Sly & The Family Stone - A Whole New Thing FLAC album

An astonishing and completely underappreciated record: the composition, arrangement and production of songs like trip to your heart, i cannot make it and underdog sound like they would have been modern in 1971!, so for 1967 this material is way ahead, the sheer physical presence of the music I find only comparable to the sensuous impact of some material by Jimi Hendrix, Hey Joe or The wind cries Mary, or Stone free. Listen to the subtle stereo effects in the drums on trip to your heart, some of these songs would fit well onto "exile on main street" (thematically as well as musically).
The band at the peak of the powers and superior compositions to "Stand" or "Life". This goes to show how much Sly had lost already by 1969 when most people assume he had reached the summit with that camp appearance on a muddy and overpopulated camp site.
This could prove a discovery for anybody with a weakness for good music.
(And in 1973 Sly was still able to delight us with Fresh, yet another master-piece. His talent was huge, but it seems it was largely eaten up by his enourmous appetite for unhealthy substances.)