Different Strokes By Different Folks

Different Strokes By Different Folks Artist: Various Artists , and Sly & The Family Stone
Label: Sony
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 827969499627
EAN: 0827969499627
ASIN: B000AA301Q


Release Date: 2006-02-07

Different Strokes By Different Folks


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Tracks:

  1. Dance To The Music - Will.I.Am
  2. Everyday People - Maroon 5
  3. Star - Roots
  4. Runnin' Away - Big Boi
  5. Family Affair - Joss Stone
  6. (You Caught Me) Smilin' - Big Boi
  7. If You Want Me To Stay - Devin Lima
  8. I Get High On You - The Wylde Bunch
  9. Love City - Moby
  10. You Can Make It If You Try - John Mayer
  11. Sing A Simple Song - Isaac Hayes
  12. I Want To Take You Higher - Steven Tyler
  13. Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey - Martin Luther
  14. Thank You Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson

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Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars "Indifferent Works by Different Jerks".......2006-11-09

I can totally see a logical link between Big Boi and The Roots, and the original material (and it's not a racial one), but most of the other artists involved seem to fall into the following categories:

-Fake Soul / Plastic Soul: Joss Stone, a TV talent show winner; Maroon 5, airbrushed, pitch corrected, charisma-free purveyors of bland fake-funky pop. Josh Stone is here in an attempt to sell more of her records, whilst Maroon 5 are here in order to sell this record.

-Out of date musicians who haven't done anything reasonably worthwhile in years: See Isaac Hayes, Stephen Tyler (who has never done anything worth a damn), and Moby. They are presumably featured here because their names are easily recognised and may add some form of credibility (and may push up sales).

Basically, this album is a totally wasted opportunity: an ill-concieved and poorly excecuted sales exercise, and an appaling testimony to the lack of recognition of Sly Stone's awesome talent and legacy to music.

I can name a thousand bands who could have contributed something truly different and worthwhile to this collection. "Thank You Rhythm Nation 1814"? What the hell?

If you are even slightly interested in Sly Stone, go and buy either the 2 disc 'Essential' from a few years back, or the 'Greatest Hits' from the early 70's, or any of the inspirational and unbeatable albums he released between 'A Whole New Thing' and 'High On You'.

Sly Stone has inspired countless musicians from an enormous range of styles and backgrounds. To present a narrow range of pop singers performing shabby, unimaginative versions of his greatest hits is both disrespectful and despicable.

The recent tribute to Prince "If I was Prince" was patchy, but it was worth a thousand of these.

5 out of 5 stars Dance To The Music By Sly & The Family Stone is my all-time favorite song.......2006-07-18

Sly & The Family Stone aren't dead, so this isn't a tribute cd.
Isn't not "muzik" and it's not "covers". The original songs
Are mixed into the new parts a la' Natalie Cole/ Nat "King" Cole style.
Sure people who like Sly & The Family Stone should have the originals
(c'mon buy another copy for your pod player) but these remixes are
a refreshing spin on the original songs.
Surely these artists aren't on this cd
trying to jumpstart dead careers! Big Boi (Outkast) on 'Runnin' Away', a paring of Buddy Guy with John Mayer on 'You Can Make It If You Try', a duo of Steven Tyler and Robert Randolph (& The Family Band) 'I Want To Take You Higher', John Legend, Joss Stone & Van Hunt 'Family Affair', and a
Mash-Up (DJ Reset) (mashup;two diff. songs `mashed-up' together) Thank You from Sly & The Family Stone
And Janet Jackson 1814 (Rhythm Nation) are a way to put artists together to work on something while giving some love to a band that inspires so many.
The title of the CD beckons one to realize that it's Different Folks that make the gesture
so nice. The `flower power' pun isn't lost on me.
For people who like `remixes' and `redos' like Different Strokes For Different Folks, check out Motown Remixed (on Motown Records), What Is Hip? Remixed (Warner Bros.). I bought this because I love Sly & The Family Stone. Dance To The Music by Sly & The Family Stone is
my all time favorite song forever.

1 out of 5 stars Who The He11 Would Want to Waste Their Time And Money On This [...]?.......2006-05-25

"Tribute" my arse! This CD is an absolute disgrace. Will.i.am, Joss Stone, John Legend, Moron 5, and the rest of those fools (except Isaac Hayes) will never ever in their lifetime possess the talent, imagination, originality, and musicianship of Sly & The Family Stone. Sly's classic songs were blatantly butchered by these new so-called artists who brought nothing new to the table and were only interested in making an extra dollar. If this was a real tribute, then the songs would've sounded close to the original. If Sly was such an influence to these artists, I fail to hear it these days on FM radio. Do NOT get this CD at all- you hear me? And if you can't appreciate real music, then I see no reason for you not getting this catastrophe of a tribute. Other than that, skip this trash at all possible costs and get the original songs by Sly that are perfect the way they are and do not need "reworking" or an "extra twist".

4 out of 5 stars and what about a new Sly record???.......2006-05-19

Durante mas de una decada, Sly Stone habia desaparecido de la escena. Algo vergonzoso en el caso de uno de los innovadores del funk, cuyas canciones han sido sampleadas por gran cantidad de rapers. La solucion, "Different Strokes By Different Folks". Es un tributo, un recopilatorio, una coleccion de remezclas? Las tres cosas. Sly autorizo el uso de sus masters originales como base para nuevas versiones a las que se anadieron voces e instrumentos. El resultado: una puesta al dia de los exitos de Sly & The Family Stone.
En esta coleccion de "clasicos reimaginados" participan artistas de todo pelaje. Algunos se limitan a anadir pequenas variantes, como will.i.am en "Dance To The Music", Maroon 5 en "Everyday People", o Devin Lima en "If You Want Me To Stay". Otros, a pesar de mantenerse fieles, les dan un nuevo caracter, como Big Boi en "Runnin' Away", Steven Tyler y Robert Randolph en "I Want to Take You Higher", y John Legend, Joss Stone y Van Hunt en un "Family Affair" de voces esplendidas. Y unos pocos, llevan las canciones de Sly a su terreno, como The Roots en "Star", Moby en "Love City", Buddy Guy y John Mayer en un "You Can Make It If You Try" blues y, sobre todo, Chuck D, D'Angelo e Isaac Hayes en el trallazo de rap funk "Sing A Simple Song".
"Different Strokes By Different Folks" es un tributo bien merecido, pero seria preferible que Sly Stone nos sorprendiera con nuevo material en lugar de recurrir a los refritos.

5 out of 5 stars Sly for the new generation.......2006-04-27

This is the album Sly would have created and released himself if he was born in the late 1970's. This is the modern day update of Sly's best work. The songs maintain the power and glory of Sly's original recordings while adding in new sections which flow well. Instead of sampling from Sly's hits for new hip-hop and rap songs this album inserts hip-hop and rap into Sly's original creations. The best of the old Sly with updates by a stellar group of current stars. The album appeals to anyone from my Woodstock generation and my children's generation who appreciate good classic rock & funk; and today's best hip-hop and rap. This is not a selection of Sly's songs watered down and performed poorly by current artists. This album honors Sly's greatness and showcaes current talent. I hope that Cynthia is still playing her horn and loving this album.

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  3. The Best of the Jones Girls ~ The Jones Girls
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  5. Sons of Soul ~ Tony! Toni! Tone!
  6. The Very Best of Shirley Murdock ~ Shirley Murdock
  7. The Meters ~ The Meters
  8. Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner ~ Tina Turner , and Ike Turner
  9. B5 ~ B5
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