The one hundred sixtieth album: #160 Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
As we keep up on the non-rock bands, Sly & The Family Stone's funk works for me. It did when I came across it for the songs list and here, too, the upbeat music works well while avoiding the repitition that bores me with other funk artists. There's a lot to each of these songs, in a way that works both for intense listening and when it fades into the background.
The oddity is on side B, where Sex Machine is a lengthy jam that goes it some pretty weird places, using distortion to create some weird sounds. It's not something that holds up for thirteen minutes, and mostly detracts from the sound of the rest of the album, but I can see why they might want to try.