Spaced Cowboy

[monkeysoulpoet]

So that's what cocaine sounds like.

[nolczak1]

@monkeysoulpoet more like Heroin

[outlawcountryman]

i found this album in my closet lol

[nschulz4537]

The greatest song in the history of country music.

[rjlnell88]

@nschulz4537 THEY MISSED IT!!!!!!!!...........

[unitedsense]

i must love this track.

remember this album,so serious look society.

thx.

[Sirscorps]

wtf???? lol.

[le0np0we]

classic

[sonep511]

I first heard this on my dad's greatest sly album i was loaded and it blew my mind... Thanks 70's for letting an 80's baby know what music is.

[smrfox99]

My favorite track off Riot....I could sing this forever.

[Kukashkin]

this shit is so fly it hurts

[vgallagher]

Great bass

[dixienarco2008]

heaven is sly-shaped.

[hapzap13]

Damm this is still awesome !!!!!

[sawyerg13]

the subtle change 46 seconds to 58 is perfection seriously how good was that and how good was Sly...

[Kemster79]

Everything I like is nice that's why I try to have it twice

[theblahman]

love it, like someone said earlie possibly the best on the album, andr prob sly best album, this tune is top dog

[timmy841212]

Sounds like he was high more on LSD (or PCP) than coke when he did this song.

[carmichael2411]

Possibly's Sly's most innovative track..

[tigerseatflesh]

hive mentality makes you not like this.

Italians have been playing around with sound for years, get out of the box.

[leaq]

i can say it more than once, cause i'm thinking twice as fast, everything i like is nice, that's why i try to have it twice well once i saw a bore who was a social whore and they said i had a limp and then they ??? a pimp was on my last leg i couldn't borrow my friends extra peg at all once i turned red and it looked quite funny in the head

[leaq]

i was going to ramble about what i think it all means, but it'd take about 3 comment boxes to get my thoughts out. it's acid madness but it has more meaning (to me, at least) than any other song on the album.

i was stoned earlier and i heard it for the first time in a while, and i felt sly stone's pain so strongly when i listened to the lyrics. the way he manages to package this all in a song that's so inane on the surface is incredible.

easily my favourite song on the album.

big up sly!

[gittahfiend]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

[dubze]

More like acid is a hell of a drug- look at his era

[Allhallowsday]

Actually, at the time SLY was recording this album 1970,'71 coke was quickly becoming the drug of choice. Though I personally suspect massive quantities of Marijuana laced with all kinds of "goodies"... Acid? Abused well into the '70s, and even now, LSD is a very different "high" than "coke" or "heroin" or "pot".

[RasputinStream]

dubze, he band practically broke cause the exsessive coke snortin. Not because of acid

[dubze]

@RasputinStream

I never said the band split be cause of Acid- I 'm very well aware of Sly's coke problems - used to live in St. Petersburg FL- one of his spots of trouble

[RasputinStream]

LOL. My bad, I misinterpreted your reference on Acid

[robotube]

Yo dah lay he yee da lay de hee

Love the hard harmonica break at 2:30

[mardoufox]

brilliant, funky and timeless. it's alive both in it's pain and joy

[sonwamac]

"Stand" was Sly's most commercially and critically successful album with the most classic radio played hits (ie "Sing a Simple Song"..."Stand"...I Wanna Take You Higher"..."You Can Make It If You Try"...) but "There's A Riot Goin' On" is my favorite. If you let it it will touch you ina deeper place inoyr soul than any of Sly's other albums

[MrJE6229]

this was a seriously funky break down....i use to think I was the spaced cowboy..with no drugs!!!!!!

thanks for posting-pure-memories -man!! Many black folks have a limp....

[PoorPoorComputer00]

love playin this when i high

[dcbandnerd]

As much as I usually loathe drum machines, this kicks all sorts of ass. Sly is the epitome of funk. The man made drum machines and yodeling cool. Only Sly has that sort of flavor.

[kingofdaundaworld]

Everybody on here repeatin' the whole wikipedia "drugs, dark, depression state etc..." about this album, but to be real with ya' I dont care what he was on this is a Beautiful album from the cover down to every song on the album is brillant, the concept spaced cowboy the bass line, the harmonica the yodelin, the DRUM MACHINE, I mean come on man? Talk about innovative, timeless and FREE... my song is JUST LIKE A BABY...

[tywill10]

I have to admit, the whole "There's A Riot Goin' On" album (especially this track) caught me off guard when I first heard it. I listened to "Stand!" until I had it down, then I read so many GLOWING reviews about "Riot" that my curiousity was peaked. When I heard it, it was dark, hazy, claustrophobic...Sly was obviously high! But behind all the haze, there was genius. After repeated listenings, I finally got it.

[gordonshitybum]

whats hard to listen to. I myself think this is real good.  Let youselves fuking yodel. Who cares. I love it! "realness"--- right

[jody808]

this was the hardest song to listen to but i respect his realness in adding it

[fredblassie123]

Drugs and decadence had all but overtaken him but this album is a come-down masterpiece.

[cremesupreme]

more effective than a afternoon special. I am bewildered. lol

[tigerseatflesh]

this is stone

[ssur55]

I call this "Sly's cry for help". (Epsecially the way he growls the "yodel-ay-dees") He is really messed up on this cut. Great album, though. No denying genius.

[rosss1959]

This brings back fond teenage memories. I can still hear my grandmother's voice, " Oh God, not that yodellin fool again"!!!!!!! I used to play this whole album to death. JUST LIKE A BABY was my cut. TIME was the bomb too. ALL OF EM WAS GOOD TO GO.

[PoorPoorComputer00]

@rosss1959 wishh iWazx oldd enuff to havee timezx lykk thatt,, im onlyy 15

[bodiza420]

That brotha is fucked up!

[gittahfiend]

I believe sly was playing bass on this track.

larry graham played much cleaner.

[gittahfiend]

FONK!!!

[therealsoulproduct]

This is actually one of the first albums by a musician to employ a drum machine.

[Ihavearubbersoulforu]

The first one to do it was frank sinatra in 1957. It was called "suck my toes in nyc(suck it bitches)" It was very edgy album at the time

[lucien6823]

I have that, yeah, Suck My Toes, engineered you know by Sammy Davis Junior. Captain Beefheart sampled it on Bat Chain Puller. And thanks for the post Mister Pink!

[tigerseatflesh]

on the fruit boots 7"

[TuckerEatsBabies]

Pure groove. This whole album is amazing... When Sly comes in with the yodel, it's clear how much he was pushin' the norm.

[Ihavearubbersoulforu]

This certainly the most unique cut on the album. I need to find this on vinyl. I hear it sounds so much better than the digital version

[roscoegino]

Innovative Sly using the drum machine in 1971.

[smokinlion77]

This Is MY CUT!!!!!!

Sly was gone yet still here and done better music then than we can make now!!!!

That album is completely AMAZING!!!

[SigurRos82]

Great album! :)