Sly is not properly credited for how influential he was. There is NO Prince and the Revolution without Sly and The Family Stone. A multi racial and mixed gender supergroup with an eccentric charismatic Muti instrument playing Black man that crossed over to every body without even trying.
I totally agree. He and Larry Graham are two of the most innovative funk musicians of all time. I've been a fan of Sly & the Family Stone ever since I was eight years old. Sly's vocal style was also very influential. He influenced the vocal styles of Prince, Maurice White, Larry Dodson, and Leroy "Sugar foot" Bonner of the Ohio Players. Sly also influenced Stevie Wonder.
@@ComicPower Of course my opinion is in the minority because you have generation x babies (those born in the 1970s mainly) that didn't grow up with Sly Stone or in fact many artist of the late 60s - mid 70s. So Prince is their generation and plus Prince was over exposed due to MTV
I'd love to see that, and also "Winter In America" (which matches this video's theme) - and my favorite, less well-known GHS song, "Ain t No Such Thing As Superman"
The entire Pieces of A Man album deserves a video essay imo. One of the most underrated albums of the early 70s around this same period of What's Going On and There's a Riot Goin On
That letter from the FBI to Dr King is utterly sickening, I can't imagine what that man (and ofcourse the millions of disenfranchised people of colour as well as the poor in America) went through and people still go through today. Love from Scotland, keep strong people 👍❤️
@The King You can acknowledge your race without making it your full identity. There's absolutely nothing wrong with people of colour referring to themselves as such. ESPECIALLY when talking about civil rights movements, if people of colour are being oppressed just for being people of colour, then it's VITAL to acknowledge their problems as people of colour
@The King Shallow thinking won't suffice. Study the issues. "Namely, a euphemism is designed to step around an unpleasant association. When it comes to societal terms, the idea is to rise above pejorative connotations that society has linked to the thing in question." slate.com/human-interest/2016/08/colored-person-versus-person-of-color-how-does-society-decide-which-racial-terms-are-acceptable.html
@The King Don't call me foolish just because you don't understand my argument. It's very easy, and safe, to say "look at any ....." but how about you give me a specific example of a law passed by leftists that disproportionately target minorities while also claiming to help them. The burden of proof is on you if you make an active claim. It would give your argument at least some credibility. But besides that, it doesn't prove anybody is claiming to be a saviour. And regardless, that has nothing to do with the original point. When talking about minorities, it's sometimes important to... you know. Call them minorities. Or people of colour. You said "How about calling them people and not using superficial things as your entire identity". And this is kind of dumb for a few reasons that I've already pointed out. But instead of acknowledging that, you completely ignored it all and changed your argument to "leftists can oppress people too" which is utterly irrelevant to the idea that people of colour can be called people of colour when discussing racial issues. Stop changing your points to avoid correcting yourself. You look stupider than you probably are, and you'd be much more respectable if you just admitted you said some dumb shit, and retracted your dumb comment.
@The King You are being incredibly ignorant. I didn't just ask for laws that disproportionately affect people minorities. I'll make a little list, so you can't miss anything next time you reply. Try and give me 4 answers, instead of ignoring 90% of my comments. 1. I acknowledge that this law exists, and I acknowledge that it oppresses people of colour. But I don't recall anyone claiming to be a savior of minorities because they passed this law. 2. I assume you actually read the article you shared, right? It refers to people/communities of colour as such 15 times in total. Surely you can see why such phrases have their uses then? You should retract when you said "How about calling them people and not using superficial things as your entire identity" since it's obvious now that's not what the phrase "people of colour" is used for. 3. You started attacking the use of the phrase "people of colour". Out of nowhere, on an innocent and agreeable comment. I really want to know why you felt like that was important to do? 4. You suddenly change your argument to "people claim to be saviors are actually oppressors" despite the fact that nobody was talking about that at all. Why did you make that jump? What is the core of your argument and why did you bring that up?
i absolutely love this channel. every video is so cleanly edited and clearly branded to you, yet each video has its own distinguishable mood or editing. i absolutely love the complementary colors exploding with the music, it’s such a great look. in combination with the musical commentary this is easily the highest quality music channel right now. keep the vids coming man.
“There was nothing but girls and coke everywhere,” jazz legend Miles Davis remembered in his autobiography Miles. “I told Sly I couldn’t do nothing with him. Then I told Columbia I couldn’t make him record any quicker. We snorted some coke together and that was it.”
If you check the lyrics carefully, "Thank You" was never a "positive" song. "Dying young is hard to take/selling out is harder"? And that's just the last line. That whole song is like a "good bye to all that" to songs like "Everybody Is A Star." More like "Nobody Is A Star." I agree that "Riot" is one of the best LPs ever. Certainly the best "I just can't take all this shit" LP ever.
Fantastic work man! Great job, and great timing, this is crucial context. This channel might 'just be about music' but music is inherently 'about' everything. Very well done.
The words Thank You don't seem to be adequate for producing and releasing this video, but (apologetically) it's the best I can portray right now. Please continue with your respectful passion for music, telling its stories and sharing with all of us! So proud to be a longtime subscriber, please continue this journey! Best wishes!✊🏾✌🏾💖💯
This is outstanding content. I saw the band 5x. I was 13 or 14 when I first saw band at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. I was literally confused by the sonics of RIOT. Took several listenings to decide it was a blues album and I suggest the best and most important blues album of the 2Oth century. I'd heard repeatedly my mother's mother's blues 45 and thought RIOT is a slowed down BB KING or BOBBY BLUE BAND. When I listened closely to some JIMI HENDRIX songs I'd convinced myself RIOT is a blues album. And critics who know zippo about the blues might pan the album. And many did just that, but the album satifies musically and lyrically because it is a blues album whereas much of the MOTOWN catalogue or BEACH BOYS discography is on history's trash heap. Blues bests pop because blues is an art and pop is business by another name. SLY will be recalled in the late 21st century for RIOT. Blues guitarist JIMI HENDRIX will enjoy similiar acclaim By contrast JAY - Z. or MICHAEL JACKSON or NIRVANA or ELVIS PRESLEY will be forgotten by music consumers and musicologists.
How the hell did I miss this video when it first came out?? Been a subscriber for a long ass time and this is one of my favorite albums of all time. WTF
I think a video on “Good Old Boys” by Randy Newman would be very meaningful in this times. The album is practically a concept album about the south, and the opening song “Rednecks” is about how racism isn’t just found in the south. The song “Mr. President, Have Pity on the Working Man” was a personal plea from Randy Newman to Richard Nixon to alleviate the poverty in the south (Newman even performed the song on Jimmy Fallon a couple weeks ago). “Louisiana 1927” is about how history repeats itself. And the songs “Every Man a King” and “Kingfish” discuss Huey P. Long, a prominent figure who attacked FDR’s New Deal. These songs in particular are just as meaningful today as they were in 1974. Also Randy Newman deserves more credit than just being the Pixar soundtrack guy.
Did Randy Newman really compose the theme song for that God-awful _Honey Boo Boo_ shite show a few years back? I personally thought his South Park appearance (Season 16 Episode 9 entitled _Raising the Bar_ ) was his best work.
@@morty100mgdistillategummy7 "James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does _for_ James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron _is_ James Cameron." - James Cameron
I actually just wrote a paper for a summer class on the socio-political impact of funk music, and I was partly inspired by your videos to dig deeper into the history of the music I love. Thanks as always for top-notch content, and for using your platform to bring light to causes beyond yourself.
Man I love your videos. You have this wonderful way of making content that is inherently profound, yet it's profundity still seem subtle. I generally tear up while watching. Thank you.
You really knocked this one out of the park, man. Another great one on the condition of being black in America is Curtis Mayfield's "There's No Place Like America Today". If you aren't already familiar, I HIGHLY recommend the listen. And if you covered it in a video, I would rejoice. You make some of the best videos on music EVER, IMHO.
It's remarkable how you manage to continue to create such interesting and thoughtful videos despite the algorithm's best efforts to block you. Outstanding.
Brilliant video. Along with Exile on Main St, this is the most difficult rock album to understand. You need to invest time, but it is worth it, for they are masterpieces.
The one child lyric just made me finally understand Jordan Peele's "Us." I watched it for the first time last week and for some reason it just now clicked from that song.
So mad I missed this when it came out, but glad I found it. I’ve been hoping for a sly and the family stone video, and Riot is without a doubt my favorite album of all time. You can just feel the pessimism in that album, and if there is one song that sums up my feelings listening to it, it’s “Time”. I highly recommend people check it out.
Another fantastic source for learning about the Civil Rights Movement is the documentary series "Eyes on the Prize." I believe all episodes are still up on UA-cam. They were so detailed and covered so many different aspects, that I have yet to find another source that is so comprehensive on the subject.
the title of the vid and the beginning that first looks like a docu about the late sixties, got us confused down here. Only later we noticed that this is a video about an iconic artist (Sly Stone) and looked at him from his defining album (There's a Riot..). Almost wishing to follow both, the sixties that seem to continue today in 2020, and the artist/s at the ime untill today. // Polyphonic (to us) is still of the best channels for culture, ethics, and artists - on the whole youtube thing. Great docu.
Avizanski I’m sorry if it seems like I don’t take the topic of the vid seriously, It’s just that usually in the comments there are people copying other people’s comments cause they got a lot of likes so I was referring to that
when I saw the title I thought it was gonna be about The Robins “riot in cell block number 9” also Sly stone sang with a doo wop group called the viscaynes
Amazing Editing! Again! Polyphonic is one of the finest UA-cam channels. Sign to Curiositystream + Nebula, just for you. Thanks for this amazing content! We need more of it.
I was just listening to this album yesterday! What a classic. You should do an episode on Aretha Franklin’s “Young, Gifted and Black” album, I’ve been listening to that a lot recently with all that’s been going on
“What’s goin On”
“There’s a riot Goin On”
Both albums are just as relevant now as they’ve ever been
Sure are!
Sly is not properly credited for how influential he was. There is NO Prince and the Revolution without Sly and The Family Stone. A multi racial and mixed gender supergroup with an eccentric charismatic Muti instrument playing Black man that crossed over to every body without even trying.
Very true but I think The Revolution knew that
I totally agree. He and Larry Graham are two of the most innovative funk musicians of all time. I've been a fan of Sly & the Family Stone ever since I was eight years old. Sly's vocal style was also very influential. He influenced the vocal styles of Prince, Maurice White, Larry Dodson, and Leroy "Sugar foot" Bonner of the Ohio Players. Sly also influenced Stevie Wonder.
Prince was overrated
@@michaelcrawford5083 you have the right to your opinion but yours is in the minority
@@ComicPower Of course my opinion is in the minority because you have generation x babies (those born in the 1970s mainly) that didn't grow up with Sly Stone or in fact many artist of the late 60s - mid 70s.
So Prince is their generation and plus Prince was over exposed due to MTV
Oh thank god the Sly and The Family Stone episode has finally came!
They are a legendary band indeed, if not one of my favourites. TARGO is an amazing album, but Fresh is kinda overrated if you ask me
@@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 Overrated? not at all, beautiful album through and through
@@slystone4892 In Time is good
Maggot Brains “You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks” completely encapsulated that dreadful, exciting, angry feeling of the early 1970s
The title track itself is very reflective of impending doom
Malik Shakur U know the band is called Funkadelic right
Malcolm Connors the name of the album is Maggot Brain.
HOLY CRAP I JUST DID A LESSON LEGIT TODAY ON MARVIN GAYE'S WHAT'S GOING ON AND NOW I KNOW WHAT TO DO FOR A FOLLOW UP LESSON!!!! THANKS DUDE!!!
From start to finish, one of the most important and essential albums in music history.
The fact that people have been protesting the same thing for this long is ridiculous
Back in the 60’s it was about equality for African Americans. Now it’s about even MORE privilege for African Americans
That one Kid you hate, Daniel yeah the privilege to be treated like you white boy
Will Williams white people, Republican and Democrat, are participators. Black Americans know this, your propaganda is for white ears only
Malik Shakur lmao I’m not white, I’m from Brazil, a much shittier country than the US
The fact that we still divide people on something as superficial as skin tone is sad.We’re all human beings, and Sly is right, we are united by blood.
Omg, you should do Gil Scott Heron's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!!! That would be AMAZING
I'd love to see that, and also "Winter In America" (which matches this video's theme) - and my favorite, less well-known GHS song, "Ain t No Such Thing As Superman"
The entire Pieces of A Man album deserves a video essay imo. One of the most underrated albums of the early 70s around this same period of What's Going On and There's a Riot Goin On
The fact that a 40 year old album is still extremely relevant today is absolutely incredible.
clankyclonker *50
Classic example of "You mean to tell me that 1990 wasn't 20 years ago?"-itis
And incredible sad..
thats because very little has changed
Or sad
Listen to Hendrix “House Burning Down”
I glanced over this and thought u meant burning down the house by the talking heads lmao
The whole Electric Ladyland album was a masterpiece.
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General Kenobi
Polyphonic dammit top comment has been stolen
@@Polyphonic man of culture you are
@@Polyphonic You are a bold one
death hand studios
“Act ya age, not ya shoe size”
That letter from the FBI to Dr King is utterly sickening, I can't imagine what that man (and ofcourse the millions of disenfranchised people of colour as well as the poor in America) went through and people still go through today. Love from Scotland, keep strong people 👍❤️
@The King You can acknowledge your race without making it your full identity. There's absolutely nothing wrong with people of colour referring to themselves as such. ESPECIALLY when talking about civil rights movements, if people of colour are being oppressed just for being people of colour, then it's VITAL to acknowledge their problems as people of colour
@The King no, we'll ignore that because it's bullshit. Nobody claims to be a savior or an oppressor.
@The King Shallow thinking won't suffice. Study the issues.
"Namely, a euphemism is designed to step around an unpleasant association. When it comes to societal terms, the idea is to rise above pejorative connotations that society has linked to the thing in question." slate.com/human-interest/2016/08/colored-person-versus-person-of-color-how-does-society-decide-which-racial-terms-are-acceptable.html
@The King Don't call me foolish just because you don't understand my argument.
It's very easy, and safe, to say "look at any ....." but how about you give me a specific example of a law passed by leftists that disproportionately target minorities while also claiming to help them. The burden of proof is on you if you make an active claim. It would give your argument at least some credibility.
But besides that, it doesn't prove anybody is claiming to be a saviour. And regardless, that has nothing to do with the original point.
When talking about minorities, it's sometimes important to... you know. Call them minorities. Or people of colour. You said "How about calling them people and not using superficial things as your entire identity". And this is kind of dumb for a few reasons that I've already pointed out. But instead of acknowledging that, you completely ignored it all and changed your argument to "leftists can oppress people too" which is utterly irrelevant to the idea that people of colour can be called people of colour when discussing racial issues.
Stop changing your points to avoid correcting yourself. You look stupider than you probably are, and you'd be much more respectable if you just admitted you said some dumb shit, and retracted your dumb comment.
@The King You are being incredibly ignorant. I didn't just ask for laws that disproportionately affect people minorities. I'll make a little list, so you can't miss anything next time you reply. Try and give me 4 answers, instead of ignoring 90% of my comments.
1. I acknowledge that this law exists, and I acknowledge that it oppresses people of colour. But I don't recall anyone claiming to be a savior of minorities because they passed this law.
2. I assume you actually read the article you shared, right? It refers to people/communities of colour as such 15 times in total. Surely you can see why such phrases have their uses then? You should retract when you said "How about calling them people and not using superficial things as your entire identity" since it's obvious now that's not what the phrase "people of colour" is used for.
3. You started attacking the use of the phrase "people of colour". Out of nowhere, on an innocent and agreeable comment. I really want to know why you felt like that was important to do?
4. You suddenly change your argument to "people claim to be saviors are actually oppressors" despite the fact that nobody was talking about that at all. Why did you make that jump? What is the core of your argument and why did you bring that up?
love getting a polyphonic notification
aaah its the tame impala album cover isnt it??
10:03 When I heard that response the hair on my arms and neck stood up....deep
there's a 1971 beach boys song called "there's a riot goin on", it's infamous among beach boys fans
Yes!
Thanks very much for honoring one of the often overlooked masters of music in those days . . . and drawing the parallels . . .
I love that someone is talking about Sly Stone, I feel like everyone forgot about him
this album has to be one of my favourites of all time. nothing is like it. truly a masterpiece.
i absolutely love this channel. every video is so cleanly edited and clearly branded to you, yet each video has its own distinguishable mood or editing. i absolutely love the complementary colors exploding with the music, it’s such a great look. in combination with the musical commentary this is easily the highest quality music channel right now. keep the vids coming man.
Easily my fav Sly and honestly one of my all time favourites of any genre!
the way you ended this video hit me bro, gave me chills because you''re so right
“There was nothing but girls and coke everywhere,” jazz legend Miles Davis remembered in his autobiography Miles. “I told Sly I couldn’t do nothing with him. Then I told Columbia I couldn’t make him record any quicker. We snorted some coke together and that was it.”
Sly and the Family Stone episode!! Finally!!
This video made me appreciate this album much more
If you check the lyrics carefully, "Thank You" was never a "positive" song. "Dying young is hard to take/selling out is harder"? And that's just the last line. That whole song is like a "good bye to all that" to songs like "Everybody Is A Star." More like "Nobody Is A Star." I agree that "Riot" is one of the best LPs ever. Certainly the best "I just can't take all this shit" LP ever.
Fantastic work man! Great job, and great timing, this is crucial context. This channel might 'just be about music' but music is inherently 'about' everything. Very well done.
Favorite album. I’ve had it since I was a kid. Born in 72...
One of the all time greatest albums
One of my favorite albums of all time, thank you for doin this
Bein part of the black community, this album really touches me and my family
what's going on is the light and hope and riot is the dark with an underlying reality. both came out in '71, what a year for music.
easily one of the five best recordings of the 20th century
The words Thank You don't seem to be adequate for producing and releasing this video, but (apologetically) it's the best I can portray right now. Please continue with your respectful passion for music, telling its stories and sharing with all of us! So proud to be a longtime subscriber, please continue this journey! Best wishes!✊🏾✌🏾💖💯
People in the late 60's: I sure hope this will never happen again.
People now: *well shit.*
Your channel is great.
Keep up the great work
This is outstanding content.
I saw the band 5x. I was 13 or 14 when I first saw band at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.
I was literally confused by the sonics of RIOT. Took several listenings to decide it was a blues album and I suggest the best and most important blues album of the 2Oth century. I'd heard repeatedly my mother's mother's blues 45 and thought RIOT is a slowed down BB KING or BOBBY BLUE BAND. When I listened closely to some JIMI HENDRIX songs I'd convinced myself RIOT is a blues album. And critics who know zippo about the blues might pan the album. And many did just that, but the album satifies musically and lyrically because it is a blues album whereas much of the MOTOWN catalogue or BEACH BOYS discography is on history's trash heap.
Blues bests pop because blues is an art and pop is business by another name. SLY will be recalled in the late 21st century for RIOT. Blues guitarist JIMI HENDRIX will enjoy similiar acclaim By contrast JAY - Z. or MICHAEL JACKSON or NIRVANA or ELVIS PRESLEY will be forgotten by music consumers and musicologists.
Epic.
That was the label. Epic.
ooh wee ooh
Jerkhov DAMNIT I WAS GONNA SAY THAT
Excellent analysis, on the circumstances. Such a shame that Sly Stone burned out as he did.
How the hell did I miss this video when it first came out?? Been a subscriber for a long ass time and this is one of my favorite albums of all time. WTF
One of my favourite albums, makes me sad as hell but one of my favorites nonetheless
I think a video on “Good Old Boys” by Randy Newman would be very meaningful in this times. The album is practically a concept album about the south, and the opening song “Rednecks” is about how racism isn’t just found in the south. The song “Mr. President, Have Pity on the Working Man” was a personal plea from Randy Newman to Richard Nixon to alleviate the poverty in the south (Newman even performed the song on Jimmy Fallon a couple weeks ago). “Louisiana 1927” is about how history repeats itself. And the songs “Every Man a King” and “Kingfish” discuss Huey P. Long, a prominent figure who attacked FDR’s New Deal. These songs in particular are just as meaningful today as they were in 1974. Also Randy Newman deserves more credit than just being the Pixar soundtrack guy.
Did Randy Newman really compose the theme song for that God-awful _Honey Boo Boo_ shite show a few years back?
I personally thought his South Park appearance (Season 16 Episode 9 entitled _Raising the Bar_ ) was his best work.
@@morty100mgdistillategummy7 "James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does _for_ James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron _is_ James Cameron." - James Cameron
I actually just wrote a paper for a summer class on the socio-political impact of funk music, and I was partly inspired by your videos to dig deeper into the history of the music I love. Thanks as always for top-notch content, and for using your platform to bring light to causes beyond yourself.
the editing here is UNREAL
Man I love your videos. You have this wonderful way of making content that is inherently profound, yet it's profundity still seem subtle. I generally tear up while watching. Thank you.
The best thing I've seen on UA-cam in these crazy-mad times. Much Thanx!
this is an incredible video, the visuals are great
Dude. I love your channel. And especially this video. My favorite album of all time.
Great video, the topic was handled very well and the ad transition did not feel out of place!
You really knocked this one out of the park, man. Another great one on the condition of being black in America is Curtis Mayfield's "There's No Place Like America Today". If you aren't already familiar, I HIGHLY recommend the listen. And if you covered it in a video, I would rejoice. You make some of the best videos on music EVER, IMHO.
It's remarkable how you manage to continue to create such interesting and thoughtful videos despite the algorithm's best efforts to block you. Outstanding.
9:18 Sly got the definitions of black and white mixed up. Must've been the cocaine talking.
In terms of light it's correct. In terms of, for example, paint it would be wrong
This is a beautifully made video, one of his best.
It's a family affair...
i've been listening to this album obsessively the last two months and i was waiting for one of these channels to cover it
love from rhode island!
When I was a kid I was confused on how to say rhode
Narragansett
ay me too- lincoln
About time someone talked about this album...
Brilliant video. Along with Exile on Main St, this is the most difficult rock album to understand. You need to invest time, but it is worth it, for they are masterpieces.
The one child lyric just made me finally understand Jordan Peele's "Us." I watched it for the first time last week and for some reason it just now clicked from that song.
Genius album. Ambitious pivot.
Wow...this has to be the most concise, thought-provoking, intelligent review of this masterpiece that I ever heard! kudos!
Just like a baby is my favorite theres nothing quite like it
If you want me to stay is slys hardest vocal track. Change my mind
Damn this Video is a Masterpiece by its on, its so well done!
I love your vids!! They're always an excellent introduction to great music!
your editing style and quality never ceases to impress
I thought this was About the Blues Brotheres (There's a riot going on up cell block number 9)
By the way WHEN WILL YOU COVER THE BLUES BROTHERS??
Nice work once again. Sly was way ahead of his time. Album was great, thank you Sly👏👏👏👏🥰
So mad I missed this when it came out, but glad I found it. I’ve been hoping for a sly and the family stone video, and Riot is without a doubt my favorite album of all time. You can just feel the pessimism in that album, and if there is one song that sums up my feelings listening to it, it’s “Time”. I highly recommend people check it out.
Another fantastic source for learning about the Civil Rights Movement is the documentary series "Eyes on the Prize." I believe all episodes are still up on UA-cam. They were so detailed and covered so many different aspects, that I have yet to find another source that is so comprehensive on the subject.
Good resounding response to Gaye’s question!
Larry Graham, Prince’s guru
Great video, on a small fact. Sly stone almost played every instruments. He played bass on africa talks to you!
Excellent! I saw Sly & Family in concert! Please do a video on Gil Scott-Heron. Thanks
the title of the vid and the beginning that first looks like a docu about the late sixties, got us confused down here. Only later we noticed that this is a video about an iconic artist (Sly Stone) and looked at him from his defining album (There's a Riot..). Almost wishing to follow both, the sixties that seem to continue today in 2020, and the artist/s at the ime untill today. // Polyphonic (to us) is still of the best channels for culture, ethics, and artists - on the whole youtube thing. Great docu.
I saw this album last night and said "I'm listening to this tomorrow, the cover is cool" and now I have even more of a reason to hear it......
Yes finally some attention for one of my favorite albums ever. Thanks so much.
I see we still have a lotta work to do
RAPE, MURDER, ITS JUST A SHOT AWAY, ITS JUST A SHOT AWAY.
damn I love that song
Congrats dude, your analysis are great and the motivations and drive are just wonderful. Just thanks
This may just be the best editing you've ever done actually. What is the backing track you're using? You do your video subjects such justice.
I think this is your best work. Keep it up - music has a power to it
I love these kind of videos
10/10 more rioting please
Another great video essay 👍
Another LP I need to buy 🤘
Cheers!
I love your videos
So glad to have this one on vinyl.
Wonderful album, so happy you did it, Sly was such a genius.
I hate being this early I can’t steal a joke
Imagine joking on a video like this
Avizanski
What is the joke?
Avizanski I’m sorry if it seems like I don’t take the topic of the vid seriously, It’s just that usually in the comments there are people copying other people’s comments cause they got a lot of likes so I was referring to that
This is a fantastic video
when I saw the title I thought it was gonna be about The Robins “riot in cell block number 9” also Sly stone sang with a doo wop group called the viscaynes
Amazing Editing! Again! Polyphonic is one of the finest UA-cam channels. Sign to Curiositystream + Nebula, just for you. Thanks for this amazing content! We need more of it.
Ah yes, an astute observation Poly.
When are we getting the next Dark Side video?
sly is playing bass on africa talks to you
larry played thank you for taling to me africa, caught me smiln and runin away
A great album by one of the most innovative musicians of all time. Mr. Sylvester Stewart better know as Sly Stone.
Last time I was this early, Paul McCartney was still alive
You almost got me.
@Comic Sans 2020 was about to get way worse.
Indeed there is......Going on my stereo this evening I think
😂
I love this album! Spaced cowboy is such a good tune.
Idk it sounds pretty cool and laid back to me, pretty upbeat
thanks for educating people on these things :)
I was just listening to this album yesterday! What a classic. You should do an episode on Aretha Franklin’s “Young, Gifted and Black” album, I’ve been listening to that a lot recently with all that’s been going on
We appreciate you sir.