Frisky (Sly and the Family Stone song)

Stephen Davis of Rolling Stone remarked, "'Frisky' sounds like an outtake from Riot, yanked perhaps because it was just too heavy in that album's heavily doped-up context. Like much of Riot and the best of Sly, it is feeling music that is somewhat beyond the idea of dancing. The music and vocal make a graphic depiction of a certain mysterioso state of mind that not everybody can relate to. And here you got to respond to the lyrics that Sly croaks — I suggest that the song is the most graphic musical depiction of hard drug feelings since the days of Charlie Parker. The ear of the beholder, if you will."^[2] Reviewing Fresh for Shatter the Standard, Imani Raven described "Frisky" as among the album's "innovative compositions" and wrote it "offers a blend of soulful vocals and intricate organ work".^[3]