Sly & The Family Stone 
The latest album released by Sly & The Family Stone is Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden Of Black Genius). This album was released 05/09/2025.
The best album credited to Sly & The Family Stone is There's A Riot Goin' On which is ranked number 404 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 4,227.
Sly & The Family Stone is ranked number 216 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 9,501.
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- Larry Graham
- Sly Stone
- See also:
- Sly Stone And The Mojo Men
- Larry Graham And Graham Central Station
- Gov't Mule
- Graham Central Station
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Sly & The Family Stone best albums
The following albums by Sly & The Family Stone are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:
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Sly & The Family Stone bestography composition
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Sly & The Family Stone best tracks
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75/100  | 06/07/2025 15:43 | Invader666 | | 71/100 |
75/100 | 02/05/2025 17:56 | pago82 | | 67/100 |
95/100 | 01/22/2025 21:32 |  flamingyesdept | | 83/100 |
80/100 | 08/06/2024 10:33 | Pluto11 | | 79/100 |
85/100 | 06/12/2024 22:35 |  JR | | 81/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 2% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 82.7/100, a mean average of 82.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.8/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 13.8.
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Funky
Underrated band
Tremendous funk band. Never received the recognition they deserved. Put on a hell of a good show at Woodstock.
tgarritsen 11/22/2014 02:40
This compilation of the early stuff from them is really great. It's a really happy version of funk. Designed to make you dance.
junodog4 09/02/2012 19:57
So funky, yet so topical. Sly had the cajones to say what others were thinking. He helped open up r&b to new sounds, but a new attitude as well.
ffudnebbuh 01/03/2012 13:46
Yes, daftpunter, you are right, Miles heard a concert of theirs and was so excited by the audio reaction that he wanted to do something similar, something that the rock audience would like, so that was the inspiration for "Bitches Brew".
Sly's impact on music was soooo great that even the great Miles Davis adjusted his view on music and followed him. In the few albums (Dance To The Music, Life, Stand!, There's a Riot Going On, and Fresh) made prior to the drugs sapping him of his muse and sanity Sly simply made the funkiest Rock and Roll ever. Parliament doesn't exist without Sly. Funk wouldn't have been what it was without The Family Stone. An important band (man).
ffudnebbuh 09/09/2010 04:11
"Family Affair" is my fav Sly record, I remember when their first hit "Dance to the music" came out in 1968. me and a friend were in the back seat of our car going to the grocery store with my mom, and "DTTM" came on the radio,..we just looked at each other and said "What the hell is that!" I hadn't heard anything that mindblowing since "papa's got a brand new bag".
Triple Seis 09/08/2010 01:13
Tremenda Banda. Su mejor disco es "There's a Riot Goin' On"
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