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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| ! | 09/23/2026 18:40 | Siromynian | 20,126 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/23/2026 03:41 | andyd1010 | 1,920 | 80/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2025 04:40 | plasmicmist | 7,586 | 91/100 |
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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 87.9/100, a mean average of 88.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.5.
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ffudnebbuh TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/15/2010 13:15 | #16374
My pick for best single of the 70s
according to some youtube user, this song has "one of the first programmed drum tracks to be used in an entire song."
