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

I thought Groovallegiance would easily be in the top 10

Wow. I don't even like it tbh.

my 1, 2 & 4 are already goodies gone: half my mere 20 song ballot has already placed outside the top 40! Most of the rest of my ballot is kind of obvious stuff, so I don't have a lot left to root for as underdogs --- had no idea that what's a funkadelic or unfunky ufo or placebo syndrome could possibly count as underdogs though! It's going to continue to be educational.

37. Funkadelic - Loose Booty (479 points, 8 votes)
http://youtu.be/mIDfp2c8BLk

ESOWB - My #1. That's right, I said aliens!

Electric Spanking is so good- such a detailed and nuanced production on that one.

It's murky - kinda sounds like it was recorded inside an oil drum, but I like that about it. The whole vibe of that track is druggy, ominous, like a There's A Riot Goin' On for the Reagan era. Very apropos given Sly's involvement with P-Funk and with George's pharmaceutical dalliances at the time.

TIE 36. Funkadelic - Alice in My Fantasies (486 points, 7 votes)
http://youtu.be/fX7lVgIfvYE

TIE 36. Parliament - Liquid Sunshine (486 points, 7 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
http://youtu.be/T46c9YL7U3w

All of the stacking, counterpointy kind of things going on are great. I started listening to this record again just before the poll and it hasn't left the deck since.

"Alice in my Fantasies" TOO LOW. Shoulda been top 10.

35. Parliament - The Goose (487 points, 7 votes)
http://youtu.be/ZEugl0oIejs

Liquid Sunshine was my number one. That intro alone makes it one of the most exciting songs I've ever heard.

34. The Brides of Funkenstein - Never Buy Texas From A Cowboy (497 points, 7 votes)
http://youtu.be/tFVfRCkq2PU

nice

west coast rap fan in me rmde at such a low placement for this one

33. George Clinton - Atomic Dog (509 points, 7 votes)
http://youtu.be/LuyS9M8T03A

32. Parliament - Rumpofsteelskin (563 points, 9 votes)
http://youtu.be/gbIXBpUujBQ

31. Eddie Hazel - California Dreamin' (573 points, 7 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
http://youtu.be/CqDGTT2OtsQ

aww hoped that might be higher. Really great version.

30. Funkadelic - Jimmy’s Got A Little Bit Of Bitch In Him (592 points, 7 votes)
http://youtu.be/3cbD3pDX_6E

Liquid Sunshine was my number one. That intro alone makes it one of the most exciting songs I've ever heard.

Was getting worried it might not show up.

"Atomic Dog" placing anywhere outside the top 10 is ridiculous. Maybe the weirdest P-Funk hit, certainly one of the most influential, and it's funkier than shit. Over half of the poll respondents didn't vote for it - what the hell??

My worst-case scenario for this poll (it's already happened elsewhere): first 3 Funkadelic albums dominate the top 20, edging out the mid- to late-70s classics. I mean, I knew most of the early 80s stuff didn't have a chance anyway, but I thought everybody loved "Atomic Dog."

yeah I can't explain it

and here was my (strategically voted for) number one:

29. Funkadelic - Let's Take it to the Stage (605 points, 7 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
http://youtu.be/2_-xdv2yx8M

when the synth bass comes in on this oh shit

Still, 40-30 above is a hell of a run. Props to everyone who voted for any of those tracks.

Slick and the Family Brick! Earth, Hot Air and No Fiyaah! Hey Snufus, tell me something good!

I didn't vote for anything after 1981, P-Funk ended with the last Funkadelic album for me, so no solo George.

28. Funkadelic - Cholly (Funk Getting Ready To Roll!) (613 points, 10 votes)
http://youtu.be/j0a1d9V_9js

27. Funkadelic - Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock!? (619 points, 8 votes)
http://youtu.be/R2nqZCSnN1U

XXP - Yeah, Computer Games is a solo album in name only. It's absolutely P-Funk canon, but to each his own, whatever.

It was difficult enough without having to factor in GC solo (and Zapp, for that matter).

yeah the '81 cutoff strikes me as p arbitrary - things had started to unravel w lawsuits, record deals collapsing, etc. which is why George couldn't use the Parliament or Funkadelic names anymore iirc - but everybody on Computer Games is a P-Funk regular. Bernie, Bootsy, Eddie, Junie, Gary Shider, the Brides, Maceo are all on it

anyway

last one for today

26. Funkadelic - You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks (649 points, 9 votes)
http://youtu.be/vl1-yfL_SKg

"Cholly" is the shit. Never understood the love for "Who Says A Funk Band Can't Play Rock?" - dozens of Funkadelic songs answer the titular question better than that overlong, half-limp Junie leftover.

Love "You and Your Folks." One of the few from the aforementioned first three Funkadelic albums that placed high in my ballot. There's one other that ought to go top 10 - and it's not "Maggot Brain."

results to-date:

26. Funkadelic - You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks (649 points, 9 votes)
27. Funkadelic - Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock!? (619 points, 8 votes)
28. Funkadelic - Cholly (Funk Getting Ready To Roll!) (613 points, 10 votes)
29. Funkadelic - Let's Take it to the Stage (605 points, 7 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
30. Funkadelic - Jimmy’s Got A Little Bit Of Bitch In Him (592 points, 7 votes)
31. Eddie Hazel - California Dreamin' (573 points, 7 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
32. Parliament - Rumpofsteelskin (563 points, 9 votes)
33. George Clinton - Atomic Dog (509 points, 7 votes)
34. The Brides of Funkenstein - Never Buy Texas From A Cowboy (497 points, 7 votes)
35. Parliament - The Goose (487 points, 7 votes)
TIE 36. Funkadelic - Alice in My Fantasies (486 points, 7 votes)
TIE 36. Parliament - Liquid Sunshine (486 points, 7 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
37. Funkadelic - Loose Booty (479 points, 8 votes)
38. Bootsy's Rubber Band - Ahhh… the Name is Bootsy, Baby (448 points, 6 votes)
39. Parliament - Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk (Pay Attention -- B3m) (414 points, 6 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
TIE 40. Parliament - The Motor-Booty Affair (409 points, 7 votes)
TIE 40. Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies (409 points, 6 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
41. Parliament - Wizard of Finance (396 points, 6 votes)
42. Parliament - Agony Of Defeet (394 points, 5 votes)
43. Funkadelic - Into You (391 points, 6 votes)
44. Parliament - Unfunky UFO (383 points, 5 votes)
TIE 45. Parliament - The Silent Boatman (380 points, 5 votes)
TIE 45. Funkadelic - Sexy Ways (380 points, 5 votes)
46. Parliament - Dr. Funkenstein (371 points, 5 votes)
TIE 47. Funkadelic - Get Off Your Ass and Jam (363 points, 6 votes)
TIE 47. Funkadelic - Friday Night, August 14th (363 points, 5 votes)
48. Funkadelic - Mommy, What's A Funkadelic? (357 points, 7 votes)
49. Funkadelic - Groovallegiance (349 points, 4 votes)
50. Bootsy's Rubber Band - I'd Rather Be With You (343 points, 5 votes)
51. Parliament - Deep (339 points, 6 votes)
52. Parliament - Night Of The Thumpasorus Peoples (336 points, 5 votes)
53. Funkadelic - Baby I Owe You Something Good (330 points, 4 votes)
54. Parliament - Testify (325 points, 6 votes)
TIE 55. Parliament - Mr. Wiggles (311 points, 4 votes)
TIE 55. Funkadelic - You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure (311 points, 4 votes)
56. Funkadelic - Biological Speculation (310 points, 5 votes)
57. Funkadelic - No Head No Backstage Pass (308 points, 6 votes)
58. Parliament - The Placebo Syndrome (302 points, 4 votes)
59. Parliament - Together (301 points, 4 votes)
60. Funkadelic - Icka Prick (299 points, 4 votes)
61. Funkadelic - Stuffs and Things (298 points, 4 votes)
62. Parliament - I Can Move You (If You Let Me) (294 points, 4 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
63. George Clinton - Man's Best Friend/Loopzilla (293 points, 4 votes)
64. Funkadelic - Nappy Dugout (292 points, 6 votes)
65. Funkadelic - Music for my Mother (288 points, 5 votes)
66. Parliament - All of Your Goodies Are Gone (281 points, 4 votes)
67. Parliament - Do That Stuff (280 points, 5 votes)
68. Funkadelic - If You Don't Like the Effects, Don't Produce the Cause (278 points, 4 votes)
69. Funkadelic - Wars of Armageddon (276 points, 4 votes)
70. Funkadelic - Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts (273 points, 4 votes)
71. Parliament - Presence of a Brain (267 points, 4 votes)
72. The Brides of Funkenstein - Disco To Go (266 points, 5 votes)
73. Bootsy's Rubber Band - Stretchin' Out (In a Rubber Band) (263 points, 4 votes)
74. Funkadelic - Let's Make It Last (255 points, 4 votes)
75. Bootsy's Rubber Band - Munchies For Your Love (253 points, 4 votes)
76. George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars - Hydraulic Pump (249 points, 4 votes)
77. Funkadelic - The Song is Familiar (244 points, 3 votes)
TIE 78. Bootsy's Rubber Band - Bootzilla (243 points, 5 votes)
TIE 78. Funkadelic - Freak Of The Week (243 points, 4 votes)
79. Parliament - Handcuffs (239 points, 5 votes)
80. Funkadelic - Funk Gets Stronger (Part 1) (238 points, 4 votes)
81. Parliament - Children of Production (234 points, 3 votes)
82. Funkadelic - Comin Round The Mountain (227 points, 3 votes)
83. Parliament - Come In Out Of The Rain (226 points, 3 votes)
84. Zapp - More Bounce to the Ounce (223 points, 4 votes)
TIE 85. Funkadelic - Smokey (222 points, 4 votes)
TIE 85. Funkadelic - Good to Your Earhole (222 points, 4 votes)
86. George Clinton - One Fun at a Time (220 points, 3 votes)
87. Bootsy's Rubber Band - Vanish In Our Sleep (219 points, 3 votes)
TIE 88. Parliament - Theme From The Black Hole (218 points, 3 votes)
TIE 88. Funkadelic - Better By The Pound (218 points, 4 votes)
TIE 89. Bootsy's Rubber Band - PsychoticBumpSchool (214 points, 4 votes)
TIE 89. Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies (214 points, 3 votes)
90. Funkadelic - Take Your Dead Ass Home (213 points, 4 votes)
91. Funkadelic - Can't Stand the Strain (210 points, 3 votes)
92. Funkadelic - No Compute (200 points, 4 votes)
93. Funkadelic - Eulogy and Light (194 points, 3 votes)
94. Funkadelic - Electro-Cuties (191 points, 4 votes)
95. Bootsy's Rubber Band - Hollywood Squares (190 points, 3 votes)
96. Funkadelic - Back in Our Minds (189 points, 3 votes)
97. Bootsy's Rubber Band - The Pinocchio Theory (180 points, 3 votes)
98. Funkadelic - Be My Beach (177 points, 4 votes)
99. Zapp - Dance Floor (171 points, 2 votes)
100. Parliament - Oh Lord, Why Lord (168 points, 2 votes)
101. Parlet - Help From My Friends (167 points, 2 votes)
102. Funkadelic - You Hit The Nail On The Head (165 points, 4 votes)
TIE 103. Eddie Hazel - Physical Love (164 points, 2 votes)
TIE 103. Parliament - Gettin' to Know You (164 points, 2 votes)
104. Funkadelic - I Call My Baby Pussycat (160 points, 2 votes)
105. Funkadelic - You Scared the Lovin' Outta Me (157 points, 3 votes)
TIE 106. Funkadelic - Lunchmeatphobia (Think! It Ain't Illegal Yet!) (156 points, 4 votes)
TIE 106. Funkadelic - I Miss My Baby (156 points, 2 votes)
107. Parliament - Gloryhallastoopid (Pin The Tail On The Funky) (153 points, 2 votes)
TIE 108. Parliament - I Call My Baby Pussycat (152 points, 3 votes)
TIE 108. Funkadelic - Shockwaves (152 points, 2 votes)
109. Funkadelic - Good Old Music (151 points, 3 votes)
110. Funkadelic - The Rat Kissed the Cat on the Navel (150 points, 2 votes)
111. Parliament - Let Me Be (147 points, 2 votes)
112. Parliament - Livin' The Life (146 points, 2 votes)
113. Funkadelic - Promentalshitbackwashpsychosis Enema Squad (The Doo Doo Chasers) (145 points, 2 votes)
114. George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars - Pumpin' It Up (143 points, 2 votes)
115. Parliament - Whatever Makes My Baby Feel Good (142 points, 2 votes)
116. Parliament - I Just Got Back (From the Fantasy, Ahead of Our Time in the Four Lands) (139 points, 2 votes)
TIE 117. Funkadelic - March To The Witch's Castle (136 points, 3 votes)
TIE 117. Parliament - My Automobile (136 points, 2 votes)
118. Bernie Worrell - Insurance Man for the Funk (133 points, 3 votes)
119. Bootsy Collins - Fat Cat (130 points, 3 votes)
120. The Brides of Funkenstein - Birdie (129 points, 2 votes)
121. Bootsy's Rubber Band - Jam Fan (Hot) (125 points, 2 votes)
122. Funkadelic - What is Soul (123 points, 2 votes)
123. Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns - Four Play (122 points, 2 votes)
124. Funkadelic - Butt To Buttresucitation (120 points, 2 votes)
125. Parliament - I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body) (118 points, 3 votes)
126. Bootsy's Rubber Band - Another Point Of View (117 points, 2 votes)
127. The Brides of Funkenstein - Just Like You (116 points, 2 votes)
128. Parliament - Funkin' For Fun (114 points, 3 votes)
129. George Clinton - Quickie (109 points, 2 votes)
TIE 130. Funkadelic - I'm Never Gonna Tell It (107 points, 2 votes)
TIE 130. Funkadelic - How Do Yeaw View You? (107 points, 3 votes)
131. Eddie Hazel - I Want You (She's So Heavy) (106 points, 2 votes)
132. Mutiny - What More Can I Say (105 points, 2 votes)
TIE 133. Bootsy Collins - Shine-O-Myte (Rag Popping) (103 points, 3 votes)
TIE 133. Parliament - Gamin On Ya (103 points, 2 votes)
134. George Clinton - Computer Games (101 points, 3 votes)
135. Parliament - The Big Bang Theory (99 points, 2 votes)
136. Parliament - (I Wanna) Testify (98 points, 1 votes)
TIE 137. Mutiny - Lump (97 points, 1 votes)
TIE 137. Bootsy's Rubber Band - Roto-Rooter (97 points, 2 votes)
TIE 137. Zapp - I Can Make You Dance (97 points, 1 votes)
TIE 138. Junie Morrison - Jarr The Ground (96 points, 1 votes)
TIE 138. Parliament - Singing Another Song (96 points, 1 votes)
TIE 138. Funkadelic - Tales of Kidd Funkadelic (96 points, 2 votes)
139. Parliament - There Is Nothing Before Me But Thang  (95 points, 1 votes)
140. Parliament - Side Effects (94 points, 2 votes)
141. Eddie Hazel - What About It (93 points, 1 votes)
TIE 142. Parliament - Crush It (91 points, 1 votes)
TIE 142. Funkadelic - Soul Mate (91 points, 1 votes)
TIE 142. Fuzzy Haskins - Cookie Jar (91 points, 2 votes)
TIE 142. George Clinton - Last Dance (91 points, 1 votes)
143. Funkadelic - Oh I (90 points, 1 votes)
TIE 144. Parliament - I Misjudged You (88 points, 1 votes)
TIE 144. George Clinton - Get Dressed (88 points, 1 votes)
TIE 145. Parliament - One of Those Funky Thangs (85 points, 1 votes)
TIE 145. Zapp - Be Alright (85 points, 1 votes)
TIE 145. Bootsy Collins - Mug Push (85 points, 1 votes)
TIE 146. George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars - Generator Pop (84 points, 1 votes)
TIE 146. George Clinton - Double Oh-Oh (84 points, 1 votes)
147. Parlet - Cookie Jar (83 points, 2 votes)
TIE 148. George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars - Catch A Keeper (82 points, 2 votes)
TIE 148. Parliament - Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication (82 points, 2 votes)
149. Parliament - May We Bang You (81 points, 1 votes)
TIE 150. Parliament - Breakdown (80 points, 1 votes)
TIE 150. Bernie Worrell - Hold On (80 points, 1 votes)

Crickets in here, huh?

too many important questions for Racoon I guess

why would anyone dislike the first 3 funkadelic albums?

Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock is one of those songs that seems to pop into my head all the time. Brilliant song. Another one I thought would be easily top 10. No idea what's going to make the top 10 now apart from an obvious few.

The first three Funkadelic albums are not my favourites. Much more of a Parliament/mid period Funkadelic fan.

I don't think the top 10 is going to surprise anybody tbh

XP to Cosmic Slop - I don't dislike the first 3 Funkadelic records at all - plenty of tracks went on my 100-song ballot, and the self-titled is a damned impressive statement of purpose - but I think they suffer from an inflated reputation, especially Maggot Brain. George Clinton was still getting his shit together at that point, so there's less wit, less focus, more noodling and bullshit doomsaying. Despite the individual brilliance of Eddie and Bernie and Tiki Fulwood, the band isn't all the way on the One just yet. They're really good, sometimes great records, but how anyone but the "Disco Sucks" crowd could prefer them to, say, Funkentelechy and the Placebo Syndrome is just beyond me.

Erm, Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome

two almost completely different bands imo

doin different things too

That's true.

I mean, I'm not much of an acid rock guy either, so there's that.

Just seeing this now. I thought Sexy Ways would be top 20 fer sure.

And...since Atomic Dog already placed, I'm guessing there will be no Free Alterations, which I should have had in my top 5

Anybody remember that SNL clip where Stevie Wonder is doing a British accent and praising Atomic Dog for being meaningless, as opposed to the preachy music of Stevie Wonder? It was kind of funny, but coming from a guy who had recently spawned "Ebony & Ivory" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You"....

Gee, I would have put Atomic Dog as #21 on my 20 song ballot to please Chuck Eddy. That song is swell. Another one of those I figured people would just vote for anyway.

The Goose in the top 40! Aside from 'you & your folks', my highest place yet --- and the last of my "eccentric" picks I'm afraid. My #1 comes so perfectly right after that on "up for the down stroke" yet many many placements on mix tapes shows it as playing well with others: "I Can Move You if you let me," which is one of their most succinct statements, should have been a radio hit. Every time I hear it I go around singing "but you were somewhere sharing fantasies, normal and/or otherwise"....

Seriously though Chuck, how can you claim the grooves on the great Parliament albums so obviously beat the elemental perfection of the groove, the concept, the sheer audacity of their let their be light moment: "Mommy, What's A Funkadelic"? Those background singers and the near hysteria of their singing along with that main line.

It's hardly like early Funkadelic is typical acid rock- most of which is comparably rhythmically challenged, to put it mildly.

All right, I'm placing my last hopes on "I Wanna Know If It's Good To You" because, well, I want to know if it's good to you? That song stands on the line between groove and chaos as well as anything --- that counterintuitive keyboard bit with the echoey phases section at the end justs sends it into the stratosphere. "Hit it and quit it" is another great one to be sure. But if "Tear the Roof Off" wins that will be okay too, because that was the very first one I heard, knowing nothing, as a ten year old AM radio listener: what IS this?

I'm not actually Chuck Eddy, btw. Hey, I voted for "Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?" I even quoted it in my master's thesis!

Why do I prefer classic Parliament? It's denser - from the verbal and musical allusions to the arrangements, there's just more there there. And it moves me physically - I'm not saying the grooves on the Bootsy-era stuff are deeper, but they've got more angles and kinks in them for sure. Whether you prefer music to zone out or shake your ass to is down to personal quirks of taste, I know, but if you ask me the best of the mid-to-late 70s stuff is both more eccentric and more accessible than the earliest Westbound stuff, and that's no mean feat. Maybe I'm wrong; I wasn't born until 1982, so I have no reference point for just how strange (or how conventional) any of the classic-era P-Funk records sounded when they were released.