Chocolate City is one of my fave Parliament albums
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 19 September 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
One of my favorite modes of P-funk is the late 70s "romantic ballad"-type song (e.g. "Into You," "(You're A Fish and I'm A) Water Sign," "Wizard of Finance")--beautiful chord progressions and melodies, endearingly goofy lyrics, those zany overlapping vocal runs--pure ear candy. Would have loved a whole album along those lines.
― J. Sam, Sunday, 19 September 2021 21:27 (two years ago) link
There isn't a single week I don't use the line "If you don't like the effect, don't produce the cause."
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 September 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
There isn’t a single week I don’t use the line, “Hey man…smell my finger.”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 19 September 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
^Eternal wisdom right there.
Revisiting Electric Spanking of War Babies now, and while it's not one of my overall fav P-funk albums, the title track is unbelievably great. I just wish the opening "When you learn to dance you won't forget it" shuffle section lasted longer. The flutter echo on the snare drum in the main groove section gives it this robotic, futuristic edge. I'm struggling to think of other songs that use that effect (maybe something on John Foxx - Metamatic, but that could be a false memory). Anyway it's an awesome effect that I wish I heard more often.
― J. Sam, Sunday, 19 September 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link
When Shakey used to post we'd bond over sticking The Electric Spanking in our top three P-Funk albums.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 September 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
best Sly Stone moment outside his albums too
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 September 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
electric spanking is a brilliant album, def one of the best. Its underappreciated as its free your mind...., and lets take it to the stage.
Cant stet fix the poll so every album gets at least 50 votes?
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Monday, 20 September 2021 00:06 (two years ago) link
except Trombipulation which is pure pish
Its the only one I refused to buy, lol
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Monday, 20 September 2021 00:07 (two years ago) link
Also missing is "Never Buy Texas From a Cowboy" by the Brides of Funkenstein, the title track was in my Top 10 I think.
― Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Monday, 20 September 2021 07:05 (two years ago) link
Torn berween Mothership and Standing On the Verge. Going for the former.
― Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Monday, 20 September 2021 07:07 (two years ago) link
Good lord that's still a hell of a lot to have gotten done in 13 years.
― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Monday, 20 September 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
i forget what i voted for in the p-funk ballot poll, but 'standing on the verge' jumps out at me for funk, and 'funkentelechy' jumps out at me for 'p'
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 20 September 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
oh shit, forgot about motor booty affair!
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 20 September 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
Parliament: Up for the Down Stroke (1974)Parliament: Mothership Connection (1975)Parliament: Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome (1977)Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove (1978)Parliament: Motor Booty Affair (1978)
sorta feel like i could vote for any of these
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 20 September 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
i've only heard like a quarter of these (& will have to rectify that) but one nation under a groove & funkentelechy are what come to mind as favourites
― ufo, Monday, 20 September 2021 14:48 (two years ago) link
the ones I go back to the most these days are America Eats Its Young, Motor Booty Affair, and Maggot Brain
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 20 September 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
There's a tidal wave of mysticism surging through our jet-aged generationIt's all designed to take us to the sky
― J. Sam, Monday, 20 September 2021 21:25 (two years ago) link
Dunno yet…could easily go for the Eddie Hazel or even the first Bootsy album…wish I could go for Bernie’s album (what a genius) but it’s disappointing although ‘ Insurance Man For The Funk’ is a fucking masterpiece
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Monday, 20 September 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
"funkentelechy" the song is basically a bible for me lol
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 20 September 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
i need to listen to a lot more of these but fuck spotify
in due time
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 20 September 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
I've been listening to Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, but it doesn't seem nearly as good as the Parliament records before and after, which I've enjoyed for 25 years.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 00:48 (two years ago) link
I'll also post my theory that the synthesizer riff for "Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples" was borrowed from "The Revealing Science of God" by Yes, from Tales from Topographic Oceans.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 00:52 (two years ago) link
Um, …
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 01:01 (two years ago) link
George Clinton said Saucerful of Secrets was one of his favourite records, why not Yes?
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 01:49 (two years ago) link
I meant your previous post
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 02:02 (two years ago) link
i want to be cool and vote for a cool album like _maggot brain_ but in reality, this is _mothership connection_ or _funkentelechy vs the placebo syndrome_ without much competition. there's those albums (very classic), and then there's everything else (perhaps not quite as classic).
now i just need to figure out which one. i'm leaning towards _mothership connection_ at the moment.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 06:22 (two years ago) link
"Clones" is more of a pop/R&B album, it's a lot less bass heavy than "Mothership" and "Funkentelechy", and is, of course, awesome.
― Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 06:49 (two years ago) link
Clones is grrrrrreat. Probably the one I listen to most now.
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link
without much competition
have you heard the other albums on this list?
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
Just heard Maggot Brain (the track) for the first time yesterday. Not sure why a 10 minute guitar solo is held in such high regard. Am I missing something?
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
^Honestly I'm kinda with you on this. It's a great, emotionally intense guitar solo, but I've always been a bit baffled by the hushed tones in which it's discussed
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
Because it's a great emotionally intense guitar solo perhaps?
― Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:26 (two years ago) link
Because he played it like his momma just died?
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
I’m a huge P-Funk fan so I’m keenly aware of the heresy, but I’ve never loved “Maggot Brain,” the song or the album. I LIKE both a lot, and I can totally get why the song moves some people to tears. But its spell has always sort of eluded me.
― thewufs, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
Some people like guitar solos, some people don't. That's why there's Parliament and Funkadelic.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
not convinced that binary is accurate
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link
I love how Hazel improvises the entire structure with his guitar, changing dynamics and emotion, with nothing more than four chords and a band that keeps fading in and out.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
xp Especially in the latter part of the 70s.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
I understand loving the song "Maggot Brain" above all other P-funk songs. I don't understand loving Maggot Brain above all other P-funk albums.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
Their first four records are wildly different than the late 70s stuff though. On that basis I get it. If you like Zappa or Hendrix or early Sabbath more than you do James Brown or EWF, I can totally see how you’d gravitate more towards early 70s P-Funk.
― thewufs, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
It's the one most easily available for a while, no? A bit like Mothership Connection and Funkentelechy.
One of my dearest friends used "Can You Get to That" as his wedding march.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
maggot brain the album is a good starting point for early 70s funkadelic, good mix of drawn out epics, pithy pop songs, and weird stuff like "back in our minds." plus it has "super stupid" which is pretty unlike the rest of the p-funk catalog.
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
Fuck that Zappa shit.
― Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
Anyway the mid to late 70s stuff has far more in common with Zappa than the early Funkadelic albums.
― Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
... than the early Funkadelic albums do. That is.
― Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
An easier question may be which Parliament and Funkadelic albums aren't good? There are great compilations, but most of their albums are probably worth owning.
Except for Bootsy and Clinton's '80s records, I haven't explored the other solo work like Fred Wesley's, Hazel's, etc.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
"Trombipulation" isn't good.
― Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
Two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, etc.
― J. Sam, Monday, 27 September 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
Best non Eddie Hazel Funkadelic version of Maggot Brain?
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 23:10 (two years ago) link
I can't speak to Osmium as a whole album, but it has "The Silent Boatman" on it, which is one of P-Funk's best ever/most gorgeous songs, and inhabits my mind, soIn fact, I do find it impossible to choose between most of these as albums, but I guess it's the first half decade of Funkadelic that I tend to listen to the most. But really I just stick on my P-Funk discography playlist and enjoy whatever track pops up.
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link
Feel exactly the same about that album and song.
― He POLLS So Much About These Zings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 11:19 (two years ago) link
the silent boatman is great, even though it is just the skye boat song.
'oh lord, why lord/prayer' is another fave from it, even though its just Pachelbel's Canon In D Major
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
on paper neither should work, but they do.
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
the electric spanking of war babies is so awesome. i also love that it includes a reggae song about the one, that's hilarious
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 September 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link
potentially controversial statement but the best side a of any parliament or funkadelic album is uncle jam wants you
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 September 2021 03:13 (two years ago) link
for all of that i think my favorite album is motor booty affair???
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 September 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
I was just listening to Uncle Jam and I'm inclined to agree. That would be a contender for my favorite Funkadelic if not for the way it ends on side 2.
― Josefa, Thursday, 30 September 2021 03:22 (two years ago) link
Uncle Jam is amazing except for holly wants to go to california which is one of their worst songs
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 30 September 2021 09:01 (two years ago) link
My fave Funkadelic reggae song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBMb-d8jkZ4
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 30 September 2021 09:02 (two years ago) link
scratch that, i got the name wrong, lol
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 30 September 2021 09:05 (two years ago) link
I forgot it was Shock Waves from Electric Spanking.... the song Brad was talking about.
I don't think reggae was a good idea for P-Funkers tbh.
― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 September 2021 09:24 (two years ago) link
Went in the end for the first ‘Bootsy’s Rubber Band’…vv consistent and has 2 of the best P-funk ballads on there…the Eddie Hazel is great but has got a couple of covers on there and ‘Mothership’ and ‘Funkentelachy’ always get love.
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Thursday, 30 September 2021 11:01 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
You can’t miss what you can’t measure
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:08 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 31 October 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
not what i voted for, but really the right answer here is many answers.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Sunday, 31 October 2021 01:04 (two years ago) link
Surprised there were no votes for “One Nation…”
― "Devious" Licks (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 31 October 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link
Up for the Down Stroke is the best place to hear them keeping in line with conventional contemporary R&B; it has some great songs, well sung and played.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 31 October 2021 04:38 (two years ago) link
could Motor Booty Affair be their Presence? Listening to it now and it's so obviously their best. Not one dud, so much life squiggling through all the songs. "Aqua Boogie" might go on just a little long for at-home listening, but I love how the piano gradually takes over at the end.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 30 January 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
In his book, George Clinton say he considers it his/their Sgt. Pepper's.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 30 January 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
it rules on headphones.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 30 January 2022 20:09 (two years ago) link
I love Motor Booty Affair, the last great album credited to "Parliament," but Presence is Zep's worst, a thoroughly underwhelming and mediocre album.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 30 January 2022 22:05 (two years ago) link
Yeah, on second thought I don't think it's anywhere near as forgettable as the Presence thread title suggests. Just looking for a way to say "amazing album where I often forget how amazing it is when I'm not currently listening to it."
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 30 January 2022 23:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjLTiqAzo5c
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 6 November 2023 05:07 (six months ago) link