Greatest Hits
by Sly & The Family Stone
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Sly & The Family Stone bestography
Greatest Hits is ranked 5th 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 408 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,013.
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Greatest Hits track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/02/2026 15:45 | traistboar | 1,763 | 79/100 |
| ! | 03/23/2026 15:09 | Tony58 | 744 | 72/100 |
| ! | 01/11/2026 11:18 |  CellarDoor | 8,766 | 79/100 |
| ! | 01/04/2026 22:43 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,463 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2025 07:25 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.5/100, a mean average of 78.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.4.
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I like this band but dont love them. And I personally find their early albums a little hit in miss. (Taste is subjective) So the Greatest Hits of the early work suited my needs. And they did have some great singles. And I'd rather own this and There's a Riot Going On than just a greatest hits collection of all their stuff. (Edited)
AAL2014 05/13/2022 22:22 | #285320
Simply some of the best music to ever exist. Although most of their records are worth owning, this is an essential greatest hits comp.
planetneutral 01/08/2021 05:02 | #264018
A retrospective where two of the best tracks were brand new, this is about as entertaining a collection of Sly tracks as I can imagine assembling.
VictorVale 09/22/2020 17:51 | #258544
Incrível coletânea. Black music em seu auge!
TheDude85 04/09/2019 16:47 | #234685 | TOP COMMENT
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Awesome collection of funk classics. Sly Stone and his multi-ethnic band served up the foundation for the next generation of funk musicians, from Parliment to Prince, etc. (Edited)
Jbalbinolr 11/22/2017 13:09 | #201800
Incredible, it would be in my chart if it wasn't a compilation.
RoundTheBend 04/09/2016 17:10 | #163542
Good Lord is this one of the greatest things that ever happened to music.
swhaze 04/28/2014 17:53 | #110257 | TOP COMMENT
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I can't say enough positive things about this multi-genre music.
They were so great, so innovative, so ahead of their time, able to cross over into any genre, and their songs are so, so enduring.
Fan of rock ? This stuff rocks.
Need the funk? This is funk 101.
Wanna dance? How could you not!
Need it hard or need it soft, it's all here. (Edited)
Sean 03/18/2012 03:18 | #38554
Greatest- Greatest Hits LP of all time
I consider this the best greatest hits collection of all time and if I were to include greatest hits albums on my chart, one of the best albums of all time.
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