{"title":"82. Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis highly anticipated studio follow-up to Sly and the Family Stone’s 1969 blast of hope, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStand!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, was the grim, exact opposite: implosive, numbing, darkly self-referential. Sly Stone’s voice is an exhausted grumble; the funk in “Family Affair,” “Runnin’ Away,” and especially the closing downward spiral, “Thank You for Talkin’ to Me Africa,” is spare and bleak, fiercely compelling in its anguish over the unfulfilled promises of civil rights and hippie counterculture. “It is Muzak with its finger on the trigger,” wrote critic Greil Marcus in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMystery Train\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. Take that as a recommendation. - RollingStone.com\u003c\/span\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0395\/2040\/3623\/collections\/R1344-082-Sly-and-the-Family-Stone-Theres-a-Riot-Goin-On.jpg?v=1654172933","url":"https:\/\/grevillerecords.com.au\/collections\/82-sly-and-the-family-stone-theres-a-riot-goin-on.oembed","provider":"GrevilleRecords","version":"1.0","type":"link"}