Best Funkadelic Studio Album

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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 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay for Geir.

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

the live cosmic slop on harcore jollies SLAYS the album version

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - would this be it?

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

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

argh!

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

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

I quit.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

would it have been martins funk thread?

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

'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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Those are on the cd.

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

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

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

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

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

oh, and I voted Maggot Brain

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Last day of voting.

yeah Cosmic Slop is underrated.

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

It's ilx, I thought someone would.

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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that bop gun riff is really fun to play on guitar

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

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 (two years ago) link

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

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

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 (two years ago) link

amazing there wasn't even an albums side poll

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

Is it not on that page somewhere?

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

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 (two years ago) link

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

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

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 (two years ago) link

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

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

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 (two years ago) link

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 (two years ago) link

The Electric Spanking of War Babies deserved a vote.

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

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 (two years ago) link

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