th |
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41:27 |
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Pacific High Recording Studios, San Francisco |
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Was standing! is the fourth studio album of American radio - and Soul - band Sly & the Family Stone . It was released on Epic Records in May 1969 .
background
After the group founded in San Francisco in 1968 had a commercial breakthrough with their album Dance to the Music , the following release, Life, fell short of expectations. As the recordings stand! began in the Pacific High Studios, Sly Stone is said to have drilled the band in a similar authoritarian way, as it is known from James Brown's dealings with his formation The Famous Flames. Even if it is expressly mentioned in the credits of the album that no musicians other than the group members were involved ( No other musicians are used ), several studio musicians should also be heard.
The first single, Everyday People , reached number 1 on both the Billboard Pop and R&B charts. In terms of content, the album is characterized by dealing with issues such as racial segregation and discrimination based on skin color. As already known from the band, it appeals in several places for a commitment for a communal and equal coexistence. In Everyday People it says “There is a blue one who can't accept the green one ... We got to live together” and in the equally successful single Stand! "You've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right and wrong, stand" . In doing so, the group broke with the practice known from soul and R&B bands of hardly commenting on social and political questions and established a new tradition in soul, funk and hip-hop of commenting on these topics. Stand applies stylistically ! as influential for the development of black music in the 70s up to the genre disco and hip-hop . The drums from You Can Make It If You Try were sampled many times by well-known colored musicians such as Ice Cube , Ice-T , Jungle Brothers , Queen Latifah or Tupac Shakur . The percussion part of Sing a Simple Song was also frequently put in a new musical context, for example in Arrested Development , Cypress Hill , Digital Underground , Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five , Ice Cube, Ice-T, Public Enemy , TLC and Wu -Tang clan .
The appearance of Sly and the Family Stone at the Woodstock Festival in the summer of 1969 , where most of the songs from Stand! is often seen as one of the highlights of the event. Was standing! was originally delivered as a gatefold cover in the USA .
Track list
All songs were written, arranged and produced by Sly Stone .
page 1
- Was standing! - 3:08
- Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey - 5:58
- I Want to Take You Higher - 5:22
- Somebody's Watching You - 3:20
- Sing a Simple Song - 3:56
Page 2
- Everyday People - 2:21
- Sex Machine - 1:45 pm
- You Can Make It If You Try - 3:37
CD bonus tracks (2007)
- Was standing! (Single Version) - 3:09
- I Want toTake You Higher (Single Version) - 3:02
- You Can Make It If You Try (Unissued Single Version) - 3:40
- Soul Clappin 'II - 3:27
- My Brain (Zig-Zag) - 3:18
Chart successes
The album peaked at number 3 on the R&B album chart and number 13 on the Billboard 200 , the Singles Stand! # 22, Sing a Simple Song # 89, Everyday People # 1 and I Want to Take You Higher # 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 . Everyday People was ranked 36th in the UK charts . The RIAA made Stand! Awarded gold on December 4, 1969 and platinum in November 1986.
reception
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- Music journalist Robert Christgau pointed out that there were five songs by Stand! On the group's subsequent greatest hits album . and that the album would show all the soon-to-be-fading grandeur of the formation. Sex Machine was initiated by James Brown, but all other titles, alluding to the band name, are etched in stone.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote on Allmusic , Stand! be the culmination of the group's early work. The album would be utterly stunning in its mix of the band's resilient interplay, the keen sense of songwriting, and the singer's social awareness. He characterized the publication as contagious, enlightening, invigorating, thought-provoking and stimulating. In the evaluation got stand! five out of five.
- In Rolling Stone Alec Dubro wrote, initially the album as distorted or soul music such as soul music without their usual luster would listen that it was also no admission for someone who is looking for perfection or maturity. However, if the listener is interested in groove to a group of noisy kids storming through a record and sharing their views, then stand! the right album. For the music critic, the long instrumental section in Sex Machine was reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix . In addition, the Don't Call Me Nigger, which addresses racism, is irritating to Whitey , but it conveys the intended message.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of the album's releases
- ↑ Essay by Barney Hoskyns in the CD booklet of the 2007 CD re-release at discogs.com
- ↑ Biography at slystonemusic.com
- ↑ Band biography at allmusic.com
- ↑ Stand! Song at allmusic.com
- ^ I Want to Take You Higher at allmusic.com
- ↑ Listing of the samples at the-breaks.com
- ↑ Sly and the Family Stone at oldies.about.com ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Gatefold edition at discogs.com
- ↑ 2007 CD re-release on discogs.com
- ↑ Chart placements at allmusic.com
- ↑ British charts
- ↑ Awards at riaa.com
- ↑ a b Review at allmusic.com
- ↑ Rolling Stone album review ( Memento from October 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
