I bought those years ago and there was very little that grabbed me the way the early records do, I barely remember any songs beyond "Remember who you are" and a few others... Maybe time for a revisit after the writeup

Anyway, Small Talk is good but calling it his best alongside TARGO and Fresh kind of justify that dude who made the point regarding Sly's 60's stuff being forgotten and ignored which I didn't agree with. Whatever, Stand!, Life and even A whole new thing are better to me but I like music from the late 60's as well as music from the 70's; I can see people primarily into 70's funk prefering Small Talk since it has that vibe more just like Fresh and complete with strings and all...