Family Affair (track)
by Sly & The Family Stone
Year: 1971
From the album There's A Riot Goin' On (track #4)
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Family Affair appears on the following album(s) by Sly & The Family Stone:
- There's A Riot Goin' On (track #4) (this album) (1971)
- Spaced Cowboy: The Best Of Sly & The Family Stone (track #5) (compilation) (2009)
- Anthology (track #14) (compilation) (1981)
- The Essential Sly & The Family Stone (track #19) (compilation) (2002)
- Higher! (track #61) (compilation) (2013)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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90/100  | 09/07/2025 18:49 |  ExTeaSea | | 86/100 |
65/100 | 08/20/2025 11:25 |  DommeDamian | | 51/100 |
100/100 | 06/15/2025 07:36 | blueandthemoon | | 91/100 |
100/100 | 06/14/2025 12:14 | ShenBapiro | | 77/100 |
90/100 | 06/10/2025 10:08 |  Liedzeit | | 77/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.1/100, a mean average of 88.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.3.
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according to some youtube user, this song has "one of the first programmed drum tracks to be used in an entire song."
ffudnebbuh 11/15/2010 13:15
My pick for best single of the 70s
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