Dance To The Music/Higher/I Ain’t Got Nobody (For Real)/Dance To The Medley/Ride The Rhythm/Colour Me True/Are You Ready/Don’t Burn Baby/Never Will I Fall In Love Again
Dance To The Music was the follow up album from soul band Sly & The Family Stone. Despite the good showing of the US No. 8 and UK No. 7 title track single the album performed poorly. An early appearance of a funk song, with some elements of rap, flagged up the wrong turning that popular music would eventually take. (US:142)
“I don't know if Stone was afraid to stray from the formula the label wanted or if he was pressured to do so, but the album Dance To The Music ends up using the title track's chord progressions for half a dozen cuts, creating a pretty stunning lack of variance on the record. Making matters worse, some of the other material is so weak that you actually find yourself wishing it used the same chord progression as everything else.”
“I was disappointed at this album only because every song on here sounded too much like the title track.”
“Every track a stomping funk masterpiece. The unbelievably timeless, pounding, grooving, relentless, uplifting funk that is Dance To The Medley alone makes the album essential.”
“Dance To The Music pretty much takes the ideas that were present on A Whole New Thing and continues to develop them. This time around, the overall album is stronger, and shows The Family Stone settling into what would soon be known as their classic sound.”
“Dance to the medley? Dance to the schmedley, is how much this album can be described. Dance To The Music still has plenty of gems, all indicative of Sly's ever evolving musical mind.”
“The title song was a breakthrough, not just for the group, but for the world of popular music in general: it was an early example of a funk song, and it has some elements of rap (the percussion-and-voice part in particular). And then there is a lot of recycling: good as it is, the twelve-minute Dance To The Medley is pretty much a rewrite of Dance To The Music.”
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