The Essential Sly & the Family Stone does what a double-CD best-of/career overview should do: it packs a lot of career highlights into a two-disc set for listeners who want more than the basic greatest hits, but don't want every last album. Of course, all of those greatest hits are here, including a few from 1970 that didn't make it onto album releases at the time. As you'd expect, the fattest slice comes from Sly & the Family Stone's late-'60s/early-'70s peak: in fact, most of the tracks from the {^...   [ read more ]

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No rhythm section in history has impacted across the world's music scene as has Sly & Robbie. Their innovative playing style, studio experimentation, and pure production genius has propelled music to a whole new level, and their influence remains undiminished both in their homeland and abroad. In fact, it's virtually impossible to imagine modern music without them. Attempting to encapsulate their career on one disc defies logic, yet Ultimate Collection: In Good Company does not belie its series' titl...   [ read more ]

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So big were Sly & Robbie that by the mid-'80s their rhythms were driving songs straight into the charts for a myriad of artists across the musical spectrum. Taxi Fare sums up this success via a killer compilation that is so focused on the duo that all else is heaved overboard. So devoted were the pair's fans that all that was required was their photo on the sleeve and their names on the cover. It was the first and only time in Western musical history that a drum and bass team took top billing. This a...   [ read more ]

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