stand is a great album, but its like purple rain, thriller etc, an album made of superhumanly good singles that all stand alone, stand might be from 68 but its one of those albums made only by perfectionists so you can tell a lot of time has been spent making sure the positioning of each and every note has been carefully decided. genius really. but it makes it hard for me to listen to seamlessly like i can with riot. plus riot has a certain mood that runs right through it.