Small Talk (Sly and the Family Stone album)

Small Talk
Studio album by Sly and the Family Stone
Released	July 1974 (1974-07)
Recorded	1974
Studio	The Record Plant, Los Angeles
Genre	Funk, soul
Length	37:27
Label	Epic (PE 32930)
Producer	Sly Stone
Sly and the Family Stone chronology
Fresh (1973) Small Talk (1974) High on You (1975)

Small Talk is the seventh album by Sly and the Family Stone, released by Epic/CBS Records in 1974. This album was the final LP to feature the original Family Stone, which broke up in January 1975.

Small Talk's singles were "Time for Livin'" (the band's final Top 40 hit) and "Loose Booty", an up-tempo funk track which uses the names of Bible characters Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego as a chant. Pictured on the album cover with bandleader Sly Stone in a photograph by Norman Seeff are his then-wife Kathleen Silva and his son Sylvester Jr.

In addition to its standard stereo release, Small Talk was also released in quadraphonic sound.

Beastie Boys sampled most elements, such as the words Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego from "Loose Booty" on their track "Shadrach" from the album Paul's Boutique (1989). Beastie Boys also recorded a hardcore punk version of "Time for Livin" for their 1992 album Check Your Head, along with an accompanying music video.^[1]