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The World Is a Ghetto is the fifth album by the band War, released in late 1972 on United Artists Records.


Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Rolling Stone(favorable)[2]


The album attained the number one spot on Billboard, and was Billboard magazine's Album of the Year as the best-selling album of 1973.[3] In 2003, the album was ranked number 449 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

The album was also made available in a 4-channel surround sound (quadraphonic) mix in the 8-track tape format (United Artists UA-DA178-H).[4]

Singles from the album include "The World Is a Ghetto" backed with "Four Cornered Room", and "The Cisco Kid" backed with "Beetles in the Bog".

The cover illustration was drawn by Howard Miller, with Lee Oskar credited with album concept.

Track listing

All tracks composed by War (Papa Dee Allen, Harold Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar, Howard E. Scott).

Side one

  1. "The Cisco Kid" – 4:35
  2. "Where Was You At" – 3:25
  3. "City, Country, City" – 13:18
  4. "Four Cornered Room" – 8:30
  5. "The World Is a Ghetto" – 10:10
  6. "Beetles in the Bog" – 3:51

Personnel



Charts

Year Album Chart positions[5]
US US
R&B
1972 The World Is a Ghetto 1 1

Singles

Year Single Chart positions[6]
US US
R&B
US
Dance
1973 "The Cisco Kid" 2 5
"The World Is a Ghetto" 7 3


Preceded by Billboard 200 number-one album
February 17 - March 2, 1973
Succeeded by



References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Rolling Stone Magazine Review
  3. ^ "Year End Charts - Year-end Albums - The Billboard 200". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Archived from the original on May 13, 2011. Retrieved May 13, 2011. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; February 14, 2008 suggested (help)
  4. ^ Anderson, Mark. "Quadraphonic Popular Recordings (W)".
  5. ^ "War US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
  6. ^ "War US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-07-13.