{"id":42083,"date":"2010-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/life-3\/"},"modified":"2010-08-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T00:00:00","slug":"life-3","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/life-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>Life <\/i>was the third album released by Sly &#038; The Family Stone and their second of 1968. While it was a very good album in its own right, it had the bad luck to be issued between the exuberant <i>Dance To The Music <\/i>and the five-star <i>Stand.<o:p><\/o:p><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Overall, it was a bit more undisciplined than the two previously mentioned albums. It took the fusions of <i>Dance To The Music <\/i>and split them into their parts before they were ultimately reassembled on <i>Stand. <\/i>The songs are psychedelic, soul, blues, and some straight funk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The album also did not contain a successful single, which hurt it commercially.\u00a0 What was consistent, however, was the guitar virtuosity of Freddie Stone, the fuzz bass tones of Larry Graham, and drum rhythms of Greg Errico. Sly Stone continued to experiment with multiple lead vocalists, who traded lines within the same song.\u00a0 Rosie Stone was now a secure part of the band, and Cynthia Robinson interjected scattered trumpet notes and vocal ad-libs throughout many of the songs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cDynamite\u201d has a classic psychedelic opening guitar line by Freddie Stone, while \u201cM\u2019Lady\u201d was a foray into straight funk with over the top production. \u201cPlastic Jim\u201d had cutting lyrics about how people act and had a blues feel to it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sly began to explore lyrical themes that reappeared on future releases. \u201cHarmony,\u201d which really takes off after a disjointed beginning, and \u201cLove City\u201d explored integration and love of your neighbor. \u201cJane Is A Groupie\u201d is self-explanatory, as it told the story of fans that followed bands. Meanwhile, the title song began the exploration of the themes of life\u2019s realisms, which would reoccur over and over again in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The best track may be \u201cInto My Own Thing\u201d with its familiar horns, organ, bass, and drums going in all directions yet returning to create a classic Sly &#038; The Family Stone sound. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>Life <\/i>is one of those discs that contains a lot of very good parts that add up to an above-average but not brilliant album. Two releases within the same year may have been a little too much for the group at this point in their career. However, it did set the stage for several of the best and most influential albums in American music history, which would follow during the next several years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":30420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7975],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-42083","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-sly-the-family-stone","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42083"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42083"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}