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

i would expect it to be atomic dog tbh or eddie hazel fans get california dreaming up there instead

TIE 85. Funkadelic - Smokey (222 points, 4 votes)
http://youtu.be/Oj2NA-9zwNY

TIE 85. Funkadelic - Good to Your Earhole (222 points, 4 votes)
http://youtu.be/NAHzj71EUu4

funkadelic :
later stuff generally lower reaches
mid period in the middle
early stuff at the top

My guess is top 2 are a battle between flashlight and maggot brain with cosmic slop being the dark horse.

parliament its the mid period that will dominate

I had Better By The Pound way up high on my ballot. I absolutely love that song.

84. Zapp - More Bounce to the Ounce (223 points, 4 votes)
http://youtu.be/lK6wOG_aDl8

83. Parliament - Come In Out Of The Rain (226 points, 3 votes)
http://youtu.be/PsP3rHs3oUI

expected that to be higher but looks like not enough consider it pfunk.
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zapp i mean

I can see taking issue with Zapp's broader catalog but that song in particular is a) unbelievably super-classic and b) has George and Bootsy's hands all over it as much as any other P-Funk side project

it counts for me. the album was meant to come out on uncle jam til roger screwed em over

Bootsy and Greg Jackson are both on it, the loop/edit was George, produced by Bootsy/George = yeah wtf people

gah sorry mixing up Greg Jackson with Bootsy's keyboardist Joel Johnson

i know that some of these polls have participants who know nothing about the band but join in to learn (but not this time?) if they had done I wonder if they wouldve have voted the zapp higher?

Hi, part of the problem here. I merely know 8 albums well, all under the name of Parliament or Funkadelic.

Except for Miles Davis or some other jazz or classical legend, I can't imagine starting a sentence with "I merely know 8 albums by...."

...but it's fun to learn new things, and two new things I've learned today are "Electro-Cuties" and "Smokey."

Anyway, so long as we don't have the P-Funk equivalent of "Deacon Blues" or "Debaser" winning it's all good right? (ducks to avoid flying objects)

What is P-Funk's "Sway"?

A "Sway" hasn't won a poll since "Sway".

P-Funk's "Sway" is "Can You Get to That"

works for me

what is sway? the stones? in which case im fine with that too. If its ocean colour scene fuck off ;)

not even! Greg Tate compared that one to the 5th Dimension (meaning it as a compliment, I think).

i didnt follow the other polls. think i voted in manics miles and zep then wasnt on ilm much this year

Plus it was sampled in that goddam what'stheir face song a few years ago, pearly boots or something? no sway

slim sneakers? what was that group? 'have a heart, have a heart'

I literally have no idea what you're talking about

I think I know what you're talking about...it was a very prominent sample pretty recently. No idea who the artist was, though.

sorry, using internet properly now: indie college rock radio hit by Sleigh Bells, "Rill Rill" 2010, built around acoustic guitar bit from 'can you get to that'

(the reason I thought shoes were in their name was because of that album cover with the blood on the sneakers)

i almost wrote lollage cock, what a disaster that would have been

finding a P-Funk song that's never been sampled is gonna be kinda difficult tbh

Oh wait, it was used in an ad not too long ago, wasn't it? Really pissed me off, since it would've been a nice payday for George, but he's still getting screwed out of royalties from the Westbound stuff.

Let's look on the bright side though, at least whatever bastards own the rights to the Westbound material got paid!

you should read George's book

finding a P-Funk song that's been sampled in an indie rock staple or a tv commercial though

yeah the stuff at the end of George's autobio where he has a deposition from Boladian's assistant testifying that Boladian cut+pasted/forged his signature on documents is just nuts. George disavows any involvement in all the lawsuits that have been pursued over the years on behalf of Bridgeport Music.

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Eh, I didn't know about George's contributions to "More Bounce." I always assumed that his quotes of the song on "Loopzilla" were just creative revenge for Roger Troutman bailing on the Uncle Jam Records deal - the last brick that toppled the whole P-Funk empire in 1981. My bad, shoulda voted for it.

I've come around to the idea that nobody ever got paid for anything unless they had somebody kidnapped or killed.

I always assumed that his quotes of the song on "Loopzilla" were just creative revenge for Roger Troutman bailing on the Uncle Jam Records deal

tbf this is entirely possible

anyway back to the countdown

82. Funkadelic - Comin Round The Mountain (227 points, 3 votes)
http://youtu.be/-IzaJ0E4eng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2dhD9zR6hk

81. Parliament - Children of Production (234 points, 3 votes)

80. Funkadelic - Funk Gets Stronger (Part 1) (238 points, 4 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT-DgodwdF4

ahh nice one. Was worried that might be an overlooked period but that tracks a banger
xps (Comin Round The Mountain)

funk gets stronger is awesome too. fabulous album and a great way for funkadelic to go out. the closest they got to their earlier stuff. Sadly Parliament didn't end as strongly.

there's stuff I like on Trombipulation but yeah it's a weird album, the ideas don't coalesce. too much coke goin' around I assume, everybody distracted doing a million things

i dont care for Gloryhallastoopid tbh but its still better than Trombipulation. dont even own them.

I prefer Gloryhallastoopid, can't even remember what's on Trombipulation.

eh as an obsessive completist of course I have both. Oddly, "Trombipulation" is the only Parliament album with other producer credits besides George.

... oh yeah, Agony of Defeet, with the annoying lead vocal