Life
by Sly & The Family Stone
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Sly & The Family Stone bestography
Life is ranked 6th best out of 19 albums by Sly & The Family Stone on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Sly & The Family Stone is There's A Riot Goin' On which is ranked number 407 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,027.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Life track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 73 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Life rankings
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Life ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/06/2026 16:31 | Jakor | 5,437 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/23/2026 15:09 | Tony58 | 744 | 72/100 |
| ! | 12/26/2025 20:08 | matterhornrider | 5,114 | 81/100 |
| ! | 10/23/2025 16:09 |  rambleon80 | 2,674 | 76/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2025 02:04 |  AAL2014 | 4,085 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.2/100, a mean average of 71.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.
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This album doesn't have a great reputation; it doesn't have any hits, and there are other Sly albums that get played before it. When I finally got around to it, I kept waiting for it to live down to that reputation, but it just kept funking with great horn riffs, a big full sound, and each song its own unique thing. If a Sly album can be an obscure, hidden find, this is it--none of these tracks get played to death on oldies radio, you haven't heard it 200 times already. People do Sly & the Family a disservice by treating them as a hits-only band. Their albums are great, even this one without a hit on it. Side one is better than side two, though.
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