There's A Riot Goin' On

I respect what the group was trying to do here, but this is way too long and droning for my tastes. I'm sure the lyrics were great - if I could hear them. And I understand the instrumentation was unheard of for the time, but the only thing - in my opinion - that makes this album stand up so much today is that it feels like a collection of tailor-made beat samples for songs that would probably better benefit from them. STANDOUTS: -Family Affair -(You Caught Me) Smilin'

Si te va el funky lo cierto es que debe ser un super álbum pero no es mi estilo

Not bad at all!

Veldig kult med litt funk. Mange kule grooves, bra bassing, mye kult å lese om dette albumet. Tror likevel ikke det er noe jeg har så lyst å høre på igjen. Klarer ikke forklare hva det er, men tror jeg bare mistet interessen halvveis gjennom. Får gi det en 3

1 gar nix für mich

WARUM SCHON WIEDER SO VIEL INSTRUMENTAL. Bezahlts die Sänger richtig, dann liefern die auch auf jedem Track. Zefix. Klar auch nochmal 3 Songs ohne Voice Tonspur auf die Scheibe geschmiert. Warum nicht. Nun zum Album an sich: ist halt da wa. Ob ichs gehört haben MUSS, da stelle ich mal ein Fragezeichen dahinter. Ich habs jedenfalls gehört. Was ist der Witz an "There's a Riot Going on"? 4 Sekunden Stille? Große Kunst. Endlich wird mal die Fresse gehalten. Auf Spaced Cowboy wird einfach Gejodelt?! Müssen geile Drogen damals gewesen sein. Mit Afrika wird viel gespochen und sich dann nochmal recht ausführlich auf 7:16 dafür bedankt. Isch koi schlechte Musik ned würd ich sagen. Aber hat mich jetzt nix ergriffen und in seinen Bann gezogen. Let's leave it like that. Werd's nimmer hören. War heute aber auch ned im Mood für diese Musik. Daher 3*

Ich habe keine Meinung.

Hmm, there were a few on here that I enjoyed but I have to say some of them merged together. I thought I liked funk but perhaps I only have a limited capacity for it. It was a bit of a schlep towards the end.

Fine for background music. Found it hard to engage with directly.

Funky. I like it. 4/5

Not my favourite. Bit samey

Funky, groovy

Nice 70s funk

I've listened to a bunch of Sly in the past, but probably never a full album in its entirety. Brought me back to my days of trying to play bass like Flea from the RHCP and all Flea's influences, including Sly and the Family Stone.

Great.

A fun album, super funky, and I liked the whole album not just the hits.

Classic, defining funk sound!! Good album!

Did they realise the mics were on?

Weirdly flat production really brings this down. It’s also not nearly as fun as I remember it, all feels very subdued.

Not quite the level of Stand! A view that might change with repeated listens, other than the two obvious standouts a lot of this just hopped along in the background.

The more funky songs were pretty good, some others not so much.

Pretty good! Not exactly my thing but a good version of the thing it is.

That was boring and quite. Not like poorly recorded they just sang softly, but not enjoyably.

Hits and slow instrumentals. But I don't know. Freaky deeky though!

Some great funky rock, lots of good bass riffs and black vocalists.

Funky

Boring songs by a drug addled group. Their earlier album Stand! Was better

If any album was need to show that the happy go lucky, love to all 60's were well and truly dead and buried it is this dark, funky, dirty, muddy album. Mixed to be almost unintelligible at times, this album ushers in the 70's predicting the tough times ahead. Brilliant.

This was good fun but not as good as the other Sly album we've had.

Really liked this music.

Heard that song Family Affair before loads - no idea it was them, a classic. Rest of album was ok, didn't grab me though

some rock vibes with yacht type

A great funk album and it reflects the times.

Pretty generically fine to listen to, nothing caught my ear, but provided good inoffensive background tunes.

Lying around in a bed making sweet music

Found it quite samey. Songs started to drag towards the end. Not my cup of tea but would shut this off if given the choice. Better towards the end with single versions and instrumentals

Inspired. Should be the first Sly album people are allowed to hear.

Just nothing interesting, drags on way too long

det var lite för spretigt på nåt sätt. oskönt skrikade emellanåt.

Paikoitellen vekkulia menoa, mutta kokonaisuus ei kantanut

Funky funk kinda album. Nice lil listen.

Super funky, amazing

this kinda goes hard wtf? british boyband rock but a little harder than the beatles and a little bit \"drier\" if that makes any sense, like someone wrung the beatles out and their hair got greasier and they stopped wearing matching suits. thats just the energy i'm getting i have no idea if this is actually what they look like. it's also giving me sing street/the cure energy. interesting. really like her actually. best described as \"pirate rock\" i think lmao

Sly & The Family Stone were one of the more formative bands for me as a bassplayer. I used to pick apart their basslines along with Parliment Funkadelic, Graham Central Station, Mandrill, War and more. They were instrumental in me understanding the idea of "the pocket" as a player. That said, this is NOT Sly's best album by a long shot. It's rough and unfocused. While the great musicianship that one would expect is still on display, the vocals show the strain of a completely drug-addled frontman. The result is a chaotic, fragmented mess of an album. Great band, not such a great album, sadly.

Lækre oprørsmelodier, 70’er, nationalitet, funk, groove, elguitar

Funky beyond belief

Wea nice

Fun album, prefer the more vocal approach he takes with his other albums though

Not very interesting

I can't say I'm too huge a fan of the production on this, but the songs are great. I know Sly/The Family for more the upbeat songs, but this definitely has a darker edge. Favorite tracks: "Africa Talks to You", "Family Affair", "Smilin'"

Another strong 4. Verry groovy, a couple 5-8 minute jams on here. Standout Tracks: Just Like a Baby, Africa Talks to You, Time, Thank You For Talkin' to Me, Africa

I’ve tried so many times to get into it, but I just can’t. I love funk, I love things inspired by this record; I just do not love this record.

Up there with Parliament/Funkadelic as the best funk.

Good, but not really my cup of tea. Dont think ill come back to it. Family Affair is pretty great though