OH, I poll THE ELECTRIC SPANKING OF WAR BABIES

I'm playing this before I vote, but I love "Icka Prick" and Sly's cameo and pretty much everything here.

We should vote for which LP cover we prefer too!

Wait a minute, I thought you were talking about the Hall & Oates album. Never mind.

You should mind.

Hehehe. Hi John.

"Electro-Cuties" or title track

Okay you guys have convinced me, I'm gonna give this one a try.

Electro-Cuties

which one is the smoking "rock" track on side 2? I can't remember

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"Funk Gets Stronger (Part 1) " - it's the most schizo musically speaking

Icka Prick

Wow, am I the only "Brettino's Bounce" voter?? That's been my favorite for several decades now. (Always kinda reminded me of On The Corner.)

I can't choose between the two "Funk Gets Stronger"'s, so I'll avoid the issue altogether and say "Electro-Cuties", even tho it arguably sounds more like a Parliament than Funkadelic jam, not that there was a lot of difference at that late point. Plus I love the sly AC/DC shout-out.

I get the feeling that this one is still massively underrated, isn't it?

I only discovered this album a month ago, and it's already top Five Funkadelic. "Shockwaves" is terrific reggae, and "Electro-Cuties" sounds like its tile. But my vote's for "Icka Prick," the best coda to classic P-Funk they could've written: the most disgusting, filthiest track they've ever recorded.

did I kill this??

Nah, it hasn't gotten many posts anyway.

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it took forever for me to buy this album. I had a total P-Funk completist period where I bought everything I could get my hands on that was made pre-1980, and for some reason I hesitated getting this one for a long time - probably a combo of the various stories that circulate about this one (the censored cover, Sly's "last hurrah", the aborted double album) that made me assume it couldn't be any good.... wrong on all counts obviously. Although I've always wondered what got cut from this to chop it down from a double album to a single... knowing George I assume he just re-used tracks and put them on other artists' albums, but by this time the P-Funk factory output had slowed quite a bit, I'm not sure exactly WHERE stuff originally slated for this album would've gone to (lolz Sweat Band??)

it's called computer games, i think some of the long jams on that are from that same period.

Wow, am I the only "Brettino's Bounce" voter?? That's been my favorite for several decades now. (Always kinda reminded me of On The Corner.)

Well, if I hadn't slept on this poll, I would've voted for "Brettino's Bounce," too. OTM about the OTC similarity.

xgau, fwiw:

The Electric Spanking of War Babies [Warner Bros., 1981]
His embattled empire/utopia in pieces around if not against him, George Clinton reaches into the disgusting depths of his drug-addled mind and comes up with the solidest, weirdest chunk of P-Funk since one nation gathered under a groove. Featuring icky sex, Sly getting stronger, and an on-the-one reggae about digging "the first world" that should make his brethren and sistren (way) down south splank their spliffs. In short, chock-a-block, for which we can thank the baddies at Warner Brethren, who forced him to reduce a projected double-LP down to this supersaturated single. A-

this record is so weird and great

poll results are weird and not great - title track should have dominated. Love this tune (and album)