There's a Riot Goin' On

Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On

There's a Riot Goin' On
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Artist: Sly & the Family Stone
Edition: Music CD
Format: Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-04-24
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Luv N' Haight
  2. Just Like A Baby
  3. Poet
  4. Family Affair
  5. Africa Talks To You ' The Asphalt Jungle'
  6. There's A Riot Goin' On
  7. Brave & Strong
  8. (You Caught Me) Smilin'
  9. Time
  10. Spaced Cowboy
  11. Runnin' Away
  12. Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa
  13. Runnin' Away
  14. My Gorilla Is My Butler
  15. Do You Know What?
  16. That's Pretty Clean

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Free Music Review: There's A Riot Goin' On
Hit: 5 Stars

Sly And The Family Stone-There's A Riot Goin' On *****

In the time I have owned There's A Riot Goin' On I have not been able to put it down. As I think about Stand! and what a great and positive (well sort of) and up beat album it was and how much I love it, I realize that I love this because it is everything that album isn't. The two albums have become sort of a yin and Yang thing. Where the former is bright and colorful Riot is dark and eerie and basically the seedy underbelly of society as well as funk.

The more I researched the album it seems to me that Sly Stone had given up on the counter-culture which he had built his entire career around and abandoned all rules and began running with gangs of thugs and low-lifes and sunk even further into drugs than I thought he did. Well there is nothing like pain and anger to create great art with, and clearly Sly knew that.

As the album opens with the cleverly tittled 'Luv N' Haight' referencing Haight & Ashbury in San Francisco, and it is about the most positive sounding song one the album, and from there it is doomy with low tuned Fender Telecasters early drum machines and some heavy, and I do mean heavy grooves. 'Poet' just might be the sexiest groove this side of T.Rex's 'Mambo Sun' while the lyric could be anything but, creating a texture to the song unmatched by any other. 'Family Affair' was obviously the center piece of the album, as it was the groups biggest hit off the record and has on of Sly's best lyric endeavors as well as some of the greatest duo vocals of all time rivaling the Stones' 'Gimme Shelter.' The title track is concidered a joke as it is really not a track, though I am sure Sly had some hidden meaning behind it. 'Spaced Cowboy' more or less was autobiographical of Sly's personal situation wither he meant it that way or not. 'Thank You For Talkin' To me Africa' at times feels like a rewrite of a certain hit (I bet you can guess which one) but it works and it closes the album perfectly.

I've heard that this was Sly's response to Marvin Gaye's What's Going on and I would go so far to say that this is an even greater album, though both had equally great messages to say. That is saying something considering that this album took months and months to record as Sly keep throwing all the tracks out. One thing is for sure there is going to be a riot in constant rotation in my stereo for a while to come.

There's a Riot Goin' On Poster

The hazy hints of dystopia from Sly and the Family Stone's fabulously successful 1969 hit album Stand! turned full-force on its follow-up, There's a Riot Goin' On. By 1971, Sly had his Hollywood mansion and legions of droppers-by laying down parts of Riot, many of them later overdubbed by Sly himself. The resulting album is entrancing, backed often by an austere, early drum machine and featuring dope-glazed vocals, paranoid shadows and, of course, a stewing funk groove. Horns are here, thinned out so they jab harder, and the keyboards gleam and shimmer and icily coat the beats, which sound in today's parlance simply lo-fi. And the beats, they've slowed menacingly, with voices dropping in, dropping out. Drugs were flowing freely by this point, complicating Sly's sound, inadvertently making an album that indelibly matches its maker's psyche-in-time. --Andrew Bartlett
Japanese limited edition issue of the album classic in a deluxe, miniaturized LP sleeve replica of the original vinyl album artwork.
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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