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- #1
- Posted: 10/20/2011 19:38
- Post subject: Album of the day (#343): There's a Riot Goin' On
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Today's album of the day
There's a Riot Goin' On by Sly And The Family Stone (View album)
Year: 1971.
Overall rank: 365.
Average rating: 81/100 (from 65 votes).
Tracks:
1. Luv N' Haight
2. Just Like a Baby
3. Poet
4. Family Affair
5. Africa Talks to You
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
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety.
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- #2
- Posted: 10/20/2011 20:43
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Can someone explain to me why critics like this album so much? It's always near the top spots, and it's really, imo, an average album
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Captain_Dude
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Age: 54
- #3
- Posted: 10/20/2011 20:47
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I like this album a lot...I just don't love it. It's more Sly and less of the "Family"...and that means it's less of the sound that I, personally, look forward to with Sly and the Family Stone albums. I can definitely see where Sly wanted this album to go...more towards the sound that would later be best represented by the Ohio Players. Although the blueprints for the future sound of funk were there, the sonic experience on this offering isn't as crisp and clear as the previous monster albums by Sly & the Family. It's a shame, too...they were damn good musicians.
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CellarDoor
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- #4
- Posted: 10/20/2011 21:30
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I like it 
Dark drug fuelled funk.
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- #5
- Posted: 10/20/2011 21:55
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my favorite album of the day yet
@Hayden, I can't explain it well. One reason might be the social commentary in the lyrics; another might be that most funk albums are sonically "full" with in your face riffs, while this is subdued and subtle and stark like funky post-rock; another might be that it's the most diverse funk album I've heard other than Miles Davis' On the Corner; another might be that it's just straight-up badass
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- #6
- Posted: 10/20/2011 22:14
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| purple wrote: | my favorite album of the day yet
@Hayden, I can't explain it well. One reason might be the social commentary in the lyrics; another might be that most funk albums are sonically "full" with in your face riffs, while this is subdued and subtle and stark like funky post-rock; another might be that it's the most diverse funk album I've heard other than Miles Davis' On the Corner; another might be that it's just straight-up badass |
I just listened to On The Corner for the first time yesterday, and it was fantastic!  Miles's 3rd best imo. (which doesn't sound like much, but I've heard about 1/3 of Davis's discography  )
I might give the album another chance when the time's right. I do like Sly & The Family Stone at some points, but I prefer P-F a lot more.
On another note, I really like these conversations about the 'album of the day' Sparks interest, knowledge and controversy on the forums.
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- #7
- Posted: 10/21/2011 01:02
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Killer album. Definitley one of the best of the 70's. Not a bad tune....One day my favourite is Runnin' Away and then it's Luv 'n' Haight then its Poet. There all so good
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