War - The World Is a Ghetto LP - Original 1972 UA Release in EX/EX+ Free Ship
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The World Is a Ghetto Studio album by War Released November 1972 Recorded 1972 at Crystal Industries Los Angeles, California Genre Soul, Funk Length 43:49 Label United Artists Records Producer Jerry Goldstein with Lonnie Jordan and Howard Scott War chronology All Day Music
(1971) The World Is a Ghetto
(1972) Deliver the Word
(1973)

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

Reception

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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. The album is ranked number 444 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).

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".

In 2012 the album was re-released on CD in a 40th anniversary expanded edition with 4 previously unreleased bonus tracks.

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

Side two

  1. "Four Cornered Room" – 8:30
  2. "The World Is a Ghetto" – 10:10
  3. "Beetles in the Bog" – 3:51


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