Sly & The Family Stone - Stand180 Gram Vinyl. Need proof of how great Sly and The Family Stone were? Just check out the track listing for Stand! The title track, I Want to Take You Higher. You Can Make it if You Try, Everyday People, (before it was a car commercial) and this isn't even the greatest hits package! Hippies with attitude (and serious soul moves), Stone and crew were one of the most influential and free wheeling forces in R&B rock. Stand! shows why. Gut bucket bass

thanks to the wall of sound production of the mysterious Marshall Lawless

it allowed Sonic Youth to enter the mainstream world

The Fall worked as a four-piece (Craig Scanlon

The music: an interplay of feather-light acoustic guitars

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and more recently Angel Olsen - the genius in …Coin Collection 2 is in its subtlety

release their second studio album

Some tracks I've taken out the guitar parts and re-done them with synths or replaced bass lines with synths

it is widely regarded as being the band's longest and most arduous tour to date

Present Tense

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Meat Puppets (during which they were joined by two members of the group onstage)