There’s A Riot Going On was Sly & The Family Stone’s answer to Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On?, the seminal Soul album that came out five months before the Sly Stone masterpiece. It’s a dark, earthy Funk album, that went straight to number 1 upon release. Single “Family Affair” also topped the charts, and is still one of Sly Stone’s most beloved tracks. It manages to capture the era of militant activism and deep social unrest in a brooding, moody album with tension that could cut through steel. It still appears on plenty of ‘Greatest Albums of All Time’ lists (Rolling Stone magazine placed it on #99 out of 500) and is seen as one of the most important and influential albums of the 1970s.
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Check out the tracks below;
Sly & The Family Stone – Luv N’ Haight
Sly & The Family Stone – Just Like A Baby
Sly & The Family Stone – Poet
Sly & The Family Stone – Family Affair
Sly & The Family Stone – Africa Talks To You “The Asphalt Jungle”
Sly & The Family Stone – There’s A Riot Going On
Sly & The Family Stone – Brave & Strong
Sly & The Family Stone – (You Caught Me) Smilin’
Sly & The Family Stone – Time
Sly & The Family Stone – Spaced Cowboy
Sly & The Family Stone – Runnin’ Away
Sly & The Family Stone – Thank You For Talkin’ To Me Africa
