Best song on "There's a Riot Goin On"?

Free Your Mind is another one that's kind of cold, though it feels like it tries to be warm or could have been warm. Might be the lo-fi fuzz-wah production?...favourite tracks off of that album are the first one and the last one

I dunno Free Your Mind is so much more aggro than Riot

the production and feel of this album reminds me of Soon Over Babaluma by Can somehow? maybe it's just the drum machine, idk.

no it's more than that, feel like SOB is TARGO's twin, from mars.

all good suggestions and great albums though not quite there - thx for the reminders that I need to get Shuggie and Babaluma.

keep goin' on

On The Corner and parts of other 70s electric Miles.

Inspiration Information is so good.

honestly the other stuff that's closest is Sly's other productions/singles from the time - Little Sister, 6iX, Joe Hicks

on the corner seems way too aggro too

Inspiration Information is awesome.

on the corner seems way too aggro too

yeah I agree (will chime in here that imho McLaughlin appears to bite the riff from Funkadelic's Super Stupid throughout OTC tho lol)

also the anecdote about Sly telling Miles not to "play any of that voodoo shit" on his organs kinda sums up the differences

Point taken re:Miles, but there's gotta be some 70s fusion in the same vein, no? (And if so, what is it?)

On the same tip, Eugene MacDaniels' Headless Heroes... comes close, but once again too aggro.

I almost want to suggest stuff like Cloak and Dagger or Blackboard Jungle Dub. Not as bleak though

Deep and weird and funky though, for sure

On the Beach/Tonight's the Night wd be the white-rock equivalents

i never liked runnin away? surprised its a popular one. love spaced cowboy. on the beach otm

"I almost want to suggest stuff like Cloak and Dagger or Blackboard Jungle Dub. Not as bleak though"

Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread is probably the best Perry example since it's sort of prefigures him falling apart as well, although the album is more weird than it is bleak, I guess.

Surprised no one has mentioned the obvious (since critics compared the two constantly when it came out): Maxinquaye.

"Just Like a Baby" makes me squirm it's so intense

― J0hn D., Monday, June 23, 2008 6:04 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^

Spaced Cowboy fucking rules. It's not the best on this, but it was robbed.

also Brave and Strong is really good too. Runnin' Away is brutal lyrically but I feel like naming it as the best song on this album is kind of strange... it's not like the rest of the album. It feels less claustrophobic. It acts as a repreive from the sly's private hell that crystalizes social problems.

This is one of the best albums ever btw.

(sorry for writing such a shitty explanation for this album. i was trying to talk about how it is political but also fundamentally about isolation)

"just like a baby" was the first song on this record i really got, it sounded like the most lonely and tense thing in the world

The little guitar phrase on Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa, the way it pulls back and then suddenly fly at you face, man.

It is a wonderous mystery to me what the guitars are doing on that track and how they sound like they do

Best album of the Seventies and it’s not close

Where is the love for “Poet”? Always my go-to on this record (even when he’s singing about Shaun Ryder)

Truly a great and cohesive album, I usually listen to in its entirety. It's always made a much bigger impact that way - every track gains something within the complete context.

'Just Like a Baby' was my entry point.

Before my time here, but "Family Affair" easily--one of the most complicated, unsettling songs of the decade.

I agree, Poet & Just Like a Baby are my #1 & 2 on this, one of my favorite albums by anyone ever.