# Sly & the Family Stone — Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

Sly & the Family Stone’s Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (1969) appears on 3 of our lists — Funk, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, and The Waxonia Desk — Where the Accent Moved, highest at No. 2 in Funk. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1969
- **Label:** Epic
- **On:** Funk, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, and The Waxonia Desk — Where the Accent Moved
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29
- **Artist:** [Sly & the Family Stone](https://waxonia.com/artist/sly-and-the-family-stone/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/sly-and-the-family-stone--thank-you-falettinme-be-mice-elf-agin/

## What 3 lists say

### No. 2 in [Funk](https://waxonia.com/genre/funk/)

Larry Graham slaps and pops a bass because his band had no drummer, and invents an entire technique by accident. The most cheerful record ever written about being ground down.

### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/)

A bass technique invented to cover for a missing drummer, and the most cheerful record ever written about being ground down.

### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — Where the Accent Moved](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-accent-moved/)

A bass technique invented to cover for a missing drummer, and imitated for fifty years afterwards. Limitations make signatures far more often than intentions do.

## Listen

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