Sly and the Family Stone – Stand!｜Vinyl Monday
In the end, you’ll still be you.
Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. My thoughts on Sly and the Family Stone’s hot fun in the summer of ’69, Stand! (released 1969.) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday!
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Timestamps:
intro – 0:00
art/packaging/personnel – 1:11
Stand! – 3:54
track listing/release – 10:14
my thoughts – 18:26
thanks for watching! – 36:31
Music:
Intro Music: Yeah Yeah Yeah (Long) by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…) Artist: http://audionautix.com/
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@abigaildevoe
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
what’s your favorite sly song? (mine right now is trip to your heart) comment below!
@steveh.9462
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Clapping on 1 and 3…haha I love it! As a drummer this is something I’ve always noticed and has driven me nuts!
@rickdrais9737
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
You inspired me. Before all I had was the Essential Sly & The Family Stone comp, but after I watched this video I grabbed Stand. Now I need to get There’s a Riot Going On and the debut album, which is about as close as they got to psychedelic…
@TajRocks-el2mf
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
R.I.P. Sly Stone
@tymime
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
I thought the songs that fed a voice through a wah pedal were pretty cool
@ACE360x
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Sorry for not watching more of your content. I always enjoy it when i do watch
@BreezyandtheBlazers-vd3xw
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Great album. Gotta love Sex Machine! I think “There’s a Riot Going On” is their best tho.
@DoomyRei
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Your so pretty ❤
@Slotnikoff
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
In Philadelphia, all during the sixties, two of the prime Top 40 AM stations (especially WIBG) regularly had Black artists on their respective playlists. Motown 45s were spun along with the various dudes and ladies comprising the British Invasion… as well as America's own first rockers and their followers.
These records made up the sounds one would hear weekdays and weeknights. The weekends were devoted to "Oldies", which then meant any record which no longer made Billboard's Top 40… so a LOT of doowop was played (and appreciated) by people like me.
@GandalfCheese
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Do Paul McCartney RAM!
@lionstandingII
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
"Hamboning"……love it……
@Alval2020
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Fantastic Album even though "Sly and The Family Stones Greatest Hits" is my fave. On a different note was just wondering if you were gonna ever cover a Roxy Music album on the show? It is the 50th anniversary of their fifth album "Siren".
@antonmayer667
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Once again your coverage on Vinyl Monday inspired me to pull out my Stand! album for a spin. Enjoying the funk!
@kingIgor
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
I just watched your Sly & the Family Stone "Theres A Riot Goin' On"…
You said a few things that were nonsense but the one that really stands out is your take on Zoomers/Boomers…
Zoomer's are one of the most conservative generations since the 50' they are starting to wake up now
(because its in their face) to what every other generation before them have already known & endured…
The view that your generation is the first anything is quite NAIVE…
Gen X (Post Hippy/Children of the Flower Power Generation) is where Cynical Idealism emerged as the most Liberal & Rebellious Generation (really the first that your claiming Zoomers are)…
This current Narrative that your contributing to is revisionism not reality…
Zoomers are actually so late to the party they almost missed it…
Tho, Its sort of Cool some of these recent sheltered generations are catching on now
but most of you still don't really get the Big Picture & are playing right into the Authoritarians hands
(did it a few times in your Sly video)…
Sometimes Negativity is Reality. It can be channeled into Empathic Anger which is a source of power, but then again most of you that have good intentions will still fall for their tricks because you were left in the Dark & never learned the name of the game your in, or even opened your eyes to wide enough to see what your conditioning really is all about…
Broken Boomers, Zoomers & Christians (usually Right Winged) are why Trump was elected twice
@theoakmontsage1172
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Good work, Abby. I think Sly is vital to American music, like Armstrong, Ellington, Charlie Parker vital, you know?
@ApolloSuns
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Sly had a great run. So influential and groovy.
@troubadour723
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
And yet, in the world of P-Funk, “everything is on the one.” 🤔
@soulhealer20
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Sly + The Family played an outdoor show in Montreal about 6 days before Woodstock. It was my second show ever and blew me away/
@Classy-Rick
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Woah, thanks for shedding light on what is possibly the most underrated album of all time. Hopefully you agree I haven’t watched the full video yet 💀
@BrotherLove1962
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Living today as you do, are you really happy with the way things have turned out? I was born in 1962, things were very different than, very different. That’s the major reason I want to leave this country and move to Europe. I know you do a show. And you are aiming at a certain demographic, but we aren’t all old and stupid. I’m just saying. I’m 62. I know my history, my mother side of the family had to escape Eastern Europe. Just saying.
@BrotherLove1962
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Wow! Very communist show! Like most of your generation on the left, you weren’t there, you didn’t really know the circumstances or the propaganda that was going at the time. It was smart that they set it up this way because they owned the media all the time so they could build a narrative over decades.
That being said, as a child, I was born in 1962, so by 1970, I was about eight years old. I’m a pretty progressive type of guitar player, and one of the reasons, is because, thank you for letting me be myself, came out thanks to sly and the family. Like I said, I was probably only eight years old or seven years old when I heard that song, but the industrial sound of that guitar with the Wawa pedal on it struck a membrane, and I became not a guitar player, but somebody who realized that a guitar can make sounds.
@creeder44
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 am
Another excellent video, Abby. I appreciated the montage of samples from this album. It was a wonderful illustration of how the great music of the past is being recycled into the unlistenable noise of today.
Your clip of white people at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York being unable to clap on the beat reminded me of one of the funniest things I’ve ever experienced. Once when I worked for a couple of radio stations in Stamford, CT. I did the commercials for the local performing arts venue, and they gave me free tickets to any show I wanted.
One night, my wife and I were watching Peter, Paul & Mary, and they urged the crowd to clap along to “If I Had A Hammer.” Being Texans with soul, this was easy for us. But we quickly noticed something amiss. The rest of the audience was just randomly clapping. It sounded like scattered applause. It was so off the beat that it was throwing the group off. We finally realized that it was the sound of a theater full of upper-class Connecticut white people desperately trying to find the beat, which they couldn’t locate if you gave them a map and a compass.
Finally, one of the guys stopped playing guitar and started twirling both arms in an exaggerated, Pete Townshend-style windmill gesture, his hands meeting in front of him: “Clap!…Clap!…Clap!” We heard and felt a wave of relief rush through the crowd as they finally came into sync on the downbeat, led there at last by a visual aid. At that point, I nearly fell off my seat laughing.
It’s become an inside joke for Laura and me that whenever we see an example of upper class white people behavior, one of us sings, “If I had a hammmmmmer,” and we crack up.
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