Bootsy Collins albums: best and worst

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Solo or with group, I don't care as long as BOOTSY'S ON IT!

Which brings me to the second part of my question:
Which albums are the most psychedelic and/or showcase the most LIQUIFIED SPACE BASS?

*(I love that aqua-space-bass shit, but feel free to point out when it becomes too much of a good thing if you feel there's some album that has too damn MUCH aqua-space-bass... because I'll probably run out and get it!).

― Man With Questions, Saturday, 7 August 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

best: james brown: love power peace

worst: paul shaffer: world's most dangerous party

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 7 August 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

best: teena marie: emerald city

worst: sammy hagar: marching to mars

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 7 August 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

ah...the name is bootsy baby has munchies for your love and whats a telephone bill which are both slow aqua-space-bass freakouts which might be right up your alley.

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 7 August 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I have this....

http://www.funky-stuff.com/bootsy/covers/live95.jpg

...and it's virtually unlistenable. Billed as a live album, the crowd noise is mixed way too high and LOOPED (you can hear the same passage of crowd noise repeated). Shockingly bad.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 7 August 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

you could just get the rhino anthology its fucking great.

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 7 August 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

No Funkadelic recommendations? I want the cosmic sloppiest one... but I wonder if "Cosmic Slop" actually fits the bill.

― Man With Questions, Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

No Funkadelic recommendations? I want the cosmic sloppiest one... but I wonder if "Cosmic Slop" actually fits the bill.

― Man With Questions, Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Great solo vocal:
Funkadelic's "Be My Beach"
Let's Take It to the Stage*

*5 point penalty for too many syllables

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 7 August 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Bootsy played bass on "Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk" and drums on "Flashlight," so Parliament's Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome should be on your list. And "Night of the Thumpasaurus Peoples" would not exist without Bootsy completely owning the world.

They've just re-released 2002's Play With Bootsy, you should check that shit out too. Snoop, Lady Miss Kier, I would have loved to be hanging around the studio.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 7 August 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

For Space Bass...

Best Parliament album: "Funkentelechy..."
Best Funkadelic album: "Let's Take It To The Stage"
Best "solo" album: "Lord Of The Harvest"
Best single (no contest): "Munchies For Your Love" (from "Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby")

― MC Frosty Flake, Saturday, 7 August 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

MC Frosty Flake,

I would like to point out that I bought and listened to "Let's Take It To The Stage" today and THERE IS NO SPACE BASS AT ALL! There's some psychedelic keys and guitar, but the bass doesn't have any wah-wah or distorto-reverb aquaspace effects at all. I wanted to get that album anyway, so I'm glad I did-- and it is very cool. But, can I trust your other recommendation about Parliament's "Funkentelechy...? Or did you just mean the bass is cool? I like it when the bass sounds like a distorted rubber band being played underwater.

I do have Zillatron "Lord of The Harvest" and there's only just a wee bit of kickass aqua space bass, which is when I realized I want to get more of this stuff.

For anyone interested, I spent a long time reading Amazon reviews and it seems to me that BOOTSY? PLAYER OF THE YEAR has loads of the space bass... and it's cheap!

Does MAGGOTBRAIN have any of that space bass?

― Man With Questions, Sunday, 8 August 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

He's on, like, 729 Laswell productions...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 8 August 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Maggot Brain has no Bootsy on it. Too early, and too rocky. Kick-ass though. You might generally want to stick to the Parliament side of the equation, and to Bootsy solo, if that's all you want.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I should add that while Blasters Of The Universe isn't all that, the song "Funk Express Card" is fairly classic...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 8 August 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Get Parliament's 'Motor Booty Affair'. Their best album and extremely space bassy.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

ill be back with this, i have every bootsys rubbers band album he did. if anyone can find it on soulseek, i would search out the brides of funkensteins versions of vanish in my sleep and together.

― splooge (thesplooge), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

album-wise, the majority of Bootsy's "space bass" stuff is concentrated in the late 70s-early 80s. There are specific songs that spotlight his freakier playing more than others, and these are scattered across all sorts of stuff. But in general from "Funkentelechy" through "Trombipulation" the space/wah wah bass is featured heavily, and it pops up a bit on "One Nation Under a Groove", "Uncle Jam Wants You", and "The Electric Spaking of War Babies" (all Funkadelic). As for solo/side project stuff, you probably want "Player of the Year" and "This Boot Was Made For Fonk'n" and definitely check out the Sweat Band LP from 1980 (highly underrated and never reissued on CD). Also various Brides and Parlet songs...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 9 August 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i generally prefer bootys' bassplaying on the sides he cut with JB to anything he did in his own name, or even with pfunk really. it was far more hypnotic, and dare i say, funkier. he had to try and get everything he wanted to be self indulgent with into jb's format, and that tension lent itself to some of the greatest bass lines ever.

― splooge (thesplooge), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The great Rubber Band trilogy of Ahh...the Name Is Bootsy Baby, Stretchin' Out and Bootsy? Player of the Year all feature great gobs of what you seek. I'm partial to Stretchin' Out, if only for "I'd Rather Be With You."

― briania (briania), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stretchin' Out" is the best Rubber Band album, in general they are very patchy and self-indulgent but with moments of genius.

But in general from "Funkentelechy" through "Trombipulation" the space/wah wah bass is featured heavily, and it pops up a bit on "One Nation Under a Groove", "Uncle Jam Wants You", and "The Electric Spaking of War Babies" (all Funkadelic).

Hmmmmmmmm, I'm not even sure Bootsy is on a few of those albums. And a lot of what people assume to be Bootsy playing is actually Cordell Mosson.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mean to imply Bootsy plays bass on every song on those records - he definitely does not. P-Funk credits are pretty convoluted and Bootsy regularly insists he played various things uncredited (drums, for instance). By '78 or so the Funk Mob had become a weird revolving door factory with tons of people cutting stuff all the time and George parcelling the results out under various names with no real rhyme or reason. (tho I agree w/yr estimation of his solo records, in general yeah they're spotty but each one has at least a couple tunes that are stone cold.)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

actually now that I think about it "the factory" effect began a little earlier, around the time of the departure of the original Parliament(s) vocalists - followed by all those Brides, Parlet, Bootsy, Horny Horns, etc. records started coming out.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

Not a Bootsy album, but a Bootsy vocal. As I said on the other thread:
Fillmore.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken L, for your edification, I started this thread, too!

― Milton, Friday, 14 January 2005 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean the Funkadelic track, "Philmore"? He plays on it but it doesn't sound like his vocals.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 January 2005 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

... but then the vocals on Rubber Band records are confusing, because Bootsy is not really a singer and it's mostly Gary "Mudbone" Cooper singing... except his singing voice is quite close to Bootsy's speaking voice so maybe it is Bootsy singing... or maybe it's Robert "P-Nut" Johnson... errrrrrrrrrr

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 January 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, yeah, "Philmore." I've always heard that was Bootsy singing - I believe he's credited with writing it, but as you just said and his been stated a few times on other threads, P-funk credits are confusing.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

George Clinton didn't sing too many songs either

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

These guys give a lot a detailed info which comes from who knows where and they claim it's Bootsy. So do some others.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

it does sound like Bootsy to me on "Philmore", pre-cartoonish vocal style. It's close to his speaking voice, and sounds like he's trying to imitate some other kind of gruff-er singer. He didn't really get that-uh, funny-uh sing-song-y style bay-buh until after "Be My Beach" (after which he did it all the time).

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 14 January 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

fourteen years pass...

There’s a new comp on Shake It records of all his post Brown/ pre P-Funk recordings he did with The House Guests. Contains a version of ‘Together’ that was redid for ‘ Chocolate City’ that is phenomenal as is the rest of the record...I heartily recommend

― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Thursday, 15 August 2019 15:44 (six years ago)

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― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 August 2019 15:59 (six years ago)

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