Quick, don't think! Name a song by Parliament/Funkadelic. Do not read the rest of the thread before posting. Do not pass Go! Do not collect $200!

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will this be more or
less interesting than the
goddamn beatles thread

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"Wizard of Finance"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Parliament - 'One Of THose Funky Things"

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Maggot Brain

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF is the point of threads like this.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

bop gun

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Swing Low Sweet Chariot

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

what album is that song on, Pash? i don't recognize it, and i'm pretty sure i have most of their records....

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"quick, don't think! name a song by tandoori cassette! do not read (etc etc)"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

'tear the roof off'

― N_RQ, Monday, 16 May 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

okay pash you don't like the thread, we get it, you don't like the clash either, move along

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

liquid sunshine

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

yaya for Motor Booty fans

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mommy, WTF is the point of threads like this"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Good thoughts, bad thoughts. I don't know why, though.

― Roz (Roz), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

flashlight

― John Cocktolstoy, Monday, 16 May 2005 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Parilament - "Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)"

I nearly said "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadooloop)" but then I realised just in time that this would mean me having to type the word "Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadooloop" and, since I'm not at all sure how to even spell "Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadooloop", I thought that probably wan't a very good idea.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't miss what you can't measure.

― theophilus jones (theophilus), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mommy, WTF is the point of threads like this"

Hahahahaha!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"One Nation Under a Groove". (It won't be as good)

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Maggot Brain

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Maggot Brain

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I think these threads are great (unprompted recall, the lifeblood of research!) *but* this is a bad way of doing them cos I bet some people ARE cheating - much better would be some kind of form whereby the answers get sent to a text file and so people can't see what other people have put.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Who Says Funk Bands Can't Play Rock?

(although this is the only song I properly know by them).

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(Obviously you can't actually DO this in ILM, so ignore me!)

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I just vastly prefer some commentary, and I tend to get fed up w/more list threads

"What is Soul?" anyway.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The idea with the Beatles thread is because I was thinking about people who hate the Beatles. And then I thought "well how can you hate the music of the Beatles? They changed their style, angle, fashion and music throughout their career and are loved and hated for all of these." so then I was wondering if there is one solid thing that people think about when they think of the Beatles or not? And it seems that there is not.
If I were to start a similar thread with the Beach Boys I'd expect about 70% of answers to be Good Vibrations or something from Pet Sounds and for people to have a very specific image of the Beach Boys in their heads despite the fact that they evolved and grew in the same way as the Beatles.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

maggot brain

― a banana (alanbanana), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"Can You Get to That?"

― ... And suddenly Ian Riese-Moraine is a naked man saying, 'Volvo! Volvo!' (Easte, Monday, 16 May 2005 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

(Not Just) Knee Deep

― Richard C (avoid80), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Some fascinating results here. Why in hell did I think of "Trash A Go-Go" immediately?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Flashlight

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

my reason for starting this thread, by the way, was because on the beatles thread everyone was like 'whoa, look at all the different songs everyone's picking, how awesome is that?' and i was annoyed because a) the beatles are such sacred cows for god's sake and b) parliament and funkadelic have, for me, as many great songs and c) i was curious as to what people would say if they didn't know what other people were saying

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

can you get to that

― willem (willem), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

also because geo. clinton always admitted that he was influenced by:
1. james brown
2. sly stone
3. the beatles

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, fair enough. I freely admit to being nr1 moaner! Still, commentary, people! That's what I like best abt this place - not just what you like, but why you like it!!

(+ I like parliament/funkadelic loads more than the beatles, fwiw)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

okay:

"wizard of finance" is a slow jam on funkentelechy vs. the placebo syndrome, it takes all the 'oh how good i'd treat you if i were rich' cliches and amps them up, tossing in tons of fake-financial terms, a lazy sunday horn chart, and a keening soul vocal that refuses to stick to one mood. still, it's their most romantic song in a long career, and therefore adorable. also, it's the only song on this great record that one could actually have sex to, because the others are either too weird or too dancey.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I picked "Maggot Brain" because -

- I hardly know any P/F but I remember that one.
- I posted something about maggots on FT today so they were in my, well, brain.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"Handcuffs"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

my fave: by the Parliaments. "Look At What I Almost Missed," one of the great unsung pop tunes of the age.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

What I like about "What is Soul" = the lyrics are really funny & weird - "a joint rolled in toilet paper", "a ham-hock in your cornflakes" (+ for years we all thought he was saying "a hammer in your cornflakes"!!) and so on, and even though I've heard it loads of times, I'm still kind of like "what did he just say?? when I listen to it. Also, half the time it sounds like they're going to start corpsing. When the music picks up, there's this totally fucking mad wah-guitar line, where the guitarist loses time w/the band, and he kind of pulls it back together - it's this real head-fucking sound, it's like music turning inside-out. Mainly I like it b/c it's a happy and funny record, and I think happy and funny, when they are actually happy and funny are kind of massively undervalued in music.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Let's Take It To The Stage"

not my favorite or the very best just the first that came to mind. the funk mob taunts the competiton. LAUGHING AT YA!

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Flashlight

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

free your ass...

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Agony of Defeet

― Aaron St. John (StJohn), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Not Just Knee Deep (isn't there a parenthesis in there somewhere? I always forget where)

― Candicissima (candicissima), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Hm, well I immediately thought of "Maggot Brain," then looked through the thread even though I was instructed not to, and now I'm wishing I had thought of something else, but I guess that's life.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

hit it and quit it

― Stingy (stingy), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

flashlight

― Sym Sym (sym), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Funky Dollar Bill

― mucho, Monday, 16 May 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Flashlight

― tylero (tylero), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

One Nation Under a Groove.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Can You Get To That?"

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

funky dollar bill

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'll Bet You"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Free Your Mind ... And Your Ass Will Follow

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Maggot Brain

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Testify

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

flashlight

― phunktion, Monday, 16 May 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hit it and Quit it

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Funkadelic: I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Maggot Brain.

What does this prove, exactly??

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a Westbound rep. They're putting together a new greatest hits, and we're the test market.

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

you scared the lovin' outta me

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Flash Light"

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"Why Lord/Prayer"

― scrimshaw (scrimshaw1837), Saturday, 21 May 2005 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Misjudged You"

― The Father of Honky-Crunk (Matt Chesnut), Saturday, 21 May 2005 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Chocolate City"

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ah whats that sparse moogy thing with the funky woman chants. funky woman?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Everybody's Going To Make It This Time"

― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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