Red Mosquito

It's time. I've waited long enough. I will wait no longer.



(Ignore the annoying mid-screen graphic that never goes away and let the funk take you away)

"Dance to the music...All night long...Everyday people...Sing a simple song..."

The Greatest Hits is incredible so far.

I haven't heard Fresh yet but I will do hopefully tonight.

harmless wrote:

The Greatest Hits is incredible so far.

If I had forty minutes left on earth, I'd want whatever I did to be soundtracked by that disc.

I remember loving "Life" as a song.

Everybody Is A Star is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. It does things to my heart.

So Sly is pretty much undeniably funk, right?

Absolutely. They're responsible for a lot of the characteristics of modern funk.

I love Sly...and i love him more for being so goddamn weird.

bout once a year ill get in a kick where for a week or so all I listen to is Sly, James Brown, Ike and Tina, and some pre-wacko Jackson 5.

Digging 'Color Me True'.

the fiddle player might be the inspiration to "play that funky music white boy"

Funny you posted that, we were talking about that video over in the Stevie Wonder thread before Sly got his own. Such a great clip.

Small Talk is a bit more soulful isn't it?

Today is all about Livin' While I'm Livin'.

The album Life seems like a really nice fusion of sounds; there's funk, soul, Motown and 50's Rock and Roll / doo-wop, to my ear. Nice.

'Jane is a Groupee' is just a great song whichever way you want to swing it. Quite Rocky. Beatles / Kinks influence?

"If This Room Could Talk" and "Run, Run, Run" seem pretty innovative to me, rhythm-wise. The latter could almost be contemporary Indie rock.

harmless wrote:Small Talk is a bit more soulful isn't it?

The funk is definitely toned down on it, in large part because Larry Graham (their bassist, and the dude who invented the slap technique) wasn't in the band any more.

harmless wrote:'Jane is a Groupee' is just a great song whichever way you want to swing it. Quite Rocky. Beatles / Kinks influence?

I really like the guitar work on that one.

harmless wrote:The album Life seems like a really nice fusion of sounds; there's funk, soul, Motown and 50's Rock and Roll / doo-wop, to my ear. Nice.

It's a super, super underrated album. It didn't fare very well commercially so that probably has a lot to do with it, but pretty much everything great about the band is in full-force on that record. I'd actually call it my third favorite Sly album, ahead of Fresh.

harmless wrote:"If This Room Could Talk" and "Run, Run, Run" seem pretty innovative to me, rhythm-wise. The latter could almost be contemporary Indie rock.

I'd never looked at "Run, Run, Run" like that, but you're pretty spot on. I think A Whole New Thing is a pretty remarkable debut, but it kinda fell through the cracks until Dance to the Music became a hit.

harmless wrote:Today is all about Livin' While I'm Livin'.

I love how the verses in that almost feel like they're both fast and slow at the same time, if that makes sense.