Best Funkadelic Studio Album

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

can't have on without the other

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Maggot Brain	23
Standing on the Verge of Getting It On	12
One Nation Under a Groove	10
Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow	6
America Eats Its Young	5
Funkadelic	2
Let's Take it to the Stage	2
Cosmic Slop	2
Tales of Kidd Funkadelic	1
Hardcore Jollies	0
Uncle Jam Wants You	0
The Electric Spanking of War Babies	0

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

Standing on the Verge of Getting It On

― chaki, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

yep

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

um don't you think you're salting the game by influencing everyone's vote right off the bat?

also: chaki & SMC 8080

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

A more difficult choice than I thought, but yeah, Standing has "I'll Stay," so game over.

― unperson, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Electric Spanking is underrated though. Funk Gets Stronger and Oh I are HOTTTTTT.

― chaki, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

when I finally got around to buying that one I was surprised at how rockin parts of it are.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

free yr mind

― groovemaaan, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

SOTVOGIO

― Davey D, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

so hard to chooose

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Standing has always been a personal favourite. But Maggot Brain and Free Your Mind.. are obvious classics.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

DAMMIT MAN YOU'RE A BRIGADIER NOT A SCHOOLGIRL, MAN UP AND MAKE A SELECTION PRONTO

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

cosmic slop! but they're all good. though ONUAG is overrated

― rps, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

I went with Standing purely because i thought the others might get more votes.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

Free Your Mind really uh, blew my mind when I heard it and has probably been a bigger influence on me musically, but Standing is the one I listen to the most (and all the way through without skipping anything).

If SOTVOGIO had actually come out with The Rat Kissed the Cat on it there would be no contest.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

my love for electric spanking grows with every year. cool fuckin' record too!

― whisperineddhurt, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

so uh, anybody heard that "By Way of the Drum" cd that Hip-O just issued?

― Stormy Davis, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

what's on it?

There was some Funkadelic 12" of that song released in the 80s I think.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

answering my own question

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

Gotta admit I've only heard a few, but there cannot be any better than "One Nation Under a Groove", which is great.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

Honkin' on Bobo

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

Geir likes a Funkadelic album?!??

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

dude i just posted a story about meeting george and having him sign eletric spanking. where did it go? did i post on the wrong thread? wtf?

― chaki, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

hahahahaha m@tt nice one

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

Chaki my post on the bee gees thread yesterday did that!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

One Nation is a Parliament album, that happens to have the Funkadelic name on it.

Maggot Brain here.

― Bill Magill, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

so does that mean that's Parliament "covering" "Maggot Brain" at the end of "One Nation Under a Groove"?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

I mean gimme a break all of these records are the same band under different names/configurations

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus, look at all the votes for SOTV so far! This makes me happy enough to cast my vote elsewhere...

America Eats Its Young it is.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

haha I was waiting for chuck to cast that vote

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

America was the album it took me the longest time to get into.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

I play that one a lot, its got this kinda Curtis Mayfield vibe goin on, very churchy...?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

I think it may actually be their best too. Why do you think Chuck would vote for it? as a "contrarian" choice? it's totally amazing!

― Stormy Davis, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

there's a great thread about chuck "reconsidering" the album, but I can't seem to find it with the search engine

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

That's chucks schtick though isn't it?
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

i voted for amerikkka

― scott seward, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

Geir likes a Funkadelic album?!??

I kind of like all the albums I have heard by Funkadelic and Parliament. Must be those psychedelic elements...

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

Yay for Geir.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

for that matter, Cosmic Slop is perhaps underrated, I have that one cassette.

― whisperineddhurt, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

I love the live version with the "Space People" of Cosmic Slop that's included on Hardcore Jollies.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

I went with Maggot Brain, though there are a few Aerosmith albums I like better. (And yeah, I've "reconsidered" it a few times. Backwards and forwards and inside out and then some. But not because it's a "shtick," dimwit.) (Next in line, probably One Nation Under A Groove, then Standing On the Verge, then Electic Spanking Of War Babies, then Cosmic Slop.)

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

the live cosmic slop on harcore jollies SLAYS the album version

― chaki, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

Actually though, if you include "Side 3 and Side 4," maybe One Nation Under A Groove deserves to win.

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

chuck help me find that goddamned America Eats Its Young thread, that was good stuff

― Shakey Mo Collier, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

I kinda wish Tales of Kidd Funkadelic and Hardcore Jollies was a double LP - not that it was ever intended to be such. (Songs aren't even from the same sessions, I think.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

xpost - would this be it?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=34664

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

argh!

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=34664

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

I quit.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, Funkadelic's best album by far will always be Greatest Hits with the black sheep on the cover, but never mind.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

i remember talking about america eats its young on that brit's i dare say i am listening to these here funk albums thread. shit, i can't remember whose thread it was. i think he was a brit.

― scott seward, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

would it have been martins funk thread?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=49988

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

maybe that's not the thread. martin hated america eats its young. i had trouble taking his thread seriously after that. sorry, it's true!

― scott seward, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

Martin didn't like anything that was more "rock orientated" unfortunately. Thankfully he did seem to like a lot of the other stuff that I sent him.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, Funkadelic's best album by far will always be Greatest Hits with the black sheep on the cover, but never mind

First one I ever found/bought, I think! (Unless it was the One Nation 8-track, can't remember for sure.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

haha I have that 8 track! Someone sent it from the states to me for free as I was a fan. Only thing is i have no idea what an 8 track is as we didn't have them over here. But its a nice curio to have.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

I second Mistachuck if sides 3 and 4 of One Nation count. But the one I reach for most is the Music For Your Mother twofer with liner notes that read like a Pedro Bell cover. And if Osmium (known in various CD configurations as First Thangs and, cleverly, Rhenium, the next heaviest metal, one presumes) didn't count in the Casablancafied Parliament poll, shouldn't it count here? It's more Funk than Par, after all. And a beaut it is. Just ask De La Soul.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:38 (eighteen years ago)

Osmium (known in various CD configurations as First Thangs and, cleverly, Rhenium, the next heaviest metal, one presumes)

I've never even seen a copy of these reissues, and was actually wondering until right this minute whether Rhenium was Osmium b-sides or something like that. The same album, really? Interesting. Does anybody know why they had to change the name? (Was it some quasi-legal bootleg or something? Not that that would usually make a diffence.) I've never seen Music For Your Mother either. I'm pretty P-Funk-reissue-oblivious.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 14 April 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

Music For Your Mother might be OOP. I've never seen it to buy it. Tower always seemed to sell out of it. Luckily I got my local library to order it about 10 years ago :)
Introducing pfunk to Hamilton, Scotland is my game.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Is there any reason somebody who owns the Westbound albums would need it? Struck me as pretty redundant at the time (as did Rhenium), though maybe I wasn't paying attention.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 14 April 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

It has loads of bsides and also 7" versions and stuff not on albums. It's not really a best of, it's more of an A & B sides comp.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

Rhenium is Osmium with three bonus tracks sprinkled throughout ("Breakdown," "Red Hot Mama," and "Come in Out of the Rain"). Frist Thangs adds a few more ("Fantasy is Reality," a 10:15 "Loose Booty," and a 5:10 "Unfinished Instrumental"). The Early Years contains the exact same track listing as First Thangs. The Castle reissue of Osmium includes stereo and mono mixes of "Breakdown."

I have no clue what occasioned the Rhenium name change but it's hilarious. I look forward to endless repackagings that move down the metal list: Tungsten, Tantalum, Hafnium, etc.

And you can probably live without Music For Your Mother. It's just my fave of the comps.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 14 April 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

Music For My Mother is the best Westbound years comp, no question. All the best material, plus a lot of weird instrumentals, b-sides, alternate versions.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Saturday, 14 April 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

It's one I need to actually buy. The liner notes were good IIRC.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 15 April 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

Shakey Mo what did you think of the alternate mix of Maggot Brain on the remastered cd?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 15 April 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

America, for the crazy hammond and popcorn guitar on 'you hit the nail on the head' and the way that 'loose booty' is made out of rubber that's been sitting in the sun for a few hours.

― stevie, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

actually I voted for [/i]One Nation[/i], that always seemed like the best one, as Chuck says the "third"/"fourth" sides make it--the guitar stuff. I got that EP or whatever it is, that came with the LP, somewhere here. Looking at Motorbooty from summer '89, I see great reviews of the 'delic canon including one by Chuck where he goes all Anthony Sir Nose Burgess exspliffacating Hardcore Jollies. Oh shit, now I feel the need to go out and buy that one on CD, my cassette long ago disintegrated or eaten, plus some of the other ones...on top of my need for the Sly remasters out next week. No euphocannibidextivism or smoking bananas today.

― whisperineddhurt, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

One Nation is the strongest of the later albums. It does have some great tracks on it. My personal fave of the last era though is Uncle Jam. That really is a great record.
Apart from that one ballad ruining it of course..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

"Holly Goes To california" that's the crap song. I tried to block it from memory.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

'loose booty' is made out of rubber that's been sitting in the sun for a few hours.

Perfect!

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

what is this "3rd and 4th" side referred to on One Nation...?

I haven't heard the remastered version of Maggot Brain. In my opinion there was nothing wrong with the original.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

It's a "Special EP" 7" single that was included with the original vinyl. Side 3 is a "Maggot Brain" and "Chant (Think It Ain't Illegal Yet!)." Side 4 includes "Lunchmeataphobia (Think It Ain't Illegal Yet!)," and "P.E. Squad/Doo Doo Chasers." Chuck Eddy named it the 13th best heavy metal single not on any of the 500 Best HM albums in his book Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

Those are on the cd.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

omg thank you shakey mo for alerting me to the Hip-O thang

― Matos W.K., Tuesday, 17 April 2007 08:56 (eighteen years ago)

I can't decide between "Maggot Brain" and "Standing on the Verge of Getting It On"...

― Tom D., Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:01 (eighteen years ago)

oh, and I voted Maggot Brain

― Matos W.K., Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'm glad to see Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On having so much love.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

yeah standing on the verge is my favorite, although i listened to a bunch of these again recently and i was very surprised at how much i'd underrated cosmic slop, that's a pretty great fuckin record!

― pretzel walrus, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

Last day of voting.

yeah Cosmic Slop is underrated.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

So is "Let's Take It to the Stage"!!

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

Damn right!! That features my fave pfunk lyrics!! I started a thread on that once actually. Will never find it with the search function though :(

No one has shown any love for the 1st album strangely.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, what's that one about "A tidal wave of mysticism surging thru our jet-age generation"?

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

love the first album, just didnt vote for it is all; I've talked about it here plenty of times, but saying I like it better than Maggot Brain or Standing on the Verge or Motor Booty Affair is like saying I like my nervous system better than my respiratory or circulatory or digestive systems

― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

It's ilx, I thought someone would.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

Maggot Brain?!? after all that talk about SOTVOGIO.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

Not surprised.
I am surprised however that America Eats Its Young beat Lets Take It To The Stage and Funkadelic

Because, to me, no way is it better!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, what's that one about "A tidal wave of mysticism surging thru our jet-age generation"?

"better by the pound" and it is an a+ jam

― pretzel walrus, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

but i'm not surprised by maggot brain winning, because for most folks, if you've heard one funkadelic record it's that one - not to mention it's a totally worthy choice!

― pretzel walrus, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

Maggot Brain or One Nation was always going to win it I felt.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 02:14 (eighteen years ago)

I am surprised by the low showing for Funkadelic! altho i voted for maggot brain.

― abanana, Friday, 20 April 2007 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

I really hope this thread encourages ilxors to go out and buy some Funkadelic albums!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:18 (eighteen years ago)

'better by the pound' has lately become my favourite late-period funkadelic tune

― stevie, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

i've never heard Standing on the Verge of Getting It On so i'll get that first. pronto.

― willem, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

HI DERE!

― The Amazing Randy, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think you will regret it, Willem.
It's a favourite amongst many because it has so many Eddie Hazel tracks on it.

Interesting fact:
Eddie Hazel isn't credited with the songs, they are credited to his mother.
Apparently Eddie had some tax difficulties or something so he credited them to Grace Cook instead!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

who said you can't learn something interesting from these polls? ;-)

― willem, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

People who don't actually read them?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Also everyone please visit http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/pfunk.html

That's a really great site on all things p-funk.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

SOTVOGIO also features Funkadelic's lone "polish soul brother" - guitarist Rony Bykowski

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

AKA the "Token White Devil"!

Wonder who voted for "Tales"? Very eccentric choice. But I still think it's special in its own way.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Rony? wtf the fuck his name is Ron.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

I wondered where that "y" came from.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

Apparently Eddie had some tax difficulties or something so he credited them to Grace Cook instead!

-- Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, April 20, 2007 10:25 AM

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

who said you can't learn something interesting from these polls? ;-)

-- willem, Friday, April 20, 2007 10:43 AM

Yeah no kidding! I always wondered who the hell "G Cook" was

― Stormy Davis, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

Eddie was a total mama's boy

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

According to some, these polls are pointless as there's no debate or any interesting discussion. If those people would just try reading these threads instead of moaning about dinosaur bands(i was so fucking tempted to start a best dinosaur jr poll)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

Eddie was a total mama's boy

-- Shakey Mo Collier, vrijdag 20 april 2007 21:18 (1 hour ago)

That would explain the intensity of Eddie's Maggot Brain-solo, no?

― willem, Friday, 20 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. "play it like your mama is dying"

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 21 April 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Listened to Free Your Mind... this weekend and it really is as good as Maggot Brain isn't it?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

It just feels a little skimpy to me - barely half an hour long, and those last two songs are total throwaways, thatzall.

Actually, thinking of that Led Zeppelin thread: I tend to regard Funkadelic's first two the same way many do Zep's initial pair. Extremely promising; fitfully brilliant; not fully fleshed-out yet.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

I wouldn't have thought many felt Led Zep II wasn't fitfully thought out. That's the one that generally wins the polls.

The 1st Funkadelic has session musos doesn't it? That fab solo on "I Got A Thang" who plays it? I'm pretty sure it's not Eddie.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

yr right, it's not eddie - it's ray monette, who was in rare earth

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

Ahh thanks for the info. I always wondered who it was!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

yeah the first Funkadelic has all kinds of different personnel all over it - James Jamerson, for one. (the recent Wax Poetics P-Funk issue is very illuminating in this regard, cuz Billy "Bass" Nelson has a great memory).

Free Your Mind... and Maggot Brain was where the "classic" lineup really came together.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7yyT7K-5jg

pfunk documentary that was on USTV last year,

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

haha about 9 mins in there's footage of them playing "i got a thing you got a thing" on some tv show and one of them is dressed up in KKK gear. What must people have thought when they saw that.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

nah dude that's Grady in his wizard's outfit

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 00:35 (eighteen years ago)

great doc tho - they get a lot of good people in front of the camera

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 00:35 (eighteen years ago)

is it? damn. Looked awesome anyway.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

woooooooooooooooooo
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toys-Funkadelic/dp/B0000640BB/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1221926600&sr=8-2

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:03 (sixteen years ago)

how could The Electric Spanking...get zero votes??

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago)

or uncle jam
yet america eats its young gets 5

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:11 (sixteen years ago)

Anyway I can't wait to get Toys This was supposed to be out years ago.

Did anyone get the eddie hazel demos cd from cd baby? I wasn't paying them $50+ postage. Cd Babyrip-off more like.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago)

http://cdbaby.com/cd/eddiehazel

Now they're charging $35 for cd and $35 for mp3s. What a rip off label. The sound quality is apparently appalling too. Disgusting.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:16 (sixteen years ago)

How the hell did America Eats its Young beat Cosmic Slop? "America..." is very uncosmic-slop, meaning its four discs of garbage.

― Bill Magill, Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:44 (sixteen years ago)

ilm contrariness

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 20 September 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

I will have to get one of my CDBaby buddies to hook me up with this. It's not like Hazel needs the money.

I'm bummed because the first time I saw P-Funk was about a year after Hazel passed. Still, the kid who did Maggot Brain that night nailed it note for note... it was fucking epic.

And for the record--MAGGOT BRAIN. Were they ever more metal? I spin "Super Stupid" in my metal sets all the time and people get stoked. It works great back to back with the Nuge, Stooges, Alice Cooper, Mountain, Scorpions...

― Nate Carson, Saturday, 20 September 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago)

was it mike hampton? hes been in funkadelic since 75 or something.
I want to hear that eddie hazel desperately but not $35 + postage desperately. If the sound quality was ok i would, but cant find mp3s anywhere.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:18 (sixteen years ago)

whoah - thx for the heads up about the Toys release!! had not heard about that before

― Shakey Mo Collier, Sunday, 21 September 2008 01:37 (sixteen years ago)

maggon brain, fuck yeah.. justice has been deserved..

― winston, Sunday, 21 September 2008 03:24 (sixteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/RaggettBrain.jpg

― Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 September 2008 03:55 (sixteen years ago)

The above no doubt explains the wrongness of the poll result. But TOYS! Whoah.

― briania, Sunday, 21 September 2008 04:54 (sixteen years ago)

"was it mike hampton? hes been in funkadelic since 75 or something."

I kinda doubt it. This was in '94 and the kid looked pretty young... but I don't really know my P-Funk lore so I dunno for sure.

― Nate Carson, Sunday, 21 September 2008 09:03 (sixteen years ago)

Chaki would know who it was

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 21 September 2008 14:11 (sixteen years ago)

So it was just a kid and not the Kidd.

― Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 September 2008 14:15 (sixteen years ago)

I wish this album was out now and not end of october.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 21 September 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

It's been wishlisted on my s1sk since 2002 I think.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 21 September 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago)

I may have found m4p files of the eddie hazel. Does that mean theyre password protected?

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 22 September 2008 21:03 (sixteen years ago)

Bill you should read the Chuck Eddy thread on America Eats Its Young.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 22 September 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago)

ah here it is

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 22 September 2008 23:16 (sixteen years ago)

er Mark s not chuck

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 22 September 2008 23:17 (sixteen years ago)

I just pulled down By Way of the Drum b/c of this thread and holy shit is "Freaks Bearing Gifts" good.

― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 03:26 (sixteen years ago)

"was it mike hampton? hes been in funkadelic since 75 or something

Blackbird McNight, maybe? (Great name!)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 08:14 (sixteen years ago)

Itunes has Eddie Hazel - At Home , I gave in and bought it. Was £7.90 which is better than the $35 it was for just a download on cdbabyripoff.com

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 16:05 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/f/funkadelic~_hardcorej_101b.jpg

Check out the little R2d2 guy in the bottom left. And this album came out a year before Star Wars! George ad Pedro ahead of the curve as always.

― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 13 October 2008 02:21 (sixteen years ago)

Watching a "Cosby Show" episode tonight, I squealed when I watched a scene in which Vanessa and boyfriend Robert listen to "Cosmic Slop" on their kitchen boom box.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 13 October 2008 02:32 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NHWZTVjUL._SS500_.jpg
is AWESOME. It's an ABSOLUTE MUST HAVE!

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 17 November 2008 00:25 (sixteen years ago)

shakey you clearly didnt check your email this week

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 17 November 2008 00:26 (sixteen years ago)

free your minds the best of the early period, then one nation of the later period.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 17 November 2008 10:07 (sixteen years ago)

It's an ABSOLUTE MUST HAVE!

what is it? there are only so many google hits for stores a man can click without getting information before he gives up.

god, for the days when every google hit wasn't some lame webstore.

― open the BLOOD gates! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 17 November 2008 10:56 (sixteen years ago)

It's unreleased recordings from the early 70s westbound era. Lots of eddie hazel goodness.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 17 November 2008 13:42 (sixteen years ago)

oh sweet. gettin that.

― open the BLOOD gates! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 17 November 2008 14:08 (sixteen years ago)

It's terrific.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 17 November 2008 14:36 (sixteen years ago)

hahah - checkin now, my brother said he saw this on vinyl in NY? must get

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 17 November 2008 16:48 (sixteen years ago)

you must. It's on cd and lp.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 17 November 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

this is pretty nuts - one of 'em is basically Funkadelic riffing on the Turtles' "Buzzsaw". The "You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure" version is completely different from the released one on "Cosmic Slop". "The Goose" is a little closer to the Parliament version, but no vocals and waaaay more guitar heaviness. this is good stuff - thx for the hookup Kerr!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 00:04 (sixteen years ago)

Wars Of Armageddon is amazing, isn't it?

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 00:16 (sixteen years ago)

Album Description
* Originally scheduled for release some years ago (in 2002), Westbound
are happy to release a CD of previously unreleased Funkadelic
material.
* Recorded during the band's stay with legendary Detroit-based label,
Westbound Records, the tracklisting is a Funkadelic fan's delight.
Four finished songs and five jams or instrumental tracks. None of
these recordings are necessarily in finished form, nonetheless,
despite their raw state, as historical artefacts they are nothing less
than fascinating.
* Detailed sleeve notes by Funkadelic expert, Rob Bowman, who comments
that "the songs and the jams on this compilation provide a window into
the creative energies of early 70s Funkadelic".
1. HEART TROUBLE aka YOU CAN'T MISS WHAT YOU CAN'T MEASURE
2. THE GOOSE (THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG) aka THE GOOSE
3. VAMPY FUNKY BERNIE (3RD TUNE OLYMPIC)
4. TALK ABOUT JESUS
5. SLIDE ON IN (2ND TUNE OLYMPIC)
6. STINK FINGER
7. MAGNIFIFUNK
8. WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version)
9. 2 DOLLARS & 2 DIMES
Video Of Cosmic Slop

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 00:51 (sixteen years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmmzbVM5BMw

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 2 February 2013 20:45 (twelve years ago)

shakey you need to watch that. its the whole thing!

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 2 February 2013 20:46 (twelve years ago)

Hell yeah. Thanks for posting that.

― winnebago taco, Monday, 4 February 2013 05:34 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

RIP Cordell 'Boogie' Mosson :(

http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20130420/NJENT01/304200017/Cordell-Boogie-Mosson-P-Funk-member-Plainfield-native-dies?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:03 (twelve years ago)

RIP Boogie. Maybe now Bootsy will stop getting credit for basslines you played!

― Tom D (Tom D.), Monday, 22 April 2013 15:40 (twelve years ago)

he's all over the mid-period stuff, which never gets enough love imho

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 April 2013 16:02 (twelve years ago)

I squealed when I watched a scene in which Vanessa and boyfriend Robert listen to "Cosmic Slop" on their kitchen boom box.

wau totally never noticed this. @ 6:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sij7K7GOdC8

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 April 2013 16:10 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

Apparently George is releasing a new album under the Funkadelic name on tuesday. 5 tracks feature Sly. If the rest are anything like 'The Naz' I'm not expecting a whole lot.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/first-ya-gotta-shake-the-gate/id943588029

34 tracks though... a couple have to be good right?

― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 22 November 2014 22:56 (ten years ago)

Vote in the pfunk tracks poll losers

― Οὖτις, Saturday, 22 November 2014 23:37 (ten years ago)

I'm working on it!

― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 23 November 2014 00:30 (ten years ago)

I'm sure I voted Maggot Brain but now would change my vote to Standing On The Verge

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 23 November 2014 01:14 (ten years ago)

have really grown to love let's take it to the stage of late

― you fuck one chud... (stevie), Sunday, 23 November 2014 12:13 (ten years ago)

seven months pass...

OK so I'm showing my ignorance here and I realise this is probably a really famous image, but I'd never seen this photo of Huey P. Newton before today...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/1358793338_9190835-large.jpg

But obv. George had...

http://eil.com/images/main/Funkadelic-Uncle-Jam-Wants-Y-441399.jpg

― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Friday, 26 June 2015 11:14 (nine years ago)

lol its very famous

― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 26 June 2015 14:50 (nine years ago)

riffs on that image prob worthy of its own thread, it's been ref'd many many times

― Οὖτις, Friday, 26 June 2015 15:27 (nine years ago)

http://www.postracialism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1555424_626443787429368_324912157_n.jpg
http://www.postracialism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/tumblr_may1n898Yi1rrl8lpo1_500.jpg
http://origin.www.mtviggy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Akua-Naru_Huey_DanielZiegert.jpg
http://www.postracialism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/moon-newton_grainy.jpg

― Οὖτις, Friday, 26 June 2015 15:51 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

So the guitar player that George spoke of in his book , that played the guitar on Get Off Your Ass And Jam, was infact Paul Warren from Rare Earth?

― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:40 (eight years ago)

haha waht

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:46 (eight years ago)

Eh?

― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Thursday, 18 August 2016 18:02 (eight years ago)

several youtube comments I saw from ppl who claim to know both parties. It seems legit.

― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 August 2016 18:35 (eight years ago)

all he wanted was money for weed i think

― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 August 2016 18:35 (eight years ago)

tbf it wasnt gonna just be some random kid playing that good, makes sense it was someone from a band that we might know

― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 August 2016 18:36 (eight years ago)

yah that was always a george bs legend thing

― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 18 August 2016 18:58 (eight years ago)

Paul Warren also did some sessions with the Temptations and the Undisputed Truth.

― Blue Demon III (lpz), Thursday, 18 August 2016 23:02 (eight years ago)

this jibes with the crossover in personnel between Motown and P-Funk at the time

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 August 2016 23:10 (eight years ago)

No way! That's so cool. Now I have to check out Rare Earth.

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 19 August 2016 00:04 (eight years ago)

Well Ray Monette from Rare Earth played guitar on "I Got a Thing" half a decade earlier, so crossover just between those two bands wasn't new either.

― Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Friday, 19 August 2016 00:13 (eight years ago)

You could probably fill a book with all the history between Clinton/P-Funk and Motown. It's deep, man.

― Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Friday, 19 August 2016 00:17 (eight years ago)

Also I'm sure the Paul Warren story is true, but there are also boatloads of random and uncredited contributors to P-Funk's records, the 70s classics most definitely included.

― Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Friday, 19 August 2016 00:22 (eight years ago)

Rare Earth was from Detroit, those guys had to be playing similar gigs to Funkadelic in the early days. Junie was on Westbound in the early days with the Ohio Players too before he was actually in P-Funk, I'd have to think he was 'around'on those early LPs too.

There was so much soul, rock and funk in the midwest in that period of time- I'd love to read a total nerded out book about who gigged with who and the connections of the road of that era. It gets even deeper when you make the connection into the King Records/James Brown connection in Cincy (which also included the Isley's) then the later bands that came out of Dayton. It was all one big river. When you add in the rock bands from Ohio and Michigan from the era etc...it's just crazy amount of good music.

― earlnash, Friday, 19 August 2016 04:34 (eight years ago)

Now I have to check out Rare Earth.

Rare Earth were great!

― beer say hi to me (stevie), Friday, 19 August 2016 06:14 (eight years ago)

eight months pass...

this was fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smOZIefZmwY

― Spottie, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 20:10 (eight years ago)

great to see George lookin healthy

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 21:27 (eight years ago)

yeah he looks great

― Spottie, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 21:28 (eight years ago)

I enjoyed that, thanks Spottie! :)

― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 22:38 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

Let's Take it to the Stage 2
Cosmic Slop 2

so wrong

― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 16 December 2019 15:42 (five years ago)

one year passes...

1st album hitting the spot this evening. So good.

― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Friday, 29 January 2021 19:27 (four years ago)

I love America Eats Its Young for combining the energy of the early albums with a different kind of slickness than they would eventually pursue.

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 29 January 2021 19:42 (four years ago)

cosmic slop might actually be my fav

― satanist of size (map), Friday, 29 January 2021 19:44 (four years ago)

it's sort of a break-up album in a weird way.

― satanist of size (map), Friday, 29 January 2021 19:45 (four years ago)

I love America Eats Its Young for combining the energy of the early albums with a different kind of slickness than they would eventually pursue.

It was my first Funkadelic purchase, and it seems so much weirder than all the rest. Love it so much.

― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:29 (four years ago)

The first Funkadelic album you buy will always be the favorite.

― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:30 (four years ago)

The first lot of albums are overrated.

One nation is the best.

― candyman, Friday, 29 January 2021 20:36 (four years ago)

Until cosmic slop they still had no real idea what they were doing.

― candyman, Friday, 29 January 2021 20:39 (four years ago)

I heard Maggot Brain first, and didn't understand it until I heard other records. I wasn't sure, "is it supposed to sound this way or is it accidental somehow?"

Cosmic Slop has a number of "relationship" songs, which they would mostly leave by the wayside afterwards. In his book, Clinton describes writing several love songs while he was on his honeymoon, but deciding to give them to Bootsy to record, since they weren't appropriate for the main groups.

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 29 January 2021 20:41 (four years ago)

naw, s/t and maggot brain are fierce brilliant - wars of armagideon is still probs my fav Funkadelic jam

― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:42 (four years ago)

And there's great stuff on Free Yr Mind - Friday Night August 14th and I Wanna Know If Its Good To You are All Time - I just rarely wanna hear the title track

― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:43 (four years ago)

The first lot of albums are overrated.

One nation is the best.

― candyman

Are they? Well into the '90s the consensus gathered around One Nation.

― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:54 (four years ago)

Yeah, I sometimes overlook the first album but listening to it this evening, it's awesome - apart from that one blues rock track. That drum sound on "Music For My Mother" could punch holes in concrete.

― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:57 (four years ago)

Basically, the albums where the "delic" parts dominate the "funk" parts are the good ones. When they get into the "Wait, why isn't this a Parliament album?" section of their discography, I lose interest.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 29 January 2021 21:20 (four years ago)

Even in later years, though, Parliament and Funkadelic distinguish themselves. I enjoy One Nation and get annoyed by Motor-Booty Affair, and they're both 1978.

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 29 January 2021 21:28 (four years ago)

The Electric Spanking of War Babies is top five.

― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2021 21:29 (four years ago)

If you can bear wading through 3 (occasionally terrible) discs, First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate has some worthwhile stuff that isn't just a repeat from their heyday.

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 29 January 2021 21:38 (four years ago)

Motor City Madness from the UK label Ace is still my favorite way of listening to "early" Funkadelic. Their albums didn't quite hang together for me, so their music gets across better on that compilation.

― birdistheword, Friday, 29 January 2021 21:49 (four years ago)

‘Let’s Take It To The Stage’ is basically an album of offcuts but it always sounded really coherent to me...probably my favourite

― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Friday, 29 January 2021 22:01 (four years ago)

"Tales of Kidd Funkadelic" is the offcuts album.

― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Friday, 29 January 2021 22:05 (four years ago)

Oh ok that would explain it

― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Friday, 29 January 2021 22:08 (four years ago)

was a time when i was p-funk obsesssed, but ive not really played these guys in an age, so i need to get my old records out. but....

"Are they? Well into the '90s the consensus gathered around One Nation."

that WAS the consensus at one point. but since then its swung in the opposite direction, so now everyone thinks their early albums are the group at their best, when actually, this is when they were still sort of finding out what they could do, and who they were, and often sounded like they were trying on the 'delic' part of the band's overall suit just to see how it fit. so if you prefer them as a rock band, then okay, i can see why youd like this period best - i do love free your mind just for how crazy it can be, but overall this era is when the band was more hendrix influenced, still coming out of the late 60s, and more sombre/earnest. i prefer when they got looser, sillier, weirder, and yes, funkier and really came into their own. hate to say it but those earlier albums are actually just a tad bit boring.

also, parliament's osmium, which is very much like early funkadelic, is better than any of those early funkadelic albums.

id rank them roughly (bearing in mind they set out to be a funk-rock band, not a funk band) like:
One Nation Under a Groove
Let's Take it to the Stage
Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
Cosmic Slop
Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
Hardcore Jollies
Tales of Kidd Funkadelic
America Eats Its Young
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
Uncle Jam Wants You
The Electric Spanking of War Babies

― candyman, Friday, 29 January 2021 22:26 (four years ago)

maggot brain way too low, that and cosmic slop are just really nice sweet spots where the tunes, grooves, nonsense and seriousness all come together beautifully while there is still a little psych edge (though later stuff is great too and maybe "better")

i never liked the first couple as much as i was supposed to. they seem like the sort of thing you're supposed to get really really stoned for

― Left, Saturday, 30 January 2021 00:37 (four years ago)

‘Let’s Take It To The Stage’ is basically an album of offcuts but it always sounded really coherent to me...probably my favourite

― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Friday, January 29, 2021

Mine too.

― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 January 2021 04:06 (four years ago)

My rankings.

― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 January 2021 04:07 (four years ago)

Music for your mother is a good overview but its missing way too many good songs (ahem comin round the mountain) and a little of the early period goes a long way.

― candyman, Saturday, 30 January 2021 06:11 (four years ago)

o now everyone thinks

see i call bullshit on anyone thinking they can divine what "everyone" thinks at any given time. if you don't dig the early albums that's fine but that's on you.

i love osmium/rhemium etc, but its a very different thing to the early funkadelic - the songwriting is great, very focused, and they're trying lots of things, and they're pop in an oddball way. the first three albums have a lot of pop moments - esp maggot brain, with you and your folks, back in our minds, etc - but the essence is the ooze, the primordial from-the-earth funk.

― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Saturday, 30 January 2021 08:10 (four years ago)

Def true about osmium being more weird pop, its much sharper, yeah. But It's not really primordial funk on those funksdelic albums though, its this sludgey, stoned, slightly self aware groove based soul-funk-rock thing really, heavy at times, but also actually a little bit like the stooges on fun house (as opposed to the stooges self titled album), where they sound like they dont always entirely know what they're doing, or just haven't practised all that much, and are just letting things roll out however they happen to roll out.

― candyman, Saturday, 30 January 2021 08:53 (four years ago)

(xp) "Can You Get to That"!

― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 January 2021 11:37 (four years ago)

(xp) "Can You Get to That"!

yes! rule of three!! holy trinity!!!

― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Saturday, 30 January 2021 14:49 (four years ago)

seven months pass...

tales of kidd funkadelic underrated

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 15:27 (three years ago)

if you ain't gonna get it on, take your dead ass home

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 15:40 (three years ago)

Yes

― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 15:43 (three years ago)

Someone edit that track so it lasts the rest of my life

― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 15:43 (three years ago)

It is, but Uncle Jam is the most underrated of all the albums. I've probably said this half a dozen times in this thread but cant be arsed checking. It needs saying again anyway.

― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 15:46 (three years ago)

just wanted to check: is there a combined poll of funkadelic and parliament records that i'm just not finding through the search engine, and if not, does anybody want me to start it

signed, someone who listened to the greatest album ever recorded, funkentelechy vs. the placebo syndrome, for the first time today

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:34 (three years ago)

that bop gun riff is really fun to play on guitar

― brimstead, Friday, 17 September 2021 19:39 (three years ago)

I don't listen to it as much as I should because it was the only one I could find in the pre-internet days, but it's tight.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:39 (three years ago)

You and Your POLL, Me and My POLL: The P-Funk Results Poll

― visiting, Friday, 17 September 2021 19:40 (three years ago)

Classic Shakey poll, me and him grumbling about how few voted in it compared to Belle & Sebastian or someone.

― How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:53 (three years ago)

amazing there wasn't even an albums side poll

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 17 September 2021 20:11 (three years ago)

Is it not on that page somewhere?

― How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Friday, 17 September 2021 20:14 (three years ago)

Pfunkboy says Brad should start the poll regardless. Why not include some of the solo albums and spin offs?

― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Friday, 17 September 2021 20:27 (three years ago)

Quazar and Sweat Band are 2 of the best pfunk related albums ever

― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Friday, 17 September 2021 20:27 (three years ago)

and that first Mutiny album is the equal of any funkadelic album of that era

― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Friday, 17 September 2021 20:28 (three years ago)

https://open.spotify.com/album/3HgaFNPq5lAFOc0hrikBXB?si=ioBnfmQaSYO359Jx-VlLdg&dl_branch=1

― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Friday, 17 September 2021 20:29 (three years ago)

xps Brad, YES Tales of Kidd Funkadelic is so underrated, top 3 Funkadelic for me. “How Do Yeaw View You?” is an all-time fave. Jealous that you’re hearing Funkentelechy for the first time. “Wizard of Finance” on repeat x1000.

Have you heard Let’s Take It To the Stage? That’s the peak for me but it’s all one big party

― J. Sam, Friday, 17 September 2021 23:11 (three years ago)

Standing on the Verge of Getting It On is the best of mid period pfunk.

― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Friday, 17 September 2021 23:36 (three years ago)

The Electric Spanking of War Babies deserved a vote.

― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Friday, 17 September 2021 23:39 (three years ago)

for solos and offshoots, it seems stupidly obvious to say, but eddie hazel's _game, dames and guitar thangs_ along with bootsy's _stretchin` out in bootsy's rubber band_ are essentially p-funk albums in all but name. and both are completely essential.

― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 18 September 2021 00:12 (three years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.