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There's a Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone Format: Audio CD
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Track Listings

1 Luv N' Haight
2 Just Like a Baby
3 Poet
4 Family Affair
5 Africa Talks to You ("The Asphalt Jungle")
6 Brave & Strong
7 (You Caught Me) Smilin'
8 Time
9 Spaced Cowboy
10 Runnin' Away
11 Thank You for Talkin' to Me, Africa

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Certain albums both define a specific point in time and yet manage to be timeless. Such an album is There's A Riot Going On. After a few records of sexy, sunny, but never cavalier funk/pop, the twisted genius of Sly Stone turned dark, moody, reflective, angry, but no less funky for the contemplation. Stone created an album that spoke not only to the turmoil gripping America in 1971, but also to the chaos whirling around his increasingly druggy personal life. This is an album of dangerous beauty, where even the hit ("Family Affair") is guarded and haunting. --Amy Linden

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.62 x 4.92 x 0.33 inches; 3.84 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Sony Legacy
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1987
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 48 minutes
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2007
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Sony Legacy
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000024XW
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 174 ratings

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DARRYL J.
5.0 out of 5 stars There's riot going on!
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2023
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An amazing classic album! Sly Stone at his best!
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Steven Majors
5.0 out of 5 stars Still good 2 me
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2005
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When I first got this on 8 track and wore it out. Then I got it on Cassette, then I got the album. Now I finally got my favorite Sly album on CD. The sound quality on the CD is the same that was on the 8 Track & Cassette. A little hiss but nothing to get bent out of shape over. I heard that the Inport has a better sound quality, however this album kicks butt. My favorite is "Spaced Cowboy". I do love the entire album. Rumors has it that Sly was "totally wasted" when he recorded it. He also plays more than one instrument on some of the songs. This album has the hit "Family Affiar". His lyrics are catching. "I was on my last leg, i had to borrow my friends extra peg and all".....YOLADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL. You won't be dissapointed.

There is a riot going on.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reissue!
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2018
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Already have the regular, bonus CD but enjoy reading the extra material offered in the booklet and got a kick out of the embroidered flag. Worth the money since I'm a big fan of Sly's work.
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Gwen Parrill
5.0 out of 5 stars Album
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2020
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Very good shape. Great buy.
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pixeleen
4.0 out of 5 stars An impressive deluxe edition of one of the most important albums of all time, but...
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2013
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...did anyone proofread the liner notes?!

Get On Down's "Deluxe Limited Edition Boxed Set" is quite beautiful - the embroidered flag cover, snap case, hardback book, and gold disc make for a very attractive package.

However, I'm disappointed in all the typos in A. Scott Galloway's liner notes! There's really no excuse for misspelling "Falettinme" in "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" - four times to boot. Or misspelling Sly's sister Vaetta's name. Or adding a "g" to "Talkin'" in "Thank You for Talkin' To Me Africa." It drives me CRAZY to see sloppiness like this in a special package, especially for a monumental - and important - album.

I recommend this set, but I wish *I* was there to proofread the liner notes!

The mastering is the same as the 2007 disc BUT the title track is a full two minutes longer at 2:04 rather than 2007's 0:04 length. This leaves a huge two minute gap between "Africa Talks To You: The Asphalt Jungle" and "Brave & Strong"!

PS: By the way, I disagree with the liner notes - "Poet" was NOT sampled in the Beastie Boys track "3 Minute Rule."
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james macielak
5.0 out of 5 stars sly on top
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2014
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this album gets a ton of airplay because it always sounds fresh

added booklet a must for sly fans but proably not too much intrest to casual fan
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D. Lee
5.0 out of 5 stars Soulful, funky, mad, genius!
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2005
I agree with the other reviewers who have said that the sound quality on this CD deserves to be greatly improved, and I'm especially perturbed that the original cover art is censored, but this album is so good and so essential that if this is the only version that you have access to, then it is still WELL worth buying. So, I'm simply going to review the priceless, timeless work on this CD. This is the quintessential Funk masterpiece. I have never heard an album as deeply and spiritually funky as this. This album is like an unfiltered glimpse into the soul of a man who is losing his mind. The fact that the artist was deep into some heavy drugs is more obvious on this album than on any other album that I have heard in my life (especially on the aptly titled 'Spaced Cowboy'). But ultimately, what this album truly is, is the brilliant chronicle of the breakdown of a disappointed idealist...a greatly disappointed idealist. This disappointment resulted in an inward retreat that is starkly pronounced in the first line of the album when he sings, "Feels so good, inside myself don't wanna move"! on 'Luv N' Haight'. The song itself is an extremely powerful and lively experience, but you can hear the bitter disappointment in Sly's voice, especially when he sings in his raw barely decipherable murmur. This contrast makes for an absolutely gripping and engulfing piece of work, and this contrast is pretty much prevalent throughout this entire album. 'Just Like A Baby' is a moving peek into the subconscious with a deep affecting base line, and Sly moaning and groaning throughout the song. The lyrics are a series of profound lyrical tidbits such as, "Just like a baby, when I'm down I cry, just like a baby, I can feel it when you lie to me", and "Just like a baby, everything is new, just like a baby, come to find out, I'm whole lot like yoooouuuu!", followed by moans that can only be described as the release of pent up pressure and frustration. The soulful funk ballad 'Time' is very similar with several indecipherable yet strikingly honest and clear moments scattered throughout. Other noteworthy moments include 'Poet' which is just absolutely brilliant. This could very well be the funkiest song ever made. When he sings, "My only weapon is my pen!, oh that's the frame of mind I'm in yea, I'm a songwriter!...a poet!", he speaks of being a poet and songwriter with a sense of purpose and meaning that makes the sense of importance that he says it with utterly convincing (not that I had any question of the serious importance of poets and songwriters, but Sly says it with such naked conviction that he makes you really, really believe it). On 'Runnin' Away', he sings, "Runnin' away, to get away, ha ha ha, you're wearing out your shoes,...look at you foolin' you!" almost as if he's his own reflection singing to himself. Sly was a brilliant lyricist and he proves it throughout this entire album. This entire album is a powerful ride; from the vibrant opening licks of 'Luv N' Haight' to the seriously subdued Funk of 'Thank you for talkin' to me Africa', the latter basically being a seriously slowed down and diminished version of 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)'. The stark contrast between these two takes on the same song is a powerful illustration of the dramatic change that had taken place in Sly's world during such a short amount of time. This album is an extremely powerful piece that is hard to stop listening to once you grasp it, and that is equally rewarding no matter how many times you play it, Sly's indecipherable gurgling and all :-). I encourage all true music lovers out there to add it to their collection.
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Gianluca
5.0 out of 5 stars la rivolta funky psichedelica della famiglia Stone
Reviewed in Italy on February 7, 2021
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La famiglia Stone era di San Francisco e non poteva essere diversamente. Hippie nel vero senso del termine e non per posa, intrisi di psichedelia, multirazziali ma apertmente vicini al black power. Erano semplicemente unici. E diciamo la verità, tra il 1968 e il 1971 furono la cosa più eccitante, provocatoria della black music.
"There's a riot goin on" è esplicito fin dal titolo. Ci voleva fegato a pubblicare un album con un titolo del genere se eri nero negli States di quel periodo (va beh non che adesso le cose vadano proprio molto meglio....)
Manifesto politico ma anche grande, grandissima prova musicale. Perchè sia chiaro qui dentro non c'è solo funky music o soul; questo album è intriso di umori blues, di ritmiche africaneggianti, accenni gospel, gli evidenti legami con il mondo del rock e poi quell'aurea cupa e malsana che aleggia su tutto il lavoro. Siamo lontani anni luce dal solare ottimismo di un Redding o di una Franklin, dall'esuberanza sessuale di un Brown, dal senso goliardico di un Pickett. Qui si respira la stessa aria tesi che si respirava nei ghetti neri in quel periodo. Non c'è un solo brano che non ti sconquassi qua dentro, non c'è un brano che ti entri subito in circolo, e ci sono due brani capolavoro , due delle gemme più belle concepite dalla black music... "Africa talk to you" e "Thank you for talkin' to me Africa" emblemi delle intenzioni della band, della loro poliedricità, del loro amore per il rock psichedelico, invasati da un ritmo sensuale che James Brown sognava la notte.
Per farla breve, un lavoro imperdibile.
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Stephen Bieth
5.0 out of 5 stars Vinyl, SACD Releases
Reviewed in Canada on February 22, 2018
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Funk doesn’t get any better then this. I was first introduced to this record while at University and it was love at first listen. If you are a Sly fan, but don’t know a lot of his work, this record is much darker then the ones before or after its release . Sly was pretty messed up on drugs (to quote Neil Young “every junkie is like a setting sun”) by this time in his life and it shows to a degree. Not saying it’s bad but that he was heading that way.
Album production; Sly Stone was a studio master, not by making the records sound like Steely Dan but to give his music a feel. The production is very muddy but after hearing it, I think you might be like me and could not imagine this record any other way.
The vinyl is good, clean and mastered very well. If you can find it the SACD version of this album is also great.
So if you want to check out the funkier side of life then start here!
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SLV
5.0 out of 5 stars Buff...
Reviewed in Spain on March 1, 2015
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1971, año de grandes discos, entre ellos, la inmersión de Sly & The Family Stone en la bella oscuridad de la decepción. El libreto es impagable.
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Mr. L. F. G. Ballinger
5.0 out of 5 stars "DYIN' YOUNG IS HARD TO TAKE - SELLIN' OUT IS HARDER..."
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2013
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Arriving more than two years after the bright and joyous musical melting pot of STAND! (1969), THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON reflected both the turbulence of a Vietnam War-weary America and the fragmentation of one of the most musically creative bands of the late 1960s, the album's thick, sludgy grooves blanketing Sly and The Family Stone's gift for penning observant social commentary with an undeniable sense of foreboding. With leader Sly Stone wallowing in excess in a rented Los Angeles mansion, drummer Greg Errico would be the first to quit, his place taken by the metronomic throb of the Rhythm King - a primitive drum machine - on several of the tracks, while outside players such as Bobby Womack would contribute to the recording as the sessions dragged on and Sly mixed and remixed the tracks to such a degree that the tapes began to deteriorate; hence, therefore, the album's by-accident foggy - but ultimately hugely influential - sound.

Despite topping the charts in America, people didn't quite know what to make of THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON upon its release in late 1971, but the blissed-out funk of the initial single 'Family Affair' was a stroke of pure genius, while the relatively exuberant 'Runnin' Away' was arguably the one track which best recalled the Sly and The Family Stone of the STAND! era. Elsewhere, though, cynicism towards fame and life itself - a grim acceptance of fate - pervaded such tracks as 'Luv And Haight', 'Brave And Strong' and the downright bizarre 'Spaced Cowboy'. The album was rounded off with an ominous, slowed-down version of the band's 1970 single 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mic Elf Agin)', retitled 'Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa', which featured Larry Graham's innovative slap-bass technique well to the fore.

This reissue is, by and large, a beautiful package, which pays worthy tribute to an album whose influence upon the development of black music over the succeeding 40-plus years is impossible to over-estimate. From the box with its embroidered flag covering to the richly detailed book (which does unfortunately contain a couple of annoying printing errors) describing the making of the album and finally to the music itself, one can luxuriate in the greatness of a piece of musical history. Most crucially, the remastering sounds particularly good. I've noticed an Amazon.com review has been posted here which suggests that this set contains simply a reissue of the album's 2007 remaster; however, I beg to differ. I feel that the whole album sounds generally a lot beefier here than on the aforementioned disc - and I don't think this has anything to do with the music being contained on a gold CD, which some say sound better than conventional discs. One quibble I do have, however, is that I am not sure why there is an almost two-minute gap of silence between the 00:06 seconds of the infamously silent title track and the start of 'Brave And Strong'. If this countdown is an attempt to recreate the break in play that you would get when turning a vinyl record over, surely even the most stoned listener back in '71 could have flipped their LP onto side two in less time than this!

There are those of who have claimed that Marvin Gaye's WHAT'S GOIN' ON (also from 1971) is the "black SGT. PEPPER". If so, then Sly and The Family Stone's THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON can make an equally strong case for being black music's EXILE ON MAIN STREET: like The Rolling Stones' album, it too wasn't what people were expecting at first, but its reputation continues to grow as new generations fall under the spell of its flaws, its inconsistencies and, above all, its warped beauty.
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5.0 out of 5 stars ちょっとお化粧されすぎかも
Reviewed in Japan on April 20, 2015
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届いたヴァイナルは新品の輸入盤でたぶんリマスターされているのですがそれがこの作品（だけに限って）仇と出てます。ざらざらした手触りの粗さがこの名作の肝なのに。でもなんだかんだいって「ランニアウェイ」が流れ出すと細いことどうでもよくなります。これから自分なりに聴き込んで汚していきたいと思います。3300円で買えたし。
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