Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will POLL: The P-Funk Nominations and Voting Thread

I'm a bit concerned with the lack of pfunkboy activity on this thread, actually. I would have thought he'd be all over this!

yeah I asked where he was on the ILX Milk Carton thread and got nothing

Never mind the P-Funk poll, Hamilton Accies have been top of the Scottish Premiership for most of this season and he's not even around to gloat about that!

well I think I just about have 100 songs, now to put them in order lol

How could I have gone so long without knowing about this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGVTEP0xoiw

Yeah, that one is definitely going to be in the upper reaches of my ballot. Legendarily ripped off by the The Verve.

-the

and I bet ya!

Inclined to vote for every track on the s/t debut except Qualify and Satisfy. Which is nit bad at all I just dont love it

slept on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9s77pHMlHc

first ballot received!

My commute's got the funk, lately.
Taking suggestions for punny titles for the rollout thread?

there's a million possibilities so sure

Just dropping by to make sure everybody votes for Grooveallegiance in their top 10.

That is all.

Ahh, it won't be in my top ten, probably, but it'll be in the top 50 somewhere. Probably top 30.

Ooh just got the autobio

book is great - go get it people

also put your ballots together

Mine's is together but is sitting on a shelf gathering dust because I can't lick into any sort of shape that pleases me... I'll probably just send the first 50 I thought of, should send it soon

hey now I still have a week of listening here

I gave up listening because it was confusing me too much

"Mashing your brain like silly putty/ Leaving you in a better frame of mind"

putting things in any kind of order is painful + somewhat arbitrary, seems unavoidable w this massive catalog. also hard to keep various songs straight (at least for me) as sometimes I remember certain riffs/phrases that pop up in multiple songs and I can't recall which title/version I was thinking of without going back and listening

Kinda tearing up at the end of this bio where george visits gary shider on his deathbed

Normally with these polls I go through the artists albums as best as I can. I'm pretty sure I have around 25 P-Funk albums in my collection. It's pretty much going to be impossible to go through them all in time. Definitely have an idea of what will be going in my top 10. I have a big soft spot for a lot of their slower songs. Wizards of Finance, Together and Grooveallegiance will all do quite well on my list.

My nomination for a song I feel will get overlooked is the closing track on Computer Games. Such a great song.

http://youtu.be/rM6SYKb6TJI

Everyone plz vote for plenty of Electric Spanking. I'll probably have both "Funk Gets Stronger"s on my ballot, but the first and last tracks will be way up there as well:

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

^^^ is my most favorite song. Skip the intro if you get annoyed by the funny voices and proceed straight to 1:17, when the actual song starts. But why would you wanna do that anyway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FXCgCL92is

Graffilthy! Suck my mind!

Early '80s P-Funk is my shit. More jams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnLboo-D0A8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6vCJDKs_Ho

Nice. I'm partial to the older stuff, but will be fun to rediscover later deep cuts.

Repeat after Bootsy:
http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/1995/10/bootsy.gif

"I pledge allegiance to the funk,
the whole funk,
and nothing but the funk,
so help me James, Sly and George,
Amen."

Anybody heard the uh unfortunately titled Wynne Jammin

2 ballots in!

btw if anyone wants to step up and host graphics for this plz let me know, cuz right now I gots nuthin

2 ballots with 4 days to go? Get yer fingers out, funkateers!

I was expecting a p high turnout but idk

everybody's too busy listening to Eagles' solo records

there's a smattering of decent tracks on the proliferation of early 90s P-Funk projects (Dope Dogs is underrated), always fond of this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INXyVlF8IRk

seriously is anyone compiling ballots or did you all just give up

I'm totally working on one, but I'm close to giving up on my plan to get up to speed on P-Funk. As I posted upthread, I have maybe 10-15 P-Funk records, and that doesn't come close to scratching the surface.

come on, it's not like there's any other music worth listening to

I'm doing a ballot. Not a 100-track ballot by any stretch, but a ballot.

Just submitted with 50+ tracks

ok got a couple more ballots in... keep 'em comin

I've always considered myself a P-Funk fan but looking at the list of records up top is simply staggering. I realized that prior to this poll I've maybe heard 5 Funkadelic records front-to-back and at most 2 Parliaments, to say nothing of the many, many offshoots. That said, even if I end up with Maggot Brain occupying slots 20-1, I will vote.

man you guys are slackin - only 6 ballots in and just two days to go!

I know, I know

this poll has required a lot more listening than the others

OK, just sent my ballot!

Sent my lame, 23-song ballot. Couldn't do enough listening, so I just stuck with the records I've had long relationships with.

wish I had the free time to listen to stuff and put together a ballot this week but I just do not

Should have my ballot in at some point in the next 24 hours.

Only 8 ballots in. Take your dead asses home people

Just made a first attempt at a list. It came to 104 songs. It's all Parliament, Funkadelic and George solo so far. If I have time I need to relisten to some of the Bootsy albums and a couple of other side projects that I really like. I love that Chairmen of the Board album too but doesn't feel quite right to vote for it.