so what got left off the official release of Funkadelic's "The Electric Spanking of War Babies"?

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I've always read that this was intended to be a double album, but things were so rapidly imploding in the P-Funk camp and they were feuding w/Warners so the album ended up getting chopped in half and released w/the censored cover art, etc. My question is, what were they going to pad out this album with to make it a double album? Did it just end up on other releases...? This isn't the greatest of their records by any stretch, but it is pretty weird and definitely has its high points, I'm curious what else the P-Funk camp has in their vaults from these sessions...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 July 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Apparently, a side-long version of "Funk Gets Stronger" — me, I'd like to hear it...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 15 July 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Are you sure they didn't just split that version in half and that's what's on the actual release...?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 July 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

I've heard that the other half turned into Geo. Clinton's Computer Games.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 15 July 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

but that came out like 3 or 4 years later!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 July 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

no wait, I'm wrong about that, they're only a year or so apart, never mind...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 July 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I've heard that the other half turned into Geo. Clinton's Computer Games.

That's, like, 8 tracks. Which ones? "Loopzilla"?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 15 July 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Those, like, 8 tracks are, like, a whole 40-minute album. Plus I think the project changed and mutated just a little; hence, my use of "turned into".

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 15 July 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

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