Sly And The Family Stone -- There's a Riot Goin' On

  Sly's answer to Marvin Gaye's What's Goin' On.  Unlike the happy party time Soul sounds of his previous efforts, Sly slips into a dark lonely place, playing some deep Funk.  The album itself sounds muffled due to so many dub, over-dubs and re-dubs, making it clear that Sly preferred to work alone, otherwise it has a Brian Wilson quality to the production, the sounds of a man figuring it out with his own wits, politically charged, making his own flag, telling it like it is, the TRUTH .... RUTH!