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''Fresh'' is the sixth album by American funk/soul/rock band Sly and the Family Stone, released by Epic/CBS Records on June 30, 1973 (see 1973 in music). Written and produced by Sly Stone, ''Fresh'' is more upbeat than its predecessor, the landmark ''There's a Riot Goin' On'', but still retains much of ''Riots dark, funky feel. ==History== The album's biggest hit was "If You Want Me to Stay". Other notable tracks include "Frisky" and "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be),", a cover of Doris Day's Academy Award-winning song from Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Man Who Knew Too Much'', sung here by Rose Stone. "Que Sera, Sera" is notable as the only cover song issued on an original Family Stone album. The cover photo is by Richard Avedon. The track "If It Were Left Up To Me" is purportedly an outtake from 1968's ''Life''. As with ''There's a Riot Goin' On'', Stone held on to the ''Fresh'' masters well beyond the record's official release, constantly remixing and re-recording the tracks.〔Selvin, Joel (1998). ''For the Record: Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History''. New York: Quill Publishing. ISBN 0-380-79377-6. pp. 164-167.〕 As a result, alternate and significantly different versions of at least ten songs from the album are known to exist. In 1991, Sony Music, by then owner of the Epic catalog, accidentally issued a sequencing of ''Fresh'' on CD featuring alternate takes of every song except "In Time", which remained unchanged. Sony allowed the alternate version to remain in stores to be bought up by fans and then later issued the standard 1973 version of the album. However, the mix-up sparked debate among fans over which release was superior. When Sony BMG reissued ''Fresh'' in CD and digital download formats for Sly & the Family Stone's 40th anniversary, five alternate mixes were included as bonus tracks. These tracks are extremely similar, if not identical, to the alternate, accidental 1991 release. The alternate version is known to be very accessible in Japan, while it is very scarce in the U.S. Jazz legend Miles Davis was so impressed by the song "In Time" from the album that he made his band listen to the track repeatedly for a full 30 minutes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher= Drummerworld )〕 Composer and music theorist Brian Eno cited ''Fresh'' as having heralded a shift in the history of recording, "where the rhythm instruments, particularly the bass drum and bass, suddenly () the important instruments in the mix."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher= ''Downbeat'' )〕 George Clinton, who has listed ''Fresh'' as one his favorite albums, later convinced the Red Hot Chili Peppers to cover "If You Want Me to Stay" on their second album, the Clinton-produced ''Freaky Styley''. In 2003, the album was ranked number 186 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fresh (Sly and the Family Stone album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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