There’s a Riot Goin’ On

Was gonna give this 4 stars then this dude started yodeling

Hmm. I think this is my least favourite Sly album-- it's still got some funky goodness, but I felt like this was a bit of a letdown.

Hated this. Went on forever

Well I don't know what the hell I just listened to, but I sure as shit... would have sex to it. #3

There's not much to dislike about this album, but most of it isn't anything amazing.

Another great album from family stone, no doubt one of the greatest funk albums of all time. Yet, I'm a bit baffled and dazed here about my choise of rating for this, already gave top marks from the other entry so I might stick to 4 here despite this having such an iconic album art too! Both entries of family on this list already got 4.5 on RYM each

Був період коли я доволі багато слухав Слая, в мене навіть є якась платівка. Саме цей альбом вважається культовим і все таке, мені він власне теж подобається. Політичний, як треба.

Much preferred the other S&TFS album in the book, Stand!. This started out very strongly with a real swagger to it and some dirty basslines, but it dipped too much into meandering lift music territory after that.

It's certainly less optimistic in scope than Stand!, and therefore a far less inviting listen, with much more of a drug-addled paranoia hanging over this one and a grimier urban production job where some of the instrumentation kind of merges into an indecipherable ball of sludge.

There's still a riot goin' on. Evergreen.

Pretty solid

Sick grooves. This record never fails to let me down.

Jamais écouté avant.

Si Stand! était l'aboutissement festif et exubérant du psychédélisme des années 1960, There's a Riot Goin' On en est la descente, le constat d'échec, un retour sombre et brutal à la réalité. Ce qui n'en fait pas un moins bon album, ni même un album moins funk, mais sans doute un album moins facile d'accès. Plus lent rythmiquement, plus froid mélodiquement, plus réaliste et engagé dans les textes. La faute aussi à ses conditions d'enregistrement chaotiques, particulièrement perceptibles sur la voix de Sly Stone, brumeuse et grésillante, et sur les batteries et boîtes à rythme, très métalliques. Des défauts qui, paradoxalement, font toute l'identité de There's a Riot Goin' On, une identité dont l'influence colossale dans les années qui suivront, et notamment sur le hip-hop jusqu'à aujourd'hui, est évidente.

Top : Africa Talks to You ("The Asphalt Jungle")
Flop : Spaced Cowboy

Muffled vocals, clear vocals, feel-good critiques of America, down-in-the-dumps negativisms, all this & the best psychedelic funk e'er produced add up to one of our great records that combine indulgent aesthetics w/ the v hard art of statement-making. 'I'm a songwriter, yeah, a poet.' Said just 2 years before the official birth of hip-hop, this presages that consciousness, & I so admire its forward-thinkingness, but Sly at his best (Stand, There's A Riot, Greatest Hits) is (for real) inimitable. That not-to-be-replicated style culminates on 'Family Affair,' a track that may just be THE song of the 70s, but the whole record is a crystalized vision. You marvel at the audacity as much as you're in disbelief in re the formality. Quintessential; unrivaled; ✌🏾.

Sorry I just can’t stand soul and funk.

Good funky record, but it got a bit monotonous. I liked it, didn't mind it.

I think I need to listen to this one again. Cursory 4.

great funk, it was very easy to listen to. I think the lyrical content was dope as well. I never tried funk with this much attention so I'm glad I did.

Very funky, very dark. Starts strong but loses a bit of steam before picking back up.

Love this record. The soundtrack to the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. A million times better, more poignant and more evocative of its time than anything The Grateful Dead ever made.

This is some good phat funk and I am here for it!