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- Date Released: May 2, 2005
- Genre: Hip-Hop/R&B
- Style: Funk
- Label: Westbound Records / Alpha Pup
The beginning of the P-Funk empire, and one of the greatest debut albums ever.
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We Say...
It's impossible to overstate how important George Clinton has been to the past four decades of popular music. As a bandleader, conceptualist, producer, frontman, interviewee, songwriter and icon, he's on funk's Mount Rushmore with his avowed models Sly Stone and James Brown and their greatest successor, Prince. On this album he made a dollar out of 15 cents by sublimating his sub-Temptations vocal group, the Parliaments, into a freaked-out band concept that pulled equal inspiration from Sly, J.B. and Jimi Hendrix, with guitarist Eddie Hazel providing fireworks throughout and grooves like "I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing" and "What Is Soul?" burrowing deeper and weirder than even the Family Stone's furthest-out moments. "Good Old Music" proved especially popular with hip-hoppers; it's been subsequently sampled by more than two dozen artists, most notably Ice Cube, DJ Shadow, Massive Attack, Run-D.M.C., Common, Scarface and Beastie Boys.
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They Say...
Funkadelic's self-titled 1970 debut is one of the group's best early- to mid-'70s albums. Not only is it laden with great songs -- "I'll Bet You" and "I Got a Thing..." are obvious highlights -- but it retains perhaps a greater sense of classic '60s soul and R&B than any successive George Clinton-affiliated album. Recording for the Detroit-based Westbound label, at the time Funkadelic were in the same boat as psychedelic soul groups such as the Temptations, who had just recorded their landmark Cloud Nine album across town at Motown, and other similar groups. Yet no group had managed to effectively balance big, gnarly rock guitars with crooning, heartfelt soul at this point in time quite like Funkadelic. Clinton's songs are essentially conventional soul songs in the spirit of Motown or Stax -- steady rhythms, dense arrangements, choruses of vocals -- but with a loud, overdriven, fuzzy guitar lurking high in the mix. And when Clinton's songs went into their chaotic moments of jamming, there was no mistaking the Hendrix influence. Furthermore, Clinton's half-quirky, half-trippy ad libs during "Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?" and "What Is Soul" can be mistaken for no one else -- they're pure-cut P-Funk. Successive albums portray Funkadelic drifting further toward rock, funk, and eventually disco, especially once Bernie Worrell began playing a larger role in the group. Never again would the band be this attuned to its '60s roots, making self-titled release a revealing and unique record that's certainly not short on significance, clearly marking the crossroads between '60s soul and '70s funk. [The 2005 reissue features excellent remastered sound, a thick booklet, and bonus tracks pulled from original and scrapped Westbound singles.]
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| 01. |  |
Mommy, What's a Funkadelic? |
9:07 |  |
| 02. | |
I'll Bet You |
6:13 | |
| 03. | |
Music for My Mother |
5:39 | |
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I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing |
3:56 | |
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Good Old Music |
8:07 | |
| 06. | |
Qualify and Satisfy |
6:19 | |
| 07. | |
What Is Soul |
7:44 | |
| 08. | |
Can't Shake It Loose |
2:31 | |
| 09. | |
I'll Bet You [Single Version] |
4:13 | |
| 10. | |
Music for My Mother [Single Version] |
5:20 | |
| 11. | |
As Good as I Can Feel |
2:34 | |
| 12. | |
Open Our Eyes |
4:00 | |
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Qualify and Satisfy [Mono Version] |
3:02 | |
| 14. |
Music for My Mother [Instrumental 45 Version] |
6:14 | ||
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Credits
- Bill Nelson - Bass // Bill Nelson - Vocals // Armen Boladian - Supervisor // Ralph Terrana - ? // Russ Terrana - Engineer // Dean Rudland - Liner Notes // Dean Rudland - Compilation // Dean Rudland - Research // Ed Wolfrum - Engineer // Dorothy Schwartz - Coordination // Duncan Cowell - Mastering // Bob Scerbo - Production Coordination // Mickey Atkins - Organ
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