Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On CD in USA -- problems?

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so unbelievably great. 'luv n' haight' -> 'just like a baby' -> 'poet' = an entire cosmology of funk. baroque funk? the sound of the thing is so fucking crucial, i never realized that.

this album should be heard on non-cleaned up vinyl.

.. and the remastered CD, the title 'track' is a separate track (number six)

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yah this album sounds much better on vinyl.

sounds good from mp3 to cd to mp3 too

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https://global.rakuten.com/en/store/3glass/item/rb_89/

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idk, i get an error message when i click on that link. incidentally, this is the greatest album of all time.

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both people and robots are allowed to write anything on the internet

A nation’s fabric unravelling: stars on Sly Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On at 50

I agree with Howard Devoto that "Time" is the best song on this great album.

Thanks for linking the xpost Dave Simpson piece--w. comments by Greg Errico, whose drumming jumped off the screen in Summer of Soul, whole band was so great.
Also I luv this comp, from Sly's short-lived Stone Flower label:

...The sound Stone formulated while working on Stone Flower’s output would shape the next phase in his own career as a recording artist: it was here he began experimenting with the brand new Maestro Rhythm King drum machine. In conjunction with languid, effected organ and guitar sounds and a distinctly lo-fi soundscape, Sly’s productions for Stone Flower would inform the basis of his masterwork There’s A Riot Goin’ On.
The first 45 came in February 1970: Little Sister’s dancefloor-ready “You’re The One” hit Number 22 in the charts–the label’s highest showing. The follow-up, “Stanga," also by Little Sister, made the wah pedal the star. The third release came from 6IX, a six-piece multi-racial rock group whose sole release, a super-slow version of The Family Stone’s “Dynamite," featured only the lead singer and harmonica player from the group. Joe Hicks was the final Stone Flower stablemate; his pulsing, electronic "Life And Death In G&A” is one of the bleakest moments Sly Stone ever created on disc (Hicks’ prior single for Scepter, “Home Sweet Home,” the first released Stone Flower production, is also included).
That one topped my Pazz & Jop Singles list!

This long overdue compilation of Sly’s Stone Flower era gathers each side of the five 45s plus ten previously unissued cuts from the label archives, all newly remastered from the original tapes. In these grooves you’ll find the missing link between the rocky, soulful Sly Stone of Stand! and the dark, drum machine-punctuated, overdubbed sound of There’s A Riot Going On. I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969-70 opens up the mysteries of an obscure but monumental phase in Stone’s career.
O hell yes.
More info, audio, video here:
https://lightintheattic.net/releases/1451-i-m-just-like-you-sly-s

I meant that "Love and Death in G&A" topped my P&J Singles list.